Gisborne Neighbourhood Support

27/09/2026

Mōrena!

School holidays are officially on, and this is what's on the menu for week one!

Bombing sessions are on for 15 minutes every hour from 11am to 3pm daily in the 50m pool.

Keep an eye out for events and next week's menu 🙌

Good luck, parents; we've got this 🤞🏼

25/09/2026

Last chance to put your name forward for this great job.

19/08/2026

📣 Our first Gisborne Neighbourhood Support newsletter is coming!

We’re excited to be getting ready to release our first newsletter, keeping our community up to date with what’s happening with Gisborne Neighbourhood Support, useful information, community initiatives and ways we can all help make our neighbourhoods safer and more connected. 💙

If you’d like to receive it, please send us a private message with your email address and we’ll add you to our mailing list.

We’d love to have you on board!
Gisborne Neighbourhood Support — tātou tātou, all of us. 🤝

11/08/2026

Your responsibilities will include:
• connecting households and neighbourhoods
• promoting Neighbourhood Support and running events
• building relationships with community partners
• maintaining regular communications through social media and newsletters.

You may be our ideal candidate if you:
• Enjoy working with a diverse range of people and have excellent networking skills
• Have great communication skills that you can apply to everything from talking to groups to writing newsletters and funding applications
• Are well-organised, with effective time management and administration skills
• Are confident with IT and social media
• Have a sense of fun and a passion for making a difference in the community
• Have experience in planning and running events
• Have worked in the NGO sector, preferably in a community development role.

Email us at the address below to see a job description or more information about the role.
To apply please send a covering letter and CV to [email protected] by 5pm on 31 August 2026.

09/08/2026

📣 Our first Gisborne Neighbourhood Support newsletter is in the pipeline! 🏡❤️

We’ll be sharing updates on what we’re doing, what’s coming up, opportunities to get involved, and how we can work with our communities to build stronger connections, safety and resilience.

If you’d like to receive our newsletter, please send us a message through Facebook and we’ll add you to our mailing list. 📧

We’d love to have you along for the journey and remember, our Share Your Idea campaign is still underway, so please keep your ideas coming! 💡

Together, we can build stronger, safer and more connected communities.

09/08/2026

🌱 Neighbourhood Support is evolving!

Traditionally, the old Neighbourhood Watch model was largely about watching your street and reporting crime. Today, Neighbourhood Support is about so much more including knowing your neighbours, communicating, preparing and looking after one another.

We believe the next step is building strong community resilience networks - asking what does this community need, and how can we connect the people and organisations that can help?

That is why we have launched our “SHARE YOUR IDEA” campaign. We don’t want to decide what every neighbourhood needs from the top down - we want to hear it from you, the community:
- What would make your neighbourhood safer, more connected and more resilient?
- What would work for your street or community? What would you like Neighbourhood Support to provide?
- How could we achieve this?
- How to utilise the growing power of social media?
- What ideas do YOU have?
- IDEAS can include BBQ's, workshops, casual meet-ups, emergency resilience support and training teamwork, street, suburb meetings (when/how often), what are your local needs, what would be your ideal resource tool-kit for your community, using Whatsapp to communicate together as a street. So many ideas!!!

We have been developing a model to work with the strengths and organisations already within our communities, rather than duplicating what is already being done. Our role is to help connect people, provide resources and support communities to build their own resilience.

BUT Gisborne communities can do things a little bit differently than other city or town based groups are doing! What could that look like!

So please KEEP YOUR IDEAS COMING! 💡❤️ You can post on our page or provide your response through our portal under our Share Your Idea video pinned above.

This is your community, and we want to build Neighbourhood Support with you, not for you.

06/08/2026

Support local and your support then goes further in supporting a vital charity. east coast cancer society

06/08/2026

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06/08/2026

13/07/2026

Do you have any input to share with Gisborne District Council about Climate Adaptation? Neighbourhoods working together is a great step forward for this adaptation.
An idea - garden sharing, solar distribution, resource sharing....
What are you already doing that is great and you think others would like to do similar.

Be part of the development of our Climate Change Adaption and Mitigation Strategy