Manager
Email: mgr@volunteermarlborough.org.nz
Meg has been part of Volunteer Marlborough since 2011, first joining as Volunteer Services Coordinator before stepping into the role of General Manager in 2013. These days, her work covers a little bit of everything: supporting volunteers and community organisations, developing new programmes, delivering training, building partnerships, advocating for the sector, chasing funding, solving problems, and occasionally wondering how quite so many things ended up on the same to-do list.
Community involvement has always been a big part of Meg's life. Over the years she has volunteered with school PTAs, Victim Support, Girl Guiding, Youthline, street appeals, and a variety of other causes. She continues to be involved in community governance alongside her work at Volunteer Marlborough, currently serving on the Board of Citizens Advice Bureau Marlborough as Chair and the Board of Marlborough MS & Parkinsons. She also sits on the Welcoming Communities Advisory Group. Having spent years on both sides of volunteering, she understands the enormous difference volunteers make, but also the very real challenges organisations face when trying to recruit, support, and keep them.
Meg has qualifications in legal assistance, library and information science, and management, along with plenty of additional training gathered over the years in areas such as policy, facilitation, mental health, youth development, governance, and the not-for-profit sector. She is a firm believer that there is always something new to learn, particularly in a sector that rarely stands still.
Outside work, Meg is a wife, mum to two adult children, enthusiastic pet parent, and unapologetic book dragon. Given half a chance, she will disappear into a good book, spend time with her family, head out with the dog, or enthusiastically defend the value of an afternoon nap.
Fun fact: Meg was born in Bermuda, holds both Canadian and New Zealand citizenship, has lived in six countries, and travelled through many more. She also has a slightly ridiculous love of cows, which requires no further explanation.