Community

Social Development Associate Minister Peeni Henare was in town on Friday visiting the team at Nga Kete Matauranga Pounamu to learn about the way the agency delivers its Whanau Ora Services. The minister spoke about a number of flaws in the community agency funding models, where they have to tender f

Southern Steel has teamed up with the cervical screening team at Southern DHB to encourage women to have a regular smear test. Through posters featuring Southern Steel players Wendy Frew, Te Huinga Reo Selby–Rickit and Abby Erwood, the players are hoping that promoting the importance of having regul

Southland children showed off their culinary skills as part of a nation-wide cooking competition. The Garden to Table programme invites year five and six pupils to team up for the Root to Tip competition, to show they can grow, harvest and prepare a waste-free meal. Video: Youtube

The future direction of the Southland Museum and Art Gallery (SMAG) will be decided in the next six months as a wide-ranging review of the organisation, facilities and operations gets underway. Strategic planner Tim Walker, who was instrumental in the development of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa

Koha Kai has been named in yet another National Awards. The NZ Maori Business Awards took place at Te Papa in Wellington at the end of April, and Koha Kai was named a finalist in two categories, including the NZ Maori Supreme Business of the Year, and the People and Capability Award,  for which they

The Southland Museum and Art Gallery Trust Board has made some key decisions to ensure the future of a museum for our region, based in Invercargill. Trust Board Chairwoman Toni Biddle said in the few short weeks since the closure of the Southland Museum and Art Gallery, the Trust Board had been work

The Invercargill Bowling Club is the latest Southern organisation to benefit from a life-saving donation from PowerNet and St John. An automated defibrillator (AED) donated to the club this week, is the first of three AEDs proposed for donation to Southern communities during this year. The donation

The Community Trust of Southland today announced the Trust will reopen a Major Grants round in 2018-19, investing an extra $1.5 million into the community for grants over $100,000.  This will bring the grants budget up to $8 million for the year ahead. Major grants funding had been paused in 2016 as