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Thursday 4 March 2010
Top Stories
The number of organisations registered with the Charities Commission has now reached 25,000, with the registration of Tennis Mid Canterbury Sub Association Incorporated.
Based in Ashburton, the Tennis Mid Canterbury Sub Association Incorporated is a sport and recreation organisation that provides coaching and information about tennis to the Ashburton community.
The tight economic climate and insufficient funds from grants and donations has forced Lifeline Auckland to review some of its specialist volunteer services. Lifeline Auckland's Board of Trustees has agreed to suspend Mensline and is considering other fundraising and cost-cutting measures
The Ministry of Health is "robbing Peter to pay Paul" with the new hearing aid funding regime that comes into force today, the National Foundation for the Deaf says. NFD General Manager Louise Carroll said today that while the ministry was to be applauded for changes that will see previously-disenfranchised people get full hearing aid funding for the first time, it is doing this at the expense of working people who will now lose access to fully funded aids.
Fundraising
Auckland women are being invited to clean out their closets of quality work clothes to donate to not for profit organisation, Dress for Success Auckland, as part of Botany Town Centre and LynnMall Shopping Centre's annual suit drive.
Campaigns
A new edition of Wellington's best loved guide for finding services and cheaper ways to live life has just been released (See attachment). The Survival Guide to Wellington - Living in Wellington on a low income was produced by Downtown Community Ministry with generous support by Wellington City Council.
A call is going out for people needing funding for research and other projects to help with New Zealand's number one disability - hearing impairment - to apply to the Oticon Foundation now. The Oticon Foundation in New Zealand is seeking applications for funding for projects to help the hearing impaired. The deadline is Wednesday 31 March 2010.
Children and Families
The Presbyterian Church is to mark the theme of Children's Day 2010, 'Praise and Encouragement', by sending every one of its 416 churches a specially written parenting booklet aimed at encouraging churches to run parenting courses for their communities, and support parents to be the best they can be.
Health
Creating a safe drinking environment for Gisborne district residents and visitors is what the Council's draft Sale of Liquor Policy is all about. Adopted in 2002, it is now up for review. The draft policy highlights a number of changes including the hours licensed premises can open, aligning club trading hours to the activities of the club and ensuring at least three choices of food are available when liquor is served.
Women
New Zealand's support for the formation of a streamlined United Nations' (UN) gender entity is a central lobbying point for Minister Pansy Wong's visit to the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York this week.
Politics
A road safety lobby group welcomes the introduction of Ignition Interlocks for repeat drunk drivers as part of its bid to lower the road toll. Bikers Against Drunk Driving (BADD) said it welcomed the introduction of ignition interlocks as part of a wider solution to drink driving, in the safer journeys ten year road safety strategy announced yesterday.
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