For Outstanding Service by an Individual to IFSR or Scouting
The IFSR Silver Wheel Award has been reserved for those with outstanding international service to IFSR/Scouting/Guiding.
The IFSR Silver Wheel Award is awarded for exceptional and exemplary service in support of IFSR international activities or Scouting / Guiding Movement international activities. Individuals may nominate a recipient for this award.
Nominations for this Award may be forwarded to the IFSR Executive Secretary for action.
After submission, the nomination is considered by the IFSR International Awards Committee. If approved, the nominator with be notified and appropriate arrangements made for presentation of the award.
On November 11, 2011, Jack Mayo (center) received IFSR's Silver Wheel Award from former RI President, Eagle Scout, and devoted Scouter Cliff Dochterman (left), and IFSR President Brian Thiessen (right). The occasion was a dinner for the Cliff Dochterman Red Coat Endowment to the Permanent Fund of the Rotary Foundation. Several years earlier, Jack received the Cliff Dochterman Award from IFSR President Bud Allison.
The IFSR Youth Service Award may
be awarded to any Rotary Club that renders
service in support of Scout and/or Guide activities. The
awards may be given annually by the IFSR Webmaster. Recipients are selected from articles posted in media and on-line. Such articles may be brought to the attention of the IFSR webmaster.
This is not a Scouting award nor a Rotary award, but an IFSR award and is intended to reward Rotary Clubs who support local Scout and/or Guide Units and get it publicized in the media and on-line. For examples of what various Rotary Clubs are doing, open the Rotary Club links below. Some examples:
Work together on a community service project.
Perform a service project at a Scout or Guide camp.
Form a partnership with a Scout and/or Guide unit.
Make a Scout or Guide unit you work closely with an Interact unit
Recognize Scouts & Guides who attain the highest rank with IFSR Certificates.
To insure that the award is available worldwide in a timely manner, it is only distributed electronically. The recipient club will be notified of the award and given instructions on how to download and print the certificate. The award can be downloaded and printed by the club themselves or at a print center.
Ashby de la Zouch Rotary Club donated £5,000 to the 4th Ashby Scout group to help replenish the funds that had been used to renovate their new headquarters.
Burton-Middlefield
Rotary Club presented a special Paul Harris Fellowship Award to Boy Scout Troop
99’s Assistant Scout Master Bob Brooker at the troop’s Court of Honor Ceremony.
Cerignola
Rotary Club ran a fundraiser allocated to Gruppo Scout Cerignola 3 "San
Francesco d'Assisi", to support outdoor activities based on volunteering
and learning by doing.
The
Chieti and Chieti Ovest Rotary Clubs and Italian Catholic Scout Adult Movement
arranged for choral groups to perform at facilities that accommodate the
elderly.
Dixon
Rotary Club with the assistance of their Boy Scout Troop serve an annual
pancake breakfast before the May Fair parade. All servicemen in uniform get a
free breakfast.
East
Greenwich Rotary Scholarship Fund invites Boy Scouts and Girl Scout to submit
an essay to compete for a $2,000 scholarship to an institute of higher
learning.
Rotary
Club Ferrol assisted by the Grupo Scout 19 Ferrol participated in “Only sand on
the beach,” a day of waste clean-up on the beach of O Vilar, in Covas (Ferrol).
Gaithersburg Rotary Club’s Flags for our Heroes honors members
of the armed services, and other essential workers. Scout troops guard the
field at night and hold a flag retirement ceremony.
Glossop Rotary Club sponsored a trip by the 3rd Glossop
Scout Group on a long weekend visit to their counterparts in Bad Vilbel,
Germany, Glossop’s twin town.
Inverness
Rotary Club and Boy Scout Troop 457 joined hands on May 4 as part of the global
initiative Scouts Trash the Trash Day. The Rotary club charters Troop 457.
Ironton
Rotary Club was assisted by Boy Scout Troop 106 at their annual breakfast.
Scouts made sure people had drinks, cleaned up and put away tables at the end.
The
Knoxville Rotary Club held a ceremony Wednesday night honoring Caleb Reid’s
completion of his Eagle Scout project to plant trees at Knoxville Middle
School.
Marlborough
Rotary Club supported Girl Scout Katelyn Massey’s Friends Fridge where anyone
can donate by leaving food in the fridge, and anyone can take food from the
fridge as needed.
Mid
Argyll Rotary Club supported the 19th Argyll Scouts trip to Nepal to work on a
variety of humanitarian projects in two schools in Kathmandu impacted by the
2015 earthquake.
