May/June 2023 – How do we reach our lofty mountain?
We’ve been squirrelling away on some pretty exciting projects to support and grow community-led development across Aotearoa. Read our May/June 2023 newsletter and find out about our first online module, CLD 101: Foundations of community-led development, our recent report, Make the Move, and other great opportunities to learn and connect through CLD.
Training and Events April 2023
Autumnal greetings to all! With Easter around the corner and school holidays close behind, we know it’s a busy time so we’ve got a quick update for you this month.
We have another of our our popular and free Community Building Block sessions, Levers for Change, coming up on the 27th of April, and for those in Tāmaki, the 3rd of May is your chance to spend some time with the amazing Denise Bijoux looking at evaluating community-led change.
Proposed Auckland Council budget cuts and submission deadlines have kept many community champions in this part of the motu busy. Inspiring Communities and others have been working to highlight the value of community investment. Have a read of the developments, key arguments and how you can connect into collective community action planned next here.
We’re thrilled to share a story from I Love Avondale, demonstrating amazing, activated and community-led principles in action.
The recent Child Rich Communities online kōrero recording is now online to view,
Training and Events March 2023
The recent weather events have again brought the importance of resilient infrastructure and communities into the spotlight. While our hearts go out to those facing long messy clean ups, our eyes also look forward to the work we all need to do locally, nationally and internationally to find equitable and mana enhancing people and planet friendly solutions to the climate challenges in front of us.
At Inspiring Communities, we believe that whānau, hapu, iwi and community-led responses must be part of the change we make next as a nation to improve wellbeing. That means being active partners in conversations, decision making and action taking at multiple levels. Post Covid-19 lockdowns, there was hope we would ‘build back better’ with hapū, iwi and communities at the centre, but have we really? We’ll let you know!
More in this panui:
Collective community response to Auckland Council proposed budget – meetings this week!
Get qualified! Register for our micro-credential to validate and affirm your CLD facilitation skills
Join us for the first Child Rich Communities Online kōrero for 2023
Check out the recording of our funding systems focused Webinar
Register for our March CLD Evaluation workshop (Online) for those in Waitaha | Canterbury, and May for those in Tāmaki Makaurau | Auckland
Celebrate Neighbours Aotearoa, a chance to share with our neighbours – meet the local connectors across the motu.
Save the date! Our first free Community Building Block of 2023 will be ‘Levers for Change in Your Community’ on April 27th, 9:30-11am. Registrations open soon, keep an eye on our Humanitix page.
Starting as we mean to continue with CLD in 2023
Kia ora koutou, Wow – 2023 here we come! We hope you’ve a great summer break and are feeling renewed with energy for another busy, creative and responsive year ahead. The recent floods in Tāmaki Makaurau are a reminder that change is the only constant and we need to be prepared for anything and everything! With that in mind, we’d like to let you know about some changes in our virtual team. We’ve just welcomed Natalie Gousmett into our new Programme Lead role. She replaces the wonderful Vinetta Plummer who’s headed back to school for a full year of Te Reo immersion learning. Kerry Jenner is taking over the lead on our CLD Micro-credential this year from the wonderful Margy Jean Malcolm – who is retiring/rewiring! We’ll share some reflections from Margy Jean in coming months but in the meantime, we want to acknowledge how much she has given to Inspiring Communities and many other organisations and communities across the motu. A national taonga/treasure for sure! This month also takes us closer to Aotearoa’s annual celebration of neighbourliness, take a moment to read this great blog from Cissy Rock “It takes a neighbourhood to find a cat”. In our first webinar of the year, Yes We Can. Fund effectively, change will happen, the panellists will offer insights that will unlock the power that comes when communities and funders work together to realise their aspirations. Registration is free. More in this pānui: |
Ngā mihi o te Kirihimete me te Tau Hou
What a complex yet wonderful year it has been! This year, Inspiring Communities has hosted or presented at over 84 events, we’ve had close to 2653 people participate in our events, training and mentoring sessions, and our team have participated in 260 meetings and collaborations – all to awhi, grow and deepen Community-led development (CLD) in Aotearoa.
We have loads of connecting, inspiring, influencing and learning planned for 2023, including some new offerings such as online self-directed learning opportunities – the journey will continue so watch this space!
More in this newsletter:
> Read about our recent hui connecting Child Rich Communities and CLD in Tāmaki Makaurau
> Find out about how you can study and achieve a Micro-credential in CLD facilitation in 2023
> Checkout a range of fascinating podcasts to listen to over your summer break
> Celebrate, review and enjoy some of our highlights from 2022
*Note the statistics have been updated here with the final 2022 numbers. The newsletter, published before the end of the year with have the stats available at that date.
Thought leadership November 2022
Here we are heading towards summer and the inevitable busyness of end-of-year ambitions and celebrations. Our thoughts have been on the increasing use of community-led language and strategy across the motu. Read this blog from IC’s Rachel and David speaking on how we need to embed the rhetoric of Community-led Development in the political landscape to ensure long lasting community-led change is here to stay.
We’re excited about the IACD World Community Development Conference in Darwin in June next year. Join our Kiwi Conference list to be updated with new announcements, funding possibilities and opportunities to connect with other Kiwis attending the conference.
More in this newsletter:
> Inspiring stories – read about Rangatahi leading in Porirua and watch an awesome video story update on how the Whananaki community is travelling on their CLD journey.
> The Local Government review panel have released their draft report and submissions on this are now open – see below for links to this report.
> Neighbours Aotearoa have a new name, future vision and are currently recruiting for community connectors cross the motu.
> In case you missed our last webinar of the year – The Power of Place-based Collaboration, the recording is now available to watch online and if you have thoughts on our webinars for next year, we’d love you to complete our short survey.
Training and Events October 2022
Read about our upcoming events and training opportunities to further develop your CLD mahi in our October panui.
Training and Events August 2022
This month we open registrations for our next webinar, the power of place-based collaboration. We invite you to join us to learn and understand ways of making sense of and evaluating community-led development with an online workshop. We also highlight some of the regional events & training on the horizon, including an in-person workshop in Taupō.
Thought leadership August 2022
Inspiring Communities has long pushed for TRUE collaboration – sharing power and resources and adapting systems to harness the knowledge and capacity within local places to be part of positive change.
Training and Events June 2022
Read about our upcoming FREE offerings to further develop your CLD mahi in our June panui.