Monthly Meeting
Our next Monthly Meeting is on Wednesday 4th December 2024
This will be run as a "hybrid" meeting, meaning we will be in person in the Borrett Room at the club but also opening it up to members via Zoom. Click here a little before 7pm to join the meeting on Zoom or make sure you have secured your raffle tickets at the door and are seated before 7pm.
This Month's MC Barry Horn will start at 7pm sharp.
Online registration details can also be found in our Events Calendar before the meeting date.
Finding us at Moorabbin:
Agenda
7:00 pm ... Guest Presentations:
Presenter Topic: Community Engagement: Thinking Differently and Being Bold
Presenter: Shirlene Standish
Shirlene is a native of the United States and has spent extensive time working, volunteering & travelling overseas until she came to Australia. She fell in love with the country, as well as a lovely Australian, and decided to make Melbourne her home.
Her background is in Marketing, however her dream was to work for an organisation that could make a difference to the community. This dream came true in 2008 when she was offered a position with the Monash Volunteer Resource Centre, now South East Volunteers, as the Volunteer Program Officer.
Two years later, she was promoted to Manager, Volunteer Services, adding the Training Portfolio & Corporate Volunteering to her Volunteer Management role. She is now the Manager Volunteering & Community Engagement and turns her skills to assisting a variety of programmes.
She works closely with Non-Profit Organisations in the community, as well as with potential and current volunteers, co-ordinating the two to help promote programmes, volunteering activities and training. She has seen the many challenges that the community services have faced and has worked with a team of dedicated staff and volunteers to address and overcome these challenges. To this day, 16 years later, she feels that this role is the most satisfying and rewarding job she has ever had.
2nd Presenter Topic: Kingston Kickstarters Community Leadership Program
Presenter: Gillian Turnbull
Gillian Turnbull, Coordinator of Community Capacity and Inclusive Communities at City of Kingston will present on Kingston Kickstarters. This is a free training initiative aimed at empowering current and emerging community leaders in Kingston.
Then...
We are going to have an extended interval with drinks and nibbles and an opportunity to have a bit of a chat and generally socialise.
We will provide light nibbles, tea, coffee and soft drinks. Feel free to BYO beer or vino.
And then ...
- David Stonier-Gibson will present his President's report for this month.
- David F Evans will inform us about our recently started gathering at the Headquarters, Pot Luck Picks.
- We will then have a presentation from iHelp, courtesy of: Cedric Wyndham.
- To wind up we'll have as long as you like to chat over Zoom. Please feel free to hang around; the socialising is good medicine in these stressful times.
and last but not least ...
The restaurant has been arranged for WAFFLE, a relaxed social get together at nearby Fong's Chinese restaurant. Details and maps will be available on the night.
https://www.melbpc.org.au/sigs/waffle-sig-wine-fine-food-lovers-event/
The meeting will recorded and subsequently published publicly.
See you at (or a bit before!!!) 7pm. Via Zoom or in person.
If you would like to submit questions for any of our speakers, you need to do so on the Zoom Chat panel.. All you need to do is join the 'Monthly meeting live' group and post there.
