The title of this recording is "Millie (St Vincent de Paul Society Wellington) - Out in the Park (2018)". It is described as: Millie from the St Vincent de Paul Society talks about why they are at Out in the Park and the ReSew initiative. It was recorded in Waitangi Park, Te Aro, Wellington on the 24th February 2018. This is an interview with an unidentified interviewee (or possibly interviewees) conducted by Gareth Watkins. The name is spelt correctly but may appear incorrectly spelt later in the document. The duration of the recording is 3 minutes. A list of correctly spelt content keywords and tags can be found at the end of this document. A brief description of the recording is: In this podcast Millie from the St Vincent de Paul Society talks about why they are at Out in the Park and the ReSew initiative. The content in the recording covers the 2010s decade. A brief summary of the recording is: This summary provides an overview of a three-minute interview recorded at Waitangi Park, Te Aro, Wellington, on February 24th, 2018, with a representative from the St Vincent de Paul Society Wellington. The purpose of the recording was to discuss the organization's participation in Out in the Park and their innovative ReSew initiative. The St Vincent de Paul Society's presence at the event was part of raising awareness about the wide range of social services it offers to the community, ensuring everyone is aware they can seek assistance from the organization. The services highlighted include social work support, food banks, visitations, pregnancy assistance, and budgeting advice. The spokesperson emphasizes that the Society's social worker provides advocacy and support through various circumstances - accompanying clients to appointments with government agencies like WINZ, immigration, housing, and even court appearances, ensuring they receive the support they need. Furthermore, the Society provides immediate essentials such as furniture, clothing, and utensils through home support programs, addressing emergency needs and facilitating long-term assistance. Notably, specialized care for new parents is available, consisting of essential items such as baby clothes, reusable nappies, and maternity clothes to support families during the early stages of parenthood. A substantial new endeavor by the Society is the ReSew project, which is based out of their Kilbirnie shop. This project focuses on upcycling textile waste from their stores into new products. The initiative serves a dual purpose: reducing the organization's expenses associated with discarding unsellable textiles and contributing to sustainable practices by creating new products from waste. At the time of the recording, the ReSew project was engaged in making rainbow bunting. The organization's policies and services are inclusive and available to all, with no specific policies targeting the LGBTQIA+ community. Nonetheless, there is a conscious effort within the team to ensure that inclusivity is formally recognized in their future policies. The Society highlights its commitment to providing a non-judgmental, confidential, and accessible service, free of any barriers that a religious association might typically present. This was reportedly the first year the St Vincent de Paul Society participated in Out in the Park, stressing the significance they place on ensuring the LGBTQIA+ community is aware of the services available to them. According to the Society's representative, many of their clients are from the LGBTQIA+ community, and it's a priority that the Society supports them in overcoming daily life challenges, particularly in matters relating to finances or negotiations with other organizations and governmental bodies. The narrative concludes by asserting the goal of St Vincent de Paul Society to back the LGBTQIA+ community in securing what individuals rightfully deserve and need, positioning the organization as a crucial support network. The full transcription of the recording follows.  It includes timestamps every thirty seconds in the format [HH:MM:SS].  The transcription begins:  Um, so we are at the vine Wellington tent. So that's Saint Vincent de Paul society. Wellington. Um, we're here just promoting our social services, Um, so that all of our communities know that they can come to us for help. Um, so that covers our social work, uh, food, bank, visitations, and pregnancy assistance. And we also have our new project RESO. So that's up cycling all of our textile waste from shops and turning them into new products. So we're making rainbow bunting here at the moment. [00:00:30] Yeah, And so you do volunteer work at Vinnie's? Yes. Um, I myself am the coms and marketing manager. Um, but we have a huge volunteer, um, support group, so Yeah. So tell me about some of the programmes that that that Vinny's office? Yep. Um, so we provide our social worker. She can't be here today, so we have a mannequin stand in for her. Um, but she does a lot of advocacy. Um, a lot of, uh, budgeting advice. Um, she'll come with you to whether [00:01:00] it's immigration wins housing, um, to court. She'll come in and help support you through those, um, situations. Um she also offers home support. So that's providing furniture, Um, clothing, utensils, Um, if you need it. Yeah, whatever you need. She's there to support you, and then we have our food bank. So that's providing, um, family and single food parcels. So that's for immediate assistance or long term support. And then we've got our pregnancy assistant. [00:01:30] So that's for new moms, um, supporting them and their families. Providing baby clothing, reusable nappies, maternity clothes. Um, just any support in that area? Um, and then here we've got reso. So that's our new big project. Um, so that's, uh, based on our Kilburn shop. And, um, we've got a whole sewing department there creating new products out of all of our textile wastes. Um, because we have spent a lot of money on dumping textiles that we can't sell in our shop. So we're trying to [00:02:00] repurpose them now for for good. So does have, like, specific rainbow L GB IQ, um, policies. Um, no, we just pretty much all of our services are open to everyone and anyone. Um, yeah. So that's we don't have anything specifically written into our policies. Um, our team going forward do want to push more of that for it to become formalised, but yeah, it's just showing that our services are for everyone. Um, there is a church [00:02:30] element to some of this, so we want to make sure that that's not a barrier for people coming to us. Um, it is a free judgement. Uh, non judgmental, Um, confidential service. So, um, we just want to know that you want people to know that they can come to us. Um, yeah. Is this the first time that Vinny has been at out in the park? Yes. Yes, it is. Um, we as a team just thought it was really important. Um, that this part of the community know that they can come to us. Um, a lot of our clients do [00:03:00] come from this community, so we we support them, and we want to make sure that everyone else knows that, too. So what are some of the biggest issues that you have kind of come across with, um, rainbow alg by our community members? Um, I think it's just that they face themselves in daily life. Um, yeah, I think it's that because there's yeah, the barriers that they're facing financially. Maybe, um, finding homes or just dealing with some of the or like some of the organisations like wins, [00:03:30] and that if there's any barriers that they're facing, we want to be there to back them up and make sure that they get what they deserve. And they're entitled to what they what they need. Um, so we're just a support service, really? To make sure that they get what they need, Yeah. The full transcription of the recording ends. A list of keywords/tags describing the recording follow. These tags contain the correct spellings of names and places which may have been incorrectly spelt earlier in the document. The tags are seperated by a semi-colon: 2010s ; 2nd hand clothing ; Aotearoa New Zealand ; Kilbirnie ; Out in the Park (Wellington) ; People ; ReSew initiative (Wellington) ; St Vincent de Paul Society (Wellington) ; Waitangi Park ; Wellington ; Work and Income (WINZ) ; advice ; advocate ; barriers ; budgeting ; bunting ; church ; clothing ; community ; courts ; face ; family ; finances ; food ; food parcel ; foodbank ; home support ; housing ; immigration ; marketing ; pregnancy ; pregnancy assistance ; rainbow ; resource ; sewing ; social ; social services ; social work ; support ; time ; visitation ; volunteer ; work. The original recording can be heard at this website https://www.pridenz.com/out_in_the_park_2018_millie.html. The master recording is also archived at the Alexander Turnbull Library in Wellington, New Zealand.  For more details visit their website https://tiaki.natlib.govt.nz/#details=ecatalogue.1089811. 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