For Newnan Rotary Club’s Fallen Heroes project,
Righton Rivers of BSA Troop 47 created more crosses with in-depth information
about the fallen servicemen.
Okotoks Rotary Club partnered with the 1st
Okotoks Scouts in their 2024 flag program. The scouts will help promote the
program and will lend a hand with the flag planting and removal.
Pinerolo Rotary Club and the Pini x Pine Association
donated 65 different trees for the Pinerolo Scouts &ldquou;Thinking Day” which the Scout
planted to for the Rotary Forest.
Rome
Rotary Club teamed up with Scout Pack 113 Cub Scouts to collect nearly 500 cans
of food in the Northwest Georgia Council Scouting For Food initiative for the Salvation
Army in Rome.
Rowan
Rotary Club and the United Way presented the first place Service Above Self
Youth Award to Scout Troop 4328 for offering the kinds of activities they
didn’t offer in Girls Scouts.
St.
Helena Rotary Club acquired a charter to form Scout Troop 24 devoted to girls
from the St. Helena area. They will meet in the Scout Hall used by Scout Troop
1.
Simi
Sunrise Rotary Club purchased and placed the flags on the Simi Valley Welcome
Happy Face last weekend with help from Cub Scout Pack 3643 and Boy Scout Troop
1642.
Sleaford
Kesteven Rotary Club presented a Children of Courage Award to 3rd
Sleaford Scout Ellie, age 9, for making breakfast for little brother and drawing
picture for her mom who is hospitalized.
Troon Rotary Club awarded a £200 grant
to the 28th Ayrshire Scout Troop towards the purchase of the Scout Centre during
their Rabbie Burns celebration.
Walden
Rotary Club was assisted by members of Scout Troop 31 in the town’s annual
clean sweep after they cleared garbage from the Tin Brook Pump station, and then
planted trees.
Wellington
Rotary Club’s Cub Scout Pack 125 organized two Charitable Initiatives, Scouting
for Food (collecting 546 pounds) and Toys for Tots (shown above) to help those
in need.
Windermere
Rotary Club organized a community Memorial Day observance. The Girl Scout
Citrus Singers sang Together We Can Change the World, Let There be
Peace on Earth, and others.
Yadkin
Valley Rotary Club participated in the Old Hickory County Boy Scouts of
America Scouting For Food Drive to collect food for local food banks throughout
the region.
The IFSR Community Service Award may
be awarded by any Rotary Club to a Scout or Guide unit of their choice they wish to recognize for performing community service. The award may be given annually to any Scout or Guide unit by any Rotary Club. Recipients are selected by the Rotary Club.
This is not a Scouting award nor a Rotary award, but an IFSR award and is intended to permit Rotary Clubs to recognize Community Service performed by local Scout and/or Guide units.
To help Rotary Clubs create and print the award locally, this website has a fillable PDF version of the certificate which is easy to fill out:
Dublin Fingal Rotary Club presents IFSR Award to Scout Group
When Rush Tidy Towns group created the project to beautify the Ros Eo Wall with murals, the Rush 38 Scout Group signed on to create a mural. The mural was over 3 meters on a side.
The IFSR Community Service Award is an award presented by Rotary Clubs to Scout and Guide units of their choice they wish to recognize for performing community service. The award may be given annually to any Scout or Guide unit by any Rotary Club. For more information on this award go to IFSR Community Service Award.
Eccles Rotary Club presents IFSR Award to Guide Group
Christmas is always special in Eccles, but the Eccles Rotary club makes it even more special. On November 15, the Club started its 4 week Christmas celebration in Eccles. It included Santa's Grotto in The Mall in Eccles Shopping Centre where every child that visited received a free Christmas book donated by the Eccles Rotary Club and the parents received mulled apple juice. They also featured free photos with Father Christmas.
IFSR member Rosemary Boardman of the Eccles Rotary Club reports that "On January 25th 2016 the Rotary Club of Eccles ( District 1285) presented to 1st Patricroft Guide Company an IFSR Community Service Award to recognise their help over Christmas 2015 with manning the Father Christmas Grotto in the town centre over the 4 weeks ( during dreadful weather) and helping to distribute books free of charge to local children as Christmas gifts from Rotary."
The IFSR Community Service Award is an award presented by Rotary Clubs to Scout and Guide units of their choice they wish to recognize for performing community service. The award may be given annually to any Scout or Guide unit by any Rotary Club. For more information on this award go to IFSR Community Service Award.
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