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Community & Whānau News
Community & Whānau News is a twice monthly newsletter administered by Volunteer Nelson, and is distributed on the first and third Tuesday’s of the month. Anyone from a community organisation can submit their information about: news, events, meetings and training opportunities taking place across the Nelson Tasman region. Due to the size of the newsletter, your post will only appear for a maximum of two consecutive newsletters. Please resubmit to have your item included after this time.
If you subscribe to the news, you will also receive details about the monthly Community and Whānau Hui.
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Upload an item to be included in the next issue of Community & Whānau News. The newsletter is published on the first and third Tuesday of the month (except January).
To ensure inclusion in the next issue, please submit items by 5pm the Monday before publishing.
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(This will also sign you up for information about monthly Community & Whānau Nelson Network Hui)
Latest Community & Whānau News
Annual General Adjustment from 1 April 2025
On Tuesday 1 April, rates for benefits, New Zealand Superannuation, Student Allowance and other financial support will go up due to the Annual General Adjustment.
Taxation changes could impact your organisation
There’s a government consultation that could reshape how for-purpose organisations operate. The IRD’s proposed tax changes for charities risk driving up compliance costs and undermining financial sustainability. It’s critical we speak up — every voice matters in shaping policy that affects our sector’s ability to serve our communities. Here is some help to do that. Submissions close 31 March 2025.
Community & Whānau Network Hui
NEW LOCATION AND TIME!
The Community & Whānau (C&W) Nelson Network Hui are an opportunity for staff and volunteers from community organisations to get together once a month (except January). These hui provide a forum where issues, ideas or projects of interest can be raised and discussed, and valuable information, ideas and strategies shared.
Please contact [email protected] with Community & Whānau in the subject line if you require any further information, or to register your interest to speak or facilitate at a hui. We email out a reminder a week before each meeting and notes are usually sent out within ten days of the hui. Subscribe to the Community and Whānau News above and you will receive both the newsletter and the reminders for the hui.
The Community and Whānau Nelson Network Hui is an in-person event. You can sign up for the hui invites (including any changes), notes, and newsletter here.
From September, the hui has a new time and place! It’s still the second Wednesday of the month, but the new time is 9.30 —11 a.m. Parking is available at Millers Acre or on Trafalgar St.; perhaps you can walk, take the bus, or ride your bike!
Event details:
📆 Date: Second Wednesday of the month (except January)
⌚ Time: 9.30 am – 11.00 am
📍 Location: Trafalgar St Hall, 67 Trafalgar St, The Wood
Dates for 2025 – add the event to your calendar with the links on the dates below:
- 12 February
- 12 March
- 9 April
- 14 May
- 11 June
- 9 July
- 13 August
- 10 September
- 8 October
- 12 November
- 10 December
Please note, that there is no hui in January.
Some of the past topics include:
- Te Kirowai Trust – the Tuia te Hapori space
- Te Tauihu Regional Development Agency
- Whakatū Marae Whānau Ora services
- Nelson Youth Council
- Volunteer Nelson’s Youth Services
- Mental health and wellbeing – Health Action Trust
We look forward to seeing you there!
There are also Community & Whānau Network hui in Motueka and Golden Bay. Please contact the organisers below for details.
Richmond: The Richmond hui are no longer running. Please come along to the hui at the Trafalgar St Hall, Nelson
Motueka: FIRST WEDNESDAY of each month, 12 pm – 1 pm. Contact coordinator Jane Henderson, 03 528 0404 [email protected]
Golden Bay: FIRST TUESDAY of the month (not January) 12 – 1 pm -contact Coordinator Jess Currin-Steer at Mohua Social Services, [email protected], 03 5259728
OTHER NETWORKS (and contact details if we have them/permission)
Nelson Tasman Settlement Forum – Ramiesha Perera [email protected]
Nelson Tasman Vulnerable Housing Forum – Ana [email protected]
Nelson Tasman Youth Connections Forum – Paul – [email protected]
Nelson Tasman Disability Providers Forum – [email protected]
Nelson Tasman Funders Network – Bill – [email protected]
Nelson Tasman and Motueka Positive Ageing Forum – [email protected]
Primary and Community Health Network hui – [email protected]
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