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Please join us for our last meeting of 2019 Sunday 8 December 4.30 pm - 6.30 pmat the Gribblehirst Hub. This will be a chance to get together with your Sandringham neighbourhood friends and let us know what you would like to do in 2020. We will be puting together a team to help with SPiCE's Floral Carpet event scheduled for 7 March 2020 in Sandringham Reserve, looking at how best we communicate with you, and finding out where your energy is for projects next year such as greening Sandringham, improving the footpaths and village area, events in our village and local parks, art projects, environmental projects or whatever you think as a community should be happening. If you have a passion come along and share it and we can help make it a reality! Bubbles, mince pies and fruit mince brownies will be provided. We hope to see you all there! 
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Diwali Lights Display at Sandringham Reserve, 25th October - 29th October SPiCE has a lighting installation artwork planned for our very own pocket park - Sandringham Reserve - this coming long weekend. The park lights will create a fantastic colourful celebratory atmosphere to coincide with Diwali from Friday 25th October until Tuesday 29th October Wander down one evening to enjoy the lights. Or please join us for a shared community dinner under the lights on Sunday 27 October from 6.30 pm. Many thanks to Albert-Eden Neighbourhood Arts for enabling this project, Albert-Eden Local Board for funding it and for our Trustee, Natasha McCoy, for designing and putting it together. Special thanks also to Hirepool Mt Roskill for stepping in on short notice to loan us a cherry picker at no charge to install the lights.  SPiCE Meeting: Sunday 20 October 2019 from 4 pm to 6 pm
Sandringham Community Centre Come along and meet our new Community Facilitator, Joanne Harland, and help us prioritise and shape our plans for Sandringham! Originally training and working as a solicitor, Joanne moved into community sector work after moving to New Zealand 15 years ago. Joanne was involved as a volunteer at Playcentre and with Social Enterprise Auckland before taking up a role at Garden to Table, most recently as Programme Manager for the national charity. Joanne is passionate about communities and empowerment, and is a neighbour to Sandringham – living just across Dominion Road in Mt Eden and with sons attending Balmoral Intermediate and Mt Albert Grammar School. We are pleased to have funding as a partnership community with the Department of Internal Affairs Community-Led Development Programme to be able to appoint Joanne who is starting in this role part-time from 14 October. We hope this will reinvigorate SPiCE and give us the resource we need to continue to action the Sandringham Vision Report and make Sandringham an even greater place to live, work, study and play. So please join us this Sunday 20 October at the Sandringham Community Centre from 4 pm to discuss all things SPiCEy – we value your input! Are you creative, strategic, efficient
and passionate about making a difference? If so, you could be just what SPiCE is looking for. The Sandringham Project in Community Empowerment (SPiCE) is looking for someone to work alongside us in a new community facilitator role in Sandringham, to help us build a strong resilient, vibrant, connected and sustainable community. As our Community Facilitator your key roles will be to advocate for and on behalf on the Sandringham Community, liaise with key community groups and stakeholders, be a source of community advice and information, facilitate the community toward vision and action and administer funding services that support our community as it moves towards resilience. Along with your professional attitude; key to your success will be your: • proven ability in community-led development and facilitation • commitment to professional development and reflective practice • professional public service integrity • proven communication skills - written and oral • excellent relationship management and negotiation skills • experience and ability to work in a diverse and multicultural community environment • aptitude with report writing and well-developed analytical skills, including the ability to interpret financial information • ability to plan, organise and manage work effectively to meet multiple deadlines • strong IT and social media skills • proven skills, knowledge, and operational experience in providing advice to community and voluntary organisations. • creativity and lateral thinking ability This is a contracted role of 24 hours per week (.6 FTE) – negotiable for the right person. If this sounds like you, email trustees@spice.org.nz to receive a full job description and apply Hi SPiCE crew (and other interested members of the Sandringham Community),
It's time for another get together, this time at the Sandringham Community Center on Kitchener St next Monday 27th starting at 6:30pm. We will use the first hour from 6:30-7:30 to catch up with what's been happening since we last met. At 7.30pm we have a presentation from Duncan Ecob* and Ginny Pedlow from Isthmus group's Urban Design arm.They are working on an urban master planning project which includes the Sandringham area. We have invited them along to find out more about what they are doing, what will happen with their work and to see how SPiCE can advocate for Sandringham/ get involved in the process. Background Bio for Duncan *Duncan Ecob- Principal @ Isthmus. Auckland Studio BA(Hons) LA, Grad Dip LA, MA UrbDes, CMLI (UK) Duncan is an Urban Designer. He has over twenty eight years experience in designing and delivering regeneration in the built environment. He leads the Place service of Isthmus, with a focus on Urban Design and Masterplans, "creating healthy neighbourhoods for communities to live, work, learn, play and thrive in". (Isthmus website) Floral Carpet Event - Saturday 9 March, 1-4pm at the Sandringham Reserve SPiCE invite you to Sandringham Reserve (in the Sandringham Village shops) Saturday 9 March to create a colourful community floral carpet. If you've been growing marigolds (or any flowers) bring some flowers down to the Sandringham Reserve to add your colour to the carpet. We will also have buckets of beautiful marigold flower heads for everyone to use. There will be free ice cream, a dance performance by Tapasya School of Classical Dance, and a chance for you to talk with Urban Beekeepers on the day. Help create Auckland's only annual floral carpet and celebrate the colourful blooms of summer before they go! We're throwing a Pop-Up Party in the Sandringham Reserve this coming Saturday 10 November 1-4pm. It is a family friendly fun day and there will be face painting, a bouncy castle, and FREE samosas! The party is to celebrate the Reserve and playground upgrade that the community was involved in, and to celebrate the new community-led partnership relationship that SPiCE now have with the Department of Internal Affairs. There are 12 community groups throughout NZ that the DIA has chosen for this relationship and SPICE are proud to be one of them.  The Sandringham Floral Carpet Festival is on again this year! FREE henna tattooing, music, and flower garland threading - fun for the whole family! Come down to the Sandringham Reserve on Saturday 17 March, 4.30pm Join the Facebook event here  SPiCE invite you to join us and the community to create an artistic floral carpet. If you've been growing marigolds (or any flowers) bring some flowers down to the Sandringham Reserve to add to the carpet. Join the Facebook event here: https://www.facebook.com/events/1370730439714395/  Thanks again for all your ideas for Sandringham Reserve, it was a great community-led project. The construction is just about finished and the big re-opening is almost here. Join us on 11 September to celebrate the new reserve.  |
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