Highlights include: Free Funding Advice...Its time for the KDB awards ...Free Baby Feed Q&A…Cooking on a budget and more...

If you have an upcoming event to share in the Pānui, please email community@dcc.govt.nz

You can also find and add your own events to Events calendar - Dunedin City Council.

If you're looking for a community venue, please visit Community facilities/venues in Dunedin - Dunedin City Council, you can also add venues to our Community Facilities / Venues Register.

Free Baby Feeding Q&A

Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week (1-7 August)

• Date: Monday, 5 August

• Time: 11am

• Venue: Storypit, Dunedin City Library

For more information, please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Community Funding Seminar

Are you or is your organisation thinking of applying for project funding?

Come to this free seminar to get valuable advice about how to apply successfully.

• Date: Tuesday, 6 August

• Time: 3pm

• Venue: Age Concern (Octagon Entrance)

There are limited places so please email community@dcc.govt.nz to secure your place.

Cooking on a Budget

SuperGrans have a ‘Cooking on a Budget’ course starting on the 30 July that runs for 7 weeks.

• Date: Tuesdays starting 30 July for seven weeks

• Time: 10am - 12pm

• Venue: SuperGrans, South City Mall

It’s a course designed to support people in cooking nutritious delicious food for their families on a budget.

They are offering these courses with wonderful volunteer leaders and want to reach as many people as they can.

It’s a welcoming, friendly environment.

For more information, please see the attachment at the end of this section.

Free Community Immunisations

• Date: Every weekend through July and August 2024

• Time: Saturdays 10am-1pm and Sundays 11am-2pm

• Venue: The Oval

Every person who chooses to be vaccinated will receive a $50 grocery voucher.

For more information, please see the attachment at the end of this section.

2024 Keep Dunedin Beautiful Awards

It is that time of year again! Nominations for the 2024 Keep Dunedin Beautiful Awards are open until Tuesday, 30 July. Anyone can nominate anyone. The Keep Dunedin Beautiful Awards celebrate and honour Dunedin people who are committed to beautifying their city and caring for their environment through volunteer action or sustainable business practices. Schools, community groups, and individuals are recognised for projects they have worked on during the past year. This might be a clean-up group, your neighbour who is trapping, muralists, the cafe who started composting, the school caring for the local stream, or perhaps it's the business working to cut-out waste and carbon-use. Remember though, it has to be for a NEW project that has started between September 2023- present day. Don’t way, nominate!

Nominations can be submitted via this link or in person at the DCC Customer Service Desk.

Online Series - Market Garden Showcase

Village Agrarians is hosting an online speaker series in the upcoming weeks featuring growers from around the country.

Growers from around the country will share some of their techniques, their successes and challenges, and some images from their growing season. Think of it as a virtual tour/workshop where we'll learn some growing methods, business insights, and more. There will be ample time for questions following each presentation so that participants can find out more specifics about topics that are of interest to them. Each session will run for about an hour to an hour and a half.

Schedule of speakers
Thursday, 8 August, 7:30pm - Brendan from Welcome Rock Gardens in Garston, Southland
Thursday, 15 August, 7:30pm - John McCafferty from Pleasant River Produce in Dunedin, Otago
Thursday, 22 August - Break
Thursday, 29 August - TBC
Thursday, 5 September - TBC

For more information and to get tickets, please go to the Humanitix website.

Tomahawk Lagoon Community Planting Day

This is the culmination of work by ECOTAGO, Tomahawk Smaills BeachCare Trust, the Tomahawk community group, and landowners the Mathieson family, and part of the wider work that the Otago Regional Council are funding to improve the water quality of the Tomahawk Lagoon catchment.

• Date: Saturday, 17 August

• Time: Arrive time 9.45am for a 10am start

• Venue: To be specified once registered

Note that organiser Nicole has not specified the exact meeting point - this is to ensure that volunteers register via email (they will then get meeting point details, a map, and health and safety info to read before the day).

 For more information, please see the attachment at the end of this section.

The Integrated Practice Accelerator Wānanga & Social Service Expo

The Integrated Practice Accelerator is hosting a wānanga and social service expo on Thursday, 5 September 2024: Save the date and we will release more details and registration links soonest.

This is building on last year’s expo, and the clear response from the community that you would like to come together again this year. 

Thanks to the University of Otago for once again gifting the St David’s lecture theatre complex.

For more information, please go to the Accelerator website.

First Aid Courses in Mosgiel

Are you a grandparent looking after grandchildren or belong to a sports club or not-for-profit organisation? Need to update your first aid training??

Taieri Network has partnered with Workplace First Aid Training Ltd to deliver interactive First Aid courses at preferential pricing.

• Re-validation course (refresher) costs $100

• NZ Certificate (full course) costs $175

• Date: Wednesday, 11 September

• Time: Full course, 9am - 4.30pm, re-validation course 9am-1.30pm

• Venue: Taieri Rugby Club, 35 Reid Avenue, Mosgiel.

Spaces are limited so register via google form https://forms.gle/jHB6ejo2YAGjHz2C6 or email Teresa at hello@taierinetwork.co.nz or ph 022 121 3325.

Businesses are welcome to attend but will be charged usual price: Re-validation course (refresher) costs $120, NZ Certificate (full course) costs $220

Gasworks Market (South Dunedin) – Remake Revolution, Fashion Design Competition

Create your own outfits from second-hand and preloved clothing and fabrics for show at the Gasworks Market.
All elements of your garment must be reused and recycled.
Awards for most creative & peoples choice.

Show:

• Date: Saturday, 5 October

• Time: 5pm - 9pm

• Venue: Gasworks Museum

For more information and to register see the attached poster.

SuperGrans

For a list of all their events, please see the calendar at the end of this section.

Business South

For a list of all the events, please go to the Business South website.

Regent Theatre

For a list of all the events, please go to the Regent Theatre website.