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News for Clubs 19 February 2012

 

To: All Clubs, the District Team and PDGs

Status: Information

Please see the following news items:

1. From the District Governor: Update on the Restructuring of RIBI following General Council Meeting 4th February

2. Rotary Young Photographer of the Year Scotland Competition, 2012

3. RIBI Young Citizen Awards

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1. Update on the Restructuring of RIBI following General Council Meeting 4th February

Please see the attached message from District Governor Keith

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2. Rotary Young Photographer of the Year Scotland Competition, 2012

Please pass this message to your New Generations Service Chairman

With the season hovering between Winter and Spring, this year's theme 'The Last Days of Winter' is perfectly placed to inspire the imagination of young photographers and hopefully allow them to capture that winning photo. All that is required  is for local Rotary clubs to promote the competition in schools, youth clubs  and other young people's organisations. Entry is made easy by allowing entrants to fill in an entry form on either the District 1020 website or at www.rypscotland.org. The form can then be printed out and sent to the local Rotary Club with the photo.  

 

The competition offers young people living in Scotland the chance to enter in one of three age group categories — under-12s, 12-15 years and 15-18 years.

Photographs can be snapped with digital or film cameras in colour or monochrome but all entries must be submitted to local Rotary clubs as prints no larger than A4 by the closing date of April 1st 2012.

Rotary clubs will be responsible for the initial judging and they will select a winner from each age category to go through to the Scottish grand final.

Have a look at the District website and read about the success for the 2010 Young Photographer winner, Julia Dransfield from Edinburgh, she now has a career in photography! One of her prizes was a voucher from Jessops and, when she went to spend it, she told staff of her success and was offered a job. Julia told us she has learned a lot from working there and is also becoming a regular photographer on the Edinburgh band scene.

 

Further information can be found at the District 1020 website under New Generations section or at www.rypscotland.org . If you have any queries re the competition please e-mail Peter Croan the New Generations Young  Photographer Organiser.

E-mail:  info@rypscotland.org 

 

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3. RIBI Young Citizen Awards

This message is also of particular interest to New Generations Service Committees

District New Generations Service Chairman Theresa encourages clubs to nominate their local hero or heroes for a Young Citizen Award. 

Only Two Weeks left to enter your communities Young Citizens into the - RIBI YOUNG CITIZEN AWARDS

Your club really doesn't want to miss the opportunity to nominate young positive role-models from within your communities for the RIBI Young Citizen Awards 2012.

The Awards are covered by BBC News - with TV features on the five Award winners, features with video on the BBC News website and a live Awards programme on BBC News Channel from the RIBI Annual Conference in Bournemouth in April 2012 – and will mention your Rotary Club.

The achievements of young people are being celebrated with the Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) Young Citizen Awards. Young Citizen is a project conceived by RIBI in association with BBC News in 2007 to celebrate the positive citizenship and vital responsibilities assumed by many young people in these Great Britain and Ireland. The awards recognise young people under the age of 25.

Five awards of a trophy, a cash prize of £500 and a visit to BBC News at TV Centre in London will be made to five Rotary related projects involving young people working in their communities and/or helping overseas to improve the lot of others. The awardees may be an individual or a group such as an Interact Club. Past nominations may also be submitted again this year.

To enter the Award, all entries have to be nominated by a Rotary club.

Nomination forms should be returned to the Secretariat but must be received before the deadline of 29th February 2012, clearly marked 'RIBI Young Citizen Awards'.

For more details go to http://www.ribi.org/committees/new-generations/competitions-for-young-people/ribi-young-citizen-awards

 Or contact Tony Jordan on the RIBI New Generations Committee by email: tonyandtsm@aol.com or phone him on 01845 574084 or 07976 321942.

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Olive Geddes
District Secretary
RI District 1020

Email: omgeddes@googlemail.com
Tel: 01875 613957
Mobile: 079880 50720

 

19th February 2012

 


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