Welcome to: PROBUS Club of Bobcaygeon Area ...we're all about fellowship & fun!! |
Newsletter March 2020 |
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Newsletter February 2020 The startup committee for Probus Club of Bobcaygeon, Marilyn, Kent, Richard, Paul, and I, have been working very hard over the past few months with experienced members of Probus Ontario and Fenelon Falls Probus Club. We are happy to announce that we have an operational framework in place, secured a venue, our email is up and running; online payment options are in the works, the website has gone live and we’re ready to register members and form work teams. |
As a team, we decided to embrace Probus Canada’s mission statement “to provide Fellowship, Friendship and Fun for men and women in their retirement and semi-retirement years” as a guiding principle to nurture our goal to create an inclusive, equitable atmosphere that stimulates thought, interest and participation in activities. Probus is a volunteer driven organization, and as such the success of any club rests with the culture and participation of its members. The Startup Team has done the groundwork to build a solid framework and culture that we believe are accessible, equitable and sustainable into the future. Now all we need are active, engaged members to share in creating activities and events that are thought provoking, inspiring and engaging. After all, we believe at this stage of life ‘it’s all about fellowship and fun’! Interest in our club has been outstanding. Through word of mouth alone, the message of a Probus Club opening in Bobcaygeon has spread and our waitlist has grown to around 200 people. A majority of our waitlist are persons who have either been on the Fenelon Falls Waitlist for a very long time, and/or those who attended the November 2019 Meet & Greet Meeting held at the community center in Fenelon Falls. We dedicated many hours searching for a venue that would meet our Club needs. However, the options within close proximity to Bobcaygeon were either too small or didn’t have appropriate facilities. Locations that could accommodate our waitlist numbers were either too far out of town, or too expensive for our budget. With limited venue options, we had to make some hard decisions. After many long discussions and in consultation with Probus Ontario, we had to make a very hard decision; we are limiting membership enrollment to 150 people, and will cap the waitlist at 50 people. To ensure fairness to all we felt it was necessary to offer registration 2 in phases. We implemented a waitlist management strategy that we believe stays true to our guiding principles of inclusiveness and equity. If you are in: Phase 1: your name was on the original list of names transferred from Fenelon Falls Probus Club and/or you attended the November 2019 Meet & Greet. Registration: you will be allowed a 48-hour window of opportunity for early online registration and payment prior to our meeting. Phase 2: your name was put on the waitlist after November 4, 2019 Registration: You will receive an email announcing the number of remaining spaces and that you may now register/pay for membership. Spots will be limited and held by RSVP response on a first come first serve basis up to capacity. Over the next two weeks everyone will receive an email which will provide details for your registration, payment options and the time and location for our First Meeting. In order to arrange for refreshments and name tags, we ask that you reply to your email RSVP with your intent to attend and register at the meeting on March 4, 2020. We are looking forward to meeting you Kind regards Terry, Kent, Paul, Marilyn & Rick |