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Post by chrisg on Mar 9, 2020 18:04:40 GMT
That time again. The news is that we are currently having another look at how this club should work to support the RIBI Membership Initiative. We are trying to arrange a meeting with our Officers, The Coordinators and Amanda at Alcester. Watch this space for further news. There is more going on than we know. Thanks to Paul for his report last week and I know our visiting Rotarians have been busy from their FaceBook posts.
We are exploring alternatives to capture our activities.
Watch this space.
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Post by pbeedham on Mar 10, 2020 17:27:46 GMT
Thanks Chris. Something that would really help is if the tool we used for meetings actually issued notifications. We use Microsoft Teams for this sort of thing at work and the ‘conversation’ can be accessed from multiple platforms, with notifications that someone has posted. It allows far more interaction than having to go and look to see if anything has actually happened... The difficulty then is around cost and the access tracking feature that you need.
One general thing though is around the activity of the Club. Physical Clubs tend to have a ‘business meeting’ where there are some form of reports on projects and activities the Club is working on. We wouldn’t need to be tied in to specific times, but it would really help if we had projects we could get involved in as a Club - with basic plans that can follow the rough idea of Club Assemblies, etc.
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Post by pbeedham on Mar 10, 2020 17:56:40 GMT
To share something from the UK High Street... I spent the day yesterday working in the Bedworth branch of Nationwide Building Society. All the ‘banks’ have closed their branches in Bedworth and the Coventry Building Society has been closed for refurbishment for 6 weeks. The result of this is that there is only one operational 24x7 ATM in the immediate town centre. By 09:30 on Monday, it had run out of cash - as had happened every week for the last 6 weeks. The ATM inside the branch ran out of cash by 14:00. This then creates a queue for the counter service as people use that to get cash - an option only available to Nationwide customers of course... The annoying thing is the level of complaint the Nationwide staff have had to deal with, when the problem is actually due to other companies closing their branches!
Another experience was with a 19 year old woman with a learning disability. She was living in assisted accommodation and wanted to get a contract mobile phone to save money over payment as you go’. In order to start the contract, she needed a direct debit in place, which required her to have a current account, which brought her into the Nationwide branch to open an account. The branch staff were incredibly patient in trying to explain the ‘proof of ID’ requirements - even printing the guidance and cutting out the relevant pieces for her. It was clear that she couldn’t quite grasp the concepts of what documents she needed to provide, which really made me think just how many people are getting isolated from things that are largely taken for granted by the modern world... An opportunity for organisations like Rotary perhaps?
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