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Editors Rant
Can or Does or Would ROTARY Make Your Day?
I am biased but I can truly give this question 3 YESSESS. Last Thursday we had our Communications group meeting, it was supposed to be mainly a training session run by our tech guru Simon on the finer points of uploading Rapport content to Clubrunner. Simon and I were joined on Zoom by soon to be member Olivia McIver aka Head Fizzer of her own company SODA DIGITAL. Wide ranging from co learning to what and how a content strategy might look like by consolidating our social media platforms soft pitching on what’s so good about Rotary Newmarket. A special moment for your Big Wig Ed.was looking in the backend and finding RAPPORT open rates hitting 67%...Head Fizzer Olivia who knows a thing or 2 about this stuff, said that’s a very good result! So a super THANK YOU to all of you who take the time to READ and to ENGAGE by sending in your stories and pix. MAKE MY DAY.
Ron Seeto
Dave's Rave
A Chance to Reach Out
Next Tuesday’s dinner meeting at Remuera Golf Club is a great opportunity. The format (a club quiz night) has been carefully chosen in order you can invite friends and family for a fun, low-cost night out.
This is a chance to reach out: call a neighbour, invite your children/grandchildren, a work colleague or that mate you haven’t seen in a while. We need to promote our club more widely with whanau and friends and this is a good way to start.
Please remember, if everybody leaves it to others, we might not meet our minimum numbers, so now it’s up to all of us.
Club News and Notices
Explanation of the new Club Meeting Schedule
This week the Board agreed to a slightly modified meeting schedule. For the remainder of this Rotary year the rhythm of meetings each month will be:
1st Tuesday – Lunch
2nd Tuesday – Dinner
3rd Tuesday – Lunch
4th Tuesday – Satellite*
5th Tuesday – Zoom
*The “Satellite” initiative is to develop a new off-shoot of the main Club but more closely linked with the Newmarket centre. Satellite meetings will be held in Newmarket and are likely to be outside work hours.
Satellite members can also attend our clubs dinner or lunch meetings – and vice versa. This fits perfectly with our strategy of focusing more closely on the Newmarket area, as a source of new club members, but not to the exclusion of our existing membership. Existing members may of course join the Satellite club if that suits their circumstances better.
An exception to not having club meetings on the fourth Tuesday is the 22nd Nov. On this day we already have Mark Knoff-Thomas (CEO Newmarket Business Association) booked for Ellerslie. A closer relationship with NBA is a key part of reconnecting with our Newmarket business roots.
Village Square Trust
At last Tuesday’s meeting, we had Kay Madigan, from The Village Square Trust, supported by Lyn Fox, CEO, taking about the Trust’s role since 1982. Commencing life as the Knox Trust, the name changed in 1995 to the Parnell Community Trust, as the Trust moved into the Jubilee Building. The Village Square Trust rebrand dates from 2020.
The Trust’s community work includes Early Childhood Learning Centres, after school programmes, community classes and social activities – not just for Parnell, but for all. They have a Green Kids healthy eating initiative, the Saturday morning Farmers Market, and have joined with our Club and the organising group for the forthcoming Garden Design Fest weekend on 26 & 27 November. Kay is the Volunteer Coordinator [150 folk required for gate duties] and would welcome support from all of us.
After 40 years of active support for the community, the Trust is looking to the future. Kay welcomed our ideas and involvement – is this a possible venue in the planning for our satellite Newmarket meetings?
And we are especially invited to their forthcoming fundraiser, High Tea on the afternoon of Sunday 30 October, 2.30 – 4.30pm when the Nairobi Trio will be performing.
Members Slot
a little about me and the work I’ve been involved in …from our World Community Services Director
Janette Searle is a serial social entrepreneur with a passion for creating sustainable social change through cross sector collaboration. A mouthful, however, she’s put that into practice when he co-founded a collective impact initiative focused on improving educational outcomes for West Auckland’s most at risk and vulnerable young people. Supported by the West Auckland Secondary School Principals’ charitable trust (Achieving @ Waitakere), they developed a key body of work under that initiative called Managed Moves which addresses barriers to education by bringing together schools, agencies and organisations that provide supports for young people. Managed Moves has been operating in West Auckland over over six years, with fantastic outcomes for the young people in that community. they were recognised in 2021 as finalists in the Prime Ministers Excellence in Education Award’s Leadership category. In 2022 the model is growing. Not only in West Auckland but in other communities around Auckland (Northshore, Central Auckland and Kaipara). Interest has also been expressed in Managed Moves from Northland, Tauranga and Nelson.
More can be found here www.managedmovesnz.com including the short video that was produced by the PM’s Excellence in Education Awards team
a timely piece as we round up Rotary Month of LITERACY Big Wig Ed
How Rotary Made My Day
Pictured is last week’s RCoN Communications committee Zoom co -Learning workshop where Big Wig and the Head Fizzer were given HOW TO tips from ClubRunner guru Simon aimed to deliver you the best possible RAPPORT experience
The Rotary Enrichment Programme (REP) at One Tree Hill College was developed from a reading support initiative set up by past principal Anne Dunphy and businessman Harvey Alison, representing the Penrose Rotary Club. REP is a holistic reading programme with five primary goals:
The enrichment and reinforcement of basic reading skills
Increasing students’ enjoyment and comprehension of reading; therefore encouraging them to pursue greater literacy
Assisting the pastoral development of students; lifting their self-esteem and self-empowerment by encouraging students toward greater literacy.
Building students’ (and the school’s) interaction with members of the community.
The establishment of lasting relationships between students and volunteers, that can provide a support network for the students.
After working with tutors throughout the semester, all students are re-tested, and results are discussed and recorded. Formal prize-giving is held in June and December, to which parents, tutors, sponsors, and community role models are invited. Prizes of books are distributed to all students, and thanks given to all the students, their families, and the tutors.
We just had our #moveforGECAF speaker session this weekend and it was great to see local and international Rotary and Rotaract support for this fantastic cause.
Next Tuesday’s dinner meeting at Remuera Golf Club is a great opportunity. The format (a club quiz night) has been carefully chosen in order you can invite friends and family for a fun, low-cost night out. 
At last Tuesday’s meeting, we had Kay Madigan, from The Village Square Trust, supported by Lyn Fox, CEO, taking about the Trust’s role since 1982. Commencing life as the Knox Trust, the name changed in 1995 to the Parnell Community Trust, as the Trust moved into the Jubilee Building. The Village Square Trust rebrand dates from 2020.
Janette Searle is a serial social entrepreneur with a passion for creating sustainable social change through cross sector collaboration. A mouthful, however, she’s put that into practice when he co-founded a collective impact initiative focused
on improving educational outcomes for West Auckland’s most at risk and vulnerable young people. Supported by the West Auckland Secondary School Principals’ charitable trust (Achieving @ Waitakere), they developed a key body of work under that initiative called Managed Moves which addresses barriers to education by bringing together schools, agencies and organisations that provide supports for young people. Managed Moves has been operating in West Auckland over over six years, with fantastic outcomes for the young people in that community. they were recognised in 2021 as finalists in the Prime Ministers Excellence in Education Award’s Leadership category. 
The Rotary Enrichment Programme (REP) at One Tree Hill College was developed from a reading support initiative set up by past principal Anne Dunphy and businessman Harvey Alison, representing the Penrose Rotary Club. REP is a holistic reading programme with five primary goals:
We just had our #moveforGECAF speaker session this weekend and it was great to see local and international Rotary and Rotaract support for this fantastic cause.