Sustainable Funding workshop – Dunedin
Exult Ltd will be running its practical and informative one-day ‘Sustainable Funding’ workshop in Dunedin on 19 July 2012 at the Dunedin Community House. The workshop costs $120. To register contact This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  . Can’t make it? Then  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it us to borrow a DVD of the workshop material. Not quite like being there, but a good substitute.   

ASB Community Trust public meeting
This year’s ASB Community Trust public meetings will be the first opportunity to give the community details of the Trust’s funding priorities for the next five years. The meetings will be held at:

• Auckland - Monday, 13 August at 2pm in the Mangere Arts Centre.
• Kaitaia - Saturday, 1 September at 1pm in the Te Ahu Centre.

Volunteering books
Volunteering New Zealand is selling books by Linda Graff, a Canadian expert in volunteerism. Note: postage and handling are extra to the prices shown below:

• Better Safe: Risk Management in Volunteer Programs & Community Service – an overview of risk management $47.
• Beyond Police Checks: The Definitive Volunteer & Employee Screening Guidebook  - screening processes and tools $47.
• Best of All: The Quick Reference Guide To Effective Volunteer Involvement - written specifically for volunteer volunteer coordinators in organisations, such as in churches $47.
• By Definition: Policies for Volunteer Programs - general and specific policies for a volunteer programme $37. 

To order copies, email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it and advise your delivery address and the book titles/number of copies you require. Payments are by direct debit. An invoice can be emailed with a purchase order number if required. 

Introduction to Managing Volunteers course
This NZ-written and based online course is for those new to managing volunteers or those wishing to brush up on their skills. The six-week course costs $301.55. Next courses: 30 July - 7 September, or 22 October - 30 November 2012. Enrol before 23 June and you will go into a draw for to win the enrolment fee back. For more info see the Volunteering New Zealand/Xperts website http://volunteer.xperts.co.nz.

Health & Disability advocates
Advocates from the Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service are trying to connect with churches and community groups in the North Shore (Auckland) and Rodney areas, to see if they would like to book a free education session on the advocacy service and Consumer Code of Rights (as relates to health and disability). If you are interested, contact their office on 09 441 9001 or 0800 555 050. If you are outside those areas, call the 0800 number to find out whether advocates in your area can offer training or advice in these matters.

Music fundraisers
Baptist Maori Ministries has bulk quantities of two Christian music CDs which they can sell at discounted prices to groups for fundraisers. The CDs are:

• Gospel Gold - featuring Al Green, K-Ci & Jojo and Mary Mary, and local Gospel / Soul legends Adeaze, Aaradhna and Cydel. 50-99 CDs $10 each + p&p, 100+ CDs $8 each + p&p
• Praise Be – double CD featuring choral music from the TVNZ programme. 50+ CDs $18 each + p&p.

To order or for more information, contact 09-526 6365 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Baptist Maori Ministries.

Coping with medical illness and the changes with ageing
A presentation by Harold G Koenig, M.D., will be held 5 September 2012 at the Tamaki Campus of the University of Auckland. Dr Koenig will outline his major findings on the relationship between health, religion and spirituality in older people. To find out more go to www.selwyncare.org.nz (Under ‘The Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality) or email Trish Purchase This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . The cost of the seminar is $75 incl GST per person.

Domestic violence candlelight vigil
South Auckland Family Violence Prevention Network (SAFVPN) has organised a public Matariki Candlelight Vigil to be held at 6.00am Thursday 21 June 2012 on Mangere Mountain. The vigil will commemorate the approximately 100 NZ women and children who have died through domestic violence or child abuse in our country and overseas over the past five years. Local schoolchildren will be some of the more than 500 people expected at the event, which will be opened by Hon Dr Pita Sharples, MP for Tamaki Makaurau and Minister of Maori Affairs.

Community Fruit Harvesting
This initiative was started by Di Celliers (Windsor Park Baptist Church), and has spread to several other centres. Basically it is a group that collects fruit from back yards and orchards around New Zealand and shares it with charities, either in its whole state or processed (e.g. marmalade).

The venture has grown to the stage that it now needs regional coordinators and more volunteers. Contact Di Celliers on This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it if you can help, or for more information about the concept. You can also read this press statement from Community Fruit Harvesting www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1206/S00179/community-group-needs-fruit-picking-co-ordinators.htm.