Let's Connect for Neighbours Aotearoa 2025
Kia Ora, I’m Reez, your local Taranaki Champ for Neighbours Aotearoa 2025.
What’s Neighbours you ask? Neighbours Aotearoa is a nationwide community-led initiative asking everyone to get to know their neighbours a little better over the month of March - and the rest of the year!
What can you do to get involved? Planning an event for your neighbourhood! Do you love a BBQ? A street party? What about a community garden or little library in front of your house? If those sorts of things aren’t your jam, we can help with loads of low cost to no cost ideas. Starting a street wide facebook page to keep up to date to things happening around your neighbourhood, or sharing tools, skills, or items you are looking to exchange or give away. The ideas are endless (even offering to help bring your neighbours bin in or mow their lawn once in a while), it’s all about fostering a lasting connection, and feeling happier and safer in your neighbourhoods.
We would love if people would submit their ideas on how they will engage with their neighbours (no matter how big or small the interaction is) via the Neighbours Aotearoa website - so we can see all of the awesome ways people are connecting, and share those ideas in following years. It also helps us to keep the movement going in terms of future funding for the project.
Please reach out to me if you have any questions, or want help making an idea come to fruition. We have plenty of resources to help you get your idea off the ground!
Submit your idea here: neighboursaotearoa.nz...
Council Meeting for older adults & people with disabilities
The mayor and a slim majority of the newly elected NPDC councillors are keen to see the, “Age and Accessibility Working Party”, a long-standing Council committee, scrapped.
This is not to save the minimal cost of having such a committee. But simply put; it means these councillors believe that older adults and all those with disabilities in our community do not warrant being recognised, respected or treated as people whose voice is important, to them.
On Thursday 18 December (that is, this coming Thursday) at 10am, in the Council Debating Chamber, the full council will have an opportunity to vote, “to Re-establish an Age and accessibility Working Party”.
But we need your help to get it passed. We need you at the meeting to show your support for this committee. This committee is important for the voice of the older person or people who have accessibility or challenges in our community, to be heard.
We have many in examples of what happens when council fails to listen to people with disabilities, resulting in remedial work costing tens of thousands of dollars.
Let’s support those councillors who do support the reinstatement of this committee.
Please consider joining the myriad of organisations supporting older adults and those with disabilities.
If you cannot come to the Council chambers, email the Mayor and inform him what you think. His email is; max.brough@npdc.govt.org.nz.
I hope that we will see you there.
There is parking for just $1 per hour at the YMCA opposite the Council in Liardet Street.
Poll: Are our Kiwi summer holidays helping us recharge, or holding the economy back? ☀️🥝
There’s growing debate about whether New Zealand’s extended Christmas break (and the slowdown that comes with it) affects productivity.
Tracy Watkins has weighed in ... now it’s your turn. What’s your take? 🤔
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73.1% We work hard, we deserve a break!
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16.2% Hmm, maybe?
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10.7% Yes!
Brain Teaser of the Day 🧠✨ Can You Solve It? 🤔💬
How many balls of string does it take to reach the moon?
(Peter from Carterton kindly provided this head-scratcher ... thanks, Peter!)
Do you think you know the answer? Simply 'Like' this post and we'll post the answer in the comments below at 2pm on the day!
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