New Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector
Monday, 12 November 2007

Hon Ruth Dyson has been given the Community and Voluntary Sector portfolio in the Cabinet changes just announced by the Prime Minister. Ms Dyson’s other responsibilities are Minister for Social Development and Employment, Senior Citizens and Disability Issues. This change brings responsibility for the Community and Voluntary Sector into Cabinet and Ms Dyson is ranked 11th.

Volunteering Mid & South Canterbury now independent
Thursday, 2 August 2007

The newest stand alone volunteer centre is Volunteering Mid & South Canterbury, which is based in Timaru. It has been operating as a satellite centre with management and funding support from Volunteering Canterbury, but has now reached the point where it can operate on its own.

Volunteer groups help clean up city’s coastline
Wednesday 13 June, 2007

Around 200 people recently put on gloves to help clear Wellington city’s coastline of rubbish. The annual beach clean-ups – organised for almost a decade by Newtown resident Don Richards – were run year to coincide with Seaweek 2007


Society Would Collapse If Non-Profits Disappeared
Wednesday 4 October, 2006

The chair of a committee that has overseen a major new study says New Zealand society would collapse if it wasn’t for non-profit organisations. Garth Nowland-Foreman, chairperson of the Committee for the Study of the New Zealand Non-Profit Sector, says the report has been widely anticipated and will be viewed with great interest by both non-profit organisations and government.


“I Don’t Have Time”
Friday 11 August, 2006
By Susan J. Ellis

Time deprivation – or, at least, the perception of having less and less time to do the things we want to do – is a growing malady around the world, affecting the work world, family life and, of course, volunteering. Yet the standard earth day remains 24 hours in length. Here’s the paradox: We all feel that we don’t have enough time, yet we all have all the time there is.


Should Volunteers Be Given A Tax Rebate?
Friday 11 August, 2006

This is an issue both sides of the Tasman with political proposals for a tax rebate for volunteers being promoted in both Australia and New Zealand and in both cases they are causing contention and debate. United Future has put forward a proposal for a tax rebate for volunteers from ‘recognised community agencies and charities’ who do 100 hours or more as a volunteer a year.


Maintaining Independence Important For Voluntary Sector
Friday 9 December, 2005

Professor Marilyn Taylor hit a responsive cord when she spoke about the need for voluntary organisations to balance efforts to have a greater say in Government policy development with maintaining their independence, when she spoke at Volunteering NZ’s AGM.

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