Our Committees and Projects

Our Projects Are Organised By A Number Of Committees:

• Seeking ways of materially adding to our funding, a Night Market in Takapuna is being organised in conjunction with Takapuna North Club. The launch takes place on 8th September. This is a long term project which is expected to yield profits only in 2013.
• Our chief fund raising event until 2011 has been a Dinner and Auction which raised tens of thousands of dollars thanks to our sponsors and the indefatigable efforts of the organising committee. The live auction is being replaced with an online auction through Trade Me.
• A Golf competition was organized in 2008. This was a great success and repeat events have been sell outs.
• Members of the Club are encouraged to become "Centurians" who commit to donating US$100pa.
• In 2009, a Rotary District photo competition was iniated by our Club members, notably Neville Bailey, which was such a success that it was repeated as a Club initiative in 2010. This looks set to become an established event and money raiser.
• Established fund raisers include the sale of Entertainment Books and Rotary Calendars, a commission on telephone calls made by Club members via Deltacom, and fun fines and petty cash donations at each meeting.

• Our big spending committee has donated thousands of dollars in recent years to North Shore Hospice, The Brain Injury Association of New Zealand, North Shore Life Centre, North Shore Hospital Cardiac and Natal Units, NZ Special Olympics, Positive Parenting and many, many other charities.
• Projects to which we can contribute physically are also supported. Recent examples are clearing noxious weeds at Tuff Crater, support for North Shore's EDay, and the maintenance of school playground areas which were originally supplied and built by the Club.
• Some community events also raise money, for example a fitness programme for members which attracted sponsorship, while a tree planting programme was funded through North Shore Honda.

• This committee organises awards to recognise excellence in the local community ranging from two apprentices to a successful business person.
• We have traditionally supported students from schools in the Far North, especially the Taipa Area School, to gain vocational experience in Auckland.
• Visits for members to The North Shore Waste Water Treatment Plant, The Wilson Home, the new Naval Museum and other places of interest are arranged.

• Each year the Club supports the Rotary Youth Leadership, Rotary Challenge and Rotary Student Exchange programmes. For many years we have also provided support to disabled children and gifted athletes.
• The club participates with others in hosting an overseas exchange student and arranging for a lucky New Zealand student to be hosted by overseas Rotary clubs for a year.
• A member of the Club, in conjunction with his firm, Fortune Group Ltd, inaugurated in New Zealand the Positive Parenting program which many club members actively support on an individual basis. This program has now gone nationwide through the Stellar Trust. For further details go to http://www.fortunegroup.co.nz/PositiveParent.html

• The Rotary Club of North Harbour has shown an outstanding committment over many years to on the ground help to needy communities in all parts of the globe.
• Our programmes have included a new market for a village in Tanzania, help for an exchange student from Kenya, assisting in the construction of a TB ward in Vanuatua, the donation of water tanks and cycles to Pacific Island peoples and the fitting out of disaster relief boxes. The latest programme of work carries on our Pacific Island interests by building sanitation facilities at the Lupalea Community Centre in Vanuatu.
• The Club commits to paying US$120 per member pa to Rotary's world wide charitable trust, The Rotary Foundation. The Foundation has a remarkable record of initiating ambitious programmes and carrying them through to completion, the best known being PolioPlus launched in 1985 to eradicate polio worldwide. Working with The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, more than 2 billion children have been vacinated with the result that 210 countries and territories are now free of the terrible scourge. There are many, many other programmes completed, in progress and under design.

• Our fun committee - and they bring it on, most recently in dance parties, trivial pursuits evenings and a harbour cruise.