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Tennis at the Dome on Stuart St - see advert below 🎾

DCC city reserves review 🌲

Dunedin City Council is currently asking Dunedin residents to give feedback on the current policies for our city’s reserves.

These policies guide the use, development, maintenance, protection and preservation of Dunedin’s more than 300 natural areas which include parks, reserves, sports grounds and other green spaces.

Have your say at www.dunedin.govt.nz/reserves-management-review

Teddy bear Hospital Community Day  on Saturday 5th August 10am-2pm. 🧸

This event is open to all the public and it is being held at 2 locations this year: Hunter Centre North Dunedin and later Carisbrook School South Dunedin on Saturday 16th September.

This is an awesome event run by Otago Health Professional Students where children can bring in their sick teddies and have them checked by our teddy doctors and dentists. Our aim is to reduce some of the anxiety and fear that children experience at the prospect of visiting the doctor or dentist. This venture is thus preventative in nature, aiming to stop visiting these professions from seeming scary and daunting.

As well as teddy doctor and dentist consultations (in both Te Reo and English), we will have a sausage sizzle, bouncy castle, face painting, obstacle courses, students from the Schools of Pharmacy, Nursing and Physiotherapy, Sport and Exercise Science, Med lab Science, St John Ambulance, Radiology and more!!

Community Day is a free, non-profit event aimed at creating positive experiences for children within the health care setting. It relies a lot on the wider Dunedin community to make it happen. 

Consultations can be booked by visiting our facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/teddybearhospitaldunedin/

Please note that this year bookings are only available for the North Dunedin Community Day at Hunter Centre but they are not compulsory, we also welcome walk-ins.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us through this email: tbhdunedin@gmail.com