The Rotary Club of North Harbour is a fun loving, young, mixed gender, high performance club on the North Shore of Auckland, New Zealand, with an outstanding record of support for both local and overseas projects.
The Club is a member of
Rotary International, a world wide organization of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service,encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In over 160 countries, 1.2 million Rotarians belong to 30,000 Rotary Clubs.
Rotary Club Membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary Clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.!
The main objective of Rotary is Service - in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development.
The Rotary motto is "Service Above Self"
Our Weekly Club Meetings:
We meet on Fridays @ 7am for 7.15am start (unless advised otherwise) and finish at 8.30am.
Click HERE to view a map of our location
The North Shore Squash Centre, Shea Terrace
Takapuna,
North Shore
Next Meeting 25th May:
Youth Celebration
Our meetings are preceded by a cooked breakfast and refreshment with the opportunity to socialise and "catch up". Each meeting features a vibrant program with a guest speaker, and updates on the various Club activities, upcoming social events and service opportunities.
Newcomers and Visitors from other Rotary Clubs are Always Welcome. Please notify
Ray Beatson on Thursday before our breakfast meeting. He is available by phone on 445 3526 (home) or 487 9291 (work) or by email at or .
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18th May:
Rehabilitation and Reintegration of prisoners have been goals of our society for many years. However, with more prisoners than ever before, are we successful? Cheryle Mikaele of Auckland Women's Prison will tell us. |
25th May:
Today is a celebration of our work with youth. Our sponsored youth, Christina returning from Finland and John and Megan returning from Rotary Youth Leadership Association (RYLA) will be on the stand.
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1st June:
Cancer affects most of us directly or indirectly. Andy and Megan Schmidt are franchise owners of Active Physio's branch in Albany specialising in the rehabilitation of cancer patients both before and after treatment.
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For more details of our programme go to our Upcoming Events Page
The Headlines:
Annual Photography Challenge 2012
Success breeds success and our third photography competition has been launched. Following the pattern of previous years, there are two sections, Open and Family. The first is intended for the enthusiast photographer who may enter many competitions and the latter those who take photos occasionally as momentos of happy occasions. In our last competition however, a family photograph was the overall winner.
Award winning photographes from the last competition have been retained on this web site for the pleasure they bring and can be seen by clicking on here.
Honda North Shore sponsors the event and has presented a very fine, large cup for the winner to hold on his/her mantlepiece for a year.
Entries close on 31st May. For full details and an entry form, click on the photograph opposite.
Exchange Student Host Families
The Club will be hosting another overseas student in 2012-13. Stephen is managing the process again - a huge undertaking - and is looking for four families (not necessarily Rotary members) to take in the student for three months each. In the past, this has been a richly rewarding event for the host families, parents and children alike.
Stephen can be contacted on 021 470 612, 419 0886 or fitforfun@xtra.co.nz.
Rugby Raffle
Raffle tickets are now available from Mark - thanks to all those who have volunteered to take 6 books or more.
The Night Market - Takapuna Beach Christmas Carnival
The Night Market was initiated as a long term foundation for our fund raising efforts. The scheme was so ambitious as to cause concern over our ability to deliver and over the level of investments which will have a long term effect upon our finances. The risk has been shared with Takapuna North Rotary Club and to date, the ride has been surprisingly smooth. The returns are arriving earlier, attendance is steady, Club members supporting the venture remain committed and the visionaries are now seen to have the balanced judgement of the Elders. The Bank of New Zealand, our sponsor, has made a great contribution to the success and we would like to publicly acknowledge this.
For the local community, the Night Market has become an important event. It provides a shopping and eating experience different from that of the malls and much better value. Many attendees spend time wandering around just enjoying the environment. The proximity to the sea means that a good shopping experience can be supplemented by a good walk along the beach.
On 1st December, the Takapuna Beach Christmas Carnival took place run in conjunction with the Takapuna Beach Business Association and the Takapuna Beach BNZ Night Market. Sponsors included Classic Hits, The Lion Foundation and Benefitz.
To turn the concept into reality required both imagination and a huge effort. Almost every Club member took part on the day, many in roles which took them right outside their area of comfort ("who wants to be Spongebob Squarepants?"). Santa dropped by and said hello to everyone. It was a family affair with bouncy castles, superb entertainers and story tale characters to make childhood a wonderful experience on the day. Supported by many local organisations such as the Salvation Army and North Harbour dance groups, not to mention warm sunshine, the result was one of the high points of the Club.
Below are some our well concealed Club members, Hutch, Peter, Linda, Ray and Wallace and some of our outside helpers. Fort those who would like to see more photographs of the event, please click here.
For Those Interested in Membership:
Membership of The Rotary Club of North Harbour is currently expanding and we are particularly pleased that the number of women members is increasing.
The privileges of membership are extensive and continually evolving. In return, our members follow the Code of Conduct endorsed by Rotary International, that is:
- Worthily represent your business, trade or profession by maintaining the highest possible ethics and standards.
- Take an active part in community welfare projects.
- Accord a high priority to regular attendance at meeting.
In addition, members abide by the "Four Way Test" to determine what is right. The test is:
- Is it the Truth?
- Is it Fair to all concerned?
- Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
- Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
If you are interested in joining, please contact our secretary Ray Beatson, contact details above, to attend our meetings and "taste before you order the banquet".
Corporate membership is available - please click here for the application form.
