About 480 registered social organisations in the Manawatu and Horowhenua. They need to work more collaboratively.

Councils need to make decisions about what they will continue to fund.

Food security is important in Palmerston North but in Horowhenua youth engagement is important. Manawatu has hobby organisations.

135 ethnicities in the region.

Volunteering is a good way for migrants or refugees to connect with the community.

Volunteer Central works with Red Cross to support refugee families.

Volunteer hospital workers such as ‘friends of the emergency department’ who assist people who are anxious.

Kathryn has been a volunteer community worker for many years. She went inti nursing in the field of mental health. Involved with public health.

Volunteer Central provides volunteers only to organisations not individuals.

Volunteers are not paid. They do it because they want to.

About 1.4 billion dollars per year is put into the New Zealand economy through volunteering.

Churches are active with pastoral care.

It takes a community to grow a community.

A lot of volunteers are recruited from migrants