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Vincents Art Workshop is a not-for-profit organisation providing free access to community art studios in Wellington’s CBD.
We are looking for someone with secretarial skills to replace our outgoing committee member/secretary. This is a voluntary position, and the secretary is also a full member of the committee. Our Annual General Meeting is on 16th November, and we are wanting to elect all community representatives at this meeting.
Role description:
In partnership with Vincents' Coordinator, administrator and the committee chair:
- Take minutes at the committee meetings and ensure the minutes are distributed in a timely manner.
- Ensure adequate notice of meetings, including committee meetings, the Annual General Meeting, and any special meetings that may be called.
- Maintain membership records and filing of documents.
- Ensure that Vincents meets its obligations in providing information to Charities Services and any other legal requirements in a timely manner.
If you would like to help us continue to change lives through art, please contact Bryony Hales at chair@vincentsart.org
Changing Lives Through Art
Vincents Art Workshop is an essential social service set up in 1985 in response to Government policies of deinstitutionalisation from psychiatric hospitals. It is the oldest Creative Space in New Zealand. It is a community based initiative providing access to arts and craft facilities, skilled tuition, and materials within a supportive environment. All people are welcome and it is free.
People with disabilities, those moving into the community from institutions, the unemployed, people on low incomes and anyone at all from the wider community are welcome! An average of 30 people use the workshop every day, and all work together to make Vincents an exciting and creative place to be. Vincents has a philosophy of inclusion.
Through the creation of a positive and supportive environment many people have found their involvement in Vincents to be therapeutic. Vincents offers a unique model that uses the creative process to help resolve the internal conflicts a person may be experiencing, enabling the development of self-esteem and individual potential.
We provide an art space, art materials and equipment, together with a high standard of art and craft tuition - and, importantly, supportive structured studio spaces with skilled tuition in particular techniques or mediums.