Are you a Senior, or do you have a Senior in your life, who is looking to build their confidence online? CERT NZ’s Staying Safe Online for Senior’s webinar is coming up on the 20th of February and is designed to empower seniors, as well as friends and whānau, with the know-how to safely navigate … Continued
Read More >>New fast and direct bus services from Waimakariri to central Christchurch start on Monday 11 January 2021 The 91 Rangiora – City direct and 92 Kaiapoi – City direct will travel from Park & Ride locations in each town to key hubs within central Christchurch, including the Bus Interchange and Christchurch Hospital. They won’t stop … Continued
Read More >>From 9 November 2020, the Government is making changes to NZ Super and Veteran’s Pension. The changes aim to simplify superannuation in New Zealand and is a move towards treating people more as individuals. This means people’s payments would depend more on their own situation, instead of their partner’s. Closing the option to include a … Continued
Read More >>ANZ Investment Services (New Zealand) Ltd (ANZIS) has announced it will stop accepting new investment into the Bonus Bonds Scheme as low interest rates continue to reduce the prize pool. “We’re always reviewing our investment products to ensure they best serve the interests of investors,” said Ben Kelleher, Managing Director Retail and Business Banking for … Continued
Read More >>Smile New Zealand is a joint initiative run annually by the New Zealand Dental Association and Southern Cross Health Trust. As part of this initiative, persons eligible are able to have one dental problem solved in September 2020 for FREE. Adults (18+) who hold a current community services card and have a known and/or urgent … Continued
Read More >>Until the end of this month(June) Environment Canterbury are running a promotion where people can get a free Metrocard (while stocks last). There’s also a New World voucher giveaway. Even if you have a Gold Card for off peak travel, having a Metrocard means that you would be able to access cheaper fares at other … Continued
Read More >>This week 21-27 June is National Volunteer Week. National Volunteer Week honours the collective energies and mana of all volunteers in Aotearoa. They grow our people, open minds, open hearts and create joy. And no more so than during their essential contribution to communities during COVID 19. Well before COVID 19 our volunteers were cherishing … Continued
Read More >>SuperGold cardholders will get a free annual health and eye check-up as part of health spending that mostly goes to DHBs that are tackling huge treatment backlogs caused by the Covid-19 lockdown. New funding has been earmarked to roll-out a promised free annual health check-up for the country’s more than 750,000 SuperGold cardholders, including an … Continued
Read More >>Eight year old Max is running a marathon to raise funds for vulnerable elders in Canterbury. This amazing young man is completing 6.2 kilometres around his family backyard each day for 7 days and after 192 laps he will have run the equivalent of a full marathon (42.2 kilometres). Max was inspired by the efforts … Continued
Read More >>CERT NZ (the government’s Computer Emergency Response Team) has received reports of online criminals using the COVID-19 (novel coronavirus) pandemic as an opportunity to carry out online scams and malicious cyber activity. Reports include opportunistic attempts to use the COVID-19 pandemic to trick people in to: • donating to a fake World Health Organisation COVID-19 … Continued
Read More >>Cantabrians with an interest in family history are being called on to help Canterbury Museum during the lockdown. The Museum wants to identify people and places in thousands of photographs taken by New Zealand’s longest-running photography studio, Standish and Preece. A project to digitise and catalogue the images has been underway since 2019. The first … Continued
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