The Southland Rural Support Trust invite you to attend the Southland Rural Professionals Breakfast.

Why Should you Attend?

The Southland RST are well aware Southland Rural Professionals play an important role as members of our stakeholder network.

Your farming facing roles comes with lots of rewards but can be challenging at times. Because you support us we would like to say thanks, update you on what we have been up to and give you some more tools to take away to help you in your various roles.

Venue - Croydon Lodge Hotel, Gore

Program

6.50am Doors open with a Cooked Buffet Breakfast available

7.10am Welcome

7.15am Guest Speaker - Lindsay Wright

How the Rural Support Trust was formed
The journey through the past 18 years - the highs, the lows

Questions and wind-up

8.30am Event ends

Lindsay Wright

Lindsay farmed his Northern Southland Sheep & Beef farm for 24 years from 1982.

In 2008 he was an inaugural trustee of the new Southland Rural Support Trust. He became chair of the SRST the week of the big snow in 2010. In 2013 he moved to the trust coordinator role, which he held until 2023.

In 2014 Lindsay joined with WellSouth PHO to develop the GoodYarn mental health literacy workshop for rural communities in Southland and Otago. Demand has since spread to all communities and workplaces nationwide, and beyond. He is a board member of the Good Programmes Trust which manages GoodYarn.

Life experiences and challenges provide the empathy necessary for both Rural Support and GoodYarn.

“My whole life has been an apprenticeship for what I do today. We don’t know how a person is feeling, but we understand what causes it”

Registrations are essential and free of charge.