The Society has continued to move forward with its primary objectives which I outlined in detail at the AGM in November past year.

To reiterate, our primary goal has been to preserve the assets of the Society for future generations. The committee is committed to ensuring that both the Society, and homeopathy, is financially viable, relevant, and sustainable into the future not just the 21^st Century but the 22^nd century.  Lofty goals!

In December we combined our reference and lending libraries and moved the books to Naturo Pharm in Rotorua. We are currently assessing shelving options for the reference library and hope to progress this in the next six months. As many of you know our bookshop is already at Naturo Pharm in Rotorua and any orders we receive are processed by their team.  We are extremely grateful for this, and it works very well. Paulette, Janine, Julie and myself visited for 2 days in May and did a complete stock take to iron out any discrepancies and make sure things continue to run smoothly. It was great for us to meet everyone at Naturo Pharm, have a tour of their pharmacy and see many of the fascinating remedies they have in stock.

We are streamlining our booklist and trying to make it easy for members of the public to access books to begin their journey with homœopathy. Homœopaths, we are getting in new books for you!

The beginning of the year saw some minor alterations to our building and a big tidy up to ensure that we could rent the building out. In April our new tenants moved in and are very happy with the premises. This will provide us with a good income with which to work towards some of our other goals, namely promoting homœopathy to the general public. Our social media team has increased with Crystal Clark taking over the weekly posts from Madeleine.  I want to say a big thank you to Crystal for stepping up.  We have increased our followers on Facebook to nearly 2000 and we also have a presence on Instagram, with 445 followers.  It has been a great way to market and promote our books and we sell about $2000 worth of books per month. Our Homœopath of the Month is extremely useful for people looking for a Registered homœopath in their area. We plan to initiate a new approach to Wellness Wednesday, with more specific information on homœopathy for consumers.

We also support homœopaths to give talks, short courses and presentations, in person or via zoom, about homœopathy to the communities.  The first of these is in Howick later this month, by Janine Gawn. Any homœopaths who wish to participate in this funding please apply! We are keen to support you and help our communities become better informed about homœopathy.

Our next goal is to make a free newsletter accessible to the public through a simple sign-up procedure when they visit our website. It is important that we reach people at a grassroots level. We anticipate this will increase our readership significantly and enable us to reach many more members of the public who wish to find out more about homœopathy.

As I mentioned last year, one of our goals is to amalgamate with the NZCH. We need to present a strong and unified front to both government and the public to ensure that homœopathy continues to be a health option. Sue and I have had further discussions as to how this might look and anticipate bringing you more information about it in the next couple of months.  We need our members feedback and approval to achieve this.

I would like to thank the committee for all their hard work, it really is a team effort and the benefits of working together are wonderful. We could not have achieved what we have without the commitment and energy of everyone.

In summary, we have had an intense 8 months but feel we have a much stronger, financially viable and sustainable organisation.

Rebecca Stirrup