People always respond well when their skills and experience are recognised, and a skills audit of a club's members may reveal some hidden talents among its members that are not only useful to the club, but also fulfilling to the member.
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President of the Armidale New England Probus Club Keith Clarke thinks that rather than experience that mad rush just before your AGM to work out who will put their hand up for what positions, it is far better to make a habit of working all that out during the middle of the year with a skills audit.
"Our club is all about fellowship. It's non-sectarian and non political," he said
"It is just for people to get together and we always have morning tea at our meetings.
"I think most of our members are not looking for anything like Rotary, or anything like that, where they've got to get in and commit themselves to working and all of that."
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Keith said Probus members were not burdened with fundraising.
"We have a committee and an outings officer and welfare officer," he said.
"We meet every at 9.45am on every third Monday at the Armidale Bowling Club. Every fourth Monday we meet somewhere in town for a coffee and every first Monday we generally have an outing."
The inaugural luncheon of the first Probus Club in the United Kingdom on March 2 1966. In May of the same year, a committee was formed with Harold Blanchard as chair. By 1974, Probus clubs had expanded into New Zealand and to Australia by 1976.
