My Resene Colour Your Community nomination
Kiaora my name is Sandra Carroll, I am nominating My organisation where I work, I am the administrator here at the Highbury Whanau Centre in Highbury on Monrad park Palmerston North. I have worked here for coming up 19 years, I started as a Youthworker but now I'm the administrator here.
The reason I am writing is I would love to win this so we can paint our drab foyer and whanau room. I sit at my desk in the foyer and I used to clean all the wall form scuff marks etc but now its just beyond it. Also the whanau room. This would not just be for my eye pleasure this would be for the whole community.
The whanau centre is used daily to run Alternative education but is used by a social services group for counselling, also every evening by different groups IE; Kapahaka, 2 x leisure marching ladies, filipino basketball group, Holiday programs, after school primary school programs, Fitness groups, Te reo Maori free community classes. This is a NGO non profit organisation and no where in our budgets does it allow for painting and making our space look nice. We have been operating in the Highbury Community since 1984 where we started in what is now the Highbury Library. Then we moved over to the newer Highbury Whanau Community Centre. We are in a 50/50 ownership with the PNCC and the maintainance side being our responsibility, We do get some funding to run our programmes but we dont skim off these for maintainance as we report back to our providers. All funding goes specifically on the community and youth work provided.
So please consider my request I would love our organisation to win this opportunity so much, Thanks Sandra
Worst Xmas ever?
There's a a lot of planning that goes into Christmas day and sometimes things just don't go to plan. But it can be a good thing - a family mishap or hilarious memory that you can laugh about in Christmases to come.
Whether you burnt the dinner or were stranded at an airport...
Share your Christmas mishaps below!
⚠️ DOGS DIE IN HOT CARS. If you love them, don't leave them. ⚠️
It's a message we share time and time again, and this year, we're calling on you to help us spread that message further.
Did you know that calls to SPCA about dogs left inside hot cars made up a whopping 11% of all welfare calls last summer? This is a completely preventable issue, and one which is causing hundreds of dogs (often loved pets) to suffer.
Here are some quick facts to share with the dog owners in your life:
👉 The temperature inside a car can heat to over 50°C in less than 15 minutes.
👉 Parking in the shade and cracking windows does little to help on a warm day. Dogs rely on panting to keep cool, which they can't do in a hot car.
👉 This puts dogs at a high risk of heatstroke - a serious condition for dogs, with a mortality rate between 39%-50%.
👉 It is an offence under the Animal Welfare Act to leave a dog in a hot vehicle if they are showing signs of heat stress. You can be fined, and prosecuted.
SPCA has created downloadable resources to help you spread the message even further. Posters, a flyer, and a social media tile can be downloaded from our website here: www.spca.nz...
We encourage you to use these - and ask your local businesses to display the posters if they can. Flyers can be kept in your car and handed out as needed.
This is a community problem, and one we cannot solve alone. Help us to prevent more tragedies this summer by sharing this post.
On behalf of the animals - thank you ❤️
Poll: Would you rather: Christmas in summer forever or winter forever?
Just a bit of a fun poll to get you thinking.
If you had to live out your Christmas days, would you prefer it was a summer Christmas or a winter Christmas?
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61.6% Summer
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36.7% Winter
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1.6% Other - I'll share below
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