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Jude Dobson

Sir Wilson Whineray

See You Next Time

Last night went brilliantly at the Juice Bar, The Windsor Castle, Parnell, Auckland. Excellent original music by Seth Haapu, Josh Leys and Chris Cope followed by the best of all pub bands CVE with impromptu performances from Josh and Chris. It went off like a rocket.

It was interesting to see Josh playing in the flesh after watching his video clipson Juice TV for the past year, unusally accompanied by a full band. If a song has strength it can usually be played on one instrument as well as with a band and thats what happened, meticulous compositions delivered to us over food, two free cocktails and a well stocked bar.

Not only was the venue and the songwriting fine so were CVE the closing act of the night. They went off! Especially that within 20 minutes of them playing a massive crowd of students in fancy dress piled in making it highly sureal. Spiderman, Huckleberry Finn, a Ghostbuster, Wonder Woman, various netballers and Oprah were easily identified in the same room. CVE blended many different hits into each other also throwing in some NZ hits Juice TV promotes like "Vampires" by Dukes.

This was our first gig so to speak and in a sense our first public party, we were all a little nervious as to how it would go, but as soon as we walked through the glass doors it was all on in an intimate comfortable setting. The Juice bar with its large lounge chairs, fireplace, pool table and dance floor with a great stage had the same feel as a students lounge party, safe, intimate, loud but still places where you could chat.

We plan to have more gigs in the future at the Juice Bar, keep rocking! see you there!

New addition to our web site

The day has finally arrived when we can introduce you to our new family of resources called Career Passport to Success. This programme helps young people develop a specific set of life skills to launch themselves more successfully into their chosen career path.  A "Certificate of Accomplishment" together with an actual "Career Passport" showing the skills attained, will be awarded to every young person who completes the 8 step programme.

We have researched and prepared this new material with and for the young people of New Zealand, as they confront the difficult tasks associated with transition:

• from education into first-time employment, or
• entering tertiary education,

The "Career Passport to Success" book will be provided free of charge to any young person upon application, in a format that provides for self-managed study. On-line assessments and support are an important part of the programme.

In addition to the young person’s self –managed book, we have developed:

• guidelines for parents and other adults wanting to guide a young person through the programme
• guidelines for facilitators or tutors working with groups of young people
• a mentors kit

"Career Passport to Success" is an exciting new programme developed by the Young New Zealanders Foundation to help young people prepare themselves for entering the job market, trade training, or academic studies. It places a strong emphasis on maximising the potential of individual young New Zealanders by helping them set realistic goals, and develop life skills that support the achievement of those goals. If you would like to record an expression of interest through the web site please click here. We hope to begin circulation of material in early August 2010.

Other readers who might find our material helpful will be welcome to request a copy.