Community Emergency Hub Open Day and Practice
By Angela Brown, Community Board
The Martinborough Community Emergency Hub open day and practice event, which was held on Saturday 30 September, saw over 70 people turn up.
Among the attendees were representatives from various community groups including the Foodbank, Men’s Shed, Lions Club, Toy Library, Community Market, Community Patrol and Business Association.
The event also attracted a delegation of emergency support people from Hawkes Bay who are looking at adopting the WREMO (Wellington Region Emergency Management Office) Emergency Hub model into their own communities.
They have offered to come and talk to our community about what happened during their real emergency response earlier this year. We hope to get them back after Christmas to share those experiences.
A big ‘thank you’ also goes to Vivienne from WREMO for facilitating this and the previous two
events the Community Board has hosted over the past few months, and to Nigel from SWDC who has been really involved to ensure the success of this Resilience Series.
The group was able to discover first-hand what could function well and what needed to be modified for this community, and feedback from those who attended will help with future planning.
Just as the Community Hub is about the people, the success of the event was due to the people who took time to engage.
Bec Reilly, owner of Ventana Creative Collection, offered her services as a facepainter to engage with the children, while Jojo Cutforth kept everyone refreshed by operating a community tearoom. Sausages were cooked by members of the Bowls Club and Neighbourhood Support came along to assist. Several elected members also took part in this community effort.
This has been a strong and successful start to one of the important objectives identified as part of
the Community Board Plan for 2023. So what’s next?
We have members of our community who want to continue to engage and work collaboratively with the Community Board on a Martinborough Resilience Project. If you would like to know about this please get in touch:
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