Are you passionate about North East Valley, our communities and being prepared for emergencies?
Our Valley Hazards and Emergency Preparedness Hui in September was a good reminder that Civil Defence Emergency Management is not some group of other people coming to help you, but rather a way of doing things before, during and after an emergency. If there’s a big emergency, council staff and emergency services will be focussing their efforts on the worst affected areas. Hopefully that won’t be us, so we need to be civil defenders for each other while they are attending to people worse off.
To do this we’re starting a new group to bring together people who are passionate about our communities and emergency resilience. If you’re keen to share your skills and ideas to build on our readiness and resilience here in the Valley, we’d love to have you on board! We’ll be putting our heads together to come up with options for supporting our own Valley communities in an emergency, so that people can:
- get together to find out essential information,
- share skills and resources,
- ask for and offer help,
- register themselves as safe and leave messages for others,
- and support each other over a cuppa.
This is the first meeting for 2026 - we plan to meet bi-monthly on Monday evenings at the Valley Project (6-7pm). This is a new and emerging group, led by the community and supported by the Valley Project and Emergency Management Otago. New members most welcome!
You can find more info on community resilience at https://www.otagocdem.govt.nz/get-your-community-ready.
Join us for the next hui at 6pm Monday 16 February 2026 in the Fred Hollows Room at the Valley Project!
Everyone is welcome, you can be involved as much or as little as you want.
For more info, contact Claire at the Valley Project: [email protected] - or
pop by the office for a chat - or
give us a call on (03) 473 8614.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
262 North Road, North East Valley, Dunedin, New Zealand 9010, New Zealand
