FREE 5th Community Safety Breakfast
If you volunteer for, or work with a Manukau East community-based-organisation, you’re invited to join MECOSS at 7:45am on Wednesday, 2 November at the Howick Club to listen to presenter Major Campbell Roberts OF, while enjoying a delicious hot-cooked breakfast and networking with a variety of like-minded people.
Campbell is the founder director of The Salvation Army Social Policy and Parliamentary Unit. The SPPU has a mandate from The Salvation Army to work towards the elimination of poverty in New Zealand by influencing, and engaging nationally, political, corporate, government, education and media leaders.
A former President of the New Zealand Council of Social Services, Chairman of the New Zealand Housing Network, he is currently on the Board of the New Zealand Housing Foundation and of a the Justice Reform forum Rethinking Crime and Punishment.
In 2013 Campbell was inducted by General André Cox into the Order of the Founder for his work in areas of social justice.
To register your place, please email lindsay.upton@mecoss.org.nz today.
Poll: Do you set New Year’s resolutions?
🎉 2026 is almost here!
We’re curious ... how do you welcome it?
Do you set resolutions, follow special traditions, or just go with the flow?
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0% Yes! New Year, New Me
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33.3% Yes - but I rarely stick to them
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66.7% Nah - not for me
Poll: 🗑️ Would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?
Aucklanders, our weekly rubbish collections are staying after councillors voted to scrap a proposed trial of fortnightly pick-ups.
We want to hear from you: would you be keen to switch to a fortnightly rubbish collection, or do you prefer things as they are?
Keen for the details? Read up about the scrapped collection trial here.
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85% Same!
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15% Would have liked to try something different
Poll: Is it ok to regift something that you have been given?
🎁 Holiday Gift Chat!
Do you ever regift?
What’s your take on asking for a receipt if a gift doesn’t fit?
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78.7% Yes! It's better to regift what I don't need
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21.3% No. It's the thought and effort that matters
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