Hui E! Community Aotearoa Hui E! Community Aotearoa seeks to promote, strengthen and connect the Community Sector – tangata whenua organisations and the broad voluntary and community sector – charities, incorporated societies, clubs, boards, trusts, and informal community groups. Ko tā Hui E! Community Aotearoa he whakatairanga, he whakapakari, he tūhono i te Rāngai Hāpori – ngā […]
Read More ›12 December 2019 – For immediate use The country’s community and voluntary organisations are delivering services where they matter – to New Zealanders in need – even as they continue to grapple with a number of significant challenges. That’s one of the key findings from a survey of community and voluntary sector organisations carried out […]
Read More ›by Sue Barker6 December 2019 There appears to be a trend in New Zealand at the moment for incorporated societies to restructure as charitable trusts: many incorporated societies appear to be struggling to find sufficient members, and/or to attract those members they do have to attend general meetings. Yet, despite this, many are finding newsletter […]
Read More ›Submissions on Local Government NZ’s latest discussion paper Reinvigorating local democracy: The case for localising power and decision-making to councils and communities close on 15 December. You can send your comments and feedback to mike.reid@lgnz.co.nz or send to: Dr Mike Reid Principal Policy Advisor Local Government New Zealand PO Box 1214 Wellington 6011. Background: […]
Read More ›Kotahi te hoe, ka ū te waka ki uta The updated People’s Report on the 2030 Agenda and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): an alternate report for Aotearoa New Zealand 2019 (the People’s Report) has now been released. The full report and a summary pamphlet are hosted at www.sdg.org.nz/peoples-report. A final draft of this report was […]
Read More ›Oxfam New Zealand commissioned The Workshop to conduct a literature review of the evidence regarding how to talk about climate change that engaged and motivated people to act. Jess, Marianne and their team went the extra mile and created this toolkit: ‘How to talk about climate change: a toolkit for encouraging collective action’. We hope this toolkit helps us all to […]
Read More ›Tēnā tātou katoa Kiaora everyone Last week was a historic moment when the New Zealand Zero Carbon Bill passed with the support of almost the whole Parliament, setting new climate change targets into law. There is a lot of work ahead of us, but celebrating the wins is really important. It’s the result of so much energy, […]
Read More ›Parting reflections from Simon Cayley, outgoing Co-Chair Hui E! Trust Board Having completed the two terms allowed under our Trust Deed I finished my time as Co-Chair of Hui E! Community Aotearoa at our AGM held on Monday 21st October. This brought to a close my involvement with community sector umbrella organisations that has been an exciting journey […]
Read More ›Fixed Term (3 years), 25 hours per week Nau mai, haere mai Hui E! Community Aotearoa, seeks to promote, strengthen and connect the community sector. The Pou Kaiārahi is a key leadership role, they will bring leaders together and facilitate greater engagement within the Sector and optimise the supporter’s network to identify and activate opportunities […]
Read More ›Tēnā tātou katoa Message from the Board of Trustees – Update on Hui E!’s refresh The Board of Trustees invites you to join us in a refocusing and reinvigoration of Hui E! in its mission to promote, strengthen and connect the community sector. Key to this in this reset is focusing on providing leadership for […]
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