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TCV Weekly News: 12 September 2019
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Kia ora koutou,
Welcome to this weeks newsletter.
It has been a big week for TCV with the Meet the Candidates forum last Monday - what a miserable wet day it was but still we had an amazing turn out of candidates and public with just about every seat filled. See our pics below...
Next month we are back to our normal network meeting at the council chambers with guest speaker Cheryl Scott from Life Unlimited. Cheryl will be talking to us about the Life Unlimited FREE hearing support service on the 14th October at 12.30pm.
In November we will be holding the annual Nan Evan Awards which is a very special award that acknowledges long-serving volunteers in our community. NOW is the time for our network members to make their nominations before the close off date on 30 October.
Also in November is the TCV Annual General Meeting. Here is your chance to really get involved! 😃 Nominations for positions on the Executive Committee are now open. Remember only our financial members are eligible to vote and have their say on who will sit on the Exec this coming year so make sure your organisation has paid the membership fee before 11 November to make your vote count.
Notices this week include;
- Te Wiki o te Reo Māori - Māori Language Week
- Money Week
- Government announces that Interest Rate Cap is to be introduced
- Cheap Eats Cook Books available at Gisborne Budget
- TCV Calendar Snapshots of the week
- The Rural Support Roadshow
- Hospice Tairawhiti Palliative Care Education Program
- Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti Memory Walk
- Gisborne Volunteer Centre Peer Support Network Meeting
- VFTN invite to Brain Wave facilitated workshop
- Ka Pai Kaiti Whānau Day at Waikirikiri Park
- Wellstop Tairāwhiti invite to Open Day
- ECT Funders Forum
- News from CNA - Funding Gap for community social services
- Inland Revenue; moving away from cheques
As always get in touch if you have any questions, suggestions, feedback, would like to join the TCV network.
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Meet the Candidates Forum
A huge Thank You to all involved making the TCV Meet the Candidates Forum such a worthwhile event and to all who braved the cold and came to hear what the candidates had to say. It was awesome to see some 45 members of the public and 17 Candidates turn out on such a dismal, wet and windy day.
A big thank you to Leigh Pink from Toastmasters for her time keeping. Candidates had only a minute to answer the questions and Leigh kept them to time with a system of green & red lights and ding of the bell to call time. A minute was quite tight for the candidates who had to make their key points upfront - any longer and we wouldn’t have finished on time. As it was we had 15 minutes to spare and opened the floor for extra questions.
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From top left we have Leigh Pink keeping time, Tina Karaitiana giving her key messages, Alice Kibble addressing the crowd and our own TCV Chair, Liz Graham as MC.
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Te Wiki o te Reo Māori
This week is Māori language week. So we thought we'd help you find some really useful resources for more understanding of Māori culture and tikanga. And to encourage the TCV network to kōrero Māori.
Find out all about Te Wiki o te Reo Māori here
‘Kia Kaha te Reo Māori’ we’re saying - ‘Let’s make the Māori language strong'.
And find a fantastic free guide by Tūtira Mai NZ on Māori culture and tikanga practices for the workplace here
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This week is also Money Week with the theme being "Now we're talking"
Find out more about why we should talk about money here
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Government announces that Interest Rate Cap is to be introduced.
Missed from last weeks newsletter but being Money Week thought it's a good time to catch you up...
Last April-May you might remember that TCV was working collaboratively with Gisborne Budget Moni Ora and FinCap to Help Fight Against Predatory Lending and the harm that was being caused to our community through high household indebtedness.
On 3 September we got news that an Interest rate cap is to be introduced. Click on the banner below and read more about it.
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TCV Calendar Snapshots of the week
Here's what is coming up in the next week. Please check our calendar for full details and contacts for all events:
From our members:
Many of our member organisations are finding good benefit jumping on board with the Rural Support Roadshow to visit the coast and now Tairawhiti South. It started small but now look at this beautiful bunch of people - fantastic! Many Thanks to Angelee who organises the roadshow as a voluntary add-on to her GDC mahi. "Ngā mihi nui Angelee, Ka pai!"
Angelee says "Firstly, thank you to everyone who attended our very first roadshow in Te Karaka, Matawai, Muriwai, Manutuke & Patutahi. Our next roadshow down the coast is just around the corner, this month we’re only in three locations Hicks Bay, Te Araroa and Ruatorea. If you’re new to the roadshow and would like to attend, please remember to send me a logo and short info-blurb so I can add you to the panui. If you would like to give a presentation at any of our locations, please send me a brief of your presentation so I can forward this on to our venues and the radio stations for promotion.
