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SEWN NEWS Otautahi 1 February/Hui Tanguru 2016
Welcome to the February / Hui Tanguru SEWN newsletter. Items for the March newsletter should be emailed to us at [email protected] by Friday 19th March 2016
SEWN HQ
Kia ora koutou We are marching into SEWN’s new life as a renamed and refocused entity. On the morning of March 22nd we will have the very first SEWN half day hui. With the change to transitional and regeneration structures what does this mean for us and our communities? We all want to ensure that this recovery is for all. What are the issues that need to be confronted in this new environment? How can we address marginalisation together? And how can SEWN help build greater Social Equity and Wellbeing for our communities?
Marginalisation Forum 2016: Break the Chains, Build the Links 9.30am – 1pm, Tuesday 22nd March 2016, Christchurch Bridge Club, 21 Nova Place
Pop this one in your diaries now! Speakers and details will be in the next newsletter. SEWN Garden Party The weather didn’t cooperate, but we still had a great time celebrating our new name and the new year in the beautiful spaces in Avebury House. Thanks to everyone who came along and helped make it such an enjoyable gathering. We’ll be putting up photos on our Facebook page (see below) soon, and will try and squeeze some into next month’s newsletter. Keeping informed We always enjoy putting the newsletter together. For another way to find good things to read about the sector or about marginalisation, remember to ‘like’ us on Facebook. We regularly share articles of interest, relevant cartoons and videos, news about what we’ve been up to. https://www.facebook.com/SEWNChch
Ka kite, from the SEWN team.
Clare in the Community
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With thanks to the Guardian and Harry Venning
BLOOM: COMMEMORATING THE CANTERBURY EARTHQUAKES
SEWN is a supporter of Bloom: An interactive exhibition commemorating the
fifth anniversary of the 22 February 2011 earthquake through poetry, stories
and flowers.
- Primary school children have been invited to create a handcrafted flower
for a river of flowers running through the exhibition. Flowers can be
brought to the Museum during February or children and families can
make them at the Museum in weekend drop-in workshops 10.00 am to
2.00 pm.
- High school students, youth groups and individuals are invited to write
poems to create a river of reflection about the earthquakes, the last five
years and the future of our city. Help is on hand at weekend drop-in
workshops 10.00 am to 2.00 pm.
- The inspiration for a mural created on a window in the Museum comes from the winning poem in a
competition run by Poetica through primary schools at the end of last year. The other shortlisted poems
also feature in the exhibition. The mural will be unveiled at 4.00 pm on Sunday, 21 February 2016 in the
Visitor Lounge.
- Between 2.00 pm and 3.00 pm on Sunday afternoons, local authors and poets read from their works
which reflect upon the earthquakes and our experiences since. A sample of writing from each of our in-
vited authors will be exhibited.
Canterbury Museum Visitor Lounge, Monday 1 February to Sunday 28 February 2016
Bloom is an extension of River of Flowers for the fifth anniversary. It is a partnership between River of
Flowers project (Flourish Inc – Michelle Whitaker and Avon Otakaro Network – Evan Smith), Poetica and
Canterbury Museum with funding from the Tindall Foundation.
For more information on River of flowers Feb 22nd 2016 and Bloom go to www.flourish.org.nz and for up-
dates make sure you and/or your organisation clicks ‘Like Page’ at www.facebook.com/riveroflfowersfeb22
Introducing Engineers Without Borders
Engineers without Borders New Zealand (EWBNZ) is a not for profit organisation that exists to connect, ed-ucate and empower through humanitarian engineering. We’re an eclectic mix of engineers, students and non-engineers who work throughout New Zealand and the South Pacific. Local projects like the InSchools programme and the Warm Homes initiative keep us busy in Christchurch and we’re proud to be doing some really rewarding work overseas too. EWBNZ is excited to announce the restarting of the Wawan Project in early 2016. Put on hold after Cyclone Pam, the project is focused on providing much needed rainwater collection systems to several remote vil-lages in Vanuatu. The ongoing project has had input from a wide range of EWBNZ volunteers and our part-ners in Rotary and Beca and so we are grateful for everyone’s support and hopeful that 2016 will see the project come to fruition. The Wawan Project involves the construction of four rooftop rainwater collection structures in the villages of Falibeur and Barereo in the north of Ambyrm Island, as well as one smaller tank for a family that cannot be
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serviced by any of these four supplies. Design and construction began in 2014, but halted on 6 March 2015 when Cyclone Pam made landfall in Vanuatu. Of the five water tanks purchased for the project, two were destroyed in the Cyclone and will need to be replaced.
Matthew Lillis is EWBNZ’s Vanuatu Partnerships Manager, and is heading to Vanuatu early this year to restart construction and management on the Wawan Project. Matthew is an Environmental Engineer at Pattle Delamore Partners Ltd in Auckland and has worked on a number of water supply and other projects in Vanuatu remotely from New Zealand. "I'm extremely excited to be heading over to Vanuatu so soon! Time has flown. It has been truly inspiring to be part of a huge team of people inside and outside EWB who have put so much time and effort into working for and with our friends in Vanuatu on the project. These wa-ter supplies will provide clean drinking water for families who would otherwise walk hours in the summer months to get water." The next step for EWBNZ is to recruit a Placement Volunteer who will spend four to five months in Vanuatu completing this project. If you are interested in finding out more, please contact Gina - [email protected] who is leading recruitment on the project. To learn more about EWB, head along our website - www.ewb.org.nz
December 2015 transition of CERA
With the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) winding up in April 2016, work is now under-
way to transfer recovery responsibilities to other central and local government agencies, to ensure the
long-term recovery and regeneration of greater Christchurch.
The first transition of CERA functions happens on 1 December when Land Information New Zealand
(LINZ), Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) and Ministry of Health working closely
with Canterbury District Health Board, inherited responsibilities from CERA.
