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Hello everyone
It was so great to see so many women at our August Birds Eye View last week. Our evenings
speakers were not only informative but were filled with passion, laughter and had worked out their
own ways to make a difference to our city.
Our guest speakers were
Jen Crawford
Chair of the Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Board
Jen is also a Partner Owner at Anderson Lloyd Lawyers and spoke passionately about bringing
people back into the central city and to the Arts Centre that holds such a special place in our
hearts. Jen gave the group an insight into progress regarding the restoration of the Arts Centre,
including the recent re-opening of the fully tenanted Registry. The restoration will cost around $290
million and take between seven and nine years to complete and is the largest heritage restoration
project in the world. Jen and her team have lots of exciting ideas about the future of the Arts Centre
which include a hub for creative entrepreneurs with busy, interactive workshops. More details here:http://www.artscentre.org.nz/rebuild---restore.html I cant wait to see the progress on this
massive project.
Michelle MacWilliam
Women in the RebuildMichelle is another woman with passion. Michelle has a business Michelle Mac and provides
business strategy advice and mentoring. Post- earthquake, she joined with Raeleen Rees from Rees
Accounting and Barbara-Lee Dickson of Share Financial Services, to form Women in the Rebuild.
They encourage women to identify and take up new opportunities arising from the rebuild and
empower them to get their bite of the rebuild pie.
She notes that women are often the most vulnerable post natural disaster. They tend to have
multiple roles, and juggle their jobs as well as looking after family members, and often end up with a
reduced income but an increased workload.
Michelle also talked about her work building Chinese and New Zealand relationships and described
China as the future major investor in our city. She suggested that our children should be learning
Mandarin rather than German as they would be worth their weight in gold to astute New Zealand
business people.
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Phillippa Jacobs
Owner of Mega AdvertisingPhillippa described herself as the sort of person who never held a job for long so she decided to set
up her own business. She said starting up Mega Advertising was tough but it has grown into a
happy, vibrant place to work where they deliver tools to help businesses grow, whether it is logo
design or websites. Mega is an award winning agency and Phillippa is very conscious of giving backto the community. She has spent many years with Scouts, sometimes to the detriment of time spent
in her business and has now joined Zonta and was Club President for two years during the
earthquakes. As part of her community focus Phillippa runs the Z Club for 64 girls at Avonside Girls
High (grown from 28 girls last year). Lots of children in the area have lost homes or their families
have moved so life it not easy for the community. But she has over 60 girls who put their hand up to
help others and have they have chosen Cholmondeley Childrens Home as their special charity this
year.
Next Birds Eye ViewWe are already organising our next Birds Eye View meeting so will be back in touch when the
speakers are confirmed. Thank you so much for joining me on these evenings I really enjoy thehumour, camaraderie and connections that we all have with each other.
A reminder about netwalkingWe never have enough time to exercise, catch up with our friends and associates and relax over a
cup of coffee so netwalking is the way we can do all three. We meet every Sunday morning at
8.30am at Hagley Park in the car park inside the Armagh Street bridge near the entrance to the
Botanic Gardens. See you there.
Best regards,
Nicky Wagner MP for Christchurch CentralParliament Buildings, Wellington 6160DDI: +64 4 817 6633Fax: +64 4 473 0469email:[email protected]
103 Salisbury StreetP.O. Box 21359ChristchurchDDI: +64 3 365 8297email:[email protected]
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