The new leadership team at The Rotary Club of Gosford North
The Rotary Club of Gosford North now has a new leadership team following the annual changeover of the club on Monday, June 16.
President Alan Wort said he was looking forward to working with a strong team of people dedicated to the community. “The Club has about 40 members of various ages and vocations and, over the years, has had many projects, both local and overseas, and members always have fun carrying them out,” said Mr Wort.
The members are currently heavily involved with overseas projects including Wheelchairs for Madagascar, the Nepal Dental Project and the Kokoda Project, where members of the Gosford North Club assisted in building 10 aid post buildings in the Oro province of Papua New Guinea. Here on the Central Coast, Gosford North Rotary has developed a program called SOKS (Save our Kids – Central Coast Youth Suicide Prevention).
The Club aims to ensure that young Central Coast adults who have not had the support of extended family and friends in tackling life’s up and downs are not forgotten. Working to support Lifeline, the Club has raised over $30,000.
A new endeavour is the Benefactors’ Club, comprising a group of like-minded people and organisations whose morals, ethics and value systems are the same as Rotary. The Club raises funds under the guidelines of helping youth, and updates the Benefactors on the progress by celebrating with a Benefactors’ and Beneficiaries’ Dinner, where the Benefactors get to meet the people who have benefited from their kind donations.
Gosford North Rotary and the Benefactors’ Club have supported programs such as the Rotary Youth Leadership Program and the National Youth Science Forum. Courtney Paton, who attended the National Youth Science Forum, did so well at the program she was invited to travel to Canada to attend the Canada-Wide Science Fair as an ambassador for Australian Science. The Rotary Club of Gosford North meets every Monday at the Gosford Golf Club.
Media release,
27 Jun 2014
Michael Sharpe, Rotary
Club of Gosford North