Our next Rotary meeting is on Tuesday 9th April when our speaker will be Kerryn Palmer, a local Tawa resident, who is going to talk to us about the Arohata Bedtime Stories programme that a small group of Tawa women have developed.
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Tawa Rotary Business Breakfast 4
Thanks to those who came along to the Tawa Rotary and Business Group Breakfast event last Wednesday 3rd April. It was well attended by a variety of rotarians, business people and local politicians. Kerry spoke about the role of Tourism NZ and the evolution of the Pure NZ brand that has been occurring over recent years. We will be familiar with the photos of beautiful mountain scenery that depict NZ landscape. But there was becoming the perception that these back block landscapes were not accessible by the average traveller, and also it is easy for many other countries to also market their similar landscapes. So the trend now is to market features which are unique to NZ and harder to copy, like the Maori people and their culture, the friendly NZ people and their hospitality. There is also a growing view within NZ that there are already too many visitors, so Tourism NZ specifically markets NZ to the higher spend tourists who also may travel at off peak seasons. And they also deliver a message that tourism is good for NZ. Tourism NZ also promotes the visitor driving campaign. Their latest video advertisement campaign features the Tiaki promise - help us take care of our place.
Last Saturday a group from Rotary helped Foster Hope pack bags and cartons. President Denise, Board member Lyn Calman, new members Fiona Houghton, Karyn Meade, and Patricia Davey (Denise's sister ) spent about 3 hours packing backpacks, cargo bags and cartons for children going into foster care.
The back packs contained toiletries, undies, hats, towels, lunch box, books, pens, a toy and so much more. All donated goods are needed to pass on to the children from birth to 18 years.
It was a hot day at the workshop in Porirua, filling cartons with prefilled bags to be transported to different areas in NZ.
June Mathew, her mum and friends were all helping making it about 14 people in total over the day.
Tuesday 16th April 6 p.m. - Rotary Tawa Visioning Workshop with Pat Waite
Rotary Tawa’s 50th anniversary is coming up – we are planning now for the continued success of Rotary Tawa. Your thoughts and ideas will enable Rotary Tawa to move progressively forward into our next 50 years, starting very soon.
We need to engage each of you in the question and decision-making processes and visioning for your club. Collaboratively moving forward as one group of committed Rotarians.
Rotary’s legacy for the future is to ensure;
1) Rotary Tawa continues to grow, adapt and serve the needs of existing and new members and
2) Rotary Tawa continues to serve the needs of the community in many diverse ways.
Together we’ll look at Rotary Tawa’s vision and meeting format, the frequency of meetings and more as you suggest ways we can do things better? With any change, we will provide good feedback loops to evaluate how we all are doing. The big Question is “How do you see your Tawa Rotary adapting and changing, being current and engaged over the next year or two? This discussion for members will take place at our visioning workshop on the 16th April 6pm to 8.30pm run by Pat Waite.
We look forward to seeing you there. We will be giving each member a feeder questionnaire as your thoughts gathered before the workshop will aid Pat in running this workshop. Bring any completed questionnaires to the next meeting on the 9th April, or drop the into Elizabeth Sutton letterbox by Sunday 14th April or scan and email it to Pat Waite directly.
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