Welcome everyone to August 2020. I have a message from our wonderful IPP Sheryl, ‘if you would like to promote your business then give Sheryl something from your business to go into the gift packs. A win win! Free Advertising/promoting” Example – key ring, pen, soap, chocolate with your business card attached…..’ So please bring something along to dinner on Monday or you can drop items to Sheryl at Storage and Equipment Hire on South Road.
Last month we heard from Kelly Judkins who shared her experiences with us as a Funeral Director which was very insightful, we also had our first Crop Swap which was a real hit and so we will be doing that again this month.

Thank you to everyone who ordered wine we should receive it soon from Sileni. We are running a Meet the Candidates event at Tairoa Lodge so keep an eye out for this as we are just waiting for all the candidates to confirm. We are also running a Pink Ribbon Brunch in October on the 17th at 10am, more details to come soon.
August is our YBPW month and Jess Sklenars our YBPW convenor is running the August dinner meeting. We have a wonderful speaker Harete Hipango MP speaking on life as a woman in Politics. This is not about Nationals policy’s etc but a focus on Harete’s personal journey. We are also celebrating 90years of BPW International with BPW day being the 26th of August so please remember to wear yellow if possible.  

Our Women’s Education Scholarship is now open so please share it with your contacts and encourage them to apply; you can find the link to our website below.
We have such an exciting few months coming up and you will all receive flyers for our events shortly. A reminder that our AGM is in October and you will be sent nomination forms this month.

Warm Regards
Desiree Bond
President

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Welcome everyone to July 2020 and what a marvelous month this is with snow on our mountain. I am happy to say that our dinner meeting this month is a mid-winter theme with mulled wine available for purchase.

The BPWNZ Special General Meeting is coming up on Sunday so please let me know if you will be joining this zoom meeting, at this stage our Dementia resolution will be presented by Anna but BPWNZ have said there is not enough time for every resolution so our Life Below Water has been moved to another meeting to be held later in the year. The exception being that if there is time on Sunday and more resolutions can be fitted in then it may be presented…so it is a wait and see situation.   

At this stage, we do not have a replacement for the club Secretary role so if you would like to know more then please contact me with your interest.
A reminder to get your wine orders into me, this fundraiser closes at our dinner meeting. If you don’t have a scanner then you can take a photo of your order and send it to me that way.
Our Women’s Education Scholarship is now open so please share it with your contacts and encourage them to apply; you can find the link to our website below.
 
Warm Regards
Desiree Bond
President

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Welcome everyone to June 2020 and what a fabulous month this is! I am happy to say that our dinner meetings start again on the 15th of June with candle lighting. I hope everyone will join us as we reunite after covid-19. Our wonderful Vivien Johnson will be speaking to us this month about her new role as BPWNZ VP membership and about the journey she took to Japan for the YBPW Asia-Pacific Symposium.
 
The BPWNZ Conference for 2020 happened in May which went really well for our first-ever zoom meeting for a National Conference. Congratulations to BPW Hawera who is the recipient of the Club of the Year award and the YBPW Sustainability award. Congratulations to Linda Morrison who received the Distinguished Service Award we are all so proud of you Linda.

Vivien Johnson was elected to the BPWNZ National Executive as Vice President – membership, well done Vivien we all wish you the best of luck in your new role.
At this stage, we do not have a replacement for the club Secretary role so if you would like to know more then please contact me with your interest.
 
Our twinning ceremony with BPW Denver went well and you can find information on our website including the official certificate. If you would like to watch the ceremony this is the Link: https://youtu.be/c8N6Vzw3GH4 

 
Warm Regards
Desiree Bond
President

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Welcome everyone to April 2020 I hope you are all surviving lockdown.
Last month we celebrated International Women’s Day with guest speaker Mary Linnell from BPW Darwin. Some of us met Mary at last year’s BPWNZ national conference and we thought you would enjoy meeting her to. Mary was such an inspiring speaker with her journey to success, like many great people she started at the very bottom and worked her way up. She can be found on facebook so please look her up; she loves BPW as much as we do.
The BPWNZ National Conference for 2020 is open for registrations, if you are interested in joining the Zoom conference then please get your forms to me or send direct to BPWNZ and cc me in please. The deadline for registration and the raffle tickets is the 24th of April. If small groups are allowed to meet in May then it might be possible for us to gather together for the zoom conference but we will have to wait and see.

There is plenty still happening in BPW and I am happy to let you all know that we have just received our official twinning certificate with BPW Denver. Our online ceremony will be on May the 14th at lunch time. If things go well then we will be able to gather together for this ceremony but if not we will make sure there is a secure way that everyone can join this wonderful event.

Congratulations to Tara Hogan for taking on the BPW Hawera Treasurer role we know you will be amazing and we are very grateful. Thank you to Meredith Pick for all of your hard work over the past years, we appreciate everything you have done for our club and for the support you have given and continue to give us, you will be missed at our executive meetings.
I would also like to thank Anna Hornby for her time as club Secretary. You have supported our club with many tasks during your time on the executive, notably the Meet the Candidate’s evening and all the work you have done behind the scenes, you will be missed.
At this stage we do not have a replacement for the club Secretary role so if you would like to know more then please contact me with you interest.

BPWNZ have their normal newsletter and issues bulletin coming out and if you have missed it you can find current and back issues on their website.
This year is also the BPW International Congress in Orlando, Florida, USA on the 21st to the 25th of August 2020. We are unsure of how this will proceed at this stage.

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Welcome everyone to March 2020 I hope you are all ready for another exciting month of BPW.
This month we are discussing resolutions which were sent out to everyone via email. If you have not received them then please let me know and I will send them to you asap. Vivien will be reporting back to us about the YBPW Asia - Pacific Symposium which she attended last year in Japan. Vivien was a guest speaker at the symposium and her presentation will be a good opportunity to learn more about BPW on an international scale.

Please save the date: BPW Hawera is celebrating International Women’s Day on the 21st of March with a brunch at Tairoa Lodge. The cost is $30.00 per person and includes a celebratory drink on arrival. We will have a panel of speakers and wonderful food so please bring a friend and spread the word, a flyer with booking information will be coming out soon.
The BPWNZ National Conference for 2020 is now open for registrations, if you are interested in going then please let us know. The details are the 2nd – 3rd of May 2020 in Auckland at the Jet Park Hotel.
This year is also the BPW International Congress in Orlando, Florida, USA on the 21st to the 25th of August 2020. If you would like to go then please let us know, the link with all the information you need is: https://orlandocongress.bpw-international.org/index.php

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