WHO WE ARE:

SeniorNet HBC Inc
Telephone 09 426 1509. (9.00 am to 3.00 pm, Monday to Friday, mid-January to mid-December.)
Postal Address: SeniorNet HBC Inc., P.O.Box 637, Orewa, 0946.
Our Learning Centre is at 117 Centreway Road, Orewa.
Parking is available in the parking area in front of the house.

SeniorNet HBC Inc is a member of the Federation of New Zealand SeniorNet Societies Incorporated. We are one of the 92 independent SeniorNet societies throughout New Zealand that are members of the Federation, with a total of approximately 17,000 members. (See SeniorNet Federation and the Links Page for the web sites of some other societies.)

Seniornet HBC Inc was set up in 1999 by a group of interested people following initiatives by Telecom, and since then has received sponsorship from the ASB Trusts, Rodney District Council, Rotary, Air New Zealand, and Rothmans Foundation through Ian Watt of the Stables Bar (Whangaparaoa Shopping Centre).
Seniornet HBC Inc enrols approximately 150 new members per year and had 666 members as at October 2007.

For some photographs of our activities, refer to our photographs page, and for other details, our other pages.

The committee for 2008 / 2009, elected at the Annual Meeting in August 2008, is:
Chairman:
Ian Turner, Telephone: 09 428 3009, email. Webmaster.
Deputy Chairman:
Alf Crawford, Telephone 09 428 516. email.
Past Chairman:
John Barnett, Telephone 09 424 1966. email. Coordinator of Induction and Introduction to Computer Courses
Treasurer:
Dirk Vroegop, Telephone 09 424 8639. email. Also Safety Officer and Privacy Officer
Secretary:
Rhys Thompson, Telephone: 09 426 5421, email.
Committee Members:
Joan Adams, Telephone 09 426 9871. email. Coordinator of Courses other than Introduction to Computers.
Zita Allinson, Telephone 09 420 3180 email. Workshops Coordinator.
Peg Boulter, Telephone: 09 427 9434, email. Help Centre Coordinator.
Wynne HaySmith, Telephone: 09 427 8199, email. Tutor Training Coordinator.
Don MacLean, Telephone: 09 424 2253, email. Hardware Manager.
Nyree McGregor, Telephone 09 424 8714 email. Publicity Coordinator.
Audrey Walker, Telephone 09 424 7408. email. Tutor Coordinator.
Vacancy: Newsletter Editor

The following people help the work of the club without being on the committee:
The volunteers who staff the Help Centre.
Athol Agnew, acts as an assistant to the Treasurer by banking all money received.
Henny Kooger looks after the welfare of club members.

The Committee meets in the Learning Centre usually on the Fridays of Week 4 and Week 8 of each term at 1.30 p.m.

Equipment:
The club fully owns the following equipment:
Twenty-five fast networked computers, with CD/DVD writers and full multi-media facilities. The software used is Windows Vista Ultimate and XP Pro, MS Works, OFFICE 2003 and 2007, Internet Explorer, Outlook Express, Publisher 2000 & later and Photoshop. The networked computers share a broadband connection.
Scanners.
Printers.
Two datashow projectors for demonstrations.
Large photocopier.
Digital Camera.

The tutors are financial members of the society and give their services free. Income from members is used to pay the rent of the premises, the cost of the telephone connection and purchases and on-going upgrading of equipment. All maintenance is provided at no labour cost by club members. Some government funding has been available.