ComVoices, in collaboration with Community Networks Aotearoa, invites you to our launch event:STATE OF THE SECTOR SURVEY (2022) REPORTCOMMUNITY AND VOLUNTARY SECTOR “ON THE BRINK” “It gets hard, but there’s a need out there and no one else to do it.”A longitudinal sector-wide study following two years of the pandemic and its unique impacts. Come early! We will serve breakfast …
Our fifth biennial State of the Sector Survey is now open. Comvoices is calling on all entities within the Community and Voluntary Sector to take part. The Snapshot survey is released every two years to provide a consistent snapshot of the financial and operational health of this Sector. “This fifth Comvoices Survey will not only provide us with an update …
by Louise Rees, Age Concern My mother tells stories of huddling in a bomb shelter with her whanau and neighbours, singing and joking as German bombs pounded our hometown of Swansea during the Second World War, flattening a large part of the town centre. New Zealand, like the rest of the world, is now caught up in another global crisis, …
by Jane Wenman, Careerforce For many people, when they think of apprenticeships and apprentices, they’ll likely think of predominantly young people, and chances are they will also think hammers, nails, wrenches, wiring or u-bends. Chances are they won’t think of apprenticeships across the ‘softer’ professions such as those across health and wellbeing. This requires quite a shift in perception, and …
by Janet Miller, Community Research So much change has occurred for those of us working in the Community Sector this year. Though many of us are well acquainted with the term ‘pivot’ we couldn’t have foreseen just how often it would be heard in NGO board meetings in 2020 to describe the many adjustments to our ways of working. We …
by Nicola Sutton, English Language Partners Celebrating the remarkable people, all across New Zealand, who set out to learn new skills alongside an already busy life, is one benefit of running the Festival of Adult Learning Ahurei Ākoranga. Thang Shalom Innkuan is one such learner. “Back then, ‘I didn’t know how to do anything. No friends, just my family, I …
Snap, Crackle and Pop breakfast for MPs and the community sector 6 March 2019 , focus on youth wellbeing. Read the following commentary from Rod Baxter, Director of Impact, Prince’s Trust New Zealand . When I first received the invite for this event, I had this preconceived vision of a fancy lavish breakfast with mountains of gourmet cuisine. I couldn’t …