Enabling Love & Friendship NZ

Enabling Love & Friendship is a not for profit organisation based in Dunedin, New Zealand. We aim to combat social isolation within the disability community through hosting fun events for our members. We have recently started to expand the organisation into other regions of NZ and are thrilled to host our first coffee club in Wellington! We welcome all people and encourage you to spread the word and come along to meet some new people.

For more information email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or visit our website.

Coffee Club is at the Croque-O-Dile Cafe at the Botanical Gardens, this Thursday 16th of November at 1.00pm.

Look forward to seeing you all there.

Coffee Club will be at the Otago Museum Cafe this Thursday the 21st of October.

All welcome this Thursday at 1.00pm.

See you there and you are welcome to bring a friend.

Hi All,

Thanks to all those who met up on Zoom for Coffee Club, but as of this Thursday the 16th of Sepember at 1.00pm we will be meeting face to face at the Otago Museum Cafe.

Look forward to seeing you all in person.

Kind regards

Joshua and The Enabling Love & Friendship Team

Hi all, at this time New Zealand is at alert level 4. Please keep your eye on this page for when face-to-face coffee groups are due to resume. There will be online coffee groups starting from next week due to the Covid-19 situation, please email us if you need any assistance because of lockdown. We will do our best to help you, our email is This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. All online services will continue to be operational under level 4. Please keep your eyes on this website for further updates, there will be an announcement made in the next few days to cover the online coffee group times etc. We are currently working through our plans over the next few months to continue to provide events and help the community find friendship and love! Stay safe everyone.

Auckland Speed Dating Afternoon
Hi All, thank you to all those who attended the Speed Dating Event recently in Auckland.
If there are any other organisations who would like to work on a project with us that could benfit the disability community with it's media highlighting the issues around dating and friendship please email us at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
We look forward to future Speed Dating events and continuing to combat social isolation.
We are still looking for Regional Volunteer Co-ordinators as there is a high demand for events across the country.
Stay tuned for the Unbreakables documentary in 2022 which will be on TVNZ.

Just to advise you all that a Give a little page has been created to raise funds for different projects across New Zealand for the benefit of our wider community.

Below is the link to view and donate if you a have a family/friend with a disabiliy who wants to be part of this organisaition.

https://givealittle.co.nz/cause/enablingloveandfriendship.

Enabling Love Fundraiser
Hi all we are announcing today that tickets are available for our Fundraiser. The goal is to raise funds for the Disability Community in Otago, to help get our first community centre up and running. Tickets from : Eventfinda.co.nz
Date: is Thursday the 11th of March 7.30pm. The press realease is below.
Enabling Love & Friendship is delighted to announce our first fundraiser event for 2021 to be held on Thursday 11th March at 7:30pm. The event will take place in the Alexander McMillan Room on the first floor of Dunedin Community House (301 Moray Place). Enabling Love & Friendship is an organisation for people living with disabilities, run by people with disabilities.We are a non-profit organisation which was started in 2018 due to a need within the disability community to make it easier for people to socialise, in terms of friendships and relationships. We aim to provide a safe environment for individuals to meet new friends and form these new connections/relationships. Enabling Love & Friendship would like to open up an office/community space in 2021. In order to do this we need to fundraise significant annual costs. The majority of these funds will go towards the cost of the venue and it's various expenses: commercial rent, power, internet etc. The other part will go towards our online service to help cover the cost of the online profiles for some of our clients who find it hard to pay the yearly membership costs. Some of our clients are beneficiaries so any costs that we can reduce for them while still providing the same quality of service is one of our main objectives. The Enabling Love & Friendship fundraiser will be a chance for us to raffle off a range of donated items from local businesses. Tickets for the event will be available online from Event Finder. We are still encouraging local businesses to get involved by donating goods, services or funding. Please feel free to contact us for any other information needed. J W Perry Joshua Perry CEO Enabling Love NZ Ph: 0277655458 www.enablinglove.nz This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The Otago region social/coffee club has been back up and running for a couple of weeks now. Here is a picutre of our first week back at Croque-O-Dile in the Gardens!

We will continue to run the group from this location until the end of February.

Enabling Love Invercargill first event for the year-BBQ. A relaxing and friendly day!

Happy New Year everyone!

Welcome back for 2021.

All regions will be starting back up in the next few weeks.

We are looking forward to a big year of exciting events ahead.

Our Otago Social Club starts tomorrow (Thurs 14 January) at the Botanical Gardens in North Dunedin from 1-2pm.

If you require any further information please get in touch: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Regards
Josh & The Enabling Love & Friendship team

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