A round up of all the news from our exciting and active eRotary, continuing to make a difference online and offline in a network for busy people who want to do Service above Self with limited time capacity.
Virtual Balloon Race for Water
Thank you to everyone who bought a balloon this year in our Race for Water. We congratulate Speedy Girl who came in 1st, closely followed by London Girl 2nd and Kiwi Express 3rd. We will get the prizes to the 1st and 2nd places shortly. The real winners are those who will benefit from the money raised and with additional funds added by the Click 4 Action eRotary to enable us to send £300 to purchase 10 Jompys and £300 to purchase 10 Roll Out the Barrels, ensuring clean water for the communities who benefit from our giving. To help publicise the Race for Water Rotarians Tim and Janice promoted the race from London, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague and Berlin especially on Facebook.
eAwareness – Service through Social Media Posts
As an eClub one of the very practical ways we can give Service is by promoting issues through our use of Social Media. We are already doing this by encouraging people to talk openly about Mental Health and keeping their mental health fit, do help us promote this on Facebook. Other areas are Autism Awareness and Domestic Abuse, so do please get involved with our eAwareness campaigns.
eClub Secretary Tim says ‘The other day I had a Facebook Message from a friend asking 
me what I knew about the Suzy Lamplugh Trust – Live Life Safe. I had to confess that, apart from knowing it was to do with Estate Agents and someone going missing, I had no idea’. Have a look at their website and let us help this charity to gain greater awareness, as keeping people safe in our communities is everyones’ business.
Other eAwareness issues we can help promote in the coming weeks are Dementia Awareness Week 2015 – 18th May to 24th May. Loads of information on the Alzheimer’s Society website, plus a practical way of getting involved is to become a Dementia Friend, wouldn’t it be good if all our members trained be one? Secondly National Volunteers Week 1st to 7th June 2015, where we ought to be ensuring we show how much is done in our communities thanks to Volunteering with both Rotary and in other organisations that we are working in partnership with, continuing to make lots of splashes of differences through these given hours.
Let’s Loop Swindon News Update
The volunteers involved in this exciting project are continuing as part of the Rotary Community Corps (RCC) to do a tremendous job in auditing Hearing Loops in the town of Swindon, just completed are audits in Post Offices and Community Centres. This week working with a group of students from New College Swindon and staff at a Lloyds Pharmacy, members of the RCC Let’s Loop Swindon Team are making an awareness video to help people understand the difference made by using a Hearing Loop.
As well as continued auditing, the RCC Let’s Loop project has now moved into a second phase of building awareness with both Hearing Aid Wearers and non wearers. Working with the Great Western Hospital Audiology Department our first Newsletter Let’s Loop Swindon News has been produced, which is to be distributed to 4500 people served by the hospital. The team are also planning to have stalls in the town centre to get members of the public learning more about Hearing Loops and they have purchased a portable loop from the Cheese & Wine Event funds.
At the Let’s Loop Swindon launch, Chair of the Steering Group Tim Mason said ‘he hoped that those attending would be the boulders being thrown into the pool to generate splashes and ripples that would help Let’s Loop the UK’. It is good that we are now also supporting efforts in the Cotswolds, Worthing and Westminster to get Looping the Towns underway.
Welcome to Rotarian Lynda who got involved with Rotary first through her husband and his activities in the Rotary Club of Swindon and then as a volunteer in the Rotary Community Corps Let’s Loop Swindon team. It was with great pleasure that President Janice inducted Lynda into Rotary at the evening meeting of the Rotary Club of Swindon.
We continue our activities in helping to make a splash in our Communities, Membership and eRotary awareness is key to our activities, so we are pleased to welcome and encourage all the provisional members who have joined us. Service is not only what you do in your own communities it can be done using the tools of Social Media to help build eAwareness. Rotary through its 1.2 million members’ network provides a real opportunity to connect on Social Media with like minded people all around the world. eRotarians Jasper, Tim, Janice, Mike and provisional member Ludwig showed this when they all met at EUCO 2015, do read what Tim learnt from this experience.
Jasper, Mike, Ludwig and Marthe enjoy an evening of wine tasting at EUCO
As an eClub from time to time we have opportunities to get together and share fellowship and learn new skills. We are pleased to invite members to our Summer Vocational Event on 26th July, 2015 in Wimborne to taste Indonesian Cooking by Rotarian Yayu. President Janice says ‘I can thoroughly recommend her new book – Yayu’s Simply Indonesian – which is a wonderful introduction to Indonesian cookery. It’s not just recipes (all of which give a wonderful range of the tastes of Indonesia), but a wealth of knowledge about the ingredients. Her eye for detail is brilliant, all the photos have been so well presented and even her atlas map of the intricate Indonesian archipelago has been watercolour painted by herself’.
And Next time
Watch out for our next edition when report on the Young Writer’s Competition, all the fun at the Splading People’s Parade, the work at Malmesbury Foodbank and Rotary Community Corps working on the river. Plus the Uplands Interact Club launch of our Cow Pat for Toilet Twinning…..
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