Events 2020
Each year there are hundreds of White Ribbon events that take place all over New Zealand. The largest event in 2019 was the White Ribbon Ride, which visited over 80 communities in both the North and South Islands throughout November in the lead up to White Ribbon Day. This year with COVID19 we are holding a virtual ride with riders attending local events rather than travelling throughout New Zealand. Events can take place at any time of the year and we would love to know what you are organising. You don’t require our permission, but it really helpful to know what is occurring.
What your organisation can do to support White Ribbon’s campaign to
Prevent Men’s Violence Towards Women.
Tell us about your event
Town or City: All around Auckland. Tauranga, Hamilton, Whakatane, Rotorua
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day Billboards and Resources
Date: All of November
Time:
Venue:
Description: With encouraging billboards in front of 14 churches around the North Island, with messages such as You matter, Don’t give up and You’re not alone. At Presbyterian Support Northern we have partnered with Reverend Roxy Gahegan to create resources, from posters, to a testimony and myth busters for the ministers to be able to share this in their communities.
Especially the blog is a highlight and some interactive ideas and videos, you can read this here: https://prayingforchildren2020.wordpress.com/white-ribbon/
Look out for our three signs on the street!
Contact: Community Relationship Advisor: Cindy Jang-Barlow Cindy.jang-barlow@psn.org.nz
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: 6 November
Time: All day
Venue: Pukekohe High School
Description: White Ribbon Day – White shirt only
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event I am just going to distribute ribbons and pamphlets at work to all MECF staff and have a talk during our morning briefing. We are also going to print out posters and have them visible in every unit and throughout the prison. MECF is a male prison and with ALL of our staff wearing White Ribbons, it will show unity towards the people in our care and any visitors onto site. Given the environment we work in and the people we care for, our staff can benefit from knowing more about preventing violence towards women.
Date: 23 November
Time: 8.00am
Venue: Mt Eden Corrections Facility
Description: Private
Contact (if appropriate): Shyam.Amarsee@corrections.govt.nz
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day
Date: 25 November 2020
Time: All day
Venue: N/A
Description: Fullers Group Limited – Private campaign for employee’s only.
Contact (if appropriate): Fern Poole
Town or City: Auckland (Glendene)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Breakfast
Date: Friday 27 November
Time: 8.00am
Venue: Glendene School, Barrys Road, Glendene, Auckland
Description: This is our fifth White Ribbon Breakfast. The Glendene Community HUB along with local volunteer residents put on a hot breakfast for Students and staff and invite them to bring their families to breakfast in the courtyard. In collaboration with our local constable our male volunteers engage and serve breakfast as visual role models for children and families. This is a private event as it is only open to School staff, students & families.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: I am just going to distribute the ribbons at work and talk to them what it is about. We are a Civil engineering company where majority of the staff are males. I think being part of this day would be very beneficial for them.
Date: 25 November
Time: All day
Venue: Candor3
Description: Private
Contact (if appropriate): Laura 02102714858
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day Awareness Event
Date: Wednesday 25 November
Time: 8.00am – 2.00pm
Venue: Waitakere Hospital main entrance foyers
Description: Waitematā DHB is committed to White Ribbon Day and the promotion of non-violence toward our staff and within our communities. Support the cause by wearing a white ribbon this week. White Ribbon Day encourages respectful relationships and an end to domestic violence.
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day Awareness Event
Date: Wednesday 25 November
Time: 8.00am – 2.00pm
Venue: North Shore Hospital main entrance foyers
Description: Waitematā DHB is committed to White Ribbon Day and the promotion of non-violence toward our staff and within our communities. Support the cause by wearing a white ribbon this week. White Ribbon Day encourages respectful relationships and an end to domestic violence.
Town or City: Auckland (Otara)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: Wednesday 25 November
Time: During the day/lunch time
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Description: Tutor time activities with senior school students and knowledge sharing around “Challenging the #Outdated”. Lunch time activities within the Senior school & Middle school (activities yet to be confirmed). Proposed sausage sizzle with senior school only Private School activity – TBC
Town or City: Auckland (Whenuapai)
Name of Event: RNZAF Auckland White Ribbon Lunch
Date: 25 November
Time: 2.00 – 15.30pm
Venue: RNZAF Auckland Air Base, Walker Lounge.
Description: Talk by White Ribbon Ambassador Jordan Henare to RNZAF personnel. Private Event.
Contact: Daniel Letham-McGrath (dan.mcgrath@nzdf.mil.nz, 021908424)
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: Counties Manukau Police
Date: 25 November
Time: 10.30am-1.30pm
Venue: Westfield Manukau (by Farmers)
Description: White Ribbon display. Policy Family Harm staff and partner agencies present to talk to our community around family harm.
Contact: Sharon Price
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: Lighting of the Sky Tower
Date: 25 November
Time: from 6.00pm onwards
Venue: Sky Tower, SkyCity
Description: Public lighting of skyline landmark with supporting social media
Contact: Jon Spittle
Town or City: Auckland (Otara)
Name of Event: Staff morning tea & photo with students “challenging to outdated” with hashtags
Date: Thursday 26 November – Staff morning tea / Monday 23rd to Friday 27th (tutor class & lunch periods)
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate – 2 Franklyne Road, Otara, Auckland 2023
Description: Request staff to promote White Ribbon Day by displaying posters around the school and sharing important facts during their daily tutor classes. Also if possible get teachers to promote the t-shirts throughout the week.
Contact (if appropriate): Peter Mata – Pou Manaaki Student support worker
Town or City: Auckland (Otara)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Mufti Day Event
Date: Friday 26 November
Time: 8.15am/Lunch time/class time TBC
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Description: Middle school Mufti Day (All students and staff will be encouraged to wear white for white ribbon day). Lunch time activities for the collegiate (activities yet to be confirmed). Proposed sausage sizzle for middle school only. Private School activity- TBC
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: Church Services
Date: Sunday 28 November
Time: 8:30am and 10:30am
Venue: St Columba Church, 480 Ti Rakau Drive, Botany
Description: Traditional