Our Members
Alzheimers Gisborne / Tairawhiti
Manager - Tracy Robinson
Address: 421 Ormond Road
Phone: 06 867 0752
Email: gisborne.alzheimers@xtra.co.nz
Alzheimer's Gisborne/Tairawhiti provides information, advice and support for people diagnosed with dementia and their families. The Sherwood Club is a day facility for people with dementia, operating 3 days a week. It provides social interaction, exercise and activities that encourage our clients to to live their lives to the full.
Barnardos Gisborne
Manager - Joan Ella Ngata
Address: 25-27 Ormond Road, Gisborne
Phone: 06 86 91340
Email: gisborne@barnardos.org.nz
Barnardos is New Zealand's leading children's charity, doing more for Kiwi kids. For more than 60 years, we have been helping children, families and whānau in need. Today, we continue to support, protect and educate thousands of New Zealand children.
Brain Injury Association Gisborne
LIaison / Manager - Jenny Grzeda
Address: 340 Palmerston Road, Gisborne
Phone: 027 327 5944
Email: gisborne.braininjury@gmail.com
Brain Injury Association Gisborne offers Support, Information and Advocacy to a person with a Brain Injury and their Family/Whanau. We have resources and links that can help you navigate and understand the daily struggles and readjustments you and your Family/Whanau may face.
Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast
Administrator
Address: Gisborne Hospital, Gisborne
Phone: 06-867 1795
Email: enquiries.gis@cancercd.org.nz
Fighting The National Fight Against Cancer
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Care and Craft Centre Gisborne
Dot McCulloch
Address: 176 Cobden Street, Gisborne
Phone: 021 111 5551
Email: wolight829@gmail.com
The Care and Craft Centres cater for lonely house-bound people and not so mobile adults, known as guests, who are encouraged to participate in a wide variety of handcrafts and social activities. We have many disabled attendees who are thriving thru this
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CCS Disability Action Gisborne
Manager - Katie Mackey
Address: 7 Kahutia Street, Gisborne
Phone: 06 867 1249, 027 562 2706
Email: Katie.Mackey@ccsDisabilityAction.org.nz
CCS Disability Action’s vision is to see every person with disabilities included in the life of their family and community. As well as providing direct support and advocacy, we have a wider role in shaping society’s attitudes towards people with a disability. CCS Disability Action is the largest pan-disability support and advocacy organisation in New Zealand.
Citizens Advice Bureau Gisborne
Volunteer run
Address: 124A Bright Street, Gisborne
Phone: (06) 8672606
Email: gisborne@cab.org.nz
Citizen Advice Bureaus across New Zealand provide free, confidential, independent information and advice. We help people to know and understand their rights and responsibilities and also help people find community services they need. We don’t pretend to know everything but will do our best to find the information for you.
Deaf Aotearoa
Lee Bullivant
Address: 22 Lee Road, Taradale, Napier 4112
Phone: 021 459 005 text only
Email: lee.bullivant@deaf.org.nz
Skype: leedeafaotearoa@outlook.com
Deaf Aotearoa’s Hauora* service is a nationwide service that understands and responds to Deaf and hard-of-hearing people’s needs. Deaf Aotearoa’s Employment service is a nationwide service focused on getting Deaf and hard-of-hearing people into successful employment.
It includes pre-employment support and in-work support for both the Deaf person and employers.
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Epilepsy New Zealand
Jenny Herbison
Address: 7 Lee Road, Taradale, Napier 4112
Email: hawkesbay@epilepsy.org.nz
Phone: 0800 EPILEPSY, 0273088971
Epilepsy provides a free information and support service to people with epilepsy, their whanau and communities .We are committed to community awareness and provide talks and educational sessions to the community.
Geneva Healthcare Gisborne/Tairawhiti
Geneva Gisborne
Address: 1st Floor, Three Rivers Medical Centre, 75 Customhouse Street, Gisborne 4010
Phone: 0800 GENEVA / 0800 436 382
Email: enquiries@geneva
Geneva Healthcare are New Zealand’s trusted experts in aged care, illness, injury & disability support - providing wraparound in-home support, nursing and rehabilitation services. We work closely with the Ministry of Health, District Health Boards, Ministry of Social Development, and with ACC as a preferred national provider.
Gisborne East Coast Multiple Sclerosis
Cat Jones
Address: 176 Cobden Street, Gisborne, 4010
Phone: 06-868 8842
Email: office.ms.gisborne.eastcoast@gmail.com
We offer a wide variety of support and information for people with MS, their families, employers and carers.
Our staff can help advocate for people as they navigate their way through different systems and provide connections to people and services.
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Gisborne Budget Moni Ora
Lynda Markie
Address: 48 Cobden Street, Gisborne, 4010
Phone: 06 867 7173
Email: info@moniora.org.nz
Moni Ora offers free household budgeting advice to people who want help. Often people who come to our door are in financial crisis and are seeking help with a hardship application but we also help those who just want to do better. Moni Ora accepts both walk-ins and referrals from any organisation who are working with people that are worried about money and want budgeting support.
Gisborne Presbyterian Parish
Administrator
Address: 176 Cobden Street, Gisborne, 4010
Phone:(06) 868 5513
Email: standrewsgisb@xtra.co.nz
Our Mission is to be a diverse community called together by Jesus Christ to welcome, love, serve and care. Open Door – friendship group get together for morning tea every Tuesday at 10.00am. Mainly music - group for pre-schoolers Wednesdays 9.45am, $4 per family, includes morning tea. Pot Luck Lunch Sunday Service in the Community Hall every 4th Sunday Car Boot Sale every 2nd and 4th Saturday each month. Worship Services at St Andrews Sunday 10.30am. Matawhero Church Service 1st & 3rd Sundays 9.00 am
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Gisborne Volunteer Centre
Manager - Jenny Greaves
Address: Treble Court Gisborne
Phone: (06) 868 4522
Email: info@gisbornevolunteercentre.org.nz
Volunteer Services Advisor - Ros Faulkner
“The Gisborne Volunteer Centre is a unique service that strengthens the community by increasing public awareness of the voluntary sector. We work with community organisations to identify volunteer needs and involvement and encouraging best practice management of volunteer-involving programmes, as well as working with potential volunteers, encouraging involvement and assisting them in finding suitable roles.”
