Weekly Club Bulletin - Vol 84 Issue 19, 29th November 2021
Pres John Mansour
Rotary Affirmation:
May Rotary friends and Rotary ways help us to serve our community
here and abroad in many ways.
No Meeting tonight
At out last meeting
Pres John opened the meeting at 6.10 with the Rotary Affirmation.
Thanked Lourice and Fuad for having us in their home
Apology Tim and Lloyd
Present: Pres John, Fuad, Fred, Rob,Walter Lynn, Sana, Mohan, Sam, David Kwong. John Kane, Keith, Peter Moore Welcome Lourice, Lynn, Mohan, John Kane
Coro 88 club, the old rebuilt Coronation Club, may be good venue for future meetings. They have a room we can meet in. We can ordre in their bistro, and they will bring it to us. No room charge and the room is suitable. We have planned a Christmas dinner and delayed changeover in the restaurant. The bistro room is not used in the evening, the maximun number is fifty. There is parking for sixty cars as well as street parking. Membership is five dollars a year. Save the date 13th December for our delayed Changeover and Christmas meeting. Details to come.
Tree of joy- in association with Eurella House. There are 200 prewritten cards at Ashfield Mall. Rotaractors happy to pick as up as well as at Strathfield Private Hospital. Looking for volunteers to pick up and and deliver gifts Gifts received unwrapped and we may wrap and deliver.
Charitable Trust. Theo and Fred tried to get charitable trust tax deductibility status
They are having discussion with the appropriate government department
Trust needs to be reworded away from sport as they don't consider sport as a charitable endeavour, only under exceptional circumstances. Walter wants to change the wording.
Pickett scholarship and Blaine award. Walter says rename to Pickett Foundation
We have to make a decison and reply by 10th December. Walter thinks it should be combined. Keith Sandars used for Youth Activities even though it was orginally set up to support RYLA. Fred wants us to get more hands on and not just donate money Fred will circulate email with details and all responses are welcome.
Rotaract. John attended meeting and they had 9 attendees
Easter function planned for a week before Easter at Sam's warehouse. Maybe 10 April 2022. Have lunch, Jumping Castle for the children, Easter bunny before lunch. Needs helpers
Meeting ended at 710. Lourice and Fuad supplied us with dinner and we collected donations to pay for the food from those present which was matched in full, dollar for dollar, by Lourice and Fuad.
The promised easing of COVID restrictions and the reopening of schools is welcomed by District’s youth program committees. During 2021 many programs, such as RYPEN, RYLA and YEP had to be to be abandoned and others, such as MUNA, were poorly attended. School closures prevented our club maintaining contact with the local students and the teachers who support our youth programs. However, the future looks much brighter.
Rotary Youth Exchange - making a difference - Reflections from a Reunion 30 years later.
The Year is 1991, two busses full of Rotary Exchange Students enter a parking lot in Sydney after 3 weeks around Australia on the “Capricorn Ramble Tour”. Saying goodbye was heart-breaking, knowing that we would soon be back home and maybe never see each other again.
Jumping to September 2021, downtown Frankfurt on a Friday afternoon in brilliant weather. Stepping out of the car to greet 3 people I have not seen for 30 year in front of their hotel.
The Rotary Club of Burwood has created the 50th Anniversary Charitable Trust with the overall charitable purpose of "relieving poverty and the advancement of education or any other matter beneficial to the community". Funds are awarded to persons who satisfy the Trustees that they are financially disadvantaged and are undertaking some form of further study/sporting endeavour beneficial to themselves and to the community in general.
The Rotary Club of Burwood has now moved across to Rotary ClubRunner website hosting and administration platform. More than just a website, ClubRunner offers a robust membership management and communication platform
The Rotary Club of Burwood meet with Burwood Council (Zoom meeting) to discuss the possibility assisting a local community organisation called Gods Love Care' in a similar way that the Rotary Club of Sydney Cove does with the Early Bird Cafe.
The Rotary Club of Burwood is looking into creating a Satellite Club in the Burwood local area, so as to meet the needs of those community minded individuals who can't attend face-to-face meetings on a regular basis, due to work or other commitments, however they won't to give back to the community.
Gifts received unwrapped and we may wrap and deliver. 