LINZ
LINZ inherits the remaining responsibilities for demolitions and clearing of Crown-owned property in the
residential red zone. It also takes over the maintenance of Crown-owned land in the residential red zones.
Please note:
- LINZ will not be making decisions about the longer-term use of the residential red zone land.
- CERA will continue to manage the voluntary Crown offer process in the residential red zone.
- From 1 December, for all residential red zone matters related to interim land management, demolitions
and clearances contact:
Jeremy Barr, Deputy Director Crown Property Centre of Expertise, LINZ
Ph: 03 374 3825 Email: [email protected]
MBIE
MBIE will lead work on strategic procurement, including analysing progress of the rebuild (including of
public sector agencies), providing procurement advice, and informing and engaging with the construction
market. MBIE will also undertake the remaining residential rebuild work, including brokering solutions for
emerging residential rebuild issues, monitoring the pace and rate of insurance settlements and participat-
ing in the Residential Advisory Service governance and operational delivery of services.
MBIE is strengthening its physical presence to support its new responsibilities. From 1 December until early 2016, for all housing recovery related matters, contact:
Larry Bellamy, Manager Engineering Design and Science, MBIE Housing Recovery Team
Email: [email protected]
For all strategic procurement matters contact:
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Richard Stone, Senior Commercial Procurement Leader
Email: [email protected]
MoH/CDHB
The Ministry of Health is working closely with the Canterbury DHB to coordinate psychosocial recovery
work. Ongoing work includes continued provision of supports and services via the Community in Mind
Strategy and Shared Programme of Action. It also includes adjusting to emerging trends and issues, and
adapting services to address these.
For psychosocial recovery work contact:
Julie Jones
PA to the General Manager and Clinical Director, Community and Public Health, Canterbury Dis-
trict Health Board Ph: 021 152 6629 Email: [email protected]
Please note, the Ministry of Health and Canterbury DHB will also be taking over responsibility for monitor-
ing and reporting on community wellbeing. However, this work will not transfer until 1 March 2016 to en-
sure the Wellbeing Index and Survey that is underway is not impacted by the transition.
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this further with CERA, please contact 0800 RING
CERA (0800 7464 2372)
Arts Centre boss Andre Lovatt to lead Regenerate Christchurch
The man in charge of the $290 million restoration of the historic Arts Centre has been chosen to oversee Christchurch's regeneration.
Andre Lovatt was named early December as chairman of Regenerate Christchurch, the new agency set up by jointly by the Government and the Christchurch City Council to lead the city's post-quake regeneration when the Canterbury Earthquake Authority ceases to exist in April.
Since 2012 Lovatt has been chief executive of the Arts Centre of Christchurch where he has been oversee-ing the restoration of New Zealand's largest collection of heritage buildings. His efforts there earned him a Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award earlier this year.
Lovatt, who will continue to oversee the Art Centre restoration, he is a member of the community forum ad-vising the Minister for Earthquake Recovery and a director of Christchurch International Airport Ltd. He.said his aim as chairman of Regenerate Christchurch was to make sure the people of Christchurch had a thriv-ing, regenerated city.
What is Regenerate Christchurch?
Regenerate Christchurch is the new agency being set up jointly by the Crown and Christchurch City Coun-cil to drive the regeneration of Christchurch. It will initially oversee the long-term development of the central city, the residential red zone and New Brighton but might also target other areas hard hit by the quakes.
It will be governed by an independent board, chaired by Andre Lovatt, which will report to both the Crown and the council. After five years, Regenerate Christchurch will transfer to the city as a fully Council Con-trolled Organisation (CCO).
It will develop plans and strategies to assist with regeneration and work in tandem with the council's newly established development company, Development Christchurch Ltd.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/74728369/arts-centre-boss-andre-lovatt-to-lead-regenerate-christchurch
Who are New Zealand's real rich may surprise you
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“In 2010 the wealthiest 1% of Kiwis owned 18% of the wealth, the wealthiest 10% had 54%, and the wealth-iest 50% had 96% of the wealth. In other words the least wealthy half of the population had 4% of the wealth. Around 8% of the population – 271,000 people had negative net wealth. In other words they owed more than they own; their average debt was around $27,300 each.”
Excerpt from an article by Geoff Simmons, Morgan Foundation: When inequality has grown to the point where real poverty is the life experience of 8% of the population, who have negative wealth - i.e. they are living on borrowed money - then the issue of addressing poverty – Goal 1 in the Sustainable Development Goals - is relevant to NZ. The SDG document signed by world leaders including NZ’s Prime Minister notes the effects of poverty - issues where the sector could be more effective in debating policies: "limited access to education and other basic services, social discrimination and exclusion as well as the lack of participation in decision-making"(Goal 1) and "economic growth is not sufficient to reduce poverty if it is not inclusive and if it does not involve the three dimensions of sustainable development – economic, social and environmental" (Goal 10) See the list of Goals at: www.oursdgs.nz . CID, HuiE! And PIANGO will grow this portal, ready for a full launch in 2016. Contact [email protected] for more information. https://garethsworld.com/blog/economics/whos-new-zealands-real-rich-the-results-may-surprise-you/?utm_source=Gareth-Morgan&utm_medium=Twitter&utm_campaign=general-content
New direction and more opportunities for youth development
Youth Minister Nikki Kaye announced changes late last year for the Ministry of Youth Development (MYD) which will see significantly more youth development opportunities in New Zealand.
These changes follow a review completed in August this year. Ms Kaye says there is a need for more clari-ty and purpose to the Ministry’s activities, and spending needs to be targeted where it will make the biggest difference.
She intends to establish a partnership fund to co-invest reprioritised funding from operations, along with contributions of at least $1 million from philanthropic and business organisations.
