Welcome to Enabling Love and Friendship

Enabling Love and Friendship is announcing that the Invercargill Coffee Group is starting up this Thursday 9th of July @ 1.00pm at the Auction Bar and Grill as well as the Otago Coffee Club @ The Otago Museum at 1.00pm. Enabling Love is under the process of moving into the regions throughout New Zealand, and we are working as quickly as possible to get everything in place for Christchurch, Tauraunga, Wellington and Auckland. Please contact our Southland co-ordinator, Celia, if you are interested in going to the coffee group, or have any suggestions/ideas to offer. Celia is the president of the Chinese Students Association at SIT and is new to the disability sector, we are very delighted to have Celia on board with us. She is our representative for Southland and will be organising events alongside the weekly coffee meetings, helping out our CEO and networking with others in the disability sector. The CEO has directed her to help grow the Southland Regions branch of Enabling Love. By doing this, we will be more able to be meet any demands of our non-profit organisation within the region, enabling New Zealanders to find love and friendship and combat social isolation in the modern world. This is going to be critically important over the next ten years as we grow and we look forward to being on-board as part of this journey.

A note from our CEO, Joshua Perry:
As CEO, I have been acutely aware of the need to expand into the regions as quickly as possible, and i'm pleased to announce that our hard work over the past few years is paying off. We are currently expanding into the regions, and have exciting plans in the works for the next few months and weeks ahead. We are working again with Ignite Consultants in Otago to come up with a post-covid action plan. More details will be announced in the coming months. Thanks from Joshua Perry and the Enabling Love team. Stay tuned.

Email Address for Celia, the Southland Co-Ordinator is: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Enabling Love will be shutting down the Coffee Social Club and Events  from  Wednesday the 25th March until  further notice as per the announcement from the New Zealand  Governmnet today.

Enabling Love's Digital services will remain open, but we are complying with Government guidelines.

We will be looking at ways we can support our members online.

We ask you to stay safe and remain calm during this unprecedented time.

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Hi all

The weekly Thursday social/coffee club in Dunedin has been postponed until further notice. 

We would like to offer any of our members based in Dunedin or nationwide a weekly online check in if they would like to maintain some contact through these tough times. 

Our team will be available to talk/skype.

For more information or to book a time please email us: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Stay tuned via the website or our facebook page.

Thanks

Josh & The Enabling Love & Friendship team

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Hi All,

Just a reminder that Coffee Club is this Thursday 19th of March at the Otago Polytechnic Hub - H Block.

 1.00-2.00pm.

Friends welcome.

Covid19- Just to advise we are following the latest developments and will keep you all update as information comes to hand.

We are waiting for further updates from the  New Zealand Government and the Ministry of Health.

Please contct us if you are feeling unsafe to come to our events or if you need further assistance email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

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Enabling Love is proud to announce that we are having our second Valentine’s Day event.

There are 40 tickets available for this one.

The price for registering is $5, and then you buy your meal from the menu.

Presenting Enabling Love's first Dunedin event for 2020!

Calling all singles, this year we are trying to put on as many events as possible to break down social isolation for the disabled community. We are currently in the process of looking for funding so we can subsidise or cover events like this for those on a low income.

We are noticing a dramatic increase in demand for events like this in Central Otago, Tauranga, Wellington, Christchurch, Invercargill, Hamilton and Auckland, and are about to start coffee groups and run local events in these areas. We hope to run events like Valentine’s Day in these areas and we are looking for volunteers to help assist in this area as we cannot do this without public support.

There are now over 200 members nationwide, and the number of couples found through Enabling Love are increasing to at least 3 couples that we know of, but there could be more.

The majority of our members are enjoying our service but they want to see more services, such as dating education courses, which will run for 6 -10 weeks. This will require working with government departments and other funders in the local community’s and around the country. By the end of the year we want to see an increase of our membership by 200.

We are currently working on completing the App by working with Otago Polytechnic. There has been delays due to scheduling and time frames. We are working with Otago Polytechnic to get testing underway within the next 6 months.

We will continue to work on applying for grants to benefit our members. Our CEO will be speaking at a top International Disability Conference in Hawaii in March if funding becomes available. If you would like to help fund this please email us. He will be speaking at the #PacificRim conference on connections and the current state of dating people with disability and how this needs to be addressed when it comes to issue like dating on-line and social isolation. Enabling Love will be able to do interviews this week if any media outlets would like to interview us, please contact at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. invite the public to join us at The Black Dog Kitchen & Bar, 109 Princes Street, Dunedin, to celebrate Valentine's Day.

Come and join as for a bite to eat and some good company! ¬¬¬¬¬

Tickets available at: https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2020/valentines-day-dinner-enabling-love/otago

The Enabling Love Team

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Hi All,

This year we are back at the Black Dog for the second time.

We are delighted to have the support of the Black Dog, who are happy to have us back.

The event will take place  at Black Dog on the 14th of February at 6pm. Please bring a group of friends.

This is a chance to meet new people.

As it was last year, there will be a $5 donation.

You pay for your meal and drinks.

We look forward to seeing you there.  There are only 40 seats available, so get in quick.

Purchase tickets now @  https://www.eventfinda.co.nz/2020/valentines-day-dinner-enabling-love/otago

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