Manukau and Hibiscus Coast Branches are excitedly preparing to host everyone for this year’s Conference `Our Voices, Our Power, Our Future – 130 Years of National Council of Women’. We have an exciting programme for our day and a half together at the Jetpark Hotel and Conference Centre, 63 Westney Road, Auckland, 2022.

We are looking forward to seeing you on the 12th and 13th September this year to celebrate our 130th Anniversary together in person. Any questions regarding the conference, please contact Angela Dalton (President Manukau) on [email protected]

From left to right: Alexandra Cooper (student award winner), Jenny Brittain (President) & Desley Simpson (Deputy Mayor of Auckland)

NCW Hibiscus Coast recently held, for the first time ever, a Tertiary Student Award Presentation and Luncheon.

This award was for $2,000, and part of the criteria was that you had to be or have been a Rodney resident who had completed one year of a two-or-more-year course.

Newly Inducted Life Members: Colleen Edward (left) and Belinda Manus McGeehan (right), with NCWHC President Jenny Brittain (center). Image courtesy of Jenny Brittain.

In April 2022, at a lunch in Orewa, forty members and family friends of Colleen Edward and Belinda Manus McGeehan gathered to celebrate the ladies being honoured with Life Membership of the NCW Hibiscus Coast (NCWHC) branch.

Both Colleen and Belinda were presented with framed certificates acknowledging their service to NCWHBC that has ensured the branch has continued to advance the status of women and girls locally and nationally since its incorporation in the 1990’s.