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Birthright believes that all children have the right to a happy, secure and loving home environment. We work with families to facilitate the growth of confidence, skills and resilience within the family unit and its individual members.

ActivedadsMarlborough is all about getting dads thinking about their important role as a parent of an under 5. Times are changing and most dads now are ACTIVELY involved in the upbringing of their children. Co-parenting is a reality for a lot of families, rather than the mother being the only primary caregiver in the first few years. Father's can have a real impact and their involvement will benefit their children from the day they are born. Our focus will be with dads through the first 5 years of their child's life. This is when the majority of the brain is connected (wired) & prepared for life, relationships are formed and a whole lot of fun is to be had (amongst the many challenges & sheer frustrating moments of course!). ActivedadsMarlborough will offer members regular newsletters (containing resources, ideas for cool local activties and more), events that are either social, practical or educational (or a mixture of all of these things) and the opportunity to hear from other dads going through the same experiences as you! Remember it's free to join so sign up today.

Taiaotea Air Scouts is for youths from 6-18 years old. We do all the normal SCOUT type activities such as lots of fun & games, camping, knots, outdoor skills etc. but as Air Scouts we also have an interest in aviation. With a history of providing high-quality aviation training to young New Zealanders, SCOUTS New Zealand is proud of its Air Scout Groups whose programmes include specialised air-based activities. Taiaotea Air SCOUTS are also very active in the community. The Cub section have won the “Best Float” award 4 years running in the Browns Bay Christmas parade. The Keas have had wins in sand sculptures, the Scout section are current holders of the Mahurangi Zone Raft Race trophy (not bad for Air Scouts), the Venturer Section also hold the raft race trophy in their section & also won their division in the Browns Bay Community Raft Race. SCOUTS are active on tree plantings days, they do lots of fundraising (sausage sizzles, collection of Christmas trees, fire wood bagging etc.) poppy selling for the RSA & other community projects.

We are a non-profit independent community group provided to serve the residents of Christchurch, impacted from the effects of the multitude of earthquakes and aftershocks since September 4th 2010. We are volunteers who are passionate about Christchurch being rebuilt for the people. The website operates independently alongside the Rebuild Christchurch Foundation . The Foundation was set up to help on the ground with the issues that many of our residents continue to face. We aim to help keep the public engaged through the Rebuild of Christchurch. The independence of rebuildchristchurch.co.nz is clear with direct engagement with and contribution from CERA, CCC, EQC, EQR, media, networks residents and other organisations that are responsible for shaping our city’s future. The website offers a service where you can have your opinion. You can post images, articles, opinion pieces and more. All this information will help to record the time line of how we rebuild our city, our lives and our community. Community Empowerment via www.rebuildchristchurch.co.nz Aim: To provide a platform for both community empowerment and hope following the major earthquakes of 2010 and 2011 By providing a platform that both engages with users on the issues of topics in their neighbourhood and assisting them to understand and have an awareness of the situation they face in an ever changing environment. What we provide: · Media — any time that information relating to your neighbourhood is circulated in the news we publish this in the relevant suburb feed. We collect information through mainstream media outlets, community papers, neighborhood blogs, discussion boards and automatically update this section when it is mentioned. · Neighbourhood messages — We plan to include discussion forums on each section within the suburbs where residents groups in those areas can update and call to action any needs arising. The more people get involved the better for each suburb. This will include calendars and other tools. · Official information — We work alongside the official rebuild and recovery agencies as the “go to” place for disseminating information to our residents of Christchurch. All the releases made by the government, local council, business sector, NGO sector and even residents themselves are posted to the main section of the site and tagged to the suburbs as appropriate where residents can view the information they need to know. Projects; We intend to introduce a project section which will include; building consent data, businesses that are operating, latest roadwork information and any other rebuild relevant information for that suburb. This is where users, through applications we develop, will be able to know what rebuild activities are happening in the area they live. Residents will also be able to contribute to this by uploading images of existing and newly identified projects which will add to the large amount of relevant information for that suburb. It will also serve to reassure residents that they are providing a valuable service towards documenting the rebuild over the next 10 years. Why do we provide this: In many cases, this information is already on the Web but is buried in hard-to-find government databases or other websites that are not easy to find or popular. In some, this information has never been posted online. We have developed and will continue to develop relationships with government and other agencies to make it readily and reliably available. · Fun and activity from across the Web — We have agreements with many local photographers to use their images as a documentation. We will integrate this information to Facebook and Twitter to involve neighbourhoods and empower people to share their own information where they see fit. As part of this, keep an eye out for the fun events we plan to host. Problems we solve: We saw that there lacked a good place to keep track of everything happening related to the earthquake; from news coverage to events to photography. We try to collect all of the news, events, topics and Government dealings that have happened recently in the city, and make it simple to keep track of news in particular suburban areas. There also lacked a good way to post messages to your neighbors online. Facebook lets you post messages to your friends, Twitter lets you post messages to your followers, but no well-used service that let you post a message to people in a given suburb area. We plan to remedy this by including a forum into each suburb for people to post and keep up to date. We have a long road ahead and together we will rebuild a new Christchurch. If you have questions please email us by using the contact us page. We are interested in working with any community group to help spread the word and keep everyone up to date and informed. Thank you

