Volunteering in Greater Wellington
Here are a small selection of the roles we have listed under ‘Practical Help’ on our website. Volunteering is a great way to get involved in your local community, meet new people and have fun! Don’t forget if these roles don’t suit we have hundreds more available, listed by category (Administration, Animals, Art etc), and location.
⭐ Link to all Practical Help roles: tinyurl.com...
✅ Kitchen Assistant: Join a kitchen team who are providing nourishing meals to elderly residents.
✅ Hospital guides: Meet and greet members of the public and provide directions.
✅ Driver for Meals on Wheels: Deliver meals to elderly, unwell and disabled people living at home who would otherwise struggle to provide healthy meals for themselves.
Give us a call if you want to chat about volunteering, we have offices in Wellington City, Lower Hutt and Porirua.
☎️ Wellington 04 499 4570
☎️ Lower Hutt 04 566 6786
☎️ Porirua 020 4069 3653
Poll: Is the increase in disability parking fines fair?
In October, the fine for parking in a designated mobility car park without a permit has jumped from $150 to $750—a 400% increase!
The goal is to keep these spaces open for those who truly need them. Do you think this big increase in the fine is fair? Share your thoughts below.
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89.2% Yes, it's fair
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10% No, it's unreasonable
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0.8% Other - I'll share below
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THE POST FOREGOES ITS OWN TEAM
Wellington Lions (men's provincial rugby rep team) brilliantly won the Bunnings NPC last Saturday but The Post (Wellington's daily newspaper) has done absolutely no follow-up article/story in the days following the brief report on the Monday edition.
In fact the Auckland-based NZ Herald carried much more surrounding Wellington's success.
What use is this Wellington newspaper - the "great" amalgamated successor of the Dominion and The Evening Post which had presented a Trump-like lie in stating it was going to to be twice as good and as large as either of the two newspapers it derived from and with a smorgasbord of journalists.
Today it is a limp, dwindling, sometimes delivered soggy cut-down-to-comic-size newspaper that cannot even capture the essence of a stunning sports win by an outstanding team of Super Rugby and All Black quality players within its realm of distribution.