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Mental Health Awareness Week 2024: Community is...what we create together
The Mental Health Foundation has created a series of videos profiling four people who were impacted by major 2023 storms, and how they navigated their recovery by staying connected to their community, or by helping one another.
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Last call: Council adopts local alcohol policy for Auckland
It’s been almost a decade in the making - Auckland’s local alcohol policy will come into effect in two stages, taking full effect in December 2024.
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Local alcohol policy due to go before council
Auckland Council will decide when the policy will come into effect at a future meeting of its governing body.
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Red Cross ‘home bundles’ offer a little more hope to struggling households
New Zealand Red Cross and the Recovery Office are giving a little more hope to storm-impacted households across Tāmaki Makaurau.
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Auckland Council support returns the Anchorage mate wareware (dementia) day care service to Tāmaki Basin
Older Aucklanders in Panmure, Glen Innes and Point England who are living with dementia now have a wonderful new mate wareware (dementia) day care centre closer to home.
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Know where it’s safe to swim in the Waitematā
The rāhui and blanket public health advice not to swim in the Waitematā Harbour is starting to lift as green ticks return to Auckland’s safeswim.org.nz
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Navigators are here to help
Based in storm affected communities across Tāmaki Makaurau, Storm Recovery Navigators (Navigators) from Auckland Council’s Tāmaki Makaurau Recovery Office (Recovery Office) have hit the ground running and are here to help you!
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Interview with Linda Greenalgh
An interview with Linda Greenalgh who leads the Community and Social Recovery programme within the Recovery Office.
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Five ways to wellbeing
These are five super simple actions to give your mental health a boost.
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Mental health awareness week
Tāmaki Makaurau Recovery Office wants to take this opportunity to acknowledge the immense toll the extreme weather events earlier this year have had on the mental and emotional health of many whānau across Auckland.
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Young leaders show the way in fight to enhance the health of Manukau Harbour
Young people are taking a hands-on role in preserving the Manukau Harbour.
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Clubs already winners as World Cup kicks off
With just hours before the Football Ferns kicked off against Norway to launch the FIFA Women’s World Cup, Auckland councillor Daniel Newman says many clubs across the city, including at Papakura, are already winners.
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Orienteering at Auckland's regional parks
Explore our parks in a new way and test your navigational skills on an orienteering adventure. Check out these five beginner-friendly courses to explore.
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Bike Auckland is on a mission to show that cycling is for everyone
With everything from handcycles and wheelchair bikes to trishaws and tandems, Bike Auckland’s TryACycle events are putting the spotlight on accessible cycling.
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Where to for Manukau Harbour shorelines?
Public input is sought into Shoreline Adaptation Plans that will inform the management of large sections of coastline along the Manukau Harbour for the next 100 years.
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Young environmental leaders step up
Young environmental leaders have attended a sustainability wānanga.