Olivia Patten: Online Safety

In 2024, financial scams losses in Australia exceeded $2 billion, with investment scams accounting for roughly half of these losses. Financial institutions have a range of technologies to keep their customers’ information safe. Olivia will speak to us about what each of us can do to keep our money safe.

Olivia is a Branch Manager with Commonwealth Bank of Australia. She is an experienced banking professional dealing with all aspects of retail banking, wealth creation and protecting all that’s important to her customers.

• Some of our most active members will start to reduce their involvement over the next decade for several reasons.
• We will need to renew by recruiting and retaining a net gain of at least 20 members, to ensure that we remain a vibrant club.
• Actions taken in 2016/17 resulted in 58 people joining Rotary Central Melbourne over a 10-year period.
  • Over that period, a key action taken was that members shared their Rotary story with family, friends and work colleagues and invited them to participate in a service activity and/or attend a meeting.
• Why not share your Rotary story with at least one person during October and invite them to join us in a service activity and/or at a meeting if they would like to learn more.

• Over 60 sets of bed linen (including Doonas, Doona Covers, Sheets and Pillow Cases were sourced.
• Deliveries were made to BASP (Brigidine Assylum Seekers Project), Sacred Heart School, Fitzroy and St Vincent de Paul Conference, Balwyn North/East Kew. All bed linen sets will be provided to persons in necessitous circumstances/ social housing.
• Value of the goods delivered was estimated to be in excess of $2200.
• The bulk of the linen sets were taken up by Clubs supporting overseas projects so it was great to support “needy” locals, which is whom DIK is now also supporting .