Ashburton District Neighbourhood Support Ashburton District Neighbourhood Support works to connect our community ensuring it is safer, more connected and well informed. We currently have 5,000 + signed up to Neighbourhood Support and our Gets Ready database, so a huge thank you to our co-ordinators and neighbours who have come on board. Gets Ready registers members and once registered, members will receive alerts and information from Civil Defence, Police and FENZ (Fire and Emergency). Ashburton District Neighbourhood Support will work alongside neighbourhoods to create street groups with co-ordinators to ensure these groups are communicated with. We do this by emailing information such as crime prevention strategies, Civil Defence weather warnings and Fire and Emergency safety messages. This information proves to be extremely valuable. In an emergency and on a day-to-day basis your neighbours are your first line of support. Once you become a registered group you will receive welcome packs and street signs to signal it is an area that is registered with Neighbourhood Support and that neighbours will be keeping a close eye on that area. This all contributes to a useful structure in neighbourhood resilience and has proven to be a good tool against crime.
Why join a Neighbourhood Support Street Group? There is strength in numbers. A neighbourhood support group brings local people together to share information, ideas and connectedness. Together: • You can assist one another • Reduce crime • Minimise anti-social behaviour • Prepare for Civil Defence outcomes • Engage Police, emergency services or support services • Liaise and co-operate with other like- minded groups • Decrease social isolation. For more information or to join Ashburton District Neighbourhood Support, contact us as detailed below.
Sue Abel Ashburton District Neighbourhood Support co-ordinator 027 296 1006/03 308 3558 Sue.abel@safermidcanterbury.org.nz
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