Inner Wheel Inner Wheel is one of the largest women’s

service organisations in the world.

Inner Wheel promotes friendship and service.

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The Beginning of Inner WheelThe Beginning of Inner Wheel

10th

January

1924

Manchester

England

OUR STRUCTURE

INTERNATIONAL

NATIONAL

DISTRICT

CLUB

Friendship throughout the World

Inner Wheel is World Wide

International President Catherine Refabert– Tours France

Think Ahead – Aim High

HI ST OR Y

• Inner Wheel began in Manchester, England.

• 10th January 1924.

• World Inner Wheel Day is a celebration of that first meeting.

• Mrs Oliver Golding (Margarette) foundation President.

• Club formed by wives of Rotarians.

• Became the first club to adopt the name ‘Inner Wheel’.

• The name Inner Wheel was chosen to describe the connection with the Rotary Wheel, with the smaller wheel contained therein.

Paul Harris Margarette Golding

MARGARETTE GOLDING

• Founder IW: Mrs Oliver Golding.

• Sister at London Hospital for Tropical Diseases.

• Nurse in World War 1.

• Worked for ‘Nurses Outfitting Association Ltd’.

• 1919 became Managing Director until her death 1939.

The Objects of Inner Wheel

To Promote True Friendship

To Encourage the Ideals of

Personal Service

To Foster International Understanding

To Promote True Friendship

A monthly meeting with no

attendance requirements

allows ample time

for fellowship and friendship.

Personal Service The activities undertaken by Inner Wheel members

are as wide and varied as this great planet itself.

Making cushions for wheelchairs, cooking and

baking, emergency hospital kits, providing

‘sleeping bags’ for street kids, knitting pre-term

baby blankets, ‘We care’ packages for women

refuge centres, shoeboxes for our defence force,

things that we can do personally.

Our personal service strongly embraces the idea of

service with the added dimension of personal

concern.

To Foster International Understanding

• International Inner Wheel enjoys an ‘on the roster’ status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

• Dealing with issues such as: Rights of the Child, Status of Women, Ageing, The Family, and Narcotic Drugs.

FRIENDSHIPS

HELPING

SATISFACTION

ENJOYMENT UNDERSTANDING

MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA

• A female who is related to or was related to a Rotarian or former Rotarian. • A female partner of a male Rotarian.

• A female Rotarian or former female Rotarian. • A female who is related to an IW member or a former IW member. • Former female member of Rotaract or the wife or mother of a member of

Rotaract. • Honorary Members, having served for at least 2 years in a Club, may be

offered membership as Active Member providing the majority of the Club agrees.

• A female who has participated in a program of Rotary International….. and

has been personally invited to join Inner Wheel.

Do you know

someone who has a

link with Inner Wheel

or Rotary?

Invite them to your

next meeting

Or let us know and

we can tell them

about Inner Wheel.

I.W. Australia National Project

CORD BLOOD RESEARCH GRANTS

• Project Commenced 2000/2001.

• $1,650,876.79 raised since.

• 24 Research Grants awarded to date.

4 Grants Awarded to Researchers in Queensland.

3 to Professor Kerry Atkinson

Mater Medical Research Institute &

Mater Adults Hospital.

1 to Dr Michael Doran

Australian Institute of Bioengineering and

Nanotechnology, Mater Medical Research Institute.

CORD BLOOD RESEARCH

Total Funds Raised $1,797090.80 Research Grants Awarded $1,693462.00

Coin for a Cord Day

Friday 3 May 2013

How Are Funds Raised?

• Coin for Cord Days – a day held

nationally when Clubs sell merchandise.

• Special fund raising events at Club and

District level.

• Donations In Memoriam.

• Private Donations.

IW Australia

Now a total of 14 Districts, • 2 in Queensland,

• 6 in NSW,

• 3 in Victoria,

• 1 each in SA, WA and Tasmania.

• There are also two non districted clubs Canberra Belconnen and Darwin Combined.

IW Australia President 2012-2013

Margaret Whitchurch from QLD

1931 - Ballarat Victoria, first Inner Wheel Club

to be chartered outside the U.K.

National membership is now almost 4,000.

Clubs in District A40

1. Albany 2. Avon 3. Gosnells 4. Kalamunda 5. Kalgoorlie-Boulder 6. Karrinyup 7. Mandurah 8. Melville 9. Rockingham

Kwinana Districts 10. Rossmoyne 11. Scarborough 12. Wann-Gara 13. Whitfords

13 Clubs

District Chairman

Anne Nedkoff

A friend is someone who reaches for your hand

and touches your heart.