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Hello everyone and welcome to 2021, I hope you have all had a fabulous Christmas and New Year holiday. We are now ready for another exciting year of BPW.
This month is Red Bag Day which is also known as Equal Pay Day. It marks the period of extra days women need to work on average to make up the pay gap on men. On 26 August 2020, StatsNZ announced that the gender pay gap was 9.5 percent. If you have a Red Bag please bring it with you to dinner this month. Our guest speaker is Rachel Williams who is a club member and the Principal of Hawera High School. She will be talking to us about her journey to becoming a Principal and sharing some of her goals for 2021. Membership invoices have gone out, if you haven't received one then please email our treasurer Amelie and let her know. We are having our crop swap again this month so please bring something along, you never know what bargain you will get! Our club Camelia's are for sale at our dinner meeting so don't miss out on buying one of these beautiful plants. I look forward to seeing you all at our club dinner meeting on the 15th of February :) View full newsletter here....
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How exciting it's November 2020 and the Christmas countdown has started. Welcome to our new BPW Hawera executive I thank you for volunteering your time for our club. What a great AGM we had last month, thank you to Jan Dunlop for chairing the AGM and Marissa Cope for taking the AGM minutes. Marissa was also our guest speaker last month and her presentation on Health and Saftey in the workplace now with Covid was very informative and interesting, we all learned something.
This month we will announce the result of our Women's Education Scholarship, thank you to everyone who applied. BPWNZ President Christine Berridge will be attending our dinner meeting this month and presenting our club with the awards we have won, they are normally given out at our National Conference but we are honored to have Christine come in person to give them to us. We are having the last part of our National AGM this month via zoom, it will focus on resolutions that weren't done in the last two zoom meetings, Andrea is a delegate and is presenting the Life Below Water resolution. Our other delegates are Kay Legge, Marissa Cope and Rebbecca Treeby. We wish them all luck at the conference and we hope our resolution gets passed. Our guest speaker is Kerrie Palma from the Tear Fund speaking on Human Trafficking and our theme this month is White Ribbon. The White Ribbon campaign continues to focus on Respectful Relationships which are built on equality between women and men, the effective use of non-violent communication, flexible gender behaviour for men and women and respectful sexual relationships, which includes consent. It is time for our membership invoices to go out, if you would like your invoice written to your business then please email our treasurer Amelie and let her know. We are having our crop swap again this month so please bring something along, you never know what bargain you will get! Our club Camelia's are for sale at our dinner meeting so don't miss out on buying one of these beautiful plants. A big thank you to Linda for selling our Camelia's at Tairoa Lodge during the Garden Festival. View full newsletter here.... Welcome everyone to October 2020. Thank you to everyone who helped and supported our Meet the Candidates event last month, we had some great feedback from Heather Smith, Social Credit who wrote, 'As might be expected from your initials, everything was organized in a business and professional way, but with a big dose of friendliness.' The live stream for our event is on our BPW Hawera Facebook page.
This month we hosted a Pink Ribbon Brunch at Tairoa Lodge which was a lot of fun and we all had a great time. Thank you to everyone who supported this event we raised $273.00 and Marissa and Kay were great speakers, the Pink Ribbon Bingo was a fun way to end brunch...everyone wanted to win prizes and then the big pink raffle which was fantastic. There are photos from our Meet the Candidates and from the Pink Ribbon Brunch on our BPW Hawera Website. Please remember ‘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. We are having the last part of our National AGM next month via zoom, it will focus on resolutions that weren't done in the last two zoom meetings, we hope to present the Life Below Water resolution which Andrea wrote and will hopefully present...very exciting. Our Women’s Education Scholarship closes this month so please get your applications in, you can find the forms on our website. This month is our AGM and we look forward to seeing you all, thank you to everyone who has put their name forward for a role. Marissa is our guest speaker this month and she will be talking to us about Health and Saftey in the workplace amongst our new covid world. We are having our crop swap again this month so please bring something along, you never know what bargain you will get! View full newsletter here... Welcome everyone to September 2020. Thank you to everyone who helped and supported our Meet the Candidates event last night. The evening was a great success and the live stream went well, if you weren't able to watch last night it is on our BPW Hawera Facebook page.
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 View full newsletter here... |
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