Following this week’s adverse weather event, from Wednesday 15th February Enliven’s home-based and day services will slowly resume where safe...
Category: Community programmes
Enjoying time out at the Onehunga Day Service
COVID-19 lockdowns have been tough on the elderly, isolating them from loved ones and limiting their ability to socialise with...
Taking Pleasure in Giving – National Volunteer Week ’17
In light of National Volunteer Week (18-24 June), we’d like to celebrate and recognise the incredible contribution that our volunteers make to Enliven.
Enliven offers free classes for World Tai Chi Day
Free Tai Chi classes on World Tai Chi Day in Wellington.
More grows in the garden
Vegies and flowers are not the only things growing in the community garden plot next door to Enliven Carruth’s Day Service in Tauranga. Friendship, skills, and neighbourly pride are also flourishing in Plot 39..
The good scout
Stewart helps out at the Pohutukawa Day Programme in Whakatane as a part-time assistant, a paid job which was “only supposed to be temporary” when he started 10 years ago, after acting as a volunteer van driver.
“Mr Competitive” still going strong at 98
At 98 years old, Ron Andrews can still whack a golf ball a good 100 metres or so. He also likes to take on his mates at bowls and snooker at Enliven’s new Conversation Café in Taupo.
Growing need for elder care
Taupo’s rapidly aging population is putting a strain on support services for the elderly, with the sector calling out for more workers. Like many countries, NZ is experiencing an increase in our aging population.
