Our inaugural speaker for the Applecross Rotary Keynote Speaker Series Jarrad Brown, entertained and informed the audience with his presentation '30 MONEY TIPS IN 30 MINUTES'.

 

When Ian Fairnie asked Jarrad to speak about money for young people, his dilemma was how to make it informative without boring people to death with power point slides of graphs and charts.  He decided on giving 30 tips introduced by a movie theme relevant to the money tip.

 

This was a very practical way to inform people on how they can manage their money. 

 

One of the aims of the event was to engage with members of the Brentwood Karoonda Sporting  Association to inform them about Rotary.  The few members that were in attendance learnt a bit about Rotary as well as enjoying some fellowship and substantial nibbles catered for by Lorri and Liz. 

 

The potential for greater attendance at these events  will be enhanced through better marketing.  

The following article was in one of RI's weekly communications and is very relevant for our club:

 

Our club's aim is for continuous improvement of the online experience.  The benefits of giving our members the option to join meetings either via online or face to face is proving a success in keeping our members engaged with the club.

 

There is also the opportunity to engage with speakers and other clubs with a lot more flexibility even within the state, nationally and globally. We can stream our speakers to our audience on social media to give our speakers wider coverage as well as grow our online presence.

 

Logan and I are waiting for an upmarket webcam to be available to purchase again, however in the meantime we are improving the sound quality thanks to a wireless microphone system provided by Andrew Bower.

 

Thanks to our current members and guests who regularly join us via ZOOM for your patience as we try to improve the experience.  We are currently using ZOOM for our board meetings and are subscribing to a monthly ZOOM account that is available for our members use.

 

WA's new container deposit scheme will launch on the 1st October 2020.

 

We can start to make some serious change - change for our programs/ projects, change for our schools' project, change for the environment.

 

In WA, we use more than 1.3 billion eligible drink containers every year. That’s enough containers to circumnavigate WA SIX TIMES every year!

And while these containers are made of easily recyclable materials like glass, plastic and aluminium, too many are ending up as litter and landfill.

Over the next 20 years Containers for Change will result in 
•    760 million fewer containers ending up as litter
•    5.9 billion fewer containers being sent to landfill 

At Containers for Change, we’re committed to a real and trustworthy circular economy model.  We consider your eligible containers a valuable resource, not waste. The containers you return through us will be recycled. 

Once you return your eligible containers to a Containers for Change refund point, your containers are sorted, bundled and auctioned to manufacturers for reuse in a circular economy.

The containers you return through Containers for Change are made into everything from aeroplane wings to hard hats, yoga pants to new containers.