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Improve your self-confidence while sharing and developing skills, knowledge, and life experiences in group workshops and one-on-one mentor sessions.
If you’re looking to donate your spare time and energy to helping women, we’d love to hear from you. Without our dedicated team of volunteers, we wouldn’t be the Centre we are today, and we’re always looking for passionate and enthusiastic people to join us.
As an HWC volunteer, you’ll get as much out of the experience as you give. You’ll make meaningful connections, learn and impart new skills, and gain the confidence and courage to become the best version of yourself.
At the Heretaunga Women’s Centre, we have a long history of supporting the women of Hawke’s Bay. Over the past 100 years, we have refined our kaupapa, defined our values, and worked hard towards our purpose of enhancing and advocating for the wellbeing and empowerment of wāhine in our community.
We’re proud of where we’ve come from and excited to see what lies ahead. Join us on our journey, and let us share our story with you.
This website is made possible with generous support from the Anne Marie Foundation and the Evergreen Foundation.
Our heartfelt thanks to you.
We would love to see you at our AGM on Monday 17 June 2024 at 5:30 pm at the Heretaunga Women’s Centre, in the Women’s Rest Building, Cnr Eastbourne & Russell Streets, Hastings
To request Committee Nomination forms and/or RSVP, please email chair@hwc.nz or phone Deidré Venter 06 878 5401.
Nominations and RSVP to be received by: 5:00 pm, Friday 7 June 2024.
(option to join by Zoom)
Focal Point Cinema Hastings
Tuesday March 5th 5,30pm
$20 Ticket includes nibbles. Tickets available on line or at the HWC reception by calling in or admin@hwc.nz
The Heretaunga Women’s Centre celebrates International Women’s Day annually usually with a movie and nibbles. Men are welcome to attend.
This year we are thrilled with the permission of producer Nadia Maxwell to be screening two episodes from Shepherdess a specially commissioned for NZ television series. Even more exciting is one of the episodes Porangahau was filmed right here in the Bay!
Shepherdess is an amazing dedication to the resourcefulness and depth of talent to the women of the land in Aotearoa. The women portrayed are all connected by a sense of place, and share their stories of courage, commitment and community. Explored in the episodes are their sense of self, their whānau, their community, and the landscape in which the women live.
Shepherdess believes every woman has a story to tell. Led by the woman’s voice, Shepherdess leans into the rhythms and routines of life on the land as the series unravels their world, exploring their personal thoughts and feelings.
Rest assured the stories are not just about cows and grass but are intimate accounts of identity and culture, art and entrepreneurship, love and life and what it means ti bee a on on the land in Aotearoa today.
We will be screening two episodes from the series.
Episode Porangahau
Pōrangahau is a small but strong community in Central Hawke’s Bay. Tania Nicholas (Ngāti Toa Rangatira, Ngāti Ruanui, Ngāruahine) left her career as a Māori Land Court lawyer to follow her husband Orlando back to his hometown and has become involved in the community – including setting up a coffee cart in an old horse float in their driveway. Piri Galbraith (Ngāti Kahungunu, Ngāti Porou) married her highschool sweetheart, a local farmer, and runs two local businesses, the Kurawaka Retreat Centre and the village’s dairy. An English shepherd on a station, Izzi Corke, has found herself at home in Pōrangahau.
Episode Tora
Tora is an isolated community with a farming and fishing history located on the rugged South Wairarapa Coast. Here, Claire Edwards (Ngāi Tahu) runs Tora Collective with her partner Troy – harvesting kaimoana seasonally and only to order, they are on a mission to change New Zealand’s relationship with kaimoana; Kiri Elworthy runs the three-day Tora Coastal Walk, taking in the rugged coastline, native bush and farmland; and Fiona Firth who commutes two hours a day to work in town as a nurse from the farm where she lives with her husband and three kids.
