Community Forum for the Lake Hayes Estate, Shotover Country
Monday 20 August 2018
Media Release: Shaping
our Future Inc and Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country
Community Association
Shaping our
Future Community Forum for the Lake Hayes Estate and
Shotover Country Community
Shaping our Future and the LHESCCA invite members of the community to attend a community forum on Sunday 26thAugust 2pm – 5pm at Shotover Primary or Monday 27th August, 6pm – 9pm at Queenstown Events Centre.
Shaping our Future facilitated the development of community plans for Glenorchy and Arrowtown in 2017 and is providing the same process to benefit the people living and working along Ladies Mile.
Shaping our Future Chair Alastair Porter said “Shaping our Future brings members of the community together to discuss their future goals, priorities, current big issues, potential solutions and community recommendations to organisations whose actions or funding can benefit the community.
The area around Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country has grown rapidly and is set to grow more in years to come. Shaping our Future looks forward to working with the community to make sure they have a strong say in the future of their area.”
Chair of the Lake Hayes Estate and Shotover Country Community Association Clark Pirie said “We are a relatively young community that has grown quickly over the past few years. We needed a process to be able to bring everyone together to discuss what the community needs now, and in years to come. Shaping our Future provides a proven way to do this independently.
We want to be able to identify and act on opportunities as they come up with the knowledge that this is what the community would like. It will also provide us with a plan going forward to ensure we have a strong, healthy, thriving community for years and generations to come.”
The forum is independently facilitated, in an easy participation style with small group discussion known as ‘world café’ exploring community views and seeking consensus on many issues confronting the community today and into the future.
Event
Details:
Sunday 26th August 2018, 2pm – 5pm, Shotover
Primary School
Monday 27th August 2018, 6pm – 9pm,
Queenstown Events Centre
RSVP:
executive@shapingourfuture.org.nz
Online feedback and
more information available at www.shapingourfuture.org.nz
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About Shaping Our Future
Incorporated
A process designed to use
collective community expertise to build consensus and create
a great future for our district. Shaping Our Future was
instigated in December 2010 and was incorporated as a
charitable society in January 2013. In 2012 following a
district wide visioning process, it established a draft
vision incorporating a series of priorities. Its forums and
taskforces are directed to work towards the vision and connect with the priorities.
The process of community engagement on any given subject
begins with public forums and online discussions which
progress to establishing volunteer task forces to work
through issues and provide recommendations. Recommendations
are peer reviewed by the community before being presented to
local and national agencies as required. Since 2011 Shaping
our Future has completed 10 forum topics. For more
information, please visit
www.shapingourfuture.org.nz or join us
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