Events

International Volunteer Day

5 Dec 2008

Promotional tool kit available from Community Net Aotearoa.

Neighbourhood Week

Friday 31 October - Sunday 9 November 2008

What is it?

Neighbourhood Week is a week dedicated to getting to know the people who live close to you. It is an opportunity to get to know the people in your neighbourhood.

Why have Neighbourhood Week?

Neighbours can be powerful allies in helping to address issues such as loneliness and fear of crime.

What can I do?

Past events that people have organised include:

• Neighbourhood picnics, parties and barbecues
• Neighbourhood sports such as street cricket or soccer
• Potluck dinners
• Hired a skip and cleaned up the street
• Public meetings with guest speakers
• Morning teas
• Monster street garage sales
• Wine and cheese evenings
• Cultural feasts / fairs / gala days - celebrating diversity!
• Starting a Neighbourhood Support Group

Other ideas include baking a cake or buying a packet of biscuits and going and knocking on your neighbour's door, especially the elderly, those at home with young families, those from different cultures and those you don't know.

Neighbourhood Support New Zealand encourages you to use Neighbourhood Week 2008 to get to know your neighbours.