Tips + Advice

Ideas and resources for connecting with your neighbours​​
 

• Look Out: Help keep your community safe by looking out for your neighbours. If something doesn’t look right, let someone know or get help. Check in with your neighbours after bad weather events and natural disasters. 
   

• Reach Out: It just takes a wave! Say ‘Kia ora!’ or introduce yourself. Take around some baking or excess from your fruit trees. There are many ways to make your street welcoming for everyone who lives there.
   

• Help Out​​: Little things can make a big difference! Have a chat with someone who lives alone, clear the drains in your street before a storm, bring in the mail for a neighbour who is away or share resources with neighbours after bad weather events and natural disasters.
   

• Share excess fruit from your trees, eggs from your chickens, flowers or veges from your garden.  

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• Bake some Hokey Pokey Biscuits and share them with your neighbours

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• Start a Neighbourhood Support group!

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• Host street meetups. eg. barbeques, picnics, potluck dinners, or you could do a kai, seed, tool or toy swap!

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• Street beautification projects.

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• Stay connected online (start a private Facebook group or chat), by email, or create a street/neighbourhood Whatsapp chat​.
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• Create a Neighbourhood Preparedness Plan
   

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