Kia ora
We are excited to announce an exciting development for Fab Feathy and the Featherston Community!
As you may know, Fab Feathy has been working to submit an application for Featherston to be selected for five years of investment, from the Department of Internal Affairs (DIA)’s Community Led Development Programme, to achieve our community goals. If selected, Featherston will be able to access support and funding to achieve shared community goals for five years.
Invites only – and Featherston’s been invited!
Fab Feathy was working towards submitting an application in the next general application round in February 2018. Featherston is so awesome, however, that we have been invited to apply to an extraordinary round, closing 24 August 2017. It is an amazing opportunity and we are going for it!
We have been invited to apply because Fab Feathy can demonstrate how much support there is in our community to get together to talk about our goals and to work together to achieve them.
This support is demonstrated, for example, by the number of people/groups who are already working together and doing great things in Featherston. It is also evidenced in the numbers of community members that participated in Fab Feathy’s activities, such as the Potluck and the Our Future Featherston Survey. We could not have done this without you!
If our application is successful, DIA will partner with us for five years and, once the partnership agreement is in place, we will be able to request funding to achieve community goals.
The community plan
Fab Feathy has developed a community plan based on the feedback gathered from the community. The plan provides a summary of:
- the opportunities the community had to provide feedback;
- the results of the activities to gather community feedback;
- community conversations about how the community works together and with stakeholders toward achieving community aspirations; and
- proposed next steps actions.
Have a good read of it and let us know if you spot any mistakes. Please feel free to share it with others; paper copies are also available to read at the Featherston Community Centre, the Featherston Library, and Loco Coffee & Books.
The plan is intended to be a living document; we consider it a community resource that can continue to be adapted to suit community needs and priorities.
Community Meeting: DIA assessment of our application
DIA is coming to town to talk to Fab Feathy and community members about the application. The purpose of the meeting is for DIA to gauge whether or not Featherston is ready to be selected for the CLD Programme.
To be selected, we will need to demonstrate a genuine commitment to the principles of community-led development in Featherston.
We will be asking people in the community, those with knowledge and can speak to particular points of interest to DIA, to support us to have those conversations.
We hope you can come along to show your support for the plan and the application to CLDP.
- Sunday 27 August 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm
- Kiwi Hall
- Tea, coffee & biscuits provided
- Contact us on fabfeathy@outlook.co.nz
Fingers crossed it all goes well, and that we will be a step closer, when we next do an update, to Featherston securing some resourcing to support us to work together towards our goals.
The Fab Feathy Team.