Press Release – Nelson City Council Additional climate change funding, consistent with Nelson City Council’s vision to enable our community to respond to climate change, was approved for Council’s Long Term Plan 2021-31 (LTP) at a deliberations meeting held last week. Nelson-Tasman …
Additional climate change funding, consistent with Nelson City Council’s vision to enable our community to respond to climate change, was approved for Council’s Long Term Plan 2021-31 (LTP) at a deliberations meeting held last week.
Nelson-Tasman Climate Forum, Business for Climate Action, Community Compost, and Tasman Environment Trust are all in line for funding after submitting to the LTP.
Monday, 24 May 2021, 4:37 pm
Additional climate change funding, consistent with
Nelson City Council s vision to enable our community to
respond to climate change, was approved for Council s Long
Term Plan 2021-31 (LTP) at a deliberations meeting held last
week.
Nelson-Tasman Climate Forum, Business for
Climate Action, Community Compost, and Tasman Environment
Trust are all in line for funding after submitting to the
LTP.
After Nelson Tasman Climate Forum requested
financial support from Council, councillors approved
$100,000 of funding allocated in each of the first three
years of the LTP.
Environment and Climate Committee
Chair Kate Fulton has been working with the Forum to develop
“This is knowledge and learning you just can’t pay for.” The young graduate had completed her six-monthly placements at NMIT and forestry company OneFortyOne. Having just started at Port Nelson, she was due to then go to the environmental management company, Nelmac. While hoping exposure to the businesses would increase her chances of getting a permanent job, the scheme also allowed her to identify which aspects of the work she most enjoyed.
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NMIT commerce graduate Selena Tunnicliff (centre), with representatives of the new Graduate Programme for the Nelson Tasman region, from left Jenny Van Workum, OneFortyOne, Tony Macfarlane, NMIT, Abby Kuyk, Nelmac, Russell Manning NTIN, Julie Baxendine, Intepeople, Nicky Dowling, Port Nelson, and Kirsten Thorp NRDA.
Seafood industry in Nelson needs hundreds of workers
2 May, 2021 03:20 AM
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The fishing industry in the top of the South Island is crying out for workers with hundreds of roles needing to be urgently filled. Photo / 123RF
The fishing industry in the top of the South Island is crying out for workers with hundreds of roles needing to be urgently filled. Photo / 123RF
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The fishing industry in the top of the South Island ihas hundreds of roles needing to be urgently filled and is urgently crying out for more workers.
The Nelson Regional Development Agency has joined three of the largest fishery companies to launch a campaign to fill the roles.
“Discussing work options and exploring opportunities is so much easier when you are face-to-face,” Churchill said. Staff from the Ministry of Social Development would be on site to provide assistance.
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MSD regional commissioner for Nelson-Tasman, Marlborough and the West Coast, Craig Churchill, said the forum allowed job placement to happen quickly. Hundreds of jobs were on offer in the region, including work in horticulture, viticulture, food processing and sawmill operations. But with border restrictions and major developments on the horizon, a shortage of workers was likely to be one of Marlborough’s biggest challenges this year and next. The Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment had established the Marlborough interim Regional Skills Leadership Group (iRSLG) to explore how best to support the region’s workforce needs post-Covid.