A general report

from Rodney Neighbourhood Support 2023

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The committee, assisted by the coordinator Margaret Faed and assistant coordinators Sue Robertson and Julie Walles, have continued to work together as a vibrant and enthusiastic team to support not only our members, but also their local communities.

I thank our team chairman Norm Greenall, treasurer Debbie Vercoe, committee members Stephanie Pickering, Christine Bolstad, Tanya Svendsen, Troje Botica and David Stranaghan.

Thanks go to Diane Taylor and her team of volunteers at the Mahurangi East Police Station Rodney Neighbourhood Support Office: Doug Stewart, Stan

Armiger, Kay Titchener, Ann Ibbs, Ian and Rosalind Miller, Alison Woodcock, Penny Webster and Liz Duhs.

We thank our members who not only volunteer in the many local community organisations you belong to, but also as street or group contacts. This helps our communities work together to make them more connected, resilient, safe and pleasant places to live.

NZ Police Sergeant Brett Hanly co-ordinates his community constables who support us in their local communities.

We thank Melissa Haven of Helensville, Wiremu Wiki of Orewa, Sam Webb of Whangaparaoa, Hamish Buick of Mahurangi East, and Alexander Schischka of Kumeu.

We also acknowledge Officer-incharge Warkworth Police Sergeant Mark Stallworthy, Charlotte Jones at Whangaparaoa Police Station and all the other Police Staff we communicate with.

The support and enthusiasm received from our Street and Rural Contacts is very much appreciated.

During the year 563 new members received information packs. Our street and rural contacts have 1,013 individual members plus 252 groups. There are 6,132 households across Hibiscus Bays, Rodney, Kaiwaka and Mangawhai Local Board areas.

Our Facebook group has now grown to over 1.2k members. This has been achieved with the help of our project flyers led by our coordinator Sue Robertson.

We continue to network and liaise with Auckland City Emergency Management and local Community Resilience Groups to assist with developing systems to help our members be more resilient in an emergency.

We acknowledge the help of Daydreanne Anderson of Total Tax Solutions for her expertise and guidance with the operation of the Xero accounting system and with preparation of our annual accounts. We thank Clare MacGregor for reviewing our annual accounts

We thank and acknowledge the New Zealand Police, Neighbourhood Support New Zealand, Auckland City Hibiscus Bays Local Board, New Zealand Lotteries Grants Board, Kin Finder, Markat Publishing and Chappell Printing, who in various ways have helped us to accomplish our aims and objectives for the year.

Moving forward we will continue to be as efficient and productive as possible in providing a quality service with positive outcomes to all existing and new members of Rodney Neighbourhood Support between Bethels to Kaiwaka and Albany to Mangawhai.

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