Community news and notices

Community Law Otago 2020 hours

From 9 March Community Law Otago’s free legal advice clinics are open at the following times:

Monday 11am-12.30pm; 5.30pm-7pm
Tuesday 11am-12.30pm
Wednesday 5.30pm-7pm
Thursday 11am-12.30pm; and 5.30pm-7pm
Friday 11am-12.30pm.

Trees for Families registrations now open

Registrations are now open for Keep Dunedin Beautiful’s annual Trees for Families event, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Dunedin. Held each year on Mother’s Day (this year Sunday 10 May), Trees for Families provides families the opportunity to celebrate a milestone by planting a tree.

Date: Sunday 10 May 2020

Time: 11am

Venue: Harbour Cycleway at the end of Magnet Street (near Otago University Rowing Club)

Cost: $20 per tree

Registration is essential by contacting Keep Dunedin Beautiful via email keepdunedinbeautiful@dcc.govt.nz or 477 4000. Registrations close Sunday 19 April. 

Are you thinking of the future of your organisations - Talk to Ignite Consultants 

Ignite is a student-run non-profit that provides free business advice and strategic planning to charities in Dunedin and Wellington. We help organisations to overcome obstacles and achieve their aspirations through harnessing students’ fresh perspectives. Ignite recruits university students a cut above the crowd to help facilitate real change and development in the non-profit sector. Since 2010, Ignite has worked with 50+ charities, recruited 200 students, and put in 24,000 hours of volunteering.

This semester, Ignite is working with WEKA, DSO, SuperGrans, Chisholm Links and Alzheimers Otago. We will complete an 8-week process, working alongside their organisations to create solutions to issues they may be facing. This culminates in our consultants producing a report, which they speak to at our Presentation Evening.

Ignite is currently looking for organisations to work with during Semester Two 2020 (projects starting in August). We would love to chat with you at our Semester One Presentation Evening on 21st May (location TBC). To get in touch with Ignite about a potential project, or to find out more about us, please email executive@igniteconsultants.co.nz.

2020 Otago Participatory Science Platform

The Otago Science Into Action call is currently still open for proposals for the 2020 Otago Participatory Science Platform (PSP). The deadline for this round is noon, Wednesday 18 March 2020.

The PSP supports Otago based community-driven research projects, where citizens and scientists join forces to tackle a shared problem or opportunity. Projects covering any topics are welcomed, although in this round encouragement is given to projects that explore the potential community impacts or implications of climate change. Applicants can request up to $20,000 (excl. GST) per project.

Guidelines and application forms are available here.

If you are interested in applying, please register here.

For any queries please contact Claire Concannon: claire.concannon@otagomuseum.nz, (03) 4747474 ext 832.

Aspiring Leaders’ Forum: On Faith and Values

The Aspiring Leaders’ Forum will be held again from the 18th – 21st June 2020 in Wellington. The Dunedin City Council and the Otago Community Trust are looking to support three applicants for the forum this year. This includes covering the conference fees (all forum expenses, accommodation and meals during Aspiring Leaders’ Forum), additional accommodation as required, and travel to and from Wellington.

If you have some young people in mind for this forum, they need to be aged between 18 and 26, and exhibit leadership potential in their sphere of influence. The Forum is an incredible opportunity for young leaders to interact with and learn from a diverse group of peers and leaders from this nation. It is important that they are willing to discuss leadership from a personal perspective, as a narrative approach is used during Forum.

Please see the website www.aspiringleaders.org for more information or email Rebekah.new@dcc.govt.nz for any questions or queries.

We ask that the aspiring leader apply by having an employer, whanau member, or youth organisation nominate you by writing a letter of support and attaching it along with their CV. They will need to be available for interviews in early April, at this stage in the week before Easter. Please send in applications to Rebekah.new@dcc.govt.nz and these applications close at 6pm on Wednesday 25th March 2020.

Unique Ōtepoti 2020 with OAR FM Youth Zone

Celebrating cultural expression through music and performance. Unique Ōtepoti 220 is an opportunity for young Dunedin creative performers to express their cultural identities across multi-platform media.

For more information on how to register your interest please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Dunedin Community Accounting

Free accounting advice for non-profits is open for 2020 from 9 March.

For more information about Dunedin Community Accounting please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Resene Wall Worthy Mural Competition Open Now

Keep New Zealand Beautiful and Resene have once again partnered to bring you the great Wall Worthy Mural competition. The Wall Worthy competition gives local schools, early childhood centres and youth groups the chance to tell their local history, celebrate a local celebrity or communicate a nature or conservation theme on a wall in their community.

Winning submissions will receive a $750 Resene paint voucher, drop cloth and high vis vests as well as $500 for murals completed by the end of Term 4, 2020.

For more information and to submit a design, please visit www.knzb.org.nz/paint-new-zealand-beautiful/wall-worthy-competition/

Entries close at 5pm on Friday 27 March 2020.