North Canterbury News: June 03, 2021

Award recognises
response to Covid
By DAVID HILL
Enterprise NorthCanterbury (ENC)
receivedacommendationfrom Economic
Development New Zealand last weekfor
its Covid­19 response in supportoflocal
businesses.
The award recognises ENC’seffortsto
supportbusinessesduringthe lockdown
and itsinitiativestosupport peoplewho
losttheir jobstoeitherregain
employment or establish their own
businesses.
ENC chief executiveHeather Warwick
saidher team pulled together during the
pandemictodeliver an efficientand
responsive system that supportedmore
than900 NorthCanterbury businesses
withCovid­19­relatedissues.
‘‘All of NewZealand’s economic
development agencieswereunder the
pumpwhen Covidhit,and we all worked
extremelyhard to support ourlocal
businesscommunities.
‘‘I am particularly proud of the ENC
teamfor establishing an efficient triage
systemand sharing theworkloadofour
businessgrowth adviser so that we could
respond efficiently and effectively to all
in need.
‘‘Our system meant thatour team could
respond to anyenquiry within 24 hours
and could conduct aneeds interview
within threeworkingdays, to thendirect
businesses to thebestresources for their
individual requirements.’’
Regular communicationswere madeto
businessesonENC’sdatabase,business
surveys werecreatedtohighlightareas of
need,and aprofessional services grant
was established to helplocal businesses
get professional advice.
ENC partnered withthe Ministry of
Social Development, withworkbroker
MichelleBecks, who wasdeployedto
supportbusinesses through theprocess of
closing down or reducing staff numbers,
and connecting employees directly with
funding andopportunities.
Business start­up resourcesand a
training programme werealso created
with ministry funding to support the
higher thanusualenquiries from people
considering startingtheir own business
afterthe lockdown.
‘‘Theamalgamation of the different
projects, services and supportwecreated
duringlockdownand beyond provided a
world­leading localresponse to anational
economic crisis,’’ Ms Warwick says.
‘‘Ourbasic approach—tostripsystems
to theessentials, to assess whatisneeded,
respond to those needs,and to remove
barriers whereverpossible—served to
ensure thatwewereable to meet our
community’sneeds welland in avery
timelymanner.’’
Ms Warwickwas joined by business
growth adviserGuy Graham and business
supportmanagerMiles Daltonin
accepting the commendationduring the
Economic Development New Zealand
Awards Gala in Palmerston Northon
Thursday, May27.
Design opportunity for schools
Pupils from three North Canterbury
Schools are being given the chance to
design an innovative feature or
accessory for an electric bike.
The nationwide competition is being
run by EVolocity, New Zealand’s
leading electric vehicle STEM (science,
technology, engineering and math)
programme. It is open to all schools in
EVolocity’s trading regions, including
those already enrolled in its flagship
electric vehicle build programme at
more than 100 participating schools,
including Kaiapoi High School,
Rangiora New Life School and Amuri
Area School.
The competition is being launched
under EVolocity’s new programme, the
EVolocity Innovation Lab, sponsored
by MeloYelo e­bikes. Anew e­mountain
bike, Bafang 300­watt mid­drive motor
kits and a13Ah lithium­ion battery will
be supplied by EVolocity and MeloYelo
to each qualifying team in each of their
trading regions to inspire innovation
and an entrepreneurial spirit.
Qualifying teams will be required to
retrofit these bikes with the motor kits.
They will also be tasked with adding an
innovation to their creation and
preparing an original design element
and asales pitch for their bike to sell
them at auction. EVolocity will support
students through online workshops.
MeloYelo director and EVolocity
founder Rob McEwen say Kiwis are
renowned for their innovative, out­ofthe­box
thinking, and the EVolocity
Innovation Lab was giving school
students achance to create aproduct
that can be added to an e­bike, and
enhance its value.
EVolocity was established to interest
young people in innovation and
engineering, address New Zealand’s
national skills shortage in this area,
and foster ageneration of drivers
comfortable with electric vehicle (EV)
technology, while also educating them
about the benefits of electric vehicles.
As we grow older,
especially over theage
of 60, specifichealth
problemsmay become
prevalent.
These problems are
generallydue to the
wear andtearthe body
undergoes over time.
The good news is that
such health problems
arepreventable, andwe
canslowdowntheir occurrence.
Jointand Bone problemsare well-known
problemsthatoccur with agedue to the
degradationofthe connective tissue.
Cardiovasculardiseasesare typicallycaused
by thenarrowing of thearteries,leading
to highblood pressure,heart attacks, and
strokes. Neurodegenerative diseasessuch
as Parkinson’sand Alzheimer’s also tend to
occurlater in life. The underlying causeof
age-related diseasesischronic inflammation.
Inflammation is notabad thingatall.Itis
thebody’sresponsetoinjury. The problem
is when that response becomes persistent,
leadingtochronic inflammation that causes
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... From left,
EnterpriseNorth
Canterbury chief
executive Heather
Warwick was
joined by Guy
Graham and Miles
Dalton in accepting
an award at the
Economic
Development New
Zealand Awards
last week.
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