Community and Vocation Education Meeting

Rotary Club of Hitchin TilehouseFriday, 16 May 2014

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Community & Vocation

Couple of points to clear up at the start

–We are the only committee that have two things to cover apart from PR and Comms and that’s just the same thing said twice

–So we have twice as much to think about

Ergo

–We are the bestest

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Community & Vocation – The Team

Doug Watkinson

Louise Yexley

Mark Manning

Robert Houghton

Maxine Madderson

Beverly Warner-Smith

Tracy Harvey

Ray Aggio

Matt Reeve

Mark Blake

Andrew Philips

Alan Wright

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Community Objectives

• Stagenhoe Sensory Garden Project

• Stagenhoe Christmas Presents and Postcards

• Hitchin Helping Hands

• Lend-a-Hand

• Round Table Christmas Collection

• Hitchin Pancake Race for Garden House Hospice

• Hitchin Initiative

• British Schools Museum

We address local needs and work with our community to bring lasting improvements

• Bric-a-Bracs

• St Albans Cycle Ride

• Christmas Car Parking

• Movember

• Santa’s Sleigh

None of this would be possible without your support

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Community

UK Floods – Exploring a water based activity to raise funds for communities devastated by the floods

Lend-A-Hand Day – We are looking at whether we can get Lend-A-Hand up and running again and what it should look like.

Food Bank Collection – ComVoc has had conversations with the Trussell Trust who distribute two tons of food a month to the our local community Letchworth, Hitchin and Baldock.

British Schools Museum – Schools in project is to celebrate the long history of education in Hitchin and premiere the new Audio Visual equipment purchased via grants from Tilehouse and District

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Vocation

Our Vocational commitment to the club is about getting members engaged in projects and club events so that they feel inclusive.

Vocational Services is also about utilising members skills and expertise to best serve the club helping to deliver success in everything we do

We volunteer our professional skills to serve others and promote integrity in everything we do

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Vocational Training Teams

In 2013 Rotary ceased to offer and organize Group Study Exchange grants and visits, replacing them with Vocational Training Teams

These are teams of people with specific skills who are sponsored to work with communities to both transfer those skills and enhance their own with a different experience

Com - Voc is exploring the possibility of sending a Vocational Training Team to Haiti in order to follow on from the great work being undertaken by the International Committee with their Haiti Water Project.

The intention is to send a team that would deliver through training a particular skill that benefit the whole community.

What do you think of it so far?

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Vocation

Vocational Areas include:•Mentoring and working with organizations and individuals•Directly helping individuals with specific needs•Supporting other organisations in our community with specific needs such as manpower, technical skills, project management skills, marketing or fundraising skills

Benefits include•Forging links with other community organizations•Getting involved in our community at a lower scale of commitment than some projects•Engagement of new members•Using our unique skills and interests to directly support our community

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Vocation Projects

Digital Inclusion Project – NHCVS is looking to run a community project to help the young and old to get online through a series of training sessions

Hitchin Volunteer Army -This initiative run by a fantastic young mum Lorna Hemmings is very similar to the Club’s Heartfelt donations. HVA works closely with NHCVS so all of the work they do has been vetted by them, in the same way Rotary is work with the Family Support Workers. ComVoc and HVA will look at helping each other out where possible.

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Community and Vocation

Community and Vocation Rocks

Thank you and please do continue to support our projects and fundraisers which address local needs and work with our community to bring lasting improvements

Please give Vocation some thought; are we on the right track? Will you support us with this initiative?

Who is the bestest?