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Welcome to the St John National Youth Festival!

The Northern Region Youth team is excited to be bringing you this years festival!

The St John National Youth Festival has a long history of bringing cadets and

leaders together to share ideas, meet new people, broaden their experience andknowledge, and to have a lot of fun.

Perhaps one of the most important parts of the festival is the annual National Youth

Competitions bringing together our best cadets for the ultimate level competition!

However the festival is about much more than competitions, and we encourage you

to get involved.

This newsletter will provide an overview of the festival, how to register and costs.

We will be sending further communication closer to the date.

Festival theme and logo

This years festival is focussed on our young people,

with Hauora as the festival theme. Aspects of Hauora

will be woven throughout the festival programme.

We want to congratulate George Mita from Northern

Region for providing the base of our logo representing

the 2013 National Youth Festival. The logo really

goes to the heart of what Hauora represents.The four koru represent the four dimensions of health

and well-being. They represent the basic needs to have good health: te taha

hinengaro (mental and emotional health), te taha wairua (spiritual health), te taha

tanana (physical health) and te taha whnau (social health).

The four koru converging on Northern Region represent nga hau e wha (four winds)

coming together, just like the three regions are coming together for the festival.

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The hei matau (fish hook) in the South Island representing strength, determination

and good health. It also provides safe travels over water for our South Island

whnau.

The Maori koru design is inspired by the New Zealand fern frond unfurling as it

grows. It represents peace, personal growth, positive change and awakening.

The colours of the four koru have meaning in that the green is known as the South

Island colour which starts near Picton, yellow as Central Region which starts in the

centre of their region, and blue as Northern Region. The fourth koru is a mix of the

three representing wider whanau.

Finally we have chosen to include Waiheke Island and Great Barrier Island in the

logo as we are very proud of our island divisions, and fully embrace them as a part of

our region.

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Registrations are now open!

Registrations are now open for you to attend the National Youth Festival 2013!

Its easy to register: surf tohttp://tinyurl.com/NYFregistration2013 to sign uptoday!

Beds are strictly limited, so make sure you get your name down as soon as possible.

Once you have registered, the Festival Committee will be in touch with more

information.

Key venues

Accommodation

The Festival Committee is delighted to confirm our accommodation is at Kings

College, Golf Ave, Otahuhu, Auckland. This is a beautiful boarding school, with

some buildings looking something reminiscent of Hogwarts from Harry Potter!.

Competitions

The National Youth Competitions sponsored by Laerdal on Saturday 27 April are

being held at Eden Park, Reimers Ave, Kingsland, Auckland. This is the same place

where the Rugby World Cup was won by the All Blacks in 2011.

We want to thank Eden Park for generously supporting the National Youth Festival.

The drill and communication tests on Friday 26 April will be held at the North Shore

Events Centre. You may know the centre as the home of the Skycity NZ Breakers.

Sightseeing

There will be plenty of opportunities to see Auckland while youre at the festival. We

will spend time in Auckland City (the CBD), youll see Aucklands waterfront, and

well even visit one of New Zealands largest shopping malls.

Rainbows End

Thats right, we are heading to Rainbows End after prize giving on Saturday night!

New Zealands largest theme park promises all the thrills you can handle with a hostof fun activities and world class rides. There is something for everyone; spin

vertically and horizontally, suspended 18m high on the Power Surge, be trapped in a

runaway mine cart and Fear Fall 18 storeys at 82km/hr! Defy gravity on New

Zealands only corkscrew roller coaster or ride the Log Flume with its dramatic water

chute plunge.

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Festival programme overview

Please note this is a draft programme only and is subject to change at any time.

Time Events

Thursday 25 April

16:00 Registrations openKings College

18:00 Opening ceremony and ANZAC Day reflection19:30 Dinner and ice breakers

Friday 26 April

Morning Drill and Communication Competition

Hauora Youth Health Expo

Afternoon Sightseeing and shopping

Evening Dinner

Motivational speaker and Haoura badge activity

Saturday 27 April

All Day National Youth Competitions sponsored by LaerdalEvening Dinner and Prize Giving

Rainbows End Night Adventure

Sunday 28 April

All Day Sightseeing activities (Auckland CBD)

Evening Formal Dinner

Monday 29 April

Morning Poroporoaki

Afternoon Farewell

Festival fees

Live in attendees

The cost for live-in attendees is $350. This fee excludes transport to and from the

festival.

As always, we encourage fundraising to support your attendance at the festival.

Contact your Regional Contingent Manager for ideas or for information on what

fundraising activities are being conducted in your region.

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Live out attendees

If you do not require accommodation, but would still like to attend activities as part of

the festival, these are the costs that apply to you for each activity.

Activity Cost

Friday 26 April

Packed lunch at North Shore Events Centre $18Packed lunch at NSEC plus dinner (own

transport to evening venue)$33

Packed lunch at NSEC, dinner and transport

from the competition venue to the evening

venue

$38

Saturday 27 April Competitions Day

Packed lunch at Eden Park $18

Packed lunch at Eden Park and prize giving

dinner (own transport to prizegiving venue)$33

Packed lunch at Eden Park, transport to the

prize giving dinner and the prize giving

dinner

$38

Packed lunch at Eden Park, prize giving

dinner and Rainbows End (own transport to

prizegiving venue)

$78

Packed lunch at Eden Park, prize giving

dinner, Rainbows End and transport to the

dinner and to Rainbows End

$83

Prize Giving dinner $15Rainbows End Night Adventure $45

Prize Giving Dinner and Rainbows End $60

Sunday 28 April

Sightseeing Day (includes lunch) $43

Formal dinner $70

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Formal Dinner

The theme for the formal dinner is .

A Night at the Races

Let your imagination run wild!!! Have a look at these pics and do some research

yourself and come along! More details on the dress code and the formal dinner ingeneral in the next newsletter.

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The Festival Committee

Before we go, lets introduce our Festival Committee the people dedicating their

own time to ensure the festival is an outstanding success!

Name Responsibility

Lynn Mosley Festival Co-ordinator (The Boss)

Jamie Orchard Committee (The Money Man)Lorene Cassidy Committee (Fun Police)Nic Telford Committee (Food & Formal Dinner)Vicki Hawkins Committee (Support)Nic Gini Committee (Competitions)Gaye Hill Committee (Registrations)Andrea Thumath Committee (Support)Jo Carroll Committee (First Aid)Christine Benson Committee (Support)Hamish Bell Committee (Communications)

Shaun Greaves Regional Youth ManagerSarah Manley Community Programmes ManagerSonya Gale and Support Crew Community Programmes Director

Got a question?

The Festival Committee is available to ask any question you have related to the

National Youth Festival.

Email us at:youthfestival@stjohn.org.nz

Check out our Facebook pagehttp://tinyurl.com/nyf2013

Please note transport to and from the National Youth Festival is the responsibility of

your region. Contact your Regional Contingent Manager if you have questions on

that.

Thanks for reading, keep an eye out for Newsletter 2 coming your way soon and

well see you there!!

Best wishes

The National Youth Festival 2013 Committee

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