North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support works to connect communities in Waimakariri, Hurunui and Kaikoura. To ensure communities are safer, more resilient, connected and well informed. A big thank-you to our 3,500+ members who have already signed up to North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support via our Gets Ready website. Gets Ready is a tool used to register members of Neighbourhood Support. Once registered, members will receive official information from Police, councils and Civil Defence. North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support will work alongside neighbourhoods to create street groups and then ensure these groups are communicated with. We do this by emailing credible information such as crime prevention strategies, weather warnings, and civil defence emergency information. This information proves to be extremely valuable to all communities. In the event of an emergency, your neighbours are your first line of support. We can assist neighbourhood groups to develop their own emergency plans, which outline working together to combine skills and resources, and identify any key needs in times of an emergeny. North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support also provide street signs, to your neighbourhoods as well as letterbox stickers. These have proven to be very useful to deter crime.
Why Join a Neighbourhood Support Street Group? There’s strength in numbers. A neighbourhood support group brings local people together to share information, ideas and connectedness. Together, you can assist one another to: • • • • •
Solve local problems Reduce crime Minimise anti-social behaviour Support victims of crime Learn to prepare and cope with civil defence emergencies • Engage Police, other emergency services or support agencies • Liaise and co-operate with other like- minded community groups • Decrease social isolation. To join North Canterbury Neighbourhood Support or find out some more information please get in contact with us using the information below. We look forward to connecting with you.
Sarah Saunders manager@ncns.org.nz www.getsready.northcanterbury.net www.ncns.org.nz www.facebook.com/ NorthCanterburyNeighbourhoodSupport/ Page 21
