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Club Leadership Training & Area Contest for C1 & C4 in NZ
Club Leadership Training and the Area Contest, for the Areas C1 and C4 in Dunedin New Zealand
Event: Toastmasters Club Leadership Training
Date: Saturday 18 February 2017
Time: 10am – 3pm (with a break for lunch at 12-1pm)
Venue: Presbyterian Support Otago, 407 Moray Pl, Dunedin (Lower Moray Place – between Stuart St & First Church)
Note: Each club must have four of your committee attend the training. Please let either Graeme or I know if you will not have four in attendance as soon as possible.
Event: Area Contests – International and Evaluations
Date: Saturday 4 March 2017
Time: 12noon – 4pm
Venue: Dunningham Suite, Dunedin Public Library (4th floor).
Note: This winning speaker may end up winning the New Zealand contest and going onto the International contest – do not miss out.
Draft Area Contest Programme
Briefing 12:00-12:30 (Evaluations 12 noon and International 12:15)
Contest 12:30-1:30
Break 1:30-2:00 (Afternoon tea will be provided)
Contest 2:00-3:30
Announcement 3:30-3:45
#CLT#Club Leadership Training#Area C1#Area C4#Toastmasters#International Speech Contest#Evaluations Contest#events#date
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Not-for-profit rest home sector under serious threat
Not-for-profit rest home sector under serious threat
Staff shortages in rest homes with religious affiliations are forcing more homes to face closure.
The latest Catholic facility to announce its imminent closure is Waiatarua Mercy Parklands in Auckland.
Residents and their relatives of the 97-bed 100-staff rest home are being consulted about the closure.
Besides lacking staff, the aged care facility, which was started by the Sisters of Mercy, is…
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#Aged care facilities#Enliven#Presbyterian Support Otago#Psychogeriatric care#St Joseph’s Home Of Compassion#Staffing#Waiatarua Mercy Parklands
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Impact of staff exodus ‘huge’
Impact of staff exodus ‘huge’
Staff levels at Presbyterian Support Otago’s Enliven rest-homes plummeted by more than a third within a year, a report has revealed.Numbers have since increased slightly, but remain “substantially down”, and permanent staff turnover is almost 30%.
PSO board chairman Tim Mepham said it was the “most difficult year” he had experienced in his 14 years on the board of the organisation, which last…
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Foodbanks barely coping with food needs
Foodbanks barely coping with food needs
The shelves are nearly bare at Dunedin’s foodbanks, as they grapple with record demand and the cancellation of a major donation event.
The area’s four foodbanks — Presbyterian Support Otago, the Salvation Army, St Vincent de Paul and the Mosgiel Community Food Bank — met yesterday to discuss the intense pressure their services have come under in the past month.
It comes as they prepare for the…
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