Nikki Kaye says “The new direction and additional investment of $2 million will in my view see the number of youth development opportunities increase from around 50,000 to 70,000 annually, with the overall funds targeting disadvantaged youth increasing from 18 per cent to 30 per cent. The options are that a new Board or Charitable Trust will decide how money in the partnership fund is invested. The agency’s new arrange-ments will be in place by April 2016 and it will continue as a function within the Ministry of Social Develop-ment.
“I will also focus MYD on better recognising young people’s contribution and participation in areas such as volunteering, mentoring, leadership and sporting and cultural activities. I have been looking into greater civ-ic participation for young New Zealanders. As part of this, the Ministry will investigate the delivery of a ‘So-cial Record’ that better recognises young people’s participation in youth development opportunities, the same way as academic and other educational achievements are recognised by employers. We know that young people who are given the chance to develop skills such as leadership or be involved in mentoring and volunteering go on to lead more successful lives as adults.”
The consultation document Partnership Fund for Youth Development – Information for discussion and re-
sponse is available at:
http://www.msd.govt.nz/documents/about-msd-and-our-work/newsroom/media-releases/2015/engagement-
document.docx
Related Documents
Information Sheet - Partnering for Youth Development (pdf 231.69 KB)
Source: http://beehive.govt.nz/release/new-direction-and-more-opportunities-youth-development
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Ideas towards sustainable Funding
In November we included a brief article from Community Networks Aotearoa asking for good ideas that people may have towards sustainable funding. Here are some of the responses that were interesting, inno-vative, thinking outside the box and SEWN has added a couple of our own. Practical ideas:
- Fonterra often funds charities - Most energy companies have a fund for charities - Do not forget local council funding - Keep checking GETS. (Government Electronic Tendering System) - NZ Funding Directory is now called givUS. Go to www.generosity.org.nz.
- See Funding section at the end of the SEWN newsletter each month. - Read this month’s Hot Topics on ‘Social Enterprise’.
Good advice that applies to ALL sponsorship. Sponsors want to see their dollars spent well, and to see results, and their logo on any advertising pertaining to the event they are funding. Do not forget your spon-sors. Taking their money and ignoring them, is very rude and a bad idea. After all, they have got in behind you financially, and we cannot take that generosity for granted.
Do some lateral thinking. The Blind Foundation sell talking watches and suggested, in the same vein, charities could use the economies of scale to purchase and resell goods relevant to their charity. Following along this idea you could consider a one-off sponsorship for an initial bulk purchase enabling the sponsor to get publicity plus be able to write off the donation as advertising. Also supplying a need, but at lower cost than elsewhere enables money from that charity to go towards continuing to supply that need. These ideas will need investigating regarding charities and social enterprise, but great to see innovative ideas.
Think about network alliances of organisations like small community gardens, soup kitchens and others. So instead of people buying $25 Prezzy Cards, people could buy a Manaakitanga networks card, display-ing the name of the sponsor and listing the contacts in the alliance. Have a look into Impact Investment. Look carefully at problems and creating wider ranging partnerships around solving them. Then together develop responses that tackle the issue together. Here is a link to a ComVoices blog on Community Scoop: Social Investment is more than reprioritisation (http://community.scoop.co.nz/2015/11/social-investment-is-more-than-reprioritisation/ ) by Trevor McGlinchey, Executive Officer, NZ Council of Christian Social Services
NGO HOT TOPICS
In this brand new section SEWN includes key information on hot topics to the NGO Sector. If you have any questions, like to suggest a hot topic or would like to contribute to these topics please email [email protected]
Social Enterprise –The ‘in’ thing
Over the last few years NGOs have felt the very real decreasing availability of philanthropic funding. The challenge of secure funding has always been around and the ugly competitive nature of limited funding
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across NGOs has been around for many years. For Christchurch there was a wee buffer of Recovery fund-ing for some though this was soaked up by the increased need of our vulnerable city.
In this environment it is attractive to see new ways of doing financial sustainability. We hear all the exciting stories of fast success of gaining revenue, visibility and addressing needs of our society. But is it really that easy? New social enterprise start-ups and support for ‘how to do this’ seems prolific. There are Launchpads, Startup weekends, workshops, soap box sharing, mentor matching galore. However, even though they are really exciting at the time many never go anywhere. Though we don’t know the exact fig-ure, failure rate remains depressingly high. In UK some claim that more than half of small businesses fail in their first year, while 90% don’t last two years.
So how does this work for NGOs trying social enterprise out. In a talk I went to last year Billy Matheson, Auckland CC’s Social Entrepreneurship guy, shared that it is much easier for businesses to become more socially responsible that NGO’s to become businesses. The challenge is that NGOs may have to fight for their values and address their professional and personal relationships to money. An NGO that manages conflict well between ensuring revenue and meeting our community’s needs is rare. Some NGOs are ex-ploring having a social enterprise arm so that it is kept separate to the core work and values of the organi-sation. An innovative alternative is Project Lyttelton’s Farmer’s Market and Garage Sale.
It is vital to explore and try new ways of doing ‘business’ but there is no easy solution. I’m convinced we can learn from the many that are trying. I was one of the catalysts behind Social Enterprise Otautahi and keep a link into this emerging network. I strongly believe that social enterprises can also learn from NGOs about social impact and change. We really need to be working more closely together. Thus SEWN are looking into how we do this and potentially creating some cross over Hui.
Below are two differing informed views on social enterprise expressing the complexity that exists in this space. I’ve also included some links that provide good information for those that are curious or further along still finding their way like me.
Michelle Whitaker, www.sewn.org.nz | www.connectaotearoa.nz
Revenue-driven thinking has great corruptive power
Interview with Harald Breiding-Buss, CPA Aust (Ass), MSc, NZDipBus, Canterbury Community Accounting In CCA’s September newsletter last year; you said 'Revenue-driven thinking has great corruptive power'. Many NGOs know they have to innovate to continue delivering services on ever shrinking funding. Creat-ing other revenue streams is almost an anathema to NGOS and yet we need to get a handle on it! SEWN would be interested in your thoughts on social enterprise / sustainability thinking for NGOs.
