Val Scerri Award for Vocational Service

Objective

Whilst Vocational Service is at the heart of almost everything that Rotarians do, if only because most involve the occupational skills that qualified them for Rotary membership in the first place, the purpose of the Award is to focus attention on the second statement within the Object of Rotary.

It has been named after Val Scerri, in honour of a committed and inspirational Rotarian who had a strong personal sense of the value of Vocational Service.

Criteria

The award will be given annually, at the following year's District Conference, to the Club that has best promoted and delivered Vocational Service.

They will have done so by means of an activity that, by some broad measure, encouraged and fostered:

1. high ethical standards in business and professions; and/or

2. the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and/or

3. the dignifying of their member's occupations as an opportunity to serve society.

In short, qualifying activities are those which:

1. have anything to do with the conduct, nature and value of people's working lives, or

2. benefit from the skills that members have acquired from the practice of their own vocations.

For the purpose of the Award, it does not matter if the activity is a new one or has been part of a long-standing Club programme.

How does a Club enter?

To make things as simple as possible, entries will be accepted in two different two ways. Either:

1. Clubs may submit details of a suitable activity directly to the current Chairman of the District Vocational Service Committee (at the address in the District Directory); or
2. members of the Committee may solicit entries from Clubs that they believe to be qualified to enter.

In either case, the Committee may ask for further details and Clubs may ask for more than one activity to be taken into account.

All entries must be in the hands of the Chairman by the 1^st August of the following Rotary year.

The Vocational Service Committee will prepare a short list of no more than five entries and submit them, without recommendation, to a judging panel of four Past District Governors.