Come meet and hear from those seeking your support to bring leadership to the apartment community of the City Centre via the Waitematā Local Board.

Q&A style session with plenty of time either side for personal conversations

For more info on Candidates, bios, how to vote, electorate boundaries and more, see our Election Page

Our Event is on the ground floor of the Ellen Melville Centre in the large Helen Clark Lounge.

Doors Open 5.30 pm - mix and mingle
6pm - event starts

We expect it to all be done and dusted by somewhere between 8.30 - 9pm.

All candidates have 4 questions to answer.

There will be a quick-fire rounds - a yes or no or show of hands response only.

We hope there will be time at the end to mix and mingle further.

The MC’s word is FINAL of course.

Directly related to our over-consumption of resources and products, encouraged by ever-shorter electronic life and fashion cycles - are the piles of cables, plugs, screens, tvs, tablets and so on, stacked up ready for disposal...somewhere.

Here's your chance - Waitematā Waste Away’s E-Waste Collection for the city centre.

Walk on up - this certainly is a walkable event (unless you are conspicuously consumptive).

Pease read the full flyers for info on what can be brought in for collection.

Send these around your buildings and print off for your noticeboards.Directly related to our over-consumption of resources and products, encouraged by ever-shorter electronic life and fashion cycles - are the piles of cables, plugs, screens, tvs, tablets and so on, stacked up ready for disposal...somewhere.

Event Flyer PDF

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW BEFORE BUYING AN APARTMENT

1 hour free event at Ellen Melville Centre Sat 27 March 10.30 - 11.30

As more people choose to purchase an apartment to live in or to invest in, it’s important to understand how living in a body corporate can impact you and certain aspects of life.

Hear a range of experts & specialists outline what you should consider before you sign up.

Keynote Address from Chlöe Swarbrick MP Akl Central:

Free event hosted by the Body Corporate Chairs’ Group but Entry by registration at www.bccg.org.nz

Hear a range of experts & unit title specialists outline what you should consider before you sign a purchase agreement, including:

What body corporate levies are
The rules that govern living in a body corporate environment
Obligations around renovations

27 March is also Neighbours Day Aotearoa so make it a Saturday Trifecta & Visit the City Centre Market in Freyberg Place & visit CCRG's neighbourly marquee for bean bags of fun.

It's Aotearoa Neighbours Day at the City Centre Market, come si Hi to CCRG in our pop up tent and collect your free bag of beans (or similar) to give to your neighbouring apartment. Beans - the great connectors.

All courtesy of the market, CCRG & the Ellen Melville Centre - working together to build an even better neighbourhood.

Know your neighbours experience the difference

City Centre Market - where fresh produce & community meet.

See you there!

NEW in the Neighbourhood - Fresh Produce Market

OPENING Saturday 28 November, 8.30am – 12.30pm

Weekly on Saturday mornings from 8.30am on Freyberg Place on High St there will be a fresh produce market – veges, fruit, bread, baking, cheese and more…

It’s not just about great food but the potential to enhance the community centre on Saturdays, bringing to life the notion of the village well. With the downstairs room of the centre, the Helen Clark Room/”urban lounge” open, there is time and space to stop, have a coffee and engage as a neighbourhood.

Run by a couple of local residents with the support of the Ellen Melville Centre, there has been much beavering away to make the oft’ spoken of desire of a market for apartment dwellers at the community centre, a reality – our market – a market for us.

If good fresh food (you won’t find a food truck here) and the village well, sound like something you want to support, put the weekly market shop on your radar, come on down and bring a friend. Markets only grow bigger as they receive more support and the stallholder community starts talking about it. To that end if you can carry a poster in your building to help advertise the market here are two posters:

POSTER 1

POSTER 2

You can also Like, Follow, Share and Comment on the Market Facebook Page and Instagram

Lunch get together - the Christmas community lunch on Friday 20 December will be held at our City Centre Ellen Melville Centre, Food will be provided by the Love Food Hate Waste programme. It will be outside in the square on tables or inside in the lounge if the weather is bad.

There is an earlier lunch for mothers and preschoolers, with the community lunch starting at 12pm.

The invitation to the lunch is open to anyone who wants to come. The Auckland Street Choir will be performing. Gifts will be given to homeless/needy people.

A very successful sale! Some images below - well done team!

Our annual City Centre Jumbly Bumbly Sale is on again -

Have goods to donate?

Need that extra something for your apartment?

Of course you do!

Sat 5 October 2019 at the fab Ellen Melville Centre - thanks! and to Waitematā Local Board for support. As per last year, proceeds to meals for the homeless.

RED HAT Fine DINING -come one, come all, come red-hatted - beacons of neighbourliness.

Four Seasons Restaurant is AUT’s School of Hospitality & Tourism is a fully-licenced training restaurant, offering trainee chefs and front of house students the ability to gain experience in a real-life environment.

All plates $15 each

RSVP’s essential: antonyphillips@gmail.com

RED HAT DINING and a fond farewell to K Road’s Mercury Plaza - come one, come all, come red-hatted - beacons of neighbourliness.
Thursday 25 July at 6pm
The Mercury Plaza is soon to close making way for City Rail Link infrastructure (see link in comments below). A final chance to frequent this food hall that has fed the many for 22 years (including many an All Black).
Mercury Plaza - Mercury Lane off K'Rd.

This month the CCRG are heading to Albert Street to the Shakespeare Hotel for our community red hat dinner. This is a good chance to have some good old fashioned winter 'pub grub' and meet other city centre residents, support our local businesses and to learn more about the work and activities the CCRG are involved with on behalf of city centre residents.

Thursday 27 June
6pm
Don't forget to bring your red hat!