: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). Today Gloriavale was granted permission to appeal the Pilgrim ruling that found the Girls were employees and entitled to minimum…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). This is a blog post on the contents of three news artielces that were printed at the end of April…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). I have spoken to a lot of leavers since the Escaping Utopia DocuSeries went to air, and the vast majority…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). There has been ample opportunity for dissection on the Escaping Utopia Docuseries recently, and I wanted to share with you…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). As predicted the 3 part docuseries Escaping Utopia brought the Gloriavale issue front and centre into the living rooms of…
: A document produced by the Gloriavale Leavers’ Support Trust, in consultation with a significant number of Gloriavale Leavers. The intention of the document is to cast a better vision for Gloriavale. It seeks to identify what reform or closure might look like. Introduction The Gloriavale Christian Community says that they…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). Escaping Utopia is on the lips of everyone I’ve met this week. My guess is half of New Zealand will…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers, current members or the Trust). Background In 2022 the Government was suitably concerned about Gloriavale (finally!). A Public Services Commissioner was charged with overseeing the…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and views expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers or current members). It’s been an interesting week. It started with a meeting 60 Gloriavale leavers attended (in-person and on Zoom). The legal team wanted…
: Opinion piece: Liz Gregory. (Thoughts, opinions and view expressed here belong to Liz Gregory and may or may not represent the views of all leavers or current members). For a quick summary of the Judge’s most helpful comments, click here.For those who want to read the full judgement you can…
