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Issue 10

NZBPT NEWS DECEMBER 2018

TO ADVANCE AND ENCOURAGE BUSINESS UNDERSTANDING OF PARLIAMENT AND PARLIAMENTARIANS UNDERSTANDING OF THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY OF

Lisa King, social entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Eat My Lunch was our guest speaker at the Spring Business Overview on 7 November. Here are highlights of her inspirational story.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE BUSINESS SPRING PAGE 1 - 5 Business Spring Overview OVERVIEW PAGE 6 - 7 Schools Funding CEO Visit To IPT in London New Corporate Member Lisa King, social entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of Eat My Lunch was our guest speaker at the Spring PAGE 8 - 9 Our Presenters Business Overview on 7 November. Here are highlights of her inspirational story. PAGE 10 - 11 Presidents Dinners

PAGE 12 - 13 Parliamentary Seminars It had never occurred to me know that if you are hungry, that in NZ, there are kids you cannot learn. Kids cannot PAGE 14 - 15 Business Attachments going to school with no food. concentrate, participate in Of the 290,000 children class and often misbehave BACK PAGE Changes Afoot currently living in poverty in when they haven’t eaten all NZ, we estimate that there are day. Without an education, 25,000 going to school every what chance do they have of day without lunch. And we all breaking the poverty cycle? BUSINESS SPRING OVERVIEW CONTINUED...

As a working mum with 2 with a few charities, I also this type of business in young kids, I didn’t know knew that a lot of time and NZ and 3 years ago, the what I as one person could resource goes into getting concept barely existed in do to help solve this issue. donations and sponsorship NZ, so I registered EML as I had spent my career and the whole sustainability a limited liability company. I marketing household of the program is reliant on will talk more about how the brands for global food this. And if that funding dries business works a little later. manufacturers such as up, then all the good work Cadbury, Bluebird, Heinz, has to stop. So how do we What I quickly realised was Unilever and Fonterra. I knew do it differently? that although I had all this how to market food, but not commercial experience, I how to get food to the kids I went back to what I knew really had no idea how to who actually need it. - with all this commercial make food for hundreds experience, it just made of people. So I approached One night, I happened to sense to apply business renowned chef Michael Now, this was an unproven be wearing a pair of TOMs models and tools to achieve Meredith. concept and we didn’t have shoes. TOMs is a company in outcomes in an efficient, any money to market it. the US which pioneered the fast and sustainable way. I had prepared a 20 slide So we had optimistically one for one model where for business case to take him projected selling and giving every pair of shoes you buy, And what if we were a through – our proposition, 50 lunches a day for the they donate one to a child in business that wasn’t driven the target customer, first year and Michael was a developing country. And I purely by profit, but had a forecasts of how much adamant that we couldn’t thought why can’t we do this social purpose at its heart money we would make and make more than 200 for lunch? We all eat lunch and our success would by all the assumptions I had lunches a day out of my everyday anyway. It seemed measured by the impact we made. But when we got to home anyway. like a simple solution. have, not just how much the second slide and it said money we make? ‘For every lunch someone The first week, we sold 50 We knew it was a good idea, buys, we give one to a kid lunches a day. The second but would it be a charity or So Eat My Lunch would in need’, Michael said he week, our orders went up a business? It made sense be the combination of a didn’t need to see anymore to 200 a day and in the 3rd that it could be a charity traditional for-profit driven and he was in. And he loved week, we were selling 400 given what we were trying to business with a social the concept so much, he lunches a day. By our 12th do. There are of course clear purpose of a charity. You can didn’t want to be just an week, we had hit our 3 year tax benefits and the ability to call us a social enterprise ambassador and consultant, forecast! access grants and funding. or a social business. There but he wanted to be a part But having been involved are no legal structures for of it.

We now have kitchens in , and about 6 weeks ago launched in Christchurch.

We employ 50 staff who make lunches for our paying customers, deliver lunches and we have teams in customer services, supply chain, logistics and sales.

We have expanded our product portfolio beyond just lunches to breakfasts, AM and PM teas, and we cover pretty much every dietary requirement you can think of.

