About Us
The Christchurch Aunties runs mostly on Volunteer-Power, with a paid manager role of 14 hours per week. An amazing network of people of all genders and backgrounds contribute to the Christchurch Aunties.
Our involvement with Christchurch Aunties is unpaid and voluntary, and we ensure it works in conjunction with our families, study, paid employment, and other volunteering.
Our involvement with Christchurch Aunties is unpaid and voluntary, and we ensure it works in conjunction with our families, study, paid employment, and other volunteering.
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Founder and Manager
Heather Milne is a photographer, Mum, coffee-aficionado, and a huge fan of penguins. She is the founder and manager of The Christchurch Aunties, and has a background in marketing and communications in the not-for-profit and community sectors. When she's not on Christchurch Aunties duty, Heather is creating a similar programme for tāne at He Waka Tapu, or taking photos and exhibiting her work.
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Heather Locke, Chairperson
Heather Locke is a Senior Community Fundraising Co-ordinator who soapboxes about social justice and environmental issues. She’s also a Yank who likes Halloween way more than is healthy. She’s worked in marketing, publication editing, disaster relief photography, anthropological research and animal welfare charity. Heather L also enjoys penguins … just not as much as Halloween.
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Coacine Chong, Treasurer
Coacine, orginally from Malaysia, has been residing in Christchurch since 2017. She enjoys spending time doing some casual running, doodling and conducting kitchen experiments. Her background involves finance, economics and auditing.
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Fiona Archer, Board member
Fi Archer loves the work she is doing with The Christchurch Aunties. She loves liaising with both the donors of supplies and the recipients. She loves that she can help make lives easier for some people. When she isn’t being an Auntie, Fi enjoys time with her incredibly patient husband and dog, and friends. Her background is in finding solutions to problems and connecting the right people to help with those solutions.
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Reetah Mitchell, Board member
Reetah is a business owner, mother to two eye rolling teenagers and partner to a very patient husband. She loves romance novels, running, cups of tea, and eating more chocolate biscuits than is advisable for a middle aged woman. Her volunteering experience includes Victim Support and a plethora of her children's school, sport and extra curricular clubs and organisations. Reetah is currently the Leader of the Christchurch branch of Days For Girls - an international organisation that creates and distributes menstrual hygiene kits to girls in developing countries. Her business is a key drop off-point for The Christchurch Aunties.
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Sati Ravichandiren, Secretary
The resident "Uncle" of the Christchurch Aunties, Sati is a junior solicitor who has just started a career in immigration law. When he's not at his desk at work, or writing up the minutes of the previous Christchurch Aunties meeting, he can usually be found cooking, eating, loudly discussing politics, loudly discussing basketball, trying to play sport, volunteering or doing some unholy combination of the above activities at once. Sati is passionate about helping his community and he has previously been on the Student Volunteer Army Executive and has volunteered with a range of local organisations and university clubs.
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In addition to our Board , we also have independent advisory mentors and a volunteer team.
