What does an online Rotary meeting look like?

An online Rotary meeting is a scheduled video call that follows a recognisable shape. Our meetings begin at 8pm CET, prompt, and run for an hour. The President opens the meeting - or, when the President cannot attend, a nominated Board member does.

From there, a meeting usually takes one of two forms. Many evenings are built around a guest speaker, introduced by one of our members, who presents for around thirty minutes on a subject of local or international interest and then takes questions, after which we formally thank them for coming. Speakers are sometimes fellow Rotarians and more often not; what they have in common is a topic that bears on the community, at home or further afield. If time remains at the end, members may raise any club matters briefly before the meeting closes.

Other evenings are given over to our own work: updates from the Team Leads running current projects, and discussion of any new project we are considering - what it is for, and who might volunteer to join the team that delivers it.

How often do eClub members meet, and where?

We meet weekly. Three Mondays in most months are online via Zoom, and the first Thursday of each month is in person on Ibiza / Eivissa.

The monthly in-person evening is the one we tend to look forward to most - an evening of Rotarian friendship and good company on the island. The weekly online meetings keep us active between those evenings and within reach for members whose work or travel would make a standing in-person commitment difficult. Both count as club meetings, and our work is carried on through both.

How does a Rotary eClub run service projects?

A service project is a piece of voluntary work a Rotary club organises to benefit its community, locally or internationally. At ReCII, our projects begin with the members: someone proposes an idea, we discuss it together, and we decide whether to take it on.

Once a project is adopted, a Team Lead coordinates it and members volunteer to join the team that carries it out. No one is left to manage a project on their own - the work is always shared. Progress is reported back at our project-focused meetings, so the whole club can follow how the work is going. Projects fall within Rotary's Five Avenues of Service - Club, Vocational, Community, International, and Youth Service, the channels through which Rotarians give their time - and we pursue them exactly as any other Rotary club does.

Who runs an eClub - is there a Board?

Yes. An eClub is governed by an elected Board of Directors, the group of members responsible for running the club. At ReCII, our Board combines the officers Rotary International requires - President, President-Elect, Secretary, and Treasurer - with the working roles we have chosen to add: chairs for Membership, Meetings, Foundation, and Publicity. The Immediate Past President, also required, serves the following year as Vice President, staying on to support the incoming President.

The Board changes each Rotary year, the twelve-month cycle that every Rotary club follows, running from 1 July to 30 June. Board members serve for that year, which is why our President and other roles change on 1 July. We are governed this way as a chartered club within Rotary International's District 2203 in Spain. To read how an eClub's standing compares with that of a traditional club, see whether a Rotary eClub is a real Rotary club; for who can join and how, see how to join.