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 …
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Pressure Creating Diamonds: How Covid-19 impacted NZ’s community sector.
Media Release: 12 April 2021 As New Zealand’s community and voluntary sector played a street-by-street, home-by-home role in our COVID-19 response, the sector came under more pressure than ever before. Growing threats to the sector’s sustainability, and new insights on how Government can respond, are laid bare in the findings of 2020’s ‘State of the Sector’ survey, released by national …
Final Report published on social policy research seminar
In early September 2022, ComVoices brought together community researchers from its network to talk to government’s policy officials about: the contribution of the community sector during the COVID pandemic; and how the relationship between government and the sector could learn from the lessons and precedents set over the last few years. Our final seminar report is now published and it …
Submitting on the Review into the Future for Local Government
As a collective of NFP peak bodies we can bring experience and expertise to the discussion on the Future for Local Government and local governance. What started out as a White Paper, you can now read our submission to the interim report and five key questions posed by the Review panel. We see an opportunity for us all – central …
Hauora / Wellbeing Resources
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has caused uncertainties, increased pressures and anxieties in the sector. It’s important we model positive wellbeing behaviour as managers, staff, volunteers and organisations during these times and so we are pleased to share a new page on our website dedicated to sharing hauora / wellbeing resources. Click here to visit our hauora page.
A brave and bold Budget 2021 is needed
by Dr Claire Achmad, Chief Executive, Social Service Providers Aotearoa With Budget Day around the corner, focus is zooming in on the choices the Government will make about how to spend public money. In Aotearoa New Zealand, children are a quarter of our population. While most children and tamariki are doing well and growing up with what they need to …
The importance of home
by Chris Glaudel, Deputy Chief Executive, Community Housing Aotearoa Having a home is crucial to our ability to care for ourselves and our whānau. We particularly need somewhere good to retreat to as we manage the additional impacts created by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is where the country’s community housing providers come in. They house thousands of people in affordable …
Charities and community sector rely significantly on the generosity of volunteers
by Michelle Kitney, Chief Executive, Volunteering New Zealand COVID-19 has highlighted the need to understand the value, impact and potential of volunteering, and the infrastructure, that enables volunteers to enrich Aotearoa, New Zealand. Last year, Statistics New Zealand released the Non-profit institutions satellite account: 2018 (NPISA) This revealed some interesting facts about our volunteering landscape. It highlighted how the charitable and community …
A new era for the ComVoices network
ComVoices is pleased to announce the appointment of its new Chair, Rochelle Stewart-Allen from Hui E! Community Aotearoa. “It’s great to see Rochelle stepping up as Chair and bringing in her experience in building, supporting and driving community initiatives“, says outgoing Chair, Chris Glaudel from Community Housing Aotearoa. ComVoices, as a national network of community and voluntary organisations, draws its strengths …
Breaking down barriers to social connection
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, …