Hawkes Bay Literacy Association

*To encourage literacy learning, * To encourage research in literacy education, * To publish results of significant literacy investigations and practices,*To foster continuing literacy education programmes for teachers, *To encourage and support the work of reading/literacy councils in New Zealand, *To provide and promote meetings and conferences on literacy, *To foster national and international cooperation the the field of literacy, * To advise and make representations on matters related to literacy, *To promote literacy in the wider community