Takapuna North Community News

Winter Fun Pre-school play continues in August at Takapuna Community Hub and Sunnynook Community Centre. To find out more about our free Winter Fun pre-school play programme, visit our website or Facebook/summerfunplay 

Kennedy Park Petanque Club: New players welcome to this club in Castor Bay! Play socially at club level, or at inter-club and national levels. For more details, please contact Roger Brown (Club Captain) on 022 353 7606 or Grant Gardiner on 021424570. Club days are Tuesdays and Thursdays 1-3pm and Sundays 10am-noon.

Takapuna Library Housebound Service: If you are physically unable to visit a library and have no one to choose or collect items for you, Takapuna Library offers a Housebound service where volunteer drivers deliver books, audiobooks, magazines or DVDs to your door. Please contact Barbara Bell on 09 890 4901 or email barbara.bell@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz for more details.

Volunteers needed: Want to help empower young girls and women, or even teach them a new skill? Then we need you!

GirlGuiding New Zealand is looking for volunteers to help in Sunnynook on Tuesday or Thursday evenings.

If you have any questions, want to register your interest or would like to chat to us about options, go to www.girlguidingnz.org.nz or email Ciara.arnot@girlguidingnz.org.nz.

Sculpture on Shore needs volunteers. Can you help for a few hours? Volunteers needed from 25 October – 20 November for the 2018 NZ Sculpture OnShore Exhibition, Fort Takapuna, Devonport. Proceeds once again supporting NZ Women’s Refuges. For more information email Janet on helpnzsos@gmail.com or view the volunteer section on the website: www.nzsculptureonshore.co.nz.

Did you know that the Citizens Advice Bureau offers free advice? Please phone 0800 367 222 or visit a nearby branch.  CAB Takapuna is next to Takapuna library (09 486 3139). Call English Language Connect for advice in other languages: 09 624 2550 or 0800 78 88 77.

For more information, phone Sarah Thorne (Takapuna North Community Coordinator) on 486 2098 or email: office@takapunatrust.org.nz

Visit www.takapunatrust.org.nz

Facebook.com/takapunanorthcommunitytrust


Issue 90 August 2018