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The Temple concept is not one that would normally spring to mind. We are not talking about a building devoted to a god, demigod or other religious practice; we are talking about creating an open and safe space to allow people to let go of their emotions. The Temple we are making is in the style of David Best and the Burning Man festival. The tradition started in 2000 when David’s friend died in a vehicle accident while David was preparing to go to Burning Man. He ummed and ahhed over whether to go, but in the end David decided to honour his lost friend’s memory by attending the festival and building a structure dedicated to him. Inspired and moved by this first Temple, other participants wrote their own dedications to lost love ones. By the end of the event, the structure was covered in all sorts of dedications and was burned on the last night. David Best continued to build the Temple every year until 2007. Since then, a number of different art crews, including IAM, have built the Temple in the Nevada desert as well as starting the same tradition at the many regional Burning Man events around the world, including New Zealand’s own Kiwiburn. Over the years, the Temple has developed a life and culture of its own. It is a place for people to write their deepest sorrows or greatest joys; to mourn their lost loved ones or to celebrate their love for life; a place for people to cry and a place for people to celebrate. Poems, photos, shrines, letters and mementos are pinned, posted and penned all over the Temple walls, helping to create an ever-growing communal dialogue about what touches us deeply as individuals and the shared experience of our humanity. The cathartic climax of the Temple is reached on the last day of the festival when it is burned in front of tens of thousands of people, who bear emotional witness to the promise of release and renewal that fire brings. It is a moving and emotional experience. This is the Temple we are trying to create: a space for the people of Christchurch to let go of some of the emotions that have built up over the last 14 months and to help them move on with their lives.

Christchurch Women's Refuge was New Zealand's first women's refuge. The overall agency is now known as Aviva (FB - Aviva Families), to better represent the women, children and men it supports through a unique range of specialist family violence services. Christchurch Women's Refuge remains the name of the agency's Safe House.

An exciting volunteer network of around 25 online forums for specific areas of Christchurch, New Zealand. Visit the http://Neighbours.cc to join the forum for your area. Led by local volunteers and hosted on E-Democracy.org.

Viva! is an exciting project initiated by a group of Christchurch people who are committed to actively promoting sustainable developments for the central Christchurch rebuild. The team is presently initiating the plans for the development of a sustainable urban village on an inner city block.

Sport Canterbury is New Zealand ’s leading regional sports trust, responsible for promoting sport and physical activity throughout Greater Christchurch, Mid and South Canterbury, and West Coast communities. We engage over 100,000 people each year in programmes supporting participation, development and performance.

Children learn though play. It is essential for their development, especially in today’s society where the concept of ‘free play’ barely exits. My classes offer children the chance to discover themselves, use their imaginations, explore boundaries, learn to focus and have fun though playful yoga routines, games and relaxation. Community is important so I invite mums, dads and caregivers to rediscover their inner child – come along for Fun. Together!

Centre Coordinator Heather Chapman.