Hospice Tairawhiti
Barbara Grout
Address: 421 Ormond Road, Gisborne
Email: admin@hospicetairawhiti.org.nz
Phone: (06) 8690552
Hospice Tairawhiti provides community based hospice care for the people of Tairawhiti, from Morere to Potaka. Hospice or palliative care is specialised care for people with life limiting conditions. Our focus is on improving quality of life for the person and providing support for the whanau.
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Idea Services
Manager
Address:
Email: jon.davies@idea.org.nz
Phone: 06 8726600
IDEA Services supports adults of all ages with intellectual disabilities to live in their own homes and enjoy life as part of their communities. We are New Zealand’s largest provider of services for people with intellectual disabilities and their families/whānau.
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Empowerment
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Inclusion
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Responsiveness
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Support
Life Unlimited
Manager
Address: 105 Disraeli Street, Gisborne 4010
Email: referrals@lifeunlimited.net.nz
Phone: (06) 8632836
Life Unlimited is a charitable trust – a not for profit organisation governed by a board of trustees. Our responsibility is to people who access our services. Everything we do helps to create opportunities for people to make and be in control of their own life choices and enables people to live the life they choose. We aspire to everything we do being of high quality and of professional standard. Many of our services are contracts with government departments with clear outcome and deliverables required, while we create other services and offerings to meet needs where we see a gap.
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Poverty Bay Wairoa Federation of Women's Institutes
Alison Crawford
Address:
Email: alisoncrawford@xtra.co.nz
Phone: 06 868 9586,
The main object of the NZ Federation is to provide an organisation for the purpose of enabling women to take an active part in the life of the community and its development.
Stroke Tairawhiti
Manager - Caroline Callow
Address: 340 Palmerston Road
Email: info@stroketairawhiti.org
Phone: 06 863 2716
We're here to support all stroke survivors, their families, whānau, friends and carers throughout their stroke journey. Stroke Tairawhiti provides information, advice, education and advocacy services throughout the Tairawhiti Region.
Sunshine Service
Dave Mettrick/Ross Thompson
Phone: 06 867 2905
Email: sunshineservice@xtra.co.nz
The Service is pre-booked and is available to elderly or disabled persons living in Gisborne City, Makaraka and Wainui. Bookings must be made 24 hours in advance. Bookings can be made by phoning the Manager in the office between 8.00 am and noon on
weekdays. Outside those hours, a message can be left on the office answerphone.
Tairawhiti Age Concern
Manager
Address: Treble Court Gisborne
Phone: 06 867 6533
Email: francestac.tai@xtra.co.nz
Age Concern Tairawhiti (Gisborne), providing Elderly Support Services in Gisborne , New Zealand. Promotes the rights and well-being of the older person (over 65's) and support groups for individuals.
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Tairawhiti Environment Centre
Rena Kohere
Address: 386 Palmerston Road, Gisborne
Phone: 06 867 4708
Email: info@tairawhitienviro.nz
TEC is a not for profit environmental community hub and has been an environmental advocate in the Tairawhiti region since 1990. TEC is a portal for environmental sustainability information and education, we run environmental and conservation outreach projects, workshops and host various networking functions.
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Tairawhiti Technology Trust
Polly Crawford
Address: Kaiti Hub
Phone: 021 2582474
Email: barnzandpolly@gmail.com
Everything the Trust does is designed to increase local access to digital technologies and the knowledge and skills of users in our communities. We organise events for Digital Experts (especially educators and business leaders), training and affordable access for those who need to up-skill themselves or just become confident and regular users of ICT.
Te Kupenga Net Trust/Te Waharoa
Guy Baker
Address: 26 Peel Street
Phone: 068684045. Te Waharoa 068683550
Email: admin@tekupenga.co.nz
Te Kupenga Net Trust has a partnership with Hauora Tairawhiti t assist whanau in distress in our Community. The Trust provides mental health and addictions consumer led peer support and advocacy for individuals and whānau, holding the Māori Like Minds Like Mine contract for Tairāwhiti, and providing education to community, business and social sectors as well as working alongside clinical servicers to whānau.
The Salvation Army
Kevin Waugh
Address: 389 Gladstone Road, Gisborne
Phone: (06) 868 9468
Email: gisborne.corps@salvationarmy.org.nz
Since 1883, The Salvation Army has fought poverty and social and spiritual distress in New Zealand. We’ve been there to help more than 120,000 families and individuals in need each year—with budgeting advice, food and clothing assistance, life skills programmes and other comfort and support. At The Salvation Army we are committed to our mission of caring for people, transforming lives and reforming society.
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Workbridge
Chris Goulding
Address: Treble Court Gisborne
Phone: 021 190 2410
Email: ChrisG@workbridge.co.nz
Meetings by Appointment only. Workbridge is an agency that assists individuals into work who have a disability, health issue or injury to find meaningful work, enquire about our criteria, this is a free service.
We have a one on one preparation programme to assist with job searching activities. We build relationships with employers to assist our job seekers to gain employment that is sustainable. We are career focused and will assist with pathways to work. We look for opportunities that are part time or full time. We provide Post Placement support for a 12 month period.