Rob Campbell: Haka from Dave Leteles BBM charity team after adviser role announcement [Video]

OPINION:

A thundering haka greeted me from BBM team and programme participants when Dave Letele gathered the team at the Manukau HQ this morning to tell them that I was taking on a role as adviser to BBM.

I’ve been working, first as an early morning workout/boxfit participant, then gradually getting more involved in the funding side of BBM, for some years now.

When I was first asked about taking on the role of what became Te Whatu Ora both Dave, team leaders and some participants urged me to do so. We all thought I could maybe make a difference at that level, that my experience as a director who had some contact with flax roots health and social issues would be worthwhile.

I hope it was, though I did find the experience frustrating and often exhausting. Gradually I came to question more and more of the new structure which had …