Moutere Hills Community Centre

As of today, our first school holiday programme, which will take place 20th – 24th April, is officially full. We have a fantastic line-up of activities and a great team of staff to run the programme. In addition to our dynamic coaches and instructors in all fields, we are delighted to include tutors from Whenua Iti Outdoor Pursuits who will run the opening and closing sessions.

Our scheduled weekly activities are as follows:

Monday: Whenua Iti/Golf

Tuesday: Drama/Basketball

Wednesday: Art/Drumming/Tennis

Thursday: Soccer/Hockey

Friday: Rugby/Whenua Iti

Presented by Whenua Iti Outdoor Pursuits, Greenacres Golf Club, Inspired Productions Theatre Group, Maria Middlebrook-Wells Art, Tribull Drums, Vanessa Mairs Tennis, Jerry Goodwin Soccer, Rangers Rugby Football Club, Nelson Giants, Nelson Hockey, NMIT.

For all those who are booked in, we can’t wait to see you there! If you didn’t get a place this time, you are welcome to put your name down for next school holiday. We will guarantee an equally fun-packed programme operating in the second week only.

In less than one week of promotion, our holiday programme is almost full. We are absolutely delighted with the response and this has given us a huge momentum to run week-long holiday programmes on a regular basis. The support and enthusiasm from coaches and instructors from across the region has also been fantastic. Our package of sports and cultural activities will include golf, tennis, hockey, fitness, soccer, rugby, basketball, art, drama and drumming. In addition, we are delighted to welcome tutors from Whenua Iti Outdoor Pursuits Centre to run their legendary ice-breaking and team-building activities on the first morning.

There just a couple of places still available. If your child would like to join in the fun, download your enrollment form and parent information sheet here. Single day options are  still being considered and will be dependent on final numbers, so watch this space for an update. If you have any questions, please email us or call Vanessa or Michelle on 543 2516.

We extend our thanks again to COGS, TDC and Creative Communities for their generous sponsorship making this programme possible.

Moutere HIlls Community Centre will be running their first ever school holiday programme 20th – 24th April, 8.30am – 3.30pm.
The programme will give local children (5-13 year olds) the chance to enjoy a week-long package of sports and cultural activities including tennis, hockey, soccer, rugby, basketball, art, drama and drumming to name but a few! Fancy shooting some hoops with one of the Nelson Giants? Or being creative with an award-winning artist? Pro-coaches and experts in the field will be coming to Upper Moutere to cater to all levels and abilities.
Whether you want to learn more or you’ve been keen to try something new, why not join us for the week and uncover some new found talents? We are offering a minimum staff/child ratio of 1: 8 throughout the programme and there will be 24 places available.

Thanks to the generosity of Community Organisation Grants Scheme (COGS), Tasman District Council and Creative Communities, our pilot programme will be heavily subsidised and available for just $75.00 per participant for the five days. Our full schedule of activities will be finalised and published soon. Download your enrollment form and parent information sheet here. Single day options may be available by arrangement. For further details please email us or call Vanessa or Michelle on 543 2516.

Please note: We are currently in the process of OSCAR affiliation and apologise that there will not be any WINZ support available for this programme. We hope to have full OSCAR approval by the next school holidays and therefore be eligible for family subsidies.

The organising committee of the 2009 Sarau Festival is delighted to announce that the Moutere community will benefit by almost $4,000 from this year’s festival.

Donations have been made to the following community groups in recognition of their direct involvement in making the day flow smoothly: Upper Moutere Fire Service; Country Kids; Upper Moutere Youth Group; Fighting Fit Boxing; Rangers RFC. This includes a large projector screen presented to Moutere Hills Community Centre for community use.

Proceeds came in the main from four general sources – generous sponsorship from the blackcurrant industry and many local businesses, gate takings, bike race entries and stallholder fees.

Setting up a festival such as Sarau is a costly exercise, and therefore monies are being held in the Sarau Festival bank account to ensure the event can be staged in 2010. Sponsorship is critical to augment this deposit and while likely, cannot be guaranteed.

Thank you to everyone who helped, attended and enjoyed the occasion, making it a great success.

We are delighted to see the first edition of the all-new Grapevine published this month after being dormant for well over ten years! Well done team.

We would like to thank TDC for their support and funding to get Grapevine back in business and ask for your support of the efforts that go into making it.

All contributions, advertising enquiries etc. welcome to Vanessa at npuklowski [at] xtra [dot] co [dot] nz