Neighbours Day
Angela Oliver
"Our street group gets together at least once a year, and we have a ‘free to a good home’ theme. Any pre-loved items are brought along, and anyone can take home anything – as much or as little as they want. We get a wide variety of items – clothes, vases, hay, trailer, coal, lollies, books. The challenge is to make sure no-one goes home empty handed. Anything left is dropped off at the local op shop."
Kimberley Cleland
"The Mental Health Foundations vision is for a society where all people flourish and we view mental health as a positive resource that can lead to individual and family and whanau resilience and improved social relationships, and allow us to respond effectively to the global challenges before us. It makes sense to support the promotion of simple activities like neighbourliness that build local connections, nurture trusting relationships and create opportunities for local participation and cooperation all of which build social capital and positive mental wellbeing."
Kimberley Cleland
"Vivien has a heart for community and it seems they love her too! Her neighbours are a sharing, caring bunch and have been involved in Neighbours Day Aotearoa as a way to get together and have some fun in their neighbourhood.
They have had a joint garage sale, they share vegetables or fish caught and recently had a “moving feast” where entree, mains and dessert were served in different parts of the street.
The motivating factor for Vivien is having neighbourhoods that feel safe for everyone. Pictured here with her neighbourhood map, neighbours have shared their contact details associated with each house and everyone has a copy.
This year Vivien is expanding their Neighbours Day Aotearoa activities to invite other streets. She would love to see the whole east side of Rotorua involved in Neighbours Day 2014 and then the rest of Rotorua!"
Wellington City Council
"A resilient neighbourhood is one that's prepared for anything - from a power outage to an earthquake."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXYn5Ups_s
The Free Store Wellington
"The Free Store is a non-profit organisation that daily redistributes perfectly edible surplus food from our 25 (and growing!) supplier cafes, bakeries and restaurants, right here in the heart of Wellington City to those that determine themselves as being in need of it. There is absolutely no criteria for who can or can't receive the food or how much you can take. We simply ask that you take what you need and respect the needs of others. The Free Store is inclusive and openly welcomes people from all walks of life to participate - whether that is giving or receiving. The Free Store is both an expression of community, and seeks to nurture community.
The Free Store is a simple concept, yet complex at the heart of its purpose. It is a tool for contributing to our sustainable city. It is a welcoming home for those that are in need. It is a work of art, inviting the contributors and recipients to both take part. It is an initiative that is run by the people, for the community, with so much potential. Help us make The Free Store all that it can be: we all have some surplus to give."
Buzzfeed America
What’s The Best Way To Meet Your Neighbors?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99MvjMDyOhY
Know your Neighbour
Ireland
http://www.knowyourneighbour.ie/
Action for Happiness
http://www.actionforhappiness.org/take-action/get-to-know-your-neighbours-better
The Guardian - How well do you know your neighbours?
NZ Herald - Know your neighbour: Have tequila, be friends
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11386469
Forbes - Do you know your neighbours name? A shocking number of people don't
http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottallison/2014/10/12/do-you-know-your-neighbors-name-a-shocking-number-of-people-dont/
Know your Neighbour (history)
"Within just two days of each other two senior
Australians at the opposite ends of the country were found dead in their
homes last week.
In what eerily mirrors the circumstances that
led to the founding of Neighbour Day in 2003 on Thursday the body of an
elderly Perth man Mr Robert Roll was discovered in his central business
district apartment two years after it is estimated he died."http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-11/heslop---watch-out-for-your-neighbours/2790120
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