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Starfish Bulletin
Welcome to the Starfish Bulletin, our bi-monthly newsletter, where we share inspiring stories, updates and insights from our dedicated team, as well as information around our recent mahi and the impact it has on our community.
The Starfish Bulletin is your go-to source to keep you informed and engaged in the latest events and happenings within the organisation.
Starfish Bulletin October 2024
Kia ora e te whānau tahi. In this catch-up, and long overdue newsletter we share with you some exciting new developments, introduce new kaimahi, and re-cap on our celebrations. We hope you enjoy the stories, updates and successes from our dedicated team.
Starfish Bulletin December 2023
Kia ora e te whanau. In this newsletter we introduce you to some of our new kaimahi, share with you our recent work and and celebrate the successes of our team and mahi and the impact they have had on our community over the past 12 months. We hope you enjoy the...
Starfish Bulletin July 2023
Kia ora e te whanau. It's hard to believe we're already halfway through the year. It has been a full and eventful time for the organisation, and we are grateful to have the opportunity to share in what our team have been up to over the past few months, news, details...
Starfish Bulletin April 2023
Kia ora e te whanau. It's been an eventful start to the year for Starfish, with much change, as you'll note in this newsletter, where we introduce several new kaimahi to the team, and farewell others. We also highlight some exciting news, celebrate achievements, and...
Starfish Bulletin February 2023
Reflecting on the past year, Starfish has had an eventful one. While serving the community, facilitating progammes, collaborative huis and fundraising at community events, we have faced loss, hardship and unrest. Our 2022 journey was at times, unsettled, and saw us...
Free refresher course for older drivers coming to Matamata!
Age Concern and Waka Kotahi have come together to deliver a free refresher programme for the older drivers in our community.
Light lunch provided.
📅Tuesday May 20th 2025
⏰9.45am-2pm
📍Starfish Health & Wellbeing Centre - 79 Firth Street Matamata
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Taking a moment to appreciate these absolutely stunning cupcakes delivered to us this morning from Good Bitches Baking. They look too good to eat! Thank you so much to the talented bakers. ... See MoreSee Less
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You're so welcome!
Huge thanks to Auto Super Shoppe Matamata for your generosity. Keeping these cars in good shape means we can assist those with transport limitations to get the help they need 🚙⭐️.We really appreciate your supportOn 21 February, “Auto Super Shoppes Helping Hand Day 2025”, we were proud to be able to support our local Starfish Health & Wellbeing Centre by servicing 2 of the Toyota Prius’s that keep the Starfish consultants & liaison officers out in our communities. We contributed over $500 to this very worthy cause & encourage others to do the same.
The vehicles are used Matamata-Piako wide so so from Tirau to Tahuna, to take away barriers -meet clients in their homes or local libraries take them to appointments, and just be able to provide support. Services that use these vehicles are Youth service, Work ready team, Heartlands, Attendance, Social worker, counsellors, Licensing contracts, etc.
To get more information on Starfish, look them up on www.starfishservices.org.nz.
Give Chelsea a call at Auto Super Shoppe Matamata for a Warrant of Fitness, or any car servicing or repairs 👍👍
Phone 0800 MATAMATA, email [email protected] or log onto assmatamata.co.nz.
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Please fill in this super quick tick box survey 👇
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As Heartlands Coordinator and Starfish’s Community Liaison Officer, Whitney was invited to meet with the ladies of Inner Wheel Matamata to korero about the Heartlands service and the resources and support it offers the local community.
Whitney loves sharing about her work so if you’d like to know more about Heartlands, pop in to see Whitney at our new Firth Street premises, alternatively you can visit www.heartlandservices.govt.nz/
And if you’re keen to learn more about the women’s voluntary service organisation that is Inner Wheel, whose purpose is to promote friendship, encourage the ideals of personal service and foster international understanding, visit www.innerwheel.org.nz/matamata. ... See MoreSee Less
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In an effort to offer Matamata-Piako valuable support, connection and FREE advice and guidance, we would like to gauge community interest and need for FREE face-to-face, and online webinars with Inland Revenue NZ on a range of social policy topics including:
• Migrants and refugees – Living and working in NZ
• Maori Land Court
• Income tax
• Starting a business
• Record keeping
• Return filing and GST
• Employer obligations
• KiwiSaver and ESCT
• Youth seminars
• Working for Families Tax Credits
• Child support and home based child care
• KiwiSaver
• Student loans
• Best Start tax credit
• Redundancies
Please fill in the below 30 second survey to have your say.
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Try getting through to msd or anyone else like spark or any other company is like pulling out teeth slowly, they design it so you give up and don't pursue it. And then after being hung up time and time again or waiting for hours while hearing crap music, and they wonder by the time they answer, you want to swear and vent at them and they say it's your fault and not theirs for getting wound up. Don't start me on their crap websites that don't work and they try to push you into doing that so they don't have to pay for any staff, it's basically trying to save money, nothing to do with customer satisfaction or genuine help
Love your work Whitney 😄
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Hi everyone!
Now that the holidays are over please take a minute to fill out this short survey.
These surveys help us know what the parents and children want to see more or less of for our future programmes.
Thank you!
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Back in October, our Heartlands Coordinator, Whitney, spread a little packet of kindness by delivering to the community some flower seeds with a message to "grow your own happiness" in recognition of Mental Health Awareness Week.
This morning a member of the community has shared with us what her little seeds have grown into. 🌼 ... See MoreSee Less
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She won aye Whitney Hennessy
Have a great Christmas! See you all in the New Year 🎄 ... See MoreSee Less
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