What we plan to do 2015 - 2016
What we plan to do 2015 - 2016
Each Rotary year Middleton compile a programme of projects, fundraisers and fellowship events that the club wishes to complete for the forthcoming year. All are designed to ultimately feed into helping those more needy than ourselves.
Middleton Rotary Club President’s Charities for 2015-16:
- Ovacome – Ovarian Cancer Charity
- Communic8te Bury
Community Service
- Father Christmas Float Street Collections
- Static Father Christmas Collections
- Dragon’s Den
- Loneliness & Isolation amongst older people
- Organise the Kwirky Kwiz 2016.
- Citizen & Young Citizen of the Year Award’s 2016.
Income
- £4,500 Father Christmas Float Street Collections
£500 Father Christmas Float Street Collections Sponsorship(s)
£1,000 Static Father Christmas Collections
£1,375 HMRC “Bucket Aid”
Expenditure
- £500 Father Christmas Contingency
£3,500 Dragon’s Den Applicants
£2,000 Loneliness & Isolation Projects - Surplus £1,375
World Service Projects
- Shoe Boxes
- Rainwater Rock Catchment
- Kajuki Irrigation Project
- Mikoroshoni Primary School
- Whisky Tasting
- Glasses collected for Vision Aid
- Stamps collected for Springhill Hospice
Youth & Vocational Projects
- Sponsor 2 students for RYLA 2015, (-£620, funded from Christmas collection)
- Keep contact with past RYLA students for potential helpers of club projects.
- Offer places in the Excitement of Science St Anne’s, Cardinal Langley, Middleton Tech
- Rotakids, re-ignite these initiatives in Alkrington PS, Parkfield PS & investigate potential for another Rk club (-£100 max)
- Continue to build stronger links with local schools
- Provide Dictionary 4 Life to our linked schools (-£32 max)
- Continue club’s support with talking newspaper
- Seek a suitable nomination for a Vocational award, and present accordingly (-£5)
- Possible Kwirky Quiz, with Community! (+£300)
Foundation, Membership & Publicity
- Continue with Foundation fund-raising via Weekly raffle
- Support Whisky Tasting event and contribution it makes to TRF.
- Organise Race Night 2016 for Foundation.
- Encourage more members to make a monthly gift-aided personal donation
Budget / Target Fundraising
- Annual Programme Fund £1,500
- End Polio Now £1,000
Membership & Marketing
Four areas where we can take positive action to attract members:
- Corporate membership – explaining how Rotary can help fulfil an organisation’s Corporate Social Responsibility obligations.
- Rotary Volunteers (Friends of Rotary) engaging with potential members without the commitment of full membership.
- Extension of the Middleton e-satellite group.
- Targeted Recruitment Events
Delivering the Message
- Club Website
- Club Banners
- Leaflets
- Recruitment Events
- Fundraising & Community Events
Membership & Marketing Budget £600
- E-Satellite Conferencing Software
- Leaflets – printing & distribution
- Recruitment Event Hospitality
Club Service
- Support the President & assist in smooth running of the club (includes Production of the Club and District Handbooks as needed)
- Arrange social and Fellowship events
- Arrange major club events.
- Participate in District/Local functions e.g. Quiz
- Arrange for attendance at District Conference
- Provide Information via Calendar and Year Planner via electronic and paper means as appropriate.
- Ensure the Club’s projects meet H&S requirements and that the club is compliant with all legal requirements
- Liaise with the hotel regarding meetings, meals and key club events
- Maintain Club Asset Register (including Xmas Float)
Treasurer
- Business Plan - to be produced after projects approved tonight
- Members Subs
- Other matters
- Sub payments to Dist & RGBI, slight decrease – total £68.25
- Expected spend similar to last year.
- Proposing no increase to subs
- i.e. £100, PROVIDED members pay in full by 31/7/15 or £105, IF paying after 31/7/15
- Will allow for payments in 2 stages, IF required - 2 instalments of £52.50 (due end July 15 & end Jan 16)
- Monitor progress against business plan
- Encourage Committees to distribute all monies received promptly
- Contact point with Banks and Charity Commission