Speaking to Stuff about an August fundraising event for the Hawthorndale Care Village in Invercargill, where he will be a guest speaker, he opened up on the challenges of his new job, his son’s health and rugby. Having been a professional coach for 20 years it was a “bizarre twist being on the other side of the divide”, working for World Rugby, he said. His new job was busier than expected, “particularly trying to stay agile with Covid-19 at the moment, it’s complicated”. One of his tasks is to ensure continuity of communication between match officials and coaches and, among many other roles, he analyses international games and keeps track of performances, particularly from the match officials.
The Hawthorndale Care Village Charitable Trust reached more than 90 per cent of its fundraising goal, thanks to a $495,000 grant from the Invercargill Licencing Trust.
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Hawthorndale Care Village Charitable Trust chairwoman Sarah Hannan said that as part of the consent it had to make some minor changes to the project but nothing major. Consent conditions include hours of operation, site coverage, landscaping, car parking, access, construction works and infrastructure connections, Hannan said. Working group member Mark O’Connor said a key focus would be securing the remaining funding it needed so that the construction tender could get under way as soon possible. The project had $29 million of confirmed funding and $4m left to raise. The trust has launched a campaign to raise the final amount of funding for the project.