About Us

who we are

Since 2011, Origenate has been dedicated to the provision of free services to register births and obtain birth certificates – we call these our SignUp Days ©.

Our early iterations include Minimbah Project.

We are committed to our aim of providing every Australian with a Birth Certificate as a first right of citizenship.

Our values are based around your IDENTITY:

I – Involved: Assisting in the identity provisions for Australia’s most vulnerable citizens
D – Dedicated: Providing appropriate service with care and support.
E – Ethical: Encouraging and practicing trust and ethical activities
N – Noticeable: Creating processes that are easy to understand / Being a Charity of first choice
T – Trustworthy: worth the trust that others place in us through continuous improvement in our service delivery
I – Innovative: Working closely with appropriate agencies to streamlines processes.
T – Tireless: Hard work and perseverance
Y – Yes!: Helping others to be able to say YES to their goals

Our Board

Will Winter

Chair

Will derives great satisfaction from strengthening the economic, social and environmental fabric of rural communities. Will is driven to realise multi-faceted and justly distributed value propositions via collaborative endeavours, engaging with diverse stakeholder groups in the pursuit of synergistic outcomes via respectful, honouring relationships, for a sustainable plane and intergenerational prosperity for our children.

Peter McClenaghan

Deputy Chair

Peter is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer, leading the way in leadership development; organisational behaviour, organisational development and planning and research methods. Peter also consults to organisations on leadership development; team building, values based leadership and change.

Sam Doyle

Board Member

Sam enjoys building a strong rapport with his client in his role in the legal profession, and strives to achieve the best outcome for them. Sam has a broad knowledge of commercial; corporate and probate law.

Kip Werren

Board Member / Treasurer

Kip is a Lecturer in the University of New England’s Law School. He is passionate about sharing information for building vibrant and strong regional futures through land management; biodiversity; tourism and economic development.

Lyn Gollan

Board Member

Lyn is an experienced administrative assistant, adept in a range of skills including customer service, logistics management and policy creation and implementation. Lyn also enjoys Debate Adjudicating, and is fluent in French.

Gary Massie

Board Member

Gary is an expert in change leadership, particularly in the sales and operations disciplines. Gary’s passion is to work with business to achieve higher profits through the introduction of improved work practices.

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Email: hello@origenate.org.au

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