We have also built an incredibly strong brand. After our first 18months, we had 50 brand awareness and people were willing to pay 30% more than what they normally spend on their own lunch to purchase EML.

Have done 2 rounds of crowdfunding to raise almost $1million in capital and last year brought in FSNI as a strategic investor, providing us with great synergies through our supply chain, distribution and enabled us to trial our products in supermarkets.

2 At the end of September, we of product and then trying But at the heart of people Buy. It’s not an after- Gave our 1 millionth lunch to sell it, our online platform everything we do, is our thought once we see how to kids in 89 schools around means that we have advance purpose. Our social mission much profit there is leftover. the country. We are currently visibility of our orders, so we of ensuring that no child Giving around 2,800 lunches only order and make exactly goes to school hungry, is On the Give side, how it every school day. That’s what we need. not a nice to have, an add works with the schools 14,000 a week, 140,000 on or an after thought. It is is that schools sign up to every school term. Our supply chain is incredibly absolutely core to who we join the programme. While tight – by midnight tonight, are and drives our decisions, we Give to 89 schools, we As I mentioned, EML is customer orders for Friday guides our values and helps currently have a waiting list a combination of a profit are locked down. Purchase us attract customers and of 60 schools. driven business and the orders will be sent to staff. social good of a charity. our suppliers first thing There is no criteria, as long The key is sustainability. tomorrow morning and all The Give part is so intrinsic as there is a need. Within You have to be commercially the ingredients arrive at that the cost of the free most low decile schools, sustainable to make 5am Friday morning for the lunch for the kids is built there are social workers and significant and long term day’s lunches. It means that into the COGs of the lunch staff who understand the impact. everything we get in is fresh and we have minimal food We never want to tell a waste because we only order school that we can’t give exactly what we need and we them lunches anymore have exact costings on every because we can’t afford it. single item in the lunches. We can have all the best intentions in the world, but I know to the cent what a if we are not commercially lunch will cost, despite the savvy, the good work we do menu changing everyday. will cease and those in need The lunches are made by will be further negatively 9:30am, picked up by our impacted. own courier fleet of 16 drivers and delivered to To be commercially our customers desks by successful in an incredibly 12:30pm. difficult industry, we turned a traditional food What seems like a simple model on its idea is really a complex head. Instead of making lots logistical nightmare. Lisa King speaking with , Assistant Speaker 3 Chair thanking Lisa King

situations of the children’s and not the cheaper white 2,800 kids that very day. There are so many examples families and so we let bread. It’s that balance of I have found that people of this – Mini does a Buy the schools decide which profit and doing what is right. genuinely want to give back One Give One on cars for children need lunch the While we have 50 staff to and EML has provided an our delivery fleet. Lego most. When a school comes make the lunches for our easy vehicle to do that and provides free Lego every onto our programme, they Buying customers, it is our the impact is immediate and year to the kids and adopt tell us how many they need purpose that puts us in a tangible. It doesn’t matter a school, paying for all their each day and we commit to unique position where we that we are not a charity, Give lunches for a year so that number. It can vary from also have around 30-35 people come because of our we could bring on another 20 to 200 a day. volunteers who come in at purpose. school. Our logo is on the 6:30am every morning to back of every Pump water So our lunches are made make lunches for the kids. And it’s not just volunteers, bottle sold in NZ. fresh everyday, packed but we have also enabled with veggies and protein In the 3 years, we’ve had other businesses to be part Cafe L’affare heard we were and we also change the over 14,000 people come of something meaningful. opening in Wellington and menu for them everyday to and volunteer and we At Air NZ (and many other offered us space in their provide variety. We have a currently have a waiting corporates), we have roastery, rent free for the philosophy that if it’s food list of 2-3 months for become the preferred next 10 years. And what we won’t feed our own kids, volunteering. We’ve had catering supplier. do all our partners want then we don’t give it to these policemen, surgeons, in return? Nothing. They kids. students, CEO’s, lawyers, Chris Luxon (CEO of Air genuinely want to help us musicians. Basically anyone NZ), mandated that all because they believe in our I don’t subscribe to the fact who can bread can meetings at Air NZ has to mission and the impact that just because it’s free, come and be a part of it. be catered for by EML and we can have on our future the recipients should be we report back to them generation. grateful for whatever they And what I love is that when every quarter on how many get. If anything, these kids you come in and put on an lunches they’ve given as an But the impact is really need more nutritious food. apron, everyone is the same organisation. In 2 years, Air best expressed by the kids Sometimes this means that and the volunteers leave NZ has Given over 40,000 themselves. I want to share the ingredients cost a bit knowing that all the lunches lunches and are our biggest with you some of the letters more - so for example, we they made that morning, will customer. we receive from the kids. only use multigrain bread make a difference to over

