Get together with your neighbours next month
Applications open in early September for funding from Christchurch City Council’s six community boards to support community activities for Neighbourhood Week 2005.
Running from 29 October to 4 November, Neighbourhood Week is all about getting to know the people who live close to you. It’s about saying “hi” to your neighbours, chatting to them over the fence, inviting them in for a cuppa, or hosting a local gathering. A small subsidy is available through the city’s Community Boards to assist with these events.
Neighbourhood Week was started in Christchurch in 1998 to recognise the power of neighbourhoods to help address issues like loneliness, fear of crime, lack of security and isolation. Past events that people have organised to mark the week have included barbecues, morning teas, street parties, shared dinners, working bees, Halloween parties, colouring competitions, family fun days, neighbourhood planting days, open days at local community centres and community gardens, fireworks celebrations, community walks, and walking school buses.
- Look out for leaflets at Council offices, Service Centres and libraries soon, or call 941 8999 to find out more. Every funding applicant will go in a draw to win a cruise with Lyttelton-based Sea Cruises — why not take your neighbours and get to know them even better.
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