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September 2019 issue

ROTARY CLUB OF CAMBRIDGE SAWSTON

SEPTEMBER 2019

THAI MEAL- THE NAVIGATOR

13 of us enjoyed a Thai meal at The Navigator Little Shelford. There was great food and great fellowship. I’m very sure we will do it again, £12 for courses what’s not to like!

Vic Brian Martin and George

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Rotary International President AUGUST 2019

During 2019-2020, I am encouraging Rotarians and Rotaractors to grow Rotary. We must grow our service, we must grow the impact of our projects, but, most importantly, we must grow our membership so that we can achieve more.

Let us try a new approach to membership, one that is more organized and strategic. I am asking every club to form an active membership committee consisting of people of different backgrounds who will look methodically at the leadership of the community.

Your club's membership committee will then apply Rotary's classification system — designed to ensure that the range of professions in your community is well represented — to identify potential leaders with the skill, the talent, and the character that will strengthen your club. If your club's membership committee is unsure how to proceed, look to the club membership committee checklist on Rotary.org for clearly defined steps to organizing its work.

How else will we connect to grow Rotary? We will also form new types of clubs — either independent clubs or satellite clubs — with different meeting experiences and engaging service opportunities, not just where there is no Rotary, but also where Rotary is already thriving. No Rotary club in the world can possibly serve all segments of its community. Therefore, we must organize new clubs to engage the community leaders who cannot connect with our existing clubs.

Growing Rotary is all about taking the connections that make our organization unique in the world and strengthening and multiplying them. Let us commit ourselves to growing

Rotary and to welcoming the next diverse generation of women and men as Rotary Connects the World.

UPCOMING EVENTS AND MEETINGS

3^rd Sept	Sue Coles- The value of PR
10^th Sept	TBA
17^th Sept	Dr Neville Silverston- My life as a Doctor
24^th Sept	TBA
29^th Oct	Charter Dinner At Queens College Cambridge

Welcome to Rotary Club of Cambridge Sawston

We're a friendly, very active club of men and women from mainly South Cambridgeshire villages. You will know of us best as organizers of the Sawston Fun Run. Please look around our website www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/homepage.php?ClubID=1627

to find out more about our wide range of activities.

Our weekly meeting is held on a Tuesday evening at The George Inn Babraham where we enjoy fellowship, a good, reasonably priced meal and inspiring speakers.

We warmly welcome new members, so if you're Interested in helping your community at home or abroad, please contact:

Vic Starkey: 01223 871568 or vicstarkey@btinternet.com

'What We Do' Main Pages:

Bantaba Project

Deafblind UK

Speaker Leanne Hodgson

Sunday 8th May 2022

Fun Run huge achievement

£500,000 since inception

Thai meal

The Navigator Little Shelford

organised by Peter White

October 24th was World Polio Day

Pudsey went to school

The Modern Way of Meeting

Due to Coronavirus we are using Zoom for our meetings

2019 Sawston Fun Run

We had 1106 people taking part on Sunday, this is a record since 2010 and the 3rd highest ever

Zoom meeting

talk by Past President Irene Childerley

Irene hosted our Annual Event

The Value of PR

This Week Sue Coles PR Chair gave a presentation giving us some ideas to build new membership

A group of us visited this remarkable world leading facility which researches the genome and how they can help serious conditions

Evani Radiya-Dixit

Dinner was held at The George Babraham

Brilliant talk by Peter Bird about how his father was shot down in WW1

Talk by Dr Tim Wregitt

From Linton to Africa by Zoom

Our Speaker was Isobel Blakeley

at Hadstock Village Hall

Talk by Vicky Evans

Walk around the Babraham Campus

Once again we have a shared Presidency

Presentation by Mike Storr from Nottingham Club

Bill Potter handed over to Sally Stewart

Last week our speaker was past global scholar Gaelen Stanford-Moore from the USA. We were also joined by Brian Reynolds a past member from his home in Spain.