“I am thankful for the spare “Hello, at my last school I And Max says, “Thanks for lunches you guys give because used to stay at home if I providing nice food. It makes it is better than having no food had no lunch. Now I come to me learn more and think more to eat and let yourself starve school everyday. My favourite better. Thank you very much for and then walk around asking sandwich is tuna.” doing this.” for food.”

4 I believe EML has challenged our way of thinking have been able to create more value for not just for about how we as individuals and businesses can have our shareholders, but also our customers, partners, meaningful social impact. Eat My Lunch has gone staff and of course, the community. from a small business run out of the family home to a social enterprise that has captured the public’s On a personal level, the real reward for me is the imagination on how business can drive social change. legacy I hope to leave for my children. They are not going to remember how much money their mum EML has become a vehicle for Kiwis to participate made. They will however remember what their mum and make a difference through something as simple has done to try and make the community they live in as lunch. When someone Buys a lunch from us, they a better place. know that a child is getting a lunch at the same time. The impact is tangible and immediate. Today, people One of my proudest moments over the last 3 years want to feel that they are part of a bigger purpose and was when I heard Ella and Toby (who were 9 and 7 contributing to something more than themselves. at the time), having a very heated argument one day. They were arguing about who was going to take over As Simon Sinek says, “People don’t buy what you do, and run EML when I die. but why you do it”. EML has also demonstrated that having a social purpose does not have to come at the expense of profit. In fact, because of our purpose we

5 SCHOOLS TRAVEL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMME

Since our last newsletter, the Trust has this year supported 62 schools with grants “We are absolutely thrilled to hear that we have been enabling them to undertake visits to successful in receiving a grant to visit Parliament in November. Wellington to participate in How Parliament As a small rural school this means so much to us and we are Works, an interactive education programme hugely appreciative of your generosity” run by Education Services, a business unit of the Parliamentary Service.

The Trust’s funding means so much to these “Your travel subsidy meant much more to us than just financial schools and their students. In the words of support – it was just the lift we needed to believe that this trip two teaching staff: might be possible”

SCHOOLS FUNDED IN THE LAST TWO QUARTERS OF 2018 ARE

Tahakopa School Owaka Pukehou School Otane Oaklands School Halswell, Christchurch Sherenden & Districts School Hawkes Bay Redcliffs School Sumner, Christchurch Lawrence School Otago Pukehamoamoa School Hastings Tu Kura o Waikaremoana Wairoa Waiharara School Kaitaia Tangiteroria School Northland Waitakaruru School Thames Casebrook Intermediate Christchurch Hanmer Springs Primary School North Canterbury Mayfair Primary Hastings Lyttelton Primary School Canterbury Karangahake School Paeroa Taikura Rudolf Steiner School Hastings St Mary’s Hastings Maraekakaho School Hastings Normanby School Sth Hinds School Ashburton Wairere School Matamata-Piako Matauri Bay School Kaeo, Far North South Westland School Hari Hari Flat Bush School Otara Marshland School Nth Canterbury Miller Avenue School Paeroa New Brighton Catholic School Christchurch Greenmeadows Manurewa, Auckland Maromaku School Northland Intermediate School Te Kopuru School Northland

Select Committee Seminar - 13 June 6 CHIEF EXECUTIVE’S VISIT TO IPT IN LONDON

While in London to attend the RCS international Meetings, our CEO Darryl Stevens met up with his British counterpart Nick Maher, CEO of the Industry and Parliament Trust.

While the Industry and Parliament Trust is a much bigger organisation with a different focus, there are some common synergies between our respective objectives and operations.

