Events
Tautoko Network
“Tautoko” relates to support and advocacy. We believe our unique Tautoko Network enables more accessible information sharing and collaboration across the local community sector. Our programme includes events within Christchurch City as well as the Hurunui, Selwyn and Waimakariri Districts.
REGIONAL TRAINING OPPORTUNITIES
For a range of training opportunities throughout New Zealand, visit the Regional Training page at Volunteering New Zealand. These include a mix of face-to-face and remote training sessions to support volunteering and the community sector right across the country.
2022
January
Tautoko Support Network Workshop: Health and Safety in 2022
Date: 26 Jan 2022 - 1:00pm to 2:00pmFacilitator: Community Law
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Central City
Cost: Free event
Community Law Canterbury will deliver some training on health and safety issues to be aware of in relation to volunteers. They will also discuss experiences with COVID, vaccinations and testing and how they are navigating the challenges these pose for relationships with our volunteers.
RSVP: Via Email
February
Governance Bites: Getting the Right People on Board
Date: 15 Feb 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pmFacilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation
GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.
This session will cover all you need to know about recruiting non-profit and community board members. What makes a good board member, where do you find them, and how do you get them interested in your organisation? What are the three biggest traps in recruitment? And how do you get the most of new board members after they are on-board?
RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.
March
Tautoko Support Network Workshop: Preventing Workplace Bullying
Date: 2 Mar 2022 - 9:30am to 11:30amFacilitator: Anita Brockhouse, CultureSafe
Venue: Christchurch Community House
Cost: $20 per person, bookings essential
Creating a mentally healthy workplace and volunteer space is about fostering a strong safe and supportive workplace culture where bullying cannot survive. A toxic environment is the number one reason people move to a different employer (or volunteering agency). One in four employees in New Zealand report they have experienced bullying in the workplace. It not only affects individuals but also the productivity of organisations. This can become even more complex when having volunteers managing volunteers. To prevent bullying, it is essential that organisations have a clear understanding of what bullying is and the impact that it can have on individuals and the morale of teams.
Register: Via email
Governance Bites: Helping the Wrong People over Board
Date: 15 Mar 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pmFacilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation
GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.
This session will cover the tough stuff. Despite our best intentions and event efforts, we can still end up with the wrong people on board for various reasons. How do you tackle the difficult task of ‘sacking’ a board member? After all, board members are ‘just volunteers’. How do you actually get the result you need, but also still act with some grace? How can succession planning actually happen in practice in small organisations, and how do you deal with ‘founder syndrome’ when founders have out-lasted their value for the organisation and may even be holding it back?
RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.
Family Volunteering Day
Date: 27 Mar 2022 - 1:30pm to 3:30pmVenue: Packe Street Park and Community Gardens
Cost: Free Event
Bring the whole whānau along to our next Family Volunteering Day - grandmas, teenagers, preschoolers and everyone inbetween! Dress for mess and join us for an anfternoon of painting. There'll be something for every age and skill level. More details to follow in the new year.
April
Student Volunteer Week 2022
Date: 4 Apr 2022 to 10 Apr 2022Student Volunteer Week (SVW) celebrates young people who are striving to make a change through volunteering, and encourages students to try volunteering. SVW includes a wide variety of events, activities, and awareness-raising campaigns led by universities, tertiaries and schools nationwide. Watch this space!
Microvolunteering Day
Date: 15 Apr 2022 - 12:00am to 12:00pmMicrovolunteering is bite-sized, on-demand, no commitment actions that benefit a worthy cause. Microvolunteering Day is also a unique opportunity for microvolunteering platforms, volunteer involved organisations and individuals to join together in a synchronised effort to demonstrate the empowering potential of the microvolunteering concept.
Governance Bites: The Secret of Better Board Meetings
Date: 19 Apr 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pmFacilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation
GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.
As they say, it’s easy to ‘take minutes and waste hours’. Typical Agendas actually make good meetings more difficult, and who knows the difference between individual decision-making vs the group decision-making needed on boards? Can we be more efficient at our meetings? Maybe even more effective? And perhaps even actually enjoy them? It’s all possible and this participatory workshop will offer several practical tools to help make it happen.
RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.
May
Migrant & Newcomers Volunteer Expo
Date: 7 May 2022 - 3:00pm to 5:00pmVenue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street
Cost: Free event
If you're new to Christchurch, volunteering is a great way to meet people, get connected in your local area, and gain valuable skills to help you settle into your new place of living. More details to follow soon.
RSVP: Via email
Governance Bites: Keeping Board Members Engaged and the Role of the Chair
Date: 17 May 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pmFacilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation
GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.
Chairs have one of the most demanding jobs in a non-profit (and are usually among the lowest paid and trying to do it all on a very part-time basis). What is realistic, and what are the essentials? Can we look again at sharing roles around the board table? One of the key roles of a chair is to facilitate the board as a group – especially in its core role as group decision-makers. And given participation is the purpose if you are going to bother calling a meeting, how can a chair best facilitate real participation that will energise and enthuse board members, and get the best possible decision from a diverse group? We will look at some practical tools and frameworks to help make this happen in real world non-profit boards.
RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.
June
National Volunteer Week 2022
Date: 19 Jun 2022 to 25 Jun 2022National Volunteer Week (NVW) celebrates the collective contribution of all volunteers who enrich Aotearoa New Zealand. NVW includes a wide variety of events, activities, and awareness-raising campaigns.
Governance Bites: Getting Real About Strategy for Boards
Date: 21 Jun 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pmFacilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation
GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.
Everyone wants to be strategic these days. It is used to refer to deceit and trickery in reality TV shows. As an adjective it makes any object or activity sound very important. But does it actually have any practical meaning left? What is a strategy and how is it different from a plan? Where does most strategy come from, and what is a realistic approach to developing a strategy for our organisation? And what really is the Board’s role in strategy (especially where there also is staff)? Participation in nonprofit boards provides individuals with an opportunity to influence impact in our city. This workshop offers practical tools and approaches to help a board lead organisational strategy.
RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.
July
Governance Bites: Everything You Wanted to Know About Nonprofit Boards But Were Afraid to Ask
Date: 19 Jul 2022 - 5:15pm to 7:00pmFacilitator: Garth Nowland-Foreman, LEAD Centre for Not for Profit Leadership
Venue: Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam Street, Christchurch
Cost: No charge thanks to generosity of Rata Foundation
GOVERNANCE BITES are a series of free after-five events offering practical development opportunities in bite-sized pieces for ‘time poor’ and cash-strapped community leaders involved in non-profit boards in Canterbury, served up with pizza.
Do you have a question about your non-profit board? In our final Governance Bite session, Governance Guru, Garth Nowland-Foreman will answer all your governance questions. Nothing is off-limits. If you have a question, it will be helpful if you can email it to garth@lead.org.nz. But he will also answer questions on the spot - including anonymous questions. This is your chance to have that governance query or concern answered.
RSVP: Via email (please advise dietary requirements)
Please note, while the Governance Bites workshops run as a series, each session can be attended as a standalone workshop if desired. Please indicate which session/s you are interested in when registering.
August
Student Volunteer Expo: UC
Date: 3 Aug 2022 - 11:30am to 1:30pmFacilitator: Volunteering Canterbury in conjunction with University of Canterbury
Venue: University of Canterbury
Cost: Free event