I can’t actually see it work for a small NFP social service provider, and I don’t think that’s the original idea of ‘social enterprise’ anyway. To me social enterprise is doing business for the prime benefit of the custom-ers/users or society/environment as a whole, not delivering a social service and making money on the side. You start from a commercially viable activity and run it socially responsibly, not the other way around. More than 80% of business start-ups fail within the first five years, so it’s a pretty steep proposition for a social NFP to try and start something up when their whole focus so far hasn’t even been revenue-focused. There have been a few examples amongst our clients who’ve tried; they all ended up losing money.
Is this so for NGOs in general? Project Lyttelton for example run a successful farmers market and
op shop that both generate good revenue. They see these as social enterprise arm of their NGO. Other NGOs are also very interested and we know of 5 separate NGOs exploring starting a café to-gether that will bring revenue through to all of them.
It's very topical right now with many social enterprise support agencies out there i.e. Akina, Ministry of Awesome, Vodafone etc. And also very attractive to NGOs who see the ever decreasing funding pool and want to see other ways to support themselves.
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I don’t think there’s any clear definition of what ‘social enterprise’ is. The problems arise, I think, when agencies can’t reasonably make money with activities that are within their mission and have to come up with something unrelated. Markets, op shops or cafes would all be within the mission of a neigh-bourhood- or community-based organisation. A café can be a social enterprise in its own right if it is done with the goal of networking, informing, bringing people together etc. For it to work as a fundrais-er for something else, however, the revenue generated must be higher than all costs – after paying staff to run it there may not be much, if anything, left. Sometimes community organisations do not add up all the costs, and do not include expenses paid from funding, staff time taken away from other op-erations and similar, and think they are making money when, in fact, they are subsidising the venture.
And yes, the failure rates for business start-ups are very high.
There’s also some ethical issues, i.e. are you taking away business from a small business owner trying to make a living. This is especially important if you are using volunteers to run a venture, or use ‘social enterprise’ funding where others would have to raise loans, and are thus able to undercut the prices of someone who does not have those resources.
Personally I think it is very, very difficult to use social enterprise as a fundraiser for something else and I think it needs some very business-savvy people to pull it off.
[email protected] | www.commaccounting.co.nz
Is Social Enterprise A Silver Bullet for the NGO Sector? Fundraising – the bane of the charity world. Sausage sizzles, cake stalls, complicated grant applications and hitting up long-serving members to give again and again – not often a highlight for people working in the not-for-profit space.
How do NGOs find sustainable funding streams and minimise the time-consuming and often frustrating tra-ditional fundraising activities? Is social enterprise a silver bullet? “No”, says Ākina Foundation CEO Alex Hannant, “but, with hard work, it is a real option”.
“Social enterprise is business for good – it’s a purpose-driven organisation that trades to deliver social or environmental impact. While the terminology of social enterprise may be new, the concept has been around for a long time. In Canterbury,Kilmarnock Enterprises (http://www.kilmarnock.co.nz/profile-1.html ) is an example of a long-standing, highly successful social enterprise, operating since 1958.”
A key benefit social enterprise offered the NGO sector was the opportunity to create a sustainable ap-proach to maintain or scale its impact, in an environment where government and philanthropic funding wasn’t meeting the growing demand, he said. It might also open up an expanded pool of capital in the form of impact investment and could enable more collaboration between the business and NGO sectors.
But that didn’t mean the social enterprise model was right for every charity looking to increase revenue, Mr Hannant said – it wasn’t an easy or quick option. There were inherent risks involved for NGOs, which needed careful consideration up-front. It was important to recognise while social enterprise was a great opportunity, it took time and energy to achieve results and given NGOs were often already stretched, taking on a social enterprise could mean having to rationalise other activities.
“If you’re interested in exploring social enterprise, it doesn’t have to mean changing your whole model – you might commercialise only part of your services, or you might set up a separate business, like the Laura Fergusson Trust has with Can Do Catering (http://www.lftcant.co.nz/component/content/category/2-uncategorised ) in Christchurch.” Ākina is a NZ-wide charity – its mission is to grow the social enterprise sector. Ākina offers a range of services to sup-port individuals and organisations pursue social enterprise, including a workshop specifically designed to help not-for-profits identify their motivations, challenges and opportunities in undertaking social enterprise, and determine the next steps for their organisation.
Ākina services also include a community capacity-building programme, Thrive; a social enterprise accelerator, Launchpad; consultancy and impact investment services; regional and national partnerships and international connec-tions.
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To find out more about social enterprise or Ākina services, visit www.akina.org.nz, email the Ākina Christchurch office [email protected], or call Ākina’s Southern Regional Director Sam Elder on 021 245 8945, and check out the Social Enterprise Ōtautahi Facebook page.
HAVE YOUR SAY
SEWN alerts readers to consultation processes or lobbying initiatives that we think are of particular relevance to the social services sector or to non-profit organisations. However you can keep an eye out for issues of importance to you or your organisation by regularly visiting the following websites:
Christchurch City Council consultations: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/the-council/have-your-say/whats-happening-now/consultations/
Central government consultations:http://www.parliament.nz/en-nz/pb/sc/business-
summary/00DBHOH_BSC_SCALL_1/bills-before-select-committees
New Zealand’s financial advice laws.
The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employ-
ment (MBIE) is reviewing New Zealand’s financial
advice laws and are now consulting on ways to sim-
plify the regime, improve access to financial advice
and raise confidence in the financial advice industry. Before MBIE consider changes to the laws they want to hear your views. In the consumer brochure they ask questions on key points, such as:
- How easy is it to tell the difference between
‘sales’ and ‘financial advice’?
