The Rev.Uesifiliu Anasa

Auckland Synod Minister

The Parish Administration Office.

The Opportunity to sell secondhand goods and vintage items that have been donated by individuals or businesses. The items range from books, homeware,clothing,shoes,accessories, and some electronoc goods. Opportunity shops are usually run by churches and non profitable organizations. The aim is to raise funds for their programs and services . Some shops special in market branding of certain items. They are families who like to save, and who budget for sustainabilty. What is their business?

The Glen Eden Methodist Parish administration office

Others company proposed partnerships alliance with Lifewise, the NZ Methodist Church, and optinal The Ted Mason Foundation, supported by the Airedale Property Trust , Waitakere Community Outreach our Foodbank, and lifewise Early Childhood Centre.

Church sustainabilty efforts apply across different religious groups to work together to promote ecological sustainabilty for clean air, clean rivers and ocean waters, and the control of toxic substances . The colloraboration of the differing faiths groups enables each group to leverage their expertise to share a common goal.

the church sustainabilty involves the development of outreach and eduational facilities. Helping to promote environment outreach and awareness practices to others.

The church supports ethnic diversity of religion from the Pacific Islands, Asian community, spiritual practises . Their is an importance of incorporating different cultural perspectives and practices for sustainable solutions. It was plays an important part in helping to promote environmental traditional costume practices for birthdays, weddings, fdunerals, and new borns.

The church interfaith sustainability plays a critic role in advancing and helping politically economic justice, legal justice, construction and safety of building for all community groups to ensure health and safety for our future children and generation.

The Church interfaith sustainability measures across all religious diversity and worship practices. It also recognises the importance of the young people who will take over the traditions of the old practices of the Op Shop and will support the traditions of the new ideas to run the Parish Op Shop in the near future.

Collaboration. Bringing together people from other different divesity & culture , from difference domains.To protect the environment and promote good living. Helping to create diverse perspectives. Helping to increase impact by bring together people from other churches.Having a collective voice and action with other groups will inspire others to take action. Having strength in numbers. Churches are able to mobile congregations and communities. The deveopment of spirtual emotions who care for the their faith.

The Parish Op Shop weakness could be the lack of support for volunteer future pooling. This will be totally dependent on the support of the other organizations which will be dependent upon the church and its congregrations. It woud cause for less working hours, and difficulty to mainting good profits, for its overall operation. Limited funding support, limited church donations, and contribution from all the church members to fund the operation which maybe inconsistant or substantive enough to fully support to whole Op Shop needs . Also limiting marketing and advertising through social media outlets. Yes church use bulletens to attract audiences but it would be insufficient to attract outside groups. Not having the right type of marketing the shop will find itself struggling.. Limited space and resources depending on the space available on the church property in front of the main carpark . Limited space to display merchandise , or shops appearance and functionality. Competition from other thift shop in the area, and others that maybe already well established..

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The real threats for the Op Shop is decreasing sales depending upon the the fluctuating trends or factors on a slump in sales to to market changes. Insuffcient funds will affect the sustainablity of the shop. Inventory management is usually labour intensive. Failure to manage it properly will have an impact on the profitability. The cost per rent if its to high the space may not make up the profits required. It is therefore important to find affordable rent and to negotiate the rent to align with the size of the business. Competition in an competing market place can lead the reducing margins affecting profitability. Donations sometime are to small and umwanted items which are not sellable waste time .

The Opportunity shop partnership could share a proportion of its profits to LifeWise or to other social organizations. The Parish OpShop can support the churches partnership by allocating a proportion of its profits to the church for its social outreach initiatives but will also provide a sense of purpose in ciontributing to the cause. Promoting reuseable and environmental friendly items by encouraging and selling reuseable and sustainable items. These could include waterbottles, recyclable packaging, clothing materials from organic materials.The opportunity to tackle environment social issues for recyclying, repairing, upcycling, and outposting. Partnering with local business to promote sustable living. Could help to organize events such as special market days workshops.The opportunity to explore fresh outleit issues for creating postive impact on the society of Glen Eden .

The real challenge is finding sufficient funding and investment to attract organizations to build the Op Shop on our own church property. For lifewise to support our strategic plan to form a central sustainable hub for their social housing plans and our social community needs and values.

Finding sufficient regular donations of good value to sell. Thew importance of having an inventory of quality items to attract customers. The current competition thats has already been well established second hand goods. our unqueness in allowing the customer to potter and scamble amongst all the items. The kindness and support of the voluntary management who give up their precious time to apply their skills to help others. Our pricing structure remains to be competitive compared to all the other opportunity shops. Market must be continual to attract customers and donors. Regulation can play a part in say the restriction on selling of certain goods eg Electrical standards of testing.

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The economics and benfits of the Parish Op Shop is dewpendent upon its low costing of its items and goods.The church and its interfaith community and financial sustainability of the Parish Op Shop is dependent upon each other. The other very impact aspect of the churches interfaith community and responsiblity is the running of the management of resources . This includes managing inventory, reducing waste , and optimizing pricing strategies to maximize revenue. This type of management can ensure financial sustainable over long periods of time. The other issue is the need to balance fanancial sustainability with the charitable objectives of the church.Careful management requires budgeting, forecasting, and monitoring of financial performances.In summary the economic of the church interfaith community and financial responsibilty of running sustainable profitable opportunity of the church. The Parish Op shop needs to carefully manage all resources of optimizing strategy pricing which needs to be balanced with their charitable objectives and goals. Acheiving these balanced goals the Parish Op Shop can ewffectively support their community. Economics

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