Rotary District 1020 newsletter: July 2020

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ISSUE 1 JULY 2020

New Year and New magazine Rotary Quiz
Name the town or city
Welcome to our new Rotary year and to the opportunities where the first district con-
that lie ahead. ference was held?
Clue: The year was 1923.
Each month we will feature club projects that are sent to
me. There has been a paucity of responses for the news- You may use Google and
letter/magazine in recent times but don’t be shy! Show- good luck.
case what you have been up to and perhaps inspire oth- Answer next time.
ers to follow your lead.
.
Right now, as lockdown begins to ease we may allow our-
selves a moment or too to reflect on how we can:
Increase our Impact; Expand our Reach, Enhance partici-
pant engagement and increase our ability to adapt.

From how we do our Rotary business, to adopting new
technologies in online meetings, contactless payments
and virtual fundraisers, Rotary is changing.

Virtual vocational exchanges and RYLA pushes
the boundaries of what we can do in the new
world. Bigger and better outcomes.

We are only just beginning to see the opportuni-
ties that lie ahead.

My best wishes for the year ahead.

Calum Thomson
District Governor 2020/21

NEXT ISSUE—August 2020

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Feel the Energy at Rotary Convention 2021

Right now is a great time to register for the 2021 Rotary International Convention in
Taipei, Taiwan. Our district goal set by myself and Convention Promotion
Coordinator PDG Alistair Marquis of 12 attendees has been reached already. This
exceeds any of our attendances at previous Asian Conventions.
We are guaranteed a very big turnout from those in South East Asia and it will be a
fantastic event but one thing is missing—you.
We will try and arrange a district get together in Taipei, perhaps so we can sample
some of the street food widely available in the city or go for Chinese hot pot? If your
idea of Chinese food is lemon chicken and fried rice from the local takeaway you
are in for a shock/treat.

Enjoy the internationality of a Rotary Convention and take the opportunity to
network with like minded individuals. These are just some things you cannot do
virtually on zoom.

Basic Chinese lessons will be offered in advance for those who want to say a few
words to the locals. Though they will probably laugh, they will appreciate your
efforts.

Register online at riconvention.org

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Covid-19

Keep those project reports coming into Disaster Recovery Fund
Jan Henderson our district co-
ordinator. Even better, fill in the pro- On July 11th, The Rotary Founda-
jects on Rotary Club Central and share tion awarded District 1020 $25,000
with the world through Rotary Show- (£22,000 approx.) from the Foun-
case. dation’s disaster recovery fund to
instigate a Covid-19 project within
our area.

The project will purchase and dis-

Whitburn Takes The Biscuit tribute communications devices
such as mobile phones and tablets
Members of the Whitburn club are cur-
rently distributing quantities of biscuits - to pass on to isolated, vulnerable
donated by Paterson Arran (Burton's Bis- recipients.

cuit Company).

Recipient organisations include day care North Berwick

centres, community hubs, foodbanks and The Club awarded a Rotary Community
the NHS. Service Award to the North Berwick Com-

munity Council's Community Emergency

Resilience Group. Lead by Sue Northrop

and Judy Lockhart of the Community

Council, it has successfully identified in-

dividual and group needs, during the

covid pandemic, and through its volun-

teers, delivered important assistance in

our community. David Lan-

caster, President of the Ro-

tary club, said "without the

many initiatives delivered

by this Group, a lot of peo-

ple in our community would
have been left in a desper-

ate position as to how they

could cope with the lock-

down. We wanted to recog-

nise and thank Sue and Ju-

dy, for their leadership, the

hard work of the organising

group and also all of the

volunteers. It has been an

exceptional and successful

effort.”

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Falkirk: Expanding Our Reach - Young Carers

The Falkirk Club first approached the Young Carers management team at the Falkirk
and Clackmannanshire Carers Centre in the summer of 2016 and as a result spon-
sored two young carers on the Challenge Enterprise weekend that autumn.
Subsequently the Club sent four other young carers to the Challenge Enterprise
weekends in 2017 and 2018. From 2017 to 2019 the Club sponsored six young carers
on the Rotary Youth Leadership Award scheme at Ardeonaig Lodge, South Loch Tay,
with one young man winning the John Mair award for his progress during his stay.
The Club also organised and contributed to a consortium of four Rotary Clubs, Alloa,
Falkirk, Grangemouth and Larbert, and the Grangemouth office of Drummond Laurie,
chartered accountants, to send ten young carers on five-day Ocean Youth Trust voy-
ages out of Oban in 2018 and 2019.
We planned to continue our support for the young carers in 2020 but the Covid-19
crisis ruled that out. The Club along with Drummond Laurie have also organised two
charity Swimarathons in 2019 and 2020 and the Young Carers Project has been one of
the beneficiaries of these events, receiving of the order of £4000.