- What information from a financial adviser would
be useful to you?
- Would you be comfortable receiving financial ad-
vice online?
To view the brochure and tell MBIE your views, go to http://www.mbie.govt.nz/info-services/business/business-law/financial-advisers/review-of-financial-advisers-act-2008
Alternatively you can email MBIE at [email protected].
Submissions close at 5pm on Friday, 26 February 2016.
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Action Station
This website based in Wellington is also a great web-site to see what submissions are open and how to quickly submit an email or sign a petition on a current issue.
Current campaigns on their website include: - Minimum Housing Standard
- TPPA Petition
- Welcome more Refugees to NZ
- Fund Sexual Violence Services properly
- Save our Public Healthcare
- Stop 3 more years of unelected commissioners for Environment Canterbury
http://www.actionstation.org.nz/campaigns or https://www.facebook.com/ActionStationNZ
NON-PROFIT SECTOR NEWS & NOTICES
DPA new office hours
As from Monday 1st February 2016, the DPA Christ-church office will only be open for 4 days from 9am – 5pm on Tuesdays – Fridays.
The REC may get someone else to come in on Mon-days for a couple of hours but this arrangement will be confirmed later and you will be kept informed.
Disabled Persons Assembly – Christchurch & Districts C/- Christchurch Community House 301 Tuam Street Christchurch 8011
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Phillipstown Hub has very happy news that we
have our website up and running! There is also the ability to sign up for our newsletter via the website.
www.phillipstown.org.nz
Lauren Luketina, Phillipstown Hub Coordinator (Mon-day-Wednesday), Te Whare Whānau Whānui 39 Nursery Road, 02040691419
Citizens Advice Bureau has volunteer positions
available. Join their knowledgeable and caring team and make a difference to people needing information. The next volunteer training course is in March.
Contact us 0800 367 222 or email [email protected]
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Ākina Foundation is on a data hunt! If you are part
of an organisation that is having or aims to have a positive impact and are interested in alternatives to grant funding, please fill in this survey by 19th Feb. It will help them to better support organisations like yours to raise capital and focus their efforts to support the development of an impact investing sector in New Zealand.
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Please pass this survey opportunity onto anyone else that may have some relevant insights: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SGNDJMR
The results will be shared in Christchurch: Tuesday 1 March, 5:30 – 7:30pm. Register for the events now as space will be limited. http://akina.org.nz/events/starting-on-impact-investment-with-akina/
Call for Community Arts Equipment
Room 5 our community arts space at the Phillipstown Community Hub is looking for some essential gear:
- big solid wooden tables - table top easels - we've got some very keen
painters - Plan/map drawers
If you can help, please call me on 022 064 7963 or email me on [email protected].
Please take a look at our facebook page Ōtautahi Creative Spaces Trust (facebook.com/ocstrust) to see Room 5 in action and some of the projects we're involved with, using creativity to build connections and strengthen communities.
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Community Building need some fixing?
Submissions are open for local buildings in the north and east of Christchurch that need a bit of T.L.C.
Tell SmartLift if your organisation has a building that needs re-levelling, or knows of a group, club or team that has a munted community space. SmartLift are building levelling experts and are looking for a local community building to lift and level, free of charge!
- The building you nominate must be in the Pega-sus-Burwood Ward.
- Smartlift is smart, but not capable of sewing cur-tains, installing cupboards or building fences. They are offering to lift and level a building at no charge and cannot redecorate or landscape it. Repairs other than lifting and levelling can be supported through additional fundraising and sponsorship later.
- The building you nominate must be used by a community group like a school, scout troop, iwi, health group, sports club, church, community gar-den group or similar.
- Smartlift will assess your nominations and all build-ings they consider would benefit from their loving care will be put up for your public vote.
This service is offered as a gift and there is no cost to the community.
Go to http://smartlift.net.nz/liftingourcommunity/ to submit!
RESOURCES FOR YOU, YOUR COMMUNITY OR YOUR CLIENTS
In the Know earthquake support
Although CanCERN is officially wound up, they are overseeing this project for the next few months. The In the Know Hub has closed, support is continuing for people still dealing with claims, repairs and re-builds. In the Know Community hosts will be present at some Christchurch City Libraries from 18 January, 2016. They will also be available at various local community events throughout the summer.
The hosts will listen to homeowners’ questions and concerns, help them figure out their next steps, and connect them with the right people to make pro-gress.
Homeowners should come and chat with a Host if:
they’re unsure of their next step;
they’re not clear what their options are;
they don’t know who they should talk to;
they’re having trouble making progress.
Community hosts will be available at these Christ-church City Libraries: Mondays 9am-12pm, Christchurch South & New Brighton 1-4pm Linwood Library Tuesdays 9am-12pm Shirley Library Wednesdays
1-4pm Fendalton Library
EQ Cash settlement seminars
The In the Know Hub has held several cash settle-ment seminars covering different aspects of the pro-cess. These seminars were recorded and are availa-ble for viewing on the In the Know website: http://intheknow.org.nz/in-the-know-hub/
To make the most of the seminars, we’ve also devel-oped a compilation of them. The names and contact details of support services available to residents are also included.
This compilation is now available for viewing at: http://intheknow.org.nz/cash-settlement-video-series/
For more info contact Bob Henderson on 020 4089 2439 or visit www.intheknow.org.nz
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Equine Assisted Learning
Salta Horses provides you with a platform to strengthen relationships, explore possibilities and optimise potential in all aspects of your life. The team are all certified and specifically trained in this work.
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The Salta horse experience helps people find real world solutions to their solutions to their challenges, growing their confidence which can translate into oth-er areas of their lives.
There is no horse riding involved, no previous horse experience is needed. www.salta.co.nz 021 223 3925
Aspire Canterbury Services Available
Aspire Canterbury Disability Information Service
This is a free service which offers advice and infor-mation to all members of the community, including disabled and older people, and those who support them.
The service includes regular email updates on infor-mation relevant to the disability sector and produces the comprehensive Christchurch and Canterbury Community Services Directory which contains details of over 300 community organisations.
For information relating to this service phone 03 366 6189 or E: [email protected] Total Mobility:
The Scheme provides 50% discounted taxi fares to eligible people up to a maximum subsidy of $35 per one way trip in the Canterbury area.
Member benefits including shop discounts, newslet-ters and special events.
For more information about the Total Mobility Scheme phone 03 366 9093 Email: [email protected] For information relating to this service phone3 366 Shop /Mobile Unit:
Our mobile service offers fun free interactive demon-strations bringing our information services as well as mobile shop directly to you.
Available to Rest homes retirement villages and all community groups, support groups and covers the wider Canterbury region.
If you are a Retirement Village, Health Centre, Com-munity group or an individual who knows of a group who would like a visit from our mobile van do get in touch with us. Email: [email protected] Hall Hire:
The Aspire Hall is available for hire along with a kitchen and accessible toilets. The hall holds up to 55 people seated and is fully accessible.
Physical Address: 314 Worcester Street, Linwood Christchurch Ph: 03 366 6189 Freephone: 0800 347 242 [email protected] www.aspirecanterbury.org.nz
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is a self-esteem programme for 10 -12 year old girls. Hang out, eat yummy treats, learn about you and learn about life. Talk about relationships, beauty tips, self-confidence and more.
Three Saturdays, 10 to 1pm, starts 27th February, 1A Harewood Road.
Call Sue 0274987389 or Angela 0272303552
RESOURCES FOR YOUR ORGANISATION OR GROUP
NZ Funding Directory is now called givUS (former-
ly FundView) and lists more than 1,200 resource schemes for communities, volunteer organisations and clubs. It can be found on the Generosity website www.generosity.org.nz.
You can access this for free at any Public Library and Christchurch Community House.
Please contact SEWN for more information. [email protected]
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Priv-o-Matic statement generator
Our Priv-o-Matic statement generator will take five minutes to create a privacy statement for your organ-isation. It is available for free to help small to medium businesses in particular explain their privacy policies to their customers.
A privacy statement tells people how you will be col-lecting, using and disclosing their personal infor-mation. A good privacy statement is important be-cause New Zealand organisations are required by law to be transparent about how, when and why they collect personal information.
www.privacy.org.nz/further-resources/privacy-statement-generator/
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Christchurch Community Accounting
The Chch Community Accounting newsletter is al-ways a good read, with lots of interesting and useful information. You can subscribe, or read it on the CCA website.
Subscribe by email to [email protected] to be added to the newsletter mailing list.
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Downtown Farmers' Market
The Community Stall at the Downtown Farmers' Mar-ket is run by Alistair Goile, who is one of the Market organisers. Phone 027 338 9007 or email [email protected]
The community stall is free for community groups and comes with a table, chairs and gazebo, sponsored by the Happy Hire Company. There are conditions, such as not selling items which compete with other stall holders.
Team Building Equine Style
It’s fun, its outdoors, active and engaging. Our Salta horses can help your team to improve communica-tion, life morale, explore creative problem solving and clarify team purpose. The team are all certified and specifically trained in this work.
There is no horse riding involved, no previous horse experience is needed. www.salta.co.nz 021 223 3925
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FORUMS / EVENTS / TRAINING / DEVELOPMENT
Christchurch Social Enterprise Programme
Join Lindsay Jeffs, New Zealand’s leading social en-terprise trainer, as he helps you gain the required skills to make social enterprise work for your organisation.
Lindsay from the Social Enterprise Institute has had over 30 years’ experience in running successful social enterprises. The 12 day programme is spread over 8 months and will be full of fresh ideas, inspiring stories, stimulating thinking, practical advice, coaching and mentoring.
Contact Lindsay on 0274 351 732 or email [email protected] for further information.
Register your interest before 31 January 2016 to gain the special earlybird rate of only $550 + GST.
Register: http://tinyurl.com/hr6ot4q (this is an abbrevi-ated address which will take you to the booking form).
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Volunteering Canterbury Has a Network meeting to discuss new Health & Safety laws, 17th February. See the website below for more information.
It also has a two hour workshop “Involving volun-teers” on the morning of Wednesday 24 Febru-ary. This basic course in Volunteer management is suitable for new Co-ordinators/Managers of Volun-teers and those who want a refresher. Cost is $35 for VolCan members, $70 for non-members.
More information, upcoming training and registration forms can be found at http://www.volcan.org.nz/managing-volunteers/events/
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Māori and Pasifika Adult and Community Edu-cation Professional Development Hui Fono 2016
Registrations Open for Hoe – Foe – Fohe – ‘Oe – Voce: Journeys of the Past, Present and Future. 24th – 26th February 2016.
Venue for 2016 is Te Wharewaka o Pōneke which is located at Odlins Square, 109 Jervois Quay, Welling-ton waterfront.
Financial assistance is also available to support travel costs on application. Contact our office for more in-formation. [email protected] +64 (04) 473 6625
Registrations and more information go to www.aceaotearoa.org.nz/events/hui-fono
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NFP Admin & Management course
Not-for-profits in New Zealand are operating in an ever tighter high-compliance environment which demands certain skills and knowledge of the people involved even in the smallest not-for-profits. Christchurch Community Accounting is offering a full-year Not-for-Profit Administration and Management course through Hagley Community College’s After 3 community edu-cation programme in 2016.
The course ran for the first time in 2015 and is aimed at administrators, managers, volunteers or Board/Committee members of small or medium-sized not-for-profit entities, or anyone planning to work in this sector or setting up a not-for-profit them-selves. It fills a training gap for administration and management skills that are specific to not-for-profit situations.
When: Tuesdays at 5.30 pm during Term time at Hagley Community College.
How: Enrolments are through Hagley Community Col-lege. See www.hagley.school.nz/enrolment/enrol-after-3/
How Much: A one-off enrolment fee of $40. No further charges.
More info commaccounting.co.nz/training/nfp-at-
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Te Reo Maori 8 week introductory course in Maori language and cus-toms by Risingholme Community Centre.
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6.30- 8.30pm. Three different school venues starting the week of the 15th February, 2016.
Call 332 7359 or email [email protected] or www.risingholme.org.nz
Autism NZ Education Courses 2016
Way to Play – Playing joyously with a child on the Autism Spectrum Way to Play is a one-day introduction to playing with children on the Autism Spectrum. Playing with a child with autism can be challenging, so the Way to Play workshop offers simple, easy to use strategies to begin playing joyously together.
When and Where: Christchurch – Tuesday 1 March 7 Tuesday 18 October 2016, Christchurch
Cost: Family/Whānau/Caregivers: $20; Professional: $75
FANZ (Framework for Autism in New Zealand)
FANZ is a two-day introductory programme about autism that enables participants to create a frame-work for understanding and supporting a person with autism.
When and Where:Christchurch – Tuesday 31 May and Wednesday 1 June 2016
Cost: Family/Whānau: $50; Professional: $175
Tilting the Seesaw: Strength-based, practical strate-gies to support children with autism in the primary school setting
Tilting the Seesaw is a three-session programme in which primary school staff learn and try out strategies to support and include a child with autism in everyday school activities.
When and Where: Christchurch Programme 1 – Thursday 12, 19 and 26 May 2016 Programme 2 – Thursday 4, 11 and 18 August 2016
Cost: $150.00 per person (subject to change)
For information on these courses, and to register you go to our website http://www.autismnz.org.nz/training_programmes, or you can call the Branch and we will be happy to pro-vide you with further information or to help you regis-ter. (03) 343 2225 [email protected]
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Three Professional Development Days with Walter Logeman
These one day workshops are for people working with people. Enrol in one, two or all three workshops. You will experience the potency of working in action using psychodrama, learn some new ways to approach your work and life and expand your spontaneity.
Use of Self in Professional Practice (Sat. 12 March 2016). You don’t need to leave yourself behind when working professionally. The focus of this workshop will be on how to use strong feelings, opinions and judg-ments in the service of appropriate and ethical inter-ventions.
Supervision - Being Supervised and being a Su-pervisor (Fri. 8 April 2016). In this workshop you will explore and develop your supervision practice, as a supervisor or a supervisee.
Working with Relationships (Fri. 6 May 2016). A committed loving adult relationship is of heightened significance to each partner. Tapping into this signifi-cance can motivate healing and growth. This day is for anyone who works with couples or individuals.
Each workshop is a stand-alone day and will also build on prior experience. The days are suitable for those new to psychodrama as well as those with previous experience.
Venue: Urban Eden Psychotherapy, 296 Barbadoes St. Christchurch.
Fee: One workshop $80, all three workshops $200. Times: 9.30am - 4.30pm.
Hours are credited with CITP. A certificate of attend-ance is provided on request.
Walter Logeman is a Psychodramatist, a Trainer Edu-cator Practitioner (TEP, AANZPA), an Imago Relation-ship Therapist and a Psychotherapist with special in-terest in couple therapy and supervision.
Enrol online: http://AANZPA.us2.list-man-age.com/track/click?u=c2b825676a3cf4f8a8d5b2cf9&id=c511166212&e=4a4c0009c0 or email [email protected]
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Supporting Men- Training and Discussion about
Men and Domestic Violence Feb 25th
Programme is in creation but the following is the draft: Morning: Male victims of DV run by Greg Milan and Glen Poole. Contact Greg M at [email protected]
There will be a charge for this and will be most rele-vant to those that come across men experiencing abuse.
Afternoon: Two presentations about men and DV by local NGO's. Followed by a panel discussion by the main NGO's providing care for men in relation to do-mestic violence. This afternoon will be free and of in-terest to a broad range of people.
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Christchurch City / Banks Peninsula COGS Public Meeting.
Representatives of community organisations are in-vited to meet the people who make funding decisions at the local COGS public meeting.
At the meeting you can:
have a say about your community funding needs and outcome priorities
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hear a report from the LDC Chair on the 2014/15 funding decisions
find out more about the New On-line System and the new XRB financial reporting standards.
hear from the Children’s Action Plan team about their role and the requirements for groups around the Vulnerable Children’s Act.
When: Monday, 15th February, 2016
Where: The McFaddens Centre, At St Albans Baptist Church, 64 McFaddens Rd, St Albans, Christchurch
Time: 9:00am – 12:30pm (30 minutes at the end net-working, cuppa, biscuit)
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Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder - Learning Development workshops
Fostering Kids New Zealand in association with Alco-hol Healthwatch and FASD-CAN announce an in-sightful, practical Learning Development Opportunity. Canada is one of the leading countries in its progress of working with FASD. Jacqueline Pei and Tracy Mastrangelo will present the latest information around their research and programme related to supporting children with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder and offer practical strategies from their experiences.
Christchurch Thursday 25th February 2016
All professionals $50
Caregivers of children with FASD Gold or Caregiver members of Fostering Kids NZ Gold coin donation on entry.
The workshops will be of interest to anyone working with, teaching, supporting or raising a child or adoles-cent affected by or suspected of having FASD. Ven-ue and programme details are available on this link http://fasdconference.org.nz
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Self-Management for Non-Profit Leaders Workshop
This workshop will help you put everything in order so that you have more time, more energy, and more control over how you use both. It will change the way you think about busy-ness and give you a chance to redefine how you get through your day.
In this workshop you will discover:
Fantastic ways to say NO in every situation. Learn how to set boundaries that people respect, so that you're not constantly overloaded and overwhelmed.
How to prioritise your tasks so you get the im-portant stuff done, before it becomes urgent. Learn some simple strategies for always staying ahead of the game.
Simple tools for minimising and managing inter-ruptions so that you stay focused on the things that matter most. Where are you getting side-tracked and how can you stop it?
How to delegate effectively so that it saves you time and stress - not adds to it. What are the challenges to delegation and how can you ad-dress them?
Why there will never be enough time for what's on your to-do list, unless you change your list. Learn how to identify what's worth doing and what you can let slide.
This workshop is for anyone who is constantly juggl-ing hats and trying to meet the demands of multiple stakeholders all of the time. Get re-energised, re-focused and ready to re-think the way you work for next year.
Christchurch: Thursday 7th April, 9.30am - 4pm
Cost: $120 per person.
Register online at http://exult.us7.list-man-age.com/track/click?u=27ce6263d664dbfc8fdd78f22&id=6ea65a4538&e=3b8aca7c26 or email [email protected]
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Growing Together
Pam Warhurst (CBE)
Monday 22 February, 3 - 4pm
All welcome to hear this inspiring speaker - British community leader, activist, and environment worker who founded Incredible Edibles in West Yorkshire. Venue: Christchurch City Council Function Room, 53 Hereford St.
For more information: www.incredible-edible-todmorden.co.uk
FUNDING
Creative Communities Fund is NOW open for
applications and closes Wednesday 24th February 2016.
The Creative Communities Fund supports and en-courages local communities to create and present diverse opportunities for accessing and participating in arts activities in Christchurch. This Fund is availa-ble to both Community Groups and Individuals and is
for all forms of creative and interpretative expression and can be based around a place, a cultural tradition, or commonly held interests or experiences. For further information visit: http://www.ccc.govt.nz/culture-and-community/community-funding/community-arts/the-creative-communities-christchurch-scheme/
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Any queries please contact the Christchurch City Council Community Funding Team on 941 6288.
Lottery Ministers Discretionary Fund
Includes provision for training for financial planning and/or good governance. Community organisations need to demonstrate the community benefit of the or-ganisation or any members receiving training. To find out more and to apply: http://www.communitymatters.govt.nz/Funding-and-grants---Lottery-grants---Lottery-Ministers-Discretionary-Fund
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CERA Funding: Rotary has been asked by CERA
to help strengthen communities and they have a web site at www.rotaryneighbourhood.org.nz
They have been established to support locally initiated projects that contribute towards improving wellbeing and building resilient communities and neighbour-hoods’. Applicants to the fund can apply for up to $500 for small neighbourhood events and up to $4,000 for larger community events.
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J R McKenzie Trust
Our strategy for 2015-19 is to work towards a more socially just and inclusive Aotearoa New Zealand. Our main focus areas are Māori Development and Disad-vantaged Children and their Families. Applications with a focus on other especially marginalised groups may also be considered.
We are interested in contributing to positive, long term change. We contribute to general operating costs and/or costs of running a project. Average $150 000, Closes Friday February 19th 2016. http://www.jrmckenzie.org.nz/applying-for-funding
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The Learning Fund
The Learning Fund makes small grants (up to $500) towards the costs to access the learning opportunities where sharing happens. If there’s a conference or a training session which is relevant to this work, but you can’t afford the registration fee or you’d like to visit an-other organisation doing this kind of work and need financial help to get there. Anytime online application, find out more www.jrmckenzie.org.nz/learning-fund
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The Tindall Foundation provides funding for pro-
viders of services to young children, families, youth development, Maori and minority ethnic groups, adult literacy, budgeting or community services and development. There is no closing date. See the Tindall Foundation website at www.tindall.org.nz or call (09) 488 0170, email [email protected]
InternetNZ
… provides grants for community-based projects which support more widely available access to the Internet, or which deliver greater or better use of the Internet. Applications close July 2016. More information at https://internetnz.nz/community-grants
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Rata Foundation (Was Canterbury Community Trust) closing dates
After a survey and as a result of your feedback and our own internal work we are excited to announce changes to our funding practices and will be implementing new Funding Programmes from 2016. Although a depar-ture from the way we traditionally process applications, these new Funding Programmes are not a departure from our purpose. Creating more flexibility and options for organisations reflects the feedback we had from you.
After mid-March 2016:
- Small grants under $20 000 no closing date.
- Large Grants three rounds.
If you have any enquiries please call one of our friend-ly staff on 0508 266 878 or [email protected] or online information at http://www.ratafoundation.org.nz/funding/our-grants
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Need Help Now Fund
Rata Foundation have established this fund to support the post-earthquake community and social infrastruc-ture of Canterbury. The current total in this fund is $1,850,000. Need Help Now fund is up to $50,000 for stretched organisations experiencing greater demands and new delivery challenges, and a second Building Communities fund is up to $5,000 for wellbeing activi-ties and events.
For more information go to http://www.ratafoundation.org.nz/funding/need-help-now-fund
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Training & Workforce Development Fund
Administered by Inclusive NZ on behalf of the Ministry of Social Development, the Training and Workforce Development Fund is available to staff members (in-cluding administration staff) of organisations contract-ed by the MSD National Office to provide employment, participation and inclusion services. You do not have to be an Inclusive NZ member to apply for this funding.
Funding is now available for Round 13, which can be accessed to fund training in the 2015-2016 financial year. We are accepting applications for training that will be completed by 30 June 2016.
For an application form, further information and FAQs go to http://www.inclusivenz.org.nz/index.php/twdf/training-and-workforce-development-fund
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Mahatma Gandhi
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