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Neighbours Aotearoa

Neighbours Aotearoa is a national campaign celebrating the day-to-day connections that create community.

Picture with a group of happy neighbours talking and sharing kai, with the text “Everybody needs good neighbours – Celebrate your neighbours

Any day that you connect with your neighbours contributes to a stronger neighbourhood, but in March we’re all encouraged to go a little further.

Neighbours Aotearoa – March 2025

Strong, friendly neighbourhoods are built on big and small gestures of care. Whether you live in an apartment building, a marina or a suburban street, how can you grow your community in March? Could you host or attend a neighbourhood picnic, a street potluck, or a working bee at a community garden? Share surplus fruit? Set up an online group for your apartment building?

Together, we can foster a sense of whanaungatanga and manākitanga that makes our neighbourhoods happier and more resilient places.

Connect your community

It's not too early to start planning an event in your neighbourhood for Neighbours Aotearoa 2025.

For ideas and support for an event:

If you are organising an event and would like to list it here, please fill in this Neighbours Aotearoa 2025 form.

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