Howick has so many community and service groups that can be described as institutions in east Auckland.
They’re the backbone of a vibrant and well-connected, interested community.
East Auckland retains a strong sense of continuity in community.
Many of its residents have lived here for most or all their lives – meaning it has a strong connected community and all the values and traditions associated with that and the long-standing, institution groups that many other parts of Auckland haven’t anymore or are regenerating.
I’ve lived and worked in east Auckland for the past 20 years, making me a relative newcomer still, though I thought because of my work in news media over the past two decades on this patch, I had a pretty good idea of most of the community groups.
Not exactly, so it has been with great pleasure this year to have discovered a new and delightful group, the Howick Women’s Dinner Club, that has been running for 50 years.
Started in 1975 by Howick legend, 90-year-old Jenny Hough, also a life member of Uxbridge Arts and Culture, the Howick Women’s Dinner Club offers ladies from across east Auckland an opportunity to regularly met socially, over dinner, and to support worthy community charitable causes, as it has done recently for Eastern Women’s Refuge.
It was a pleasure to be the club’s after-dinner guest speaker last week at the Howick Club and to be able to catch up with many women who I’ve had the pleasure to meet on different news and community stories and projects down the years.
I had the opportunity to talk about the amazing work we’re doing and journey we’re on at Times Media and the Eastern Times and Franklin Times and a little about my life and career and really appreciated the invitation and occasion.
- Women who’d like to join the Howick Women’s Dinner Club, or would like more information, can send an email to hwdc.committee@gmail.com and it also has a Facebook page.
