Promote

Promote is a community group in Upper Hutt which seeks to offer thoughtful insight to public discussion and so contribute to the process of building a healthy society.

Denys Church Steve Doughty Sallie Calvert

The group is made up of people who:

Hold the family unit in high regard.
Understand that ideas have consequences that continue from one generation to another.
Seek to work out of thinking which is based in reality and can be shown to be true through history (which may or may not agree with popular theory).
Wish to leave a positive influence on their community for future generations.

Promote appreciates the importance of working together. Rather than enter into direct debate from outside of society’s struggles, we seek to be practically involved in our community and work on a relational basis, seeking advice from others already involved in the issues. Our endeavour is to maintain the realisation that we need to keep an attitude in which we are willing to learn from those who see differently from us and work with them rather than simply oppose.

What we do:

As a community group we seek to be involved within the life of the community. This includes hosting events and networking to encourage a practical, positive outcome that will strengthen our community for the long term.

Questions that Promote would ask:

Is this idea conducive to maintaining a healthy society?
What are the long-term consequences likely to be?
On what value system / agenda / assumptions are the arguments based?
Does History agree?
Will it empower people - thereby creating responsible citizenship, or will it create dependence?
Does the answer lie in the State or in the community itself? – or both?

Things we have been involved in:

Vic Tamati Tells his story
NZ Votes debate in Upper Hutt
If it Takes a Community to raise a Child, How Should We Address Youth Crime?
“Good Man Project – It’s About Boys”
"If it Takes a Community to Raise a Child, How Should our Community Look?"