NEW CORPORATE MEMBER

We are pleased to welcome NZ Landcorp, trading as Pāmu to the Trust. CEO Steven Carden.

Garden received his company’s membership certificate at the September President’s dinner and is pictured with our President, Rt Hon MP and Trust Board Chair, Peter Griffiths

7 OUR PRESENTERS

The Prime Minister

Hon MP

Rt Hon Hon Paula Bennett MP 8 Hon Iain Lees Galloway

Chloe Swarbrick MP

Hon

Hon Tim MacIndoe MP

Clayton Mitchell MP Hon MP 9 PRESIDENTS DINNERS

The Rt Hon Trevor Mallard Michael Hales Chief Executive NZ Agriseeds MP, in his capacity as Michael Bull Country Manager Fujitsu New Zealand Ltd President of the Trust hosted Ross Milne Chairman Deloitte two dinners for the Trust in Fraser Whineray Chief Executive Mercury NZ Ltd the second half of 2018. Peter Thompson Managing Director Barfoot & Thompson We were pleased to welcome Alan Carter Country Manager Sanofi the following corporate Chief Sam Abbott General Manager Imperial Tobacco Executives and company heads to the July dinner. The Hon Amy Adams, Spokesperson for Finance and David Seymour, Leader of ACT Party were our parliamentary guests of honour.

In September, we were Adele Rose Chief Executive 3R Group Ltd pleased to have the Hon Chris Lyman Chief Executive Lotto NZ , Minister Paul Smith Director NZ Merck Sharp & Dohme (NZ) LTD of Finance and Hon Tracey Steven Carden Chief Executive Pāmu (Landcorp Farming Ltd) Martin, Minister of Internal Michael Ahearne Chief Operating Officer SkyCity Entertainment Group Affairs dining with the following corporate guests: Alison Andrew Chief Executive Transpower NZ Ltd Kevin Kenrick Chief Executive TVNZ Joanne Mahon Chief Communications Southern Cross & Brand Officer

Peter Griffiths, Board Chair greets Hon Grant Robertson, Minister of Finance 10 July Dinner attendees

September Dinner attendees 11 PARLIAMENTARY SEMINARS

NZBPT PARLIAMENTARY SEMINAR WEDNESDAY 25 JULY 2018 LIST OF ATTENDEES

Sven Herselman 3R Group Ltd Diana Wilson NZ Post David Poppelwell Abbvie Ltd Andreas Kasoulides NZMA Gill Slaughter Abbvie Ltd Allan D’Souza Kim Nichols Airways Corporation Tim Brown PowerNet Penny Wells Christchurch International Airport Ltd Tiffany Heathfield Qantas Hyun Choi Deloitte Jessie Chiang Radio NZ David Hook Fujitsu New Zealand Ltd Sophie Hayman Russell McVeagh Dr Jim Lello GlaxoSmithKline NZ Limited Julie North Sealord Tanya Currie Goodman (NZ) Ltd Jo Lawrence-King Southern Cross Healthcare Group Chris Whelan Grant Thornton Elisabeth McCardle Spark NZ Catherine Reiss Hawkins/Downer Group NZ Megan Wiltshire St Johns Head Office Jess Etheridge IAG Michele Lee TVNZ Gary Dickson Imperial Tobacco Ltd Sarah Szegota Villa Maria Kat McDonald Lion - Beer, Spirits & Wine NZ Ltd Catherine Soper Vodafone Marcus Playle Lion - Beer, Spirits & Wine NZ Ltd Gina Dellabarca Liz Nicholson McDonald’s Restaurants (NZ) Ltd) Nicola Law Z Energy Polly Atkins Limited

