WISE

  Reflecting on our last day of 2020! We are so grateful to our amazing staff, volunteers, funders, community members and other organisations who supported us this year. We are looking forward to 2021 and the exciting ventures it will bring.

Summertime is the most carefree season of the year. Our concerns about heating, insulation, wet weather and ventilation become problems of the past. The warmer months is actually a great time to make your home as healthy as possible before winter kicks in. We have put together a couple of easy things you and your whanau could do to make your home healthier.   Tip 1 – Wash curtains and heavy blankets Curtains are susceptible to grow mould due to the close proximity to windows. Like most things, once mould grows it becomes difficult to remove. Thoroughly wash curtains, heavy blankets, duvet inners and quilts and leave outside to dry. This will allow fresh air to flow in and out the fibres. This needs to be done regularly, so keep an eye out for sunny days during winter as well. Tip 2 – Airing the house   Keeping windows and doors is the easiest (and cheapest) way to ventilate your home. During the colder months, we tend to keep everything closed to keep the heat in. Doin...

  MEET OUR EMERGING LEADER AWARD WINNER FOR 2019 WISE Charitable Trust has been a proud supporter of the Waitara High School Senior Prize giving for many years, providing financial scholarships to students who have gone above and beyond in their school and community. In 2019, the Trust introduced the Emerging Leader, Emerging Tradie and the Tū Tangata Taiohi o Whaitara awards. For the Emerging Leader award, the Trust looked at someone that demonstrated great leadership by building self-confidence and strengthening self-believe in others. The inaugural Emerging Leader winner for 2019 is Ruby Hutchieson.  Ruby has bee n an outstanding role model for younger students at the school and to her peers. She is a very dedicated and motivated individual not only in the classroom but also on the sports field. Ruby has enjoyed great success in her sports, representing Taranaki in Rugby, 7’s, Netball and Touch Rugby. She is an avid surfer and was a recipient of the C.T Campbell Cup Schoo...

  2019 was filled with craziness, fun and adventure. Insulation remained our main employment stream and was very busy due to the high demand of the Warmer Kiwi Homes insulation programme. To meet this demand we recruited insulation team members in both the Taranaki and Rotorua regions. We also had a new landcare team member join the team whilst one of the team was promoted to team leader.Not only are we committed to creating employment and providing our staff with the necessary skills to provide for their whanau, but we also immerse ourselves into various community and charity initiatives. The following community initiatives have been the highlight of the year for our staff. The community garden: We were able to fill up the Pataka on Broadway Street, Waitara with bags of potatoes, bunches of silverbeet and courgettes from our first harvest of the year. Last year the Waitara High school students helped with weeding, planting seedlings and generally maintaining the comm...

  For many years, WISE Charitable Trust has supported local and emerging students from Waitara High School in the form of providing financial scholarships at the Senior Prize giving each year. However, in 2019 the scholarships were refined to better reflect the values of the Trust and to encourage youth leadership within the town of Waitara.   One of those awards, the Trust wanted to encourage and highlight examples of community leadership and active citizenship in Waitara. The inaugural winners of the “Tū Tangata Taiohi o Whaitara” award for 2019 are: Tewhaia Loveridge, Nelly Maheu Niumea and Tusi Afelee Niumea.  Nelly Maheu Niumea, Tusi Afelee Niumea and Tewhaia Loveridge pictured with then General Manager Tracey Bryant. We recently caught up with our “Tū Tangata Taiohi o Whaitara” award winners and Jared Dixon who is their youth leader and mentor. One can tell the boys are close and have very good connection and mutual respect between them and their ment...

Nicole is our new Sales and Funding Coordinator here at WISE. Her role includes working closely with Tracey and Petunia on various sales and funding tasks. She will be putting our sales and marketing strategies into practice and following up on funding leads. Nicole recently moved to South Taranaki after graduating from AUT with a Bachelor of Business. Her two majors are Sustainable Enterprise and Entrepreneurship and Innovation. She is passionate about the environment and enjoys gardening, reading, sewing and watching TV. She hopes that this new adventure at WISE will teach her new skills and help her grow in her career.