How to start a Neighbourhood Support Group

Step 1: Make contact

Contact your Neighbourhood Support Rotorua by:

• Phone (07) 349-9470

• Email: nsrotorua@gmail.com

• Or call into the Rotorua Police Station and ask for Neighbourhood Support.

If you live in Murupara or Galatea, contact the Murupara Police Station.

Step 2: Find members

The Neighbourhood Support co-ordinator will help:

• Determine a practical size for your group

• Co-ordinate invites to join the group

• Set up the initial group ‘get together’

• Identify the volunteer contact person and a deputy for the group.

Step 3: Start up meeting

A Neighbourhood Support co-ordinator will attend the first meeting and:

• Explain how a Neighbourhood Support group works

• Distribute information packs and street signs

• Help gather details for a group contact list

• Help appoint a volunteer street/group contact person

• Stay in contact with the group via the contact person.

Step 4: Follow up

The group contact person will:

• Distribute the contact list to their group members and keep it up to date

• Distribute information such as newsletters and crime alerts

• Arrange future meetings (if required) including an annual get together.

The group/street contact person

The contact person is referred to as a street or group contact. This role is crucial in keeping information up to date and in feeding information back to the community.

The office takes contact information of members and produces Contact List for distribution to the group. Other supporting resources can be accessed by contacting the Neighbourhood Support Office, these resources include: information packs, street signs, letterbox stickers, leaflets and update sheets, which are also provided as part of the start-up and thereafter for ongoing maintenance of your group.

Some pamphlets are available by downloading from our website: www.nsrotorua.info.