September 2024

Your club needs you! (on the committee).  We have had a current committee member indicate they are not going to continue in their committee role after the AGM in October, and we still need someone to pick up the Secretary role.  Desiree has been filling in for some of the secretary role but can’t do this long term.  Please have a think if you can support the club.  Its not a big workload at all, but it will become so if it lands on the shoulders of just one or two people.   Please step and join our committee to help us organising monthly dinners and regular speakers.
 
Applications for our Women’s second chance scholarship closes on the 24th September.   The criteria for application is simple, be over 21, be a South Taranaki resident and let us know how you will use the funds to assist you with your studies.  Applicants do not need to be members of BPW Hāwera.  So continue to spread the word.  You can find the application form on our BPW Hawera Website here.
 
Reminder BPW Hāwera will be participating in the Te Hāwera Community Board: Community Group Expo in September.  It will be held at Hāwera Community Centre from 10am to 2pm on Sunday 15th September.  There will be free entry to members of the public.  This is a great opportunity to show case our club, our scholarship, how we help the community, and provide support for Women in South Taranaki, nationally, and internationally through BPW.  Any more volunteers to turn up on the day and support would be gratefully appreciated.
We are putting a raffle together for the day.   If you are able to donate something for the Raffle Hamper please email our BPW Hawera gmail account to contact one of the exec committee to pick the item up/ or drop the item off to.
 
We have our annual wine fundraiser running this month.  Please distribute the order form to your friends and family. 
 
Our guest speaker for September’s dinner meeting on the 16th September is Heather Kadlec from the Taranaki Health Foundation to talk about the Taranaki Cancer Centre.  
 
Each year on September 19th in New Zealand we mark Suffrage Day to commemorate the day we became the first self-governing country in the world to give women the right to vote.  You can read more about it here.  We are also getting closer to gender-equal representation balance in Parliament too, 46.3% of current MPs are women. 
 
Reminder again that October is our AGM. We are really needing two or more volunteers on the committee – especially someone to pick up the secretary duties.  Please think about supporting your club in this small way – many hands make light work.
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