At the club meeting on August 30th, members of the Rotary Club of Glenferrie voted unanimously to support the Zone 8 Regionalisation Project, recognising it as a major opportunity to make changes that will help ensure the future of Rotary. The meeting heard from Co-Chair of the Regionalisation Taskforce PDG Peter Frueh on how the project aims to better support clubs, create leadership opportunities for members, improve the efficiency and effectiveness of Rotary projects and build a stronger Rotary brand.
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- Support clubs to engage members, volunteers, and communities
- Create new attractive leadership roles and development opportunities
- Build a stronger unified Rotary brand- Encourage partnerships
- Improve efficiencies and reduce duplication.
To help achieve these objectives, the project seeks to develop and test a streamlined governance approach to:
- Allow clubs sharing geography, culture, and language to organise in ways that suit them.
- Eliminate duplication and remove layers of hierarchy to make Rotary more responsive and cost effective
- Bring together the best resources from across the region and make them easily accessible to every club
- Improve communication effectiveness to enhance club and member engagement
- Grow membership through new club types, flexibility, and partnership options reflecting our diversity.
- Attract more community, corporate, and government sector support by communicating with one voice
- Enhance leadership and personal development activities to better suit our modern world
- Foster more diverse perspectives in decision making
- Reduce the burden of administrative responsibilities placed upon leaders.
The overarching aim of this project is to provide better and more direct support to Rotary and Rotaract clubs through a less layered and more devolved contemporary approach. In addition to potentially releasing members time for humanitarian service by reducing administrative duplication, any new structure must foster more vibrant club environments and provide doable and attractive roles accessible to all potential Rotary leaders.
Information Session
If you missed the session on Tuesday August 30th 2022, you can catch up on what's happening via this recorded webinar:
- Recorded session
The recorded presentation and Q&A from a recent Membership Voice webinar. In this briefing ‘Regionalisation and You’, Amanda Barnes (AUS) and Ingrid Waugh (NZ) explain the benefits of Regionalisation in Zone 8, and answer questions. You are invited to access the link to the recording via Facebook or YouTube.