Our Community Coordinator, Rebecca McDaid, with volunteers from Kerikeri, Val Blount, Jean Johnstone and Ngaire Allwood, attended the Farmers Forum in Whangarei on Wednesday 22nd May.

Manager Jo Poland and Support Coordinator Christine Ramsey manned a stall at the NZ Dairy Farmers’ Forum in the Manawatu, at Rongotea on 16th May. Here are some of the photos from that event.

On Monday night (1st April 2019) Josephine Poland of the Rural Youth and Adult Literacy Trust spoke to the Feilding Host Lions group about our service and our difficulty in letting isolated/rural adults and teenagers know about our service. Jo emphasised that RYALT will only work with adults who cannot get help from Literacy Feilding, […]

The beginning of a Hokianga Literacy Hub – Phyllis and Richard Nahi and Jo Poland met in the torrential rain at Kawakawa last Friday, to talk about how RYALT might be able to support the literacy work the Nahis are doing and so Jo could deliver some donated laptops for the new group.

                On the 23rd and 24th June 2018, ten Kerikeri people and four Mangonui people gave up their weekend to train as volunteer coaches, or to help with logistics for the training. The trainer was Jo Poland. Wendy Wyatt travelled down from Mangonui to help in any way […]