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By Home Birth Aotearoa
Sep 2016
Trustee Elections
Nominations will soon be open for trusteeship on the Home Birth Aotearoa Trust. Being a trustee is an opportunity to have a voice in the future of birth in Aotearoa, having invested and passionate Trustees is vital to the survival and success of Home Birth Aotearoa. Trusteeship is a voluntary position, where volunteers are engaged in strategically managing the activities of the trust in collaboration with our existing trustees and employees. Becoming a trustee is a valuable opportunity, where you can utilise your passion, knowledge and skills in a movement that honours birthing women and midwives.
Trustees are generally nominated from within a regional group, it is essential that potential trustees are connected to their home birth community and are passionate about home birth. You can self-nominate for the role, but your nomination will require support from your regional group.
Our Goals:
- That home birth is recognised and promoted as an option for the place of birth for the majority of NZ women and their whanau
- To increase the number of New Zealand women and their whanau choosing to birth at home
- To have a strong and flourishing network of active home birth groups throughout Aotearoa
- To have input into maternity strategy and policy- making to enable empowering birth experiences and outcomes, and healthy, thriving families
- To have input into maternity strategy and policy- making to enable empowering birth experiences and outcomes, and healthy, thriving families
How we work:
The structure of Home Birth Aotearoa has the trust at the core – regional home birth groups contributing to each other and the trust and vice versa. The trust holds the contract for national delivery of home birth coordination and collectively the HBA community has input into the planning and delivery. We use collaborative, consensus decision making to operate.
What does trusteeship involve?
Trustees are responsible for the governance of Home Birth Aotearoa Trust. They are accountable to the national network of home birth associations and support groups (Home Birth Aotearoa) to set and achieve goals which support the goals of the Trust. This includes accountability for financial transactions (including funding, expenditure, and assets) and legislative and compliance issues relating to the provision of any services. Further details on who we are, and what we do, are on our about us page.
Please complete and return this nomination form
via email to: admin@homebirth.org.nz or by post to:
HBAT PO Box 8053 Dunedin 9041
If you require further information, please contact us at admin@homebirth.org.nz
Trustees will be ratified at the National Home Birth Hui later this year.
