What an amazing day to get be out and about painting a mural to 'shout out' to the mahi aroha of our environment volunteers. Volunteering Canterbury worked alongside Climate Action Campus, Ōtautahi and the CCC Graffiti Artist Mentor programme to identify a wall and an artist - Josh Montogomery #drowsydesign - who prepped the wall. Then we invited some civic leaders from across Otautahi Christchurch to come and put the finishing touches! Thanks to Crs Sara Templeton, Tyrone Fields, Yani Johanson, Andrei Moore and Deputy Mayor Pauline Cotter and local MPs, Tracey McLellan, Reuben Davidson, Dr Duncan Webb and Megan Woods for joining us!
Wow! April was has been a HUGE one for Group Volunteering! We have had teams from Spark, Open Polytechnic, Loburn School, Ethicon, Ben & Jerry's, and Te Tahi Youth volunteering with community groups including 0800 Hungry, Kaiapoi Food Forest, Edible Canterbury, Riverlution, Kairos Food Rescue and TechMate! Young and old, these awesome teams packed food parcels, planted vegetables, weeded and mulched around trees, and reassembled donated laptops. What a mammoth effort from everyone involved – HUGE thanks to these amazing teams
Two fabulous teams went out this month in Group Volunteering Programme. First up was a lovely team of Teachers from Te Rito Maioha Early Childhood NZ, who spent the day at 0800 Hungry, preparing food packs for distribution to those in need in the community. On the same day, a business group from Plexure Ltd spent a day with Kairos Food Rescue, preparing and distributing food packs. And finally, a student group from the University of Canterbury ‘Strengthening Communities Through Social Innovation’ course, spent an afternoon with Edible Canterbury in the city.
We had an awesome afternoon at Culture Galore over the weekend, an amazing annual event supported by CCC. Such a variety of stands, food sites and culture performers... and the launch of our Wheel of Opportunity! Our very own Glenda was even interviewed for a livestream by PlainsFM! An awesome way to spend the day, helping those who want to make their mahi have meaning.
We received a super exciting parcel recently - our new WoO! What's that you say? Well I'm glad you asked! The Wheel of Opportunity (or WoO as we are affectionately calling it) lets you discover what volunteer opportunities are available in a fun and interactive way. This beautiful, bright wheel covers all types of volunteer opportunities across a range of categories - can you guess what each colour represents?
Special thanks to Volunteer South for sharing their unique idea, to Pukka for the awesome graphics, and to the @Wanaka Community Workshop for putting it all together!