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• Plastic Free July 2025: Small steps make a big difference

  Posted: Wednesday, July 9, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: environmental health, waste, awareness, recycling, campaign, plastic
  Are you looking for ways to be part of the solution to plastic pollution? Join millions of people worldwide reducing their plastic waste by choosing to refuse single-use plastic in July

• Come along to the Annual Breastfeeding/Chestfeeding Hui

  Posted: Wednesday, July 16, 2025 in: Training With tags: breastfeeding, meeting, awareness
  Haere Mai! The Canterbury Breastfeeding Advocacy Service and Te Puawaitanga ki Ōtautahi Trust invite you to this FREE annual hui celebrating World Breastfeeding Week

• Sign up now for Recycling Week (20 to 26 October 2025)

  Posted: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: campaign, waste, recycling, awareness
  Get ready to inspire change and take action

• Wai July Challenge: Go alcohol-free for July

  Posted: Wednesday, July 2, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: mens health, alcohol, awareness, alcohol harm, campaign, maori
  Wai July is a nationwide challenge for tāne Māori to go alcohol-free for the month of July

• Do Dry July and show up for the people you love

  Posted: Wednesday, May 14, 2025 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: campaign, alcohol, awareness, cancer, fundraising
  Dry July media release: 12th May 2025 There’s nothing more sobering than cancer. Every 22 minutes, another New Zealander hears the devastating news they have cancer. In July alone, more than 2,200 Kiwis will be diagnosed. That’s why we Dry July

• March 2025 is a time for contemplation and observance

  Posted: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 in: Resources and Information With tags: culture, awareness, cultural diversity
  Did you dress in green on 17th March for St. Patrick's Day? Have you been swept up in the lively spirit and vivid colours of Holi? March 2025 is truly a month brimming with celebrations and spiritual significance

• Learn six ways to look after your brain to prevent dementia

  Posted: Tuesday, March 4, 2025 in: Resources and Information With tags: awareness, brain, health, nutrition, physical activity, Sleep, dementia
  March is Brain Health Awareness Month. Approximately 40 percent of dementia worldwide can be prevented, or delayed, by attending to a range of lifestyle and protective factors

• Knowing the basics saves lives: New tips from Water Safety agencies

  Posted: Wednesday, November 27, 2024 in: Resources and Information With tags: water safety, recreation, waterways, awareness, campaign, summer
  As temperatures rise and we head into another bumper summer, New Zealand’s water safety community is joining forces to ask New Zealanders to follow Five Ways to Survive

• We All Belong Here campaign launched today

  Posted: Thursday, March 21, 2024 in: Signatory Notice Board With tags: race relations, campaign, awareness
  InCommon and Te Kāhui Tika Tangata | Human Rights Commission have launched a social media campaign today on Race Relations Day to encourage people to look past stereotypes to find what they share in common

• New programme connects people over sustainable kai

  Posted: Thursday, June 22, 2023 in: Resources and Information With tags: Food, awareness, waste, children, families, business, environment, gardens
  Keep New Zealand beautiful media release: 21st June 2023 Iconic charity Keep New Zealand Beautiful is launching their new Kai Connections programme - a fun, easy and educational way for students, whānau and friends to demonstrate commitment to kai pai (g

• Hearing Care For All! Screen, Rehabilitate, Communicate

  Posted: Thursday, March 4, 2021 in: Resources and Information With tags: prevention, hearing, awareness
  New Zealand Audiological Society media release: 3rd March 2021 The New Zealand Audiological Society (NZAS) welcomes the launch of the World Health Organisation’s World Report on Hearing