Welcome! Tonight heralds the first blogger news about the Deaf Club Sydney's news and happenings as events pass by.
FRIDAY 20th MAY 2011 - Club Burwood:
The Deaf Social Night at CLUB Burwood was attended by 84 people, which went very well.
We trialled the $4.00 price increase but it did not go well with some members of the Deaf Community, as a result yesterday at a meeting we decided to drop back to the old $2.00 price from now on and added the $5.00 new entry price that include two Keno games.
MONEY:
Q: What we can do with the money raised?
A: Once the event has been finished, we count the money then to record the amount in our income sheet. The monies are banked with Westpac that where we operate our account. We are registered with the Australian Taxation Office and have our Australian Business Number (A.B.N) as Taxation laws require us to do so for GST purposes.
We want to let you know that our committee members does NOT take the money out of the Deaf Club’s money boxes to buy drinks or anything for their own benefit as we are not allowed to do!!
STRATEGIC PLAN DAY:
On Saturday 28th May 2011, the Deaf Club Board had a Strategic Planning Day Meeting all day, which we all worked out to plan for the Deaf Club’s future from 2011 to 2014. The Strategic Plan 2011-2014 will be prepared and adopted on 1st July 2011, when the PDF document will be placed on our website and a limited print run of documents is to be proposed.
FUTURE COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
From now on and in the future, we will be selecting new committee members who have the right skills and past work experience in these fields. A Selection Criteria document will be developed and a resume outlining qualifications and skills sets will be needed if a new committee member wishes to join.
Requirements are mandatory under NSW Liquor laws for the committee roles are:
Ø Responsible Serving of Alcohol Certificate
Ø Responsible Conduct of Gambling
Ø Licensees
Ø Senior First Aid Course
We cannot have anyone who does not have the right qualifications skills to be on the committee. All of these current committee will be receiving training in 2012/2013 under the Strategic Plan. At this stage we are not taking any new committee members yet.
Friday 3rd June 2011 - Parramatta RSL:
Deaf Got Talent was held at Parramatta RSL and was attended by 90 people and has performance entries which these people performed are Bryan Baggio, Kirk O'Meara, Daryl Le Pena, Scott Egginton, Lachlan Clear and the judges were Marcia Girke, David Healy and Tony Clews.
One of the Deaf aboriginal performer from Perth won $100.00 for his outstanding performance.
Saturday 4th June 2011 - Adamstown Club, Newcastle:
The night was successful with about 40 people attended the Wine and Cheese Night held at Adamstown Club.
The Film "See What I'm Saying" was shown to the Newcastle Deaf Community that was highly appreciated by everyone and after the film was shown, they received free Scamwatch DVD's.
Friday 17th June 2011 - Club Burwood:
The Australian Deaf Games Roadshow was held last week. Phil Harper from Melbourne presented about the Deaf Games in Geelong to be held in January 2012.
More than 61 people attended the night which was enjoyable and the information was useful for us to know what happening. The website is in use for everyone to register online and find out events in Geelong & surrounding areas.
Winners for Keno are Daryl La Pena (1st and 3rd) and Jamal Ahmed (2nd). The winner for the toaster is Ray Deeks, drawn by an American guest, Kevin Pick - Tannie's boyfriend.
Thank you everyone for attending these great events in the past 6 weeks or so.
Do not forget the next event on 1st July 2011 at Parramatta RSL - Presentation from Hobart Deaf Conference, that Lorraine D'arcy, Nathan Eaves and Glenn Welldon attended the National Deaf Conference.
We plan to start the presentation at 8:30pm and should last one hour.
On 20th July 2011 at 12:15pm Durban time, our presentation will be held in front of the World's Audience that would be the exciting time for the Deaf Club's history.
