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Live Life is a pioneering community focused programme, designed to assist young people (18 to 35 years of age), who have low self-esteem and are socially isolated, identify their unique strengths and talents, gain new experiences and build confidence to enable them to begin further training and/or obtain suitable employment or education.

One of the most important things we do as part of Live Life is match the young person with an older mentor who volunteers an hour or two a week to provide them with support and a guiding hand to achieve their training/employment goals. We do this because we firmly believe that each generation has so much to offer the other, for the older mentor they gain a greater sense of purpose and accomplishment and have the satisfaction of making a real difference for the next generation.

The society owns a small block of native trees in the Parlane, Poulson, Spencer Streets area of Addington, Christchurch.

Manuka Cottage is a Community Development Hub and a physical base for the Addington community to gather. The Cottage runs activities and groups that encourage participation and connection as part of a strategy to develop a sense of identity for the local Addington community, help break down barriers and isolation and encourage healthy connections.

Manuka Cottage has 6 main projects:

Manuka Cottage as a Community House

Addington OSCAR After School and Holiday Programs

Addington TimeBank

Addington Times

Addington Well-being

Manuka Fruit & Vege Co-op

CEA has existed for nearly 25 years, offering energy efficient solutions to help people in our community create healthy homes. We provide insulation subsidies, free, recycled curtains through our curtain bank (the largest in New Zealand!), a free energy advice hotline on 0800 GET WARM, and other means to help low-income, vulnerable people live and work in healthy environments.

We are a health support and awareness organisation for the global pandemic of Lyme disease and its Coinfections.

Unfortunately it is not recognised here in NZ but we have sufferers and some have never left NZ and have it.

There is no cure, it's congenital, and one of the most cruelest debilitating diseases you can get, but is known as the invisible illness as many put on good fronts in public and society never sees them at home afterwards trying to cope with numerous symptoms.

We are collaborating with other worldwide organisations and advocates to spread awareness and support sufferers.

The Graffiti Programme has a goal to "reduce the impact of graffiti vandalism on residents of and visitors to Christchurch city".

Rekindle is a social enterprise based in Ōtautahi/Christchurch. Rekindle creates opportunities for resourcefulness. We focus on transforming undervalued resources through care, connection and craft; this being the opposite of wastefulness. Being resourceful is both good for us and good for the earth upon whose finite resources we depend. Resourcefulness requires us to utilise and value our inner resources and our ability to access to what we need for lives we value. Being truly resourceful connects us within communities as we share the resources we have.

Rekindle runs the Festival of Necessary Traditions.

Trees for Canterbury is a Not-for-profit Community organisation.

Our mission is as follows:

Employ; establishing a sense of involvement in the community for disadvantaged people (physically, intellectually, socially and at risk youth) and providing an environment of acceptance as well as support and training for self-development – instilling self-esteem and work habit.

Educate; working with educational institutions, providing assistance in the teaching of environmental awareness.

Regenerate; cultivating native plants for community planting’s and our own revegetation projects using plant material eco-sourced from local areas.