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Setting up your Food Business at Home

Auckland
Check website for for dates. Booking essential

This course looks at how to turn your hospitality dream into reality and understand better, how to work methodically through the requirements. Really good info.

Main Course Cool and Confident Basic Skills

Auckland
Wednesdays 6pm. Bookings essential

Fully hands on cooking - 3 dishes and about 2.5hrs long. Bookings essential. Main Course is New Zealand’s cooking event leader.

Chelsea Bay Teen and Adult Baking Classes

Auckland
Check on website

At the home of Kiwi baking, Chelsea and Edmonds have come together to bring you the Edmonds Baking School. Enjoy the simple pleasure of baking.

Whirinaki Whare Taonga

Wellington
All year round 9am to 4pm

A treasure house sitting at the heart of the Upper Hutt community; a place where arts, culture and events are supported, and the community embraced.

SING! Wellington

Wellington
Tues 7:00-9:00pm

SING! is a Wellington based community choir that focuses on getting as much joy as possible from meeting up and singing classic pop songs together! No auditions. No previous singing experience necessary.

Cakes n Ladders

Auckland
Wed-Fri 1pm-10pm Sat & Sun 10am-10pm

Auckland's premier board gaming café. Everyone welcome, from hard-core gamers and families to couples on a date or groups.

Special Olympics New Zealand

Nationwide
All year round

With clubs all over New Zealand, Special Olympics New Zealand is here to ensure everyone with an intellectual disability has a chance to get fit, meet lots of people and have heaps of fun.

Interacting Theatre Disability Arts Theatre Company

Auckland
Term time

Affordable, weekly classes throughout the school term in drama, filmmaking and hip hop dance. They are packed with fun and creative activities for a wide variety of people.

Pablos Art Studios Inc.

Wellington
All year round Mon-Fri 10am-4:30pm

Affirming identity through art. Targeted at people who have experienced mental illness.

Highbury Community House 

Auckland
All year round

Accessible and affordable classes for people of all ages, cultures, and interests. You may find something that interests you, meet people, make friends, learn, contribute and participate in the programmes and services provided by the community house and in your local community.

​​​​​​​Table Tennis New Zealand Inc

Nationwide
All year round

Consider table tennis for a social, stimulating sport which burns calories, develops mental acuity and is easy on the joints. Clubs are nationwide and suit a variety of abilities and needs.

Boccia New Zealand 

Nationwide
All year round

Whether you participate for the pure enjoyment, social interaction, the thrill of a challenge, or you have the ambitions of becoming a Paralympic Games champion, Boccia may well be the sport for you!

Mens Shed NZ

Nationwide
All year round

A shed brings men together in one community space to share their skills, have a laugh, and work on practical tasks individually (personal projects) or as a group (for the shed or community).

Parafed Waikato

Waikato
All year round

Parafed Waikato is are all about promoting and providing sport and recreation for people with physical disabilities and visual impairments.

ParaFed Canterbury

Christchurch
All year round

ParaFed Canterbury is one of the leading regional Para sports providers in New Zealand. If you have always wanted to be involved in sport, but have been unsure where to start, then they are here to help you.

Green Prescription (GRx)

Nationwide
Anytime

A Green Prescription Rōngoa Kākāriki is a free health and wellness support service available throughout Aotearoa New Zealand. You can self refer or ask your GP to refer you. The service will help you find the things that work for you.

Te Wāhi Wāhine o Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland Womens Centre

Auckland
Every Mon 9:30am–2:30pm

Empowering women in Tāmaki Makaurau with support, education, counselling, rangatahi outreach, community kōrero & safe space. Check out their extensive website.

DRIVE Consumer Direction Counties Manukau

Auckland
Anytime

DRIVE is a network of people, and their whānau, that have lived experience of mental distress or addiction to alcohol or other drugs. Based in the Counties Manukau area. If this is you – hello! You are welcome to become part of the Drive network. You can do so by attending events, being involved in social media, or in a more active way. Register online for events which include regular check ins and chats about self care.

I-Volunteer

Nationwide, Online
Anytime

Play a big part in the life of a person with an intellectual disability and the work IHC does by joining our i-Volunteer and online and phone service.

Sit Down In Front

Gisborne, Online
Anytime

Awesome NZ band's 'Sit Down in Front'brand of rock is built on the foundations of classic punk. They successfully capture the essence and energy of the old, while adding some scorching, youthful enthusiasm. The band is led by frontman and lyricist Cory Newman who uses a wheelchair due to his Cerebral Palsy.

FindSomeone

Nationwide, Online
Anytime

With 14 years of experience, FindSomeone is said to be one of the top dating sites in New Zealand. Over 400,000 individuals are registered on the site, with a minimal number of fake profiles.

Enabling Love

Dunedin, Online
All year round

Enabling Love understands the unique challenges that effect members of the Disability community when it comes to meeting others & forming friendships and relationships. Events such as speed dating, movie nights, coffee and social clubs are on offer.

New Zealand Parliament 

Online, Wellington
All year round. Bookings essential

Visit the New Zealand Parliament, the home of democracy in New Zealand, and one of the most iconic sets of buildings in Wellington.

The New Zealand Fashion Museum

Auckland, Online
Anytime

A virtual fashion museum in New Zealand established in 2010. The brainchild of fashion designer and fashion historian Doris de Pont. Established as a charitable trust in January 2010, the museum holds pop-up exhibitions around New Zealand and runs as an online museum. It draws from public and private collections to pull together its exhibitions. Enjoy a wonderful audio tour about the personalities who form part of our identity.

@streetview.portraits

Online
Anytime

Jacqui Kenny is a New Zealand artist who currently lives in London. 'The Agoraphobic Traveller' is a collection of otherworldly screenshots taken in remote locations on Google Street View, initially conceived as an escape from her struggles with anxiety and agoraphobia. Gorgeous shots.

Rhythm and Vines 29-31 December 2024

Gisborne
29-31 Dec

Rhythm and Vines is a 3 day music festival held in Gisborne on 29-31 December. It is globally known as the first festival in the world to welcome in the first sunrise of the new year.

Woodlands Homestead Gardens and Function Centre

Waikato
All year round 10am-4pm (except public holidays)

Woodlands is a treasured historic homestead and public garden estate situated in the Waikato, only 15 minutes from Hamilton City. Entry to the Gardens is free, however donations are appreciated.

Trott’s Garden

South Canterbury
7 days per week 10am-4pm. Bookings for groups essential.

The creation of Trott’s Community Garden has been a journey of dedication and imagination, as over the years it has been transformed from a bare paddock into the extraordinary contemporary garden it is today. A renowned garden which has received international acclaim, it is a peaceful paradise, blooming with and array of colourful flowers, trees and shrubs. A delight for Instagram! The New Zealand Gardens Trust awarded Trott’s Garden six stars (its highest category) and has designated it as a NZ Garden of International Significance, for its outstanding horticultural value in plant material, cultivation, design, construction, and maintenance.

Whangārei Quarry Gardens

Northland
All year round

Whangārei Quarry Gardens is a lush subtropical oasis created by volunteers, in the remnants of a former stone quarry in Northland, New Zealand. Refuel at the cafe and recharge yourself with a walk in nature. A must-see is a renowned artist, Chris Booth’s sculpture 'Te Wai U O Te Atakura'. Visit and maybe volunteer.

Heretaunga Women’s Centre

Hawke's Bay
Mon-Fri 9am-4pm

A non-profit volunteered based organisation providing a range of friendly and professional services, support, courses, help and information for all women. Participate in a range of activities, assertive communication skills, paper crafts, Romanian baking, managing your anxiety and more.

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