June 2025

May was Pink Ribbon month. I would like to thank our speaker last month, our own Te Aroha Hohaia for sharing her journey with breast cancer. It was such an honest and emotional story. A strong reminder to ensure we self-check our breasts but also make and keep our regular check-ups, including breast screening appointments. A big thank you to our generous club members, we managed to raise $425 for the NZ Breast Cancer Foundation.

With the upcoming local body elections, we are needing someone to organise our ‘Meet the Candidates’ evening. This is a great develop opportunity for someone to step up and have a go. You will be fully supported, all the templates and checklists already exist, and Anita Scott will guide you through step by step. Please email BPW Hawera or reach out to Anita or one of the executive if you would like more information. We need to get this locked in so we can book dates and the venue.

June the 1 st is World Milk Day. Malnutrition (which includes overnutrition, undernutrition, and/or micronutrient deficiencies) affects 3 billion people worldwide. A report sponsored by the Bill & amp; Melinda Gates Foundation titled “The Race To Nourish a Warming World” was unveiled during Climate Week NYC in September 2024, outlines four solutions to the global malnutrition crisis, the first of which is ensuring more productive cows and safer milk for vulnerable populations. As the report highlights, there is an urgent need to, “ensure kids get healthier even as the world gets hotter.” Its great to see dairy called out as a number one solution.

As a rural club in a rural town dominated by the dairy industry, we are well aware of the major influence it has in our community. Along this theme we will have a very relevant speaker, Mags Bremer, from Dairy Trust Taranaki (DTT) as our guest at this month’s dinner meeting. I was very privileged to hear from Mags when I visited the DTT site on Whareroa Road and was blown away by the science that is going in to making dairying even more environmentally friendly. Some very clever initiatives under way! I won’t steal Mags’ thunder, but I can assure you that you’ll enjoy learning about the great stuff going on here in Taranaki even if you aren’t working in the dairy industry.

We have updated the BPW Hawera Women’s Education Scholarship criteria based on club members feedback last dinner meeting so will bring the revised version along for ratification by members.
Selection & award criteria includes:
 Someone who currently resides or plans to live and work in South Taranaki.
 Targeted to any woman wanting to pursue an education that hasn’t taken a traditional path straight out of secondary school. Examples could be a career change or a career path they are pursuing, either is acceptable.  Any further education for a locally based woman will be considered.
 Does not need to be a member of BPW Hawera to apply
 Membership will be offered at a heavily discounted rate of $50, and dinners to be discounted by $5 per meal for the first year.
 Does not have an age restriction to application.
 Has not received this scholarship via BPW Hawera in the past.

We will also maintain mentorship, and right to not award and carry over funds to the next year if a suitable recipient is not awarded in the year it is offered.
I know many of you will be wondering and yes Desiree will be organising the annual Wine Fundraiser again this year. It is expected to kick off late in June or in July – watch out for that in your emails!

As you are probably aware, we give little gift packs to visitors to our club dinners, that contain information about BPW and our club, as well as a few little treats, and promotional items such as pens, pads etc from our club members. We are currently short of items for the gift bags, so if you have something you want added in to the gift bags to promote your business, please bring it along to a dinner meeting or pass on to a member of our committee. Can be something as simple as your business card, attached to a chocolate bar.

Reminder, if you are on Facebook and do not currently follow our page, I recommend you do so, you’ll find us easily at BPW Hāwera. We will be posting more information and content on our Facebook page to supplement our monthly newsletter, our monthly meetings, and our Web Site
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