The Falkirk Herald published the story in a recent issue (see below).

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Rotary Citation 2020-21

Firstly, congratulations to
the eleven recipient clubs
(20%) of the 2019/20 cita-
tion. As for this year, clubs
must submit goals and
achievements via Rotary
Club Central (RCC). You
don’t do RCC? Well, no cita-
tion.

FAQs
How many clubs will be able to gain a citation in 2021?
All clubs—it is not as difficult as some may imagine

Why bother with the citation?
Rotarians (even those that claim it doesn’t matter) love to be recognised. It’s
simply a mark of excellence or a well done certificate. It celebrates success.

My club hasn’t increased our membership this year so we can’t get a citation,
right?
No. The citation does not have any mandatory goal such as increase your club
membership. If you are a strong, vibrant club carrying out numerous service
activities then that will be recognised with a citation.

Where do I find out more about the 2020/21 citation?
Click on this link https://my.rotary.org/en/news-media/office-president/rotary-citation

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Analysing our District via Reports

As July 1st looms and mately 50 mem- our clubs since 1985
passes, it is possible to bers and our stands at $987,798.
garner some information district stands The million dollar
about the state of our dis- at 1,346 (at the landmark looms ever
trict from the RI reports time of writing). closer.
via my.Rotary.org Every other dis-
trict within Ro- Our giving to the an-
Club and District leaders tary GBI suf- nual fund is slightly
have access to many re- fered similar losses. down on previous
ports on Membership, years but was UP on
Foundation and Service. We gained over 100 the per capita meas-
new members in our ure over the previous
Sadly, our Rotary Club district in 2019/20— four years! With a
Central service records that is almost 2 per weak £:$ exchange
are very limited and can club on average but rate our $75.50 aver-
offer no valuable analy- sadly we lost about 150 age Rotarian giving is
sis. We can see the value Rotarians for various impressive and right
of recording our service reasons. at the top for Rotary
activities when we con- GBI. 18 clubs sur-
sider our response to So, we can see that we passed the $100 per
Covid-19. This is some- do attract new mem- capita EREY goal with
thing we would all like to bers but fail to retain a few others close to
know but unless we all more. the $100. 5 clubs
input the information we made zero contribu-
are left having to rely on Our Polio giving was tions.
mathematical modelling down unfortunately as
from academic institu- was expected due to Reports are accessi-
tions like Johns Hopkins an increased number ble to all club leaders
University to basically of cancelled fundrais- via Rotary Club Cen-
guess our service re- ers. However, eight tral.
sponse. clubs reached the RI
benchmark of $1,500
Membership figures are and will receive a
much easier to find out recognition certificate
come July 1st. sometime in the future.

Regrettably, we have As of 10 July 2020, our
contracted by approxi- total cash contributions
to End Polio Now from

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End Polio Now: A Message of Hope

Kilsyth Rotarian Rhona Morrison has created an amazing multi purpose greetings
card for End Polio Now.
Contact me here to view the impressive video message from Rhona

Welcome to Rotary’s newest fellow-
ship—The Rotarian Fellowship of Gin.
Like minded members from all over
the world come together in fellow-
ship ... and they also raise funds for
good causes such as Polio Eradication.

For more details—contact Rtn David
Breton here

First presentation to a
Rotary Club in 2020/21
was an unusual one for
me as it was not to a club
in District 1020.

I was honoured to be
asked to address the
Rotary Club of Umuahia,
Nigeria recently.

I let them know that we
are so happy their coun-
try is now declared Polio
free and that we will con-
tinue to support them to
END POLIO NOW. A
promise made must be
kept.

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Rotary District 1020 Obituary—PDG Bill Rutherford
serving Southern Scotland and the

world

We are on ... PDG Bill Rutherford, formerly of the
Rotary Clubs of Braids and Edinburgh
died recently. Bill will always be re-
membered within our district as the
FIRST district governor of District 1020
when it was re-named in 1991.

The image above is taken from the 1997 Rotary

Convention programme where Bill was one of

the convenors looking after the House of Friend-

WEB ADDRESS ship.

WWW. RO TARY 1 0 2 0 . O RG

Serving beyond our District

Recognising our Rotarians who serve beyond the district level.

Rotary International Committees
Vice Chair, Operations Committee Gordon McInally
Rotary Foundation Committees
Fund Development Committee Alasdair Seale
Regional Rotary Coordinator Teams
Assistant Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator Olive Geddes
Assistant Rotary Public Image Coordinator Peter Croan

**apologies for any Rotarian not recognised here