Kia ora koutou! I’m Blair Cameron and I am super excited to be in NBS Dancing for a Cause 2025!!

When my friend Ben Douglas nominated me at last year’s event I have to say I was more than a bit terrified. I have never done any dancing in my life and dancing in front of a packed Trafalgar Centre is going to be a huge challenge. But I’m always up for a challenge, and this could not be for a better cause.

I’m 33, I live in Nelson, and I work remotely from here for World Bank teams in Asia and in Washington DC. My career has taken me across Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America, but I decided to return home in 2020 when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. While I was overseas, my family relocated to Te Tau Ihu from Methven, so I decided to make Nelson my home and have been loving it ever since! When I’m not working or having a crack at politics I spend my time playing social sport, getting out for a kayak, or tramping in the three awesome national parks our region is so lucky to have.

Like a lot of people across Nelson Tasman, I’ve had a family member who has received care from the fantastic team at Hospice, and I am excited to try and raise as much as I can so that Hospice can continue providing such high quality care to people in our community and their families as they go through a really tough time.

I am very much looking forward to meeting my dance partner (who definitely has their work cut out for them – I apologise in advance for my lack of coordination!), and to getting to know all of the other dancers as we go on this journey together!