Fill your kete – learning opportunities and sector insights – March 2026

Kia ora e te whānau, 

With the end of the financial year approaching, our team at Inspiring Communities is taking time to reflect and look ahead, continuing our focus on strengthening community-led development practice across Aotearoa.

Looking outward, we’re excited that members of our team, Anna Parker, Gwyn John and Moko Morris have had their abstract accepted for the upcoming World Community Development Conference on Decolonising Community-Led Development in Aotearoa New Zealand. In the current funding climate it is proving challenging to secure travel support, so if you or your organisation may be able to assist in any way, we’d love to hear from you.

Finally, we’ll be launching a short survey next month to ask where you think we should focus our efforts and resources, whether that’s expanding free learning opportunities, developing more paid workshops, or exploring a Te Tiriti-focused community of practice. We’re also beginning to explore themes for the 2027 Hapori Aotearoa conference and would value your early whakaaro.

Let’s keep strengthening our collective practice before the noise of the general election cycle ramps up later in the year.

– Aaron Hawkins, Director, Inspiring Communities