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Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 12:00 pm
An innovative pilot project to support the
mental health and resilience of the Queenstown
Lakes community now has the chance to become a national
model thanks to a new strategic partnership.
The
Queenstown-based Southern Wellbeing Trust has joined forces
with the Good Programmes Trust, national provider of the
award-winning, evidence-based mental health education
programme “GoodYarn”. Through the strategic partnership,
the two Trusts are now working to maximise the potential of
a pilot project being run in the Queenstown Lakes community,
with a view to creating a model that more communities across
New Zealand can access over time.
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By TRACEY ROXBURGH
A new Queenstown charitable trust with a focus on mental health has received a $40,000 funding boost from Central Lakes Trust.
The Southern Wellbeing Trust was co-founded in September by local GP Tim Rigg and health communications specialist Anna Dorsey after they saw the pressures Covid was putting on local health and social services.
‘‘We could see first-hand how big a challenge this was going to be for our communities,’’ Dorsey says.
‘‘Not just the risk to our physical health but the far-reaching and ongoing threat to people’s mental health and wellbeing.’’
Trustees are Dorsey, Rigg and Queenstown Medical Centre boss Ashley Light, who have since worked with a team of volunteers to develop new strategies to help prevent mental illness and promote good health across the district, collaborating with local agencies, the community and providers.
SHIPLEY Town Council has declared a climate emergency by releasing additional grant funding for projects that help the enviroment. The town council say climate is changing with serious consequences and to slow this down and reduce the danger, greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide, must be reduced as a matter of great urgency. Following the full allocation of the Town Council s Community Wellbeing Fund for 2020/21, Shipley Town Council has announced an additional £4,000 of funding to be made available immediately. The £4,000 will provide small grants for initiatives which contribute to wellbeing by addressing the climate emergency. The town council expects to award up to eight grants of £500 each but requests for larger grants will be considered for exceptional proposals. The grants are intended to support responses from the local community.
New Parksyde House receives warm welcome from community at opening
23 Dec, 2020 10:35 PM
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Shauni James is the Rotorua Weekender reportershauni.james@nzme.co.nz@thedailypost
Tarewa Place was full of excitement recently as the long-awaited opening of a building that will become a service hub for older people was held.
The official opening of Parksyde House and the welcoming of Age Concern Rotorua to its new premises was held last Thursday.
The Parksyde House was a former custodian house, which will now have Age Concern Rotorua onsite, and is next to the Parksyde Centre.
The Older Persons Community Centre Trust (Parksyde) had repurposed and renovated 5 Tarewa Place, thanks to funding from the Rotorua Energy Charitable Trust.