12 PARLIAMENTARY SEMINAR PARTICIPANTS - OCTOBER

Toni Bye 3R Group Ltd Lucy Fontinha McDonalds Restaurants NZ Ltd Amy Moore Abbvie Alice Paine NZ Post Group Nick Burrows ACT Tertiary & Careers Group Ltd Vicki Woodley NZ Steel Sharon Cooke Airways Corporation of NZ Ltd Sharon Flynn OceanaGold Rowena Hume Beef + Lamb New Zealand Danielle Crawford OceanaGold Micah Radford Christchurch International Airport Ltd Mitch Knight Parliamentary Services Mary Kilkelly Deloitte Reinhold Goeschl Ports of Auckland Brooke Dahlberg Downer Rachael Watt PowerNet Douglas Guy Fonterra Sheryn Fearon Qantas Airways Bridget Catchpole Genesis Energy Jacqui Cammell Sanofi New Zealand Erynne Goosen GlaxoSmithKline NZ Ltd Campbell Gibson Southern Cross Healthcare Group Sebastian Nakielski Goodman Tim Rickerby Trading Limited Erynne Goosen GSK Elisabeth McCardle Spark NZ Glyn Jones IAG Kerri Osborne Transpower NZ Shannon Mackay Imperial Tobacco Australia Limited Luke Bodle TVNZ Rachel Burt Kensington Swan Alex Lagny Veolia Ltd Faith Thumath KiwiRail NZ Lise Mackie Vodafone NZ Ross Shepherd Landcorp Farming Limited Jeremy Clarke Z Energy Sophie Kurta LION

Board Deputy Chair – Nancy McConnell Seminar participants in action 13 BUSINESS STUDY ATTACHMENTS

The following Members of Brett Hudson Lion- Beer, Spirits & Wine NZ Ltd Parliament have in recent GlaxoSmithKline weeks completed their Kanwaljit Singh Bakshi Lotto NZ Business Attachments. Dr Fonterra Co - operative Group Angie Warren-Clark Foodstuffs We thank our corporate members for engaging with MP Progressive Enterprises the Trust and hosting these.

Fonterra Research and Development centre with Head of Research Centre Mark Piper and Workers Union General Secretary Chris Flatt

Board member Dr Foodservice business and installed a reserve osmosis Deborah Russell MP consumer business in New plant which purifies water Processing plant. recently completed a 3 day Zealand. For the second from the plant and recycling programme with the Fonterra day Deborah visited the it, which significantly reduces Briefings and discussions Co-operative Group. Fonterra Darfield factory site the amount of water the site were centred around which is one of Fonterra’s requires. An environmental food technology and the Starting in Auckland, the largest manufacturing site briefing and visits to two creation of brand new foods first day of her Attachment and where it produces milk Canterbury farms were also for exporting to off-shore comprised briefings and powders and cream . undertaken. markets and recent trials overviews on a wide range of Fonterra has conducted subject areas including trade This site was built by Day 3 of the programme to find new uses for dairy strategy, global business Fonterra and uses smart saw Deborah at the Fonterra products. strategy, traceability technology to reduce its Research and Development programme in addition to impact on the environment. Centre in Palmerston North the company’s roles as a The site has recently and Fonterra Brands NZ 14 Brett Hudson MP with Technical and Regulatory Leader David Meads looking around The Pride brewery, LION

Ginny Andersen with students from the Countdown Graduate Programme

Angie Warren-Clark MP pictured bottom right recently visited PAK’nSAVE Sylvia Park to see the good work they are doing repurposing and recycling their waste, including donating food each week to food rescue group KiwiHarvest, who then distribute it to those in need. 15 YOUTH PARLIAMENT

The Trust is once again Parliament programme proud to be associated provides an opportunity for with the Youth Parliament young people from around through a sponsored Aotearoa New Zealand to be competition, the details of heard, and for Youth MPs to which will be released in late actively work on topics and March. issues they are passionate about. Every three years, about 140 young New Zealanders The Youth Parliament 2019 experience Parliament as programme will occur from Youth MPs and Youth Press 01 March to 31 August Gallery members. The Youth 2019.

CHANGES AFOOT

Some exciting changes are to how we fund schools in the pipeline and will undertaking parliamentary be rolled out in 2019. visits and extending our These include a new tertiary funding packages website, social media, to include a wider range of revamped parliamentary Universities. seminars and changes

The NZBPT Secretariat work from an office on the top floor of the Parliamentary Library Building shown here at dusk. The building is the oldest part of Parliament Buildings and was completed in 1899.

Murray Hedwig Photograph

Room 2.022 Parliamentary Library Building Private Bag 18041 Parliament Buildings Wellington 6160