Keep up to date with the roadshows facebook page here
Or to join the Roadshow please contact Angelee Brown, Angelee.Brown@gdc.govt.nz or ph +64 6 867 2049
The roadshow will be travelling again to the coast on 17 & 18 September next week - find out more on the TCV Calendar
Hospice Tairawhiti Palliative Care Education Programme:
Symptom Management, Gisborne Hospital, 421 Ormond Road, Gisborne
Thursday 19th September 2019, 10:00 am - 12:00 noon
Fundamentals of Palliative Care sessions will take place in the Poutama Room, Gisborne Hospital
The introductory session, Essence of Palliative Care, must be taken first and subsequent sessions can be taken in any order.
FREE - registration essential - contact Clarice Alderdice email clarice.Alderdice@hospicetairawhiti.org.nz or 06 869 0552
Alzheimers Gisborne Tairawhiti Memory Walk
Sunday 22nd September 2019, 10:00am - 12:00 noon
Gather at the river end of Bright Street at 10:00 am for a family-friendly walk along the riverbank to Waikanae Beach to remember all those affected by dementia. Registration free but fundraise by forming a team and gaining sponsorship. Dress in Purple to win a prize. Register at alzheimers.org.nz/memorywalk or phone 06 867 7052. Remember those who cannot remember.
Tairawhiti Seniors Directories
Copies of the 2019 directory are still available. Contact Nona Ph 868 9842 to arrange delivery
Peer Support Network Meeting
Our next meeting will be at the Poverty Bay Club Café 11am next Tuesday the 17th of September.
Please let me know if you will be able to attend.
Nga mihi, Janine, Phone 8684522
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Violence Free Tairawhiti Network
Invites you to a NEW workshop
The Early Years Last Forever - A workshop for Professionals.
Brain Wave facilitated workshop.
This interactive workshop is aimed at professionals who want to grow their knowledge of early brain development, and the lifelong impact this can have on families and children.
Dates: 15th and 16th of October 2019 To be held over two consecutive weeknights from 4pm to 8pm
Venue: Barnardos, 25 Ormond Road. Gisborne.
Barnardos will be subsidizing the cost of this Workshop, however, we are asking for a small fee from attendees.
Cost per person $50
Definite booking registration and payment needed before the date. Please bring your own dinner each night.
RSVP before 10/10/2019 to:
Wendy Miller VFTN Administrator/Co-ordinator, Gisborne Office.
Phone: 06 8691340. Mobile: 0278367495
Wendy.Miller@ barnardos.org.nz
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From the community:
Ka Pai Kaiti Whānau Day at Waikirikiri Park
Monday 16th September 2019, 3:00 - 5:30pm
WellStop Te Tairāwhiti
Are very excited to be having an Open Day in their new office for the Mates and Dates programme.
Andrea says "There has been a lot of curiosity and interest in what we are delivering to kura in Tairāwhiti so we are hoping to get plenty of visitors." Click here for the poster & details
Friday 4th October 2019
WellStop Office 258 Childers Rd, Gisborne
Pop in anytime between 10am—4pm
Please RSPV for catering purposes as nibbles and light refreshments are provided
RSPV to tairawhiti@wellstop.org.nz Phone 06 986 2147
Tairāwhiti Funders Forum
Hosted by Eastland Community Trust (ECT), Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti & Activate Tairāwhiti
Come and listen to local funders to understand how your organisation can apply for funding and what the local funders are looking for.
Funders presenting include Eastland Community Trust, Activate Tairāwhiti, Department of Internal Affairs, GDC, TPK, Sport Gisborne Tairāwhiti and NZCT.
Two sessions:
Wednesday, 18 September, 12 to 1.30pm
Wednesday, 18 September, 5.30 to 7.00pm
At Waikanae Surf Life Saving Club
Find out more & register here
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News from CNA:
Funding Gap for community social services
Report shows $630 million government funding shortfall for community social services
SSPA has released an independent study into the gap between what the social service sector is funded to deliver and what it in fact delivers. The report is an important tool for us to advocate for fair funding for our sector so that we can support positive outcomes for children, families, whānau and communities that we work with.
SSPA and our members are calling on the government to:
• support an immediate resolution that addresses the pay inequality between providers and the public sector,
• make a serious commitment to close the funding gap in Budget 2020, and
• commit to working with social services providers and the philanthropic sector on the longer-term issues that are identified, to achieve an effective and sustainable funding model.
Read the CNA Pānui here
The full report can be downloaded here
or at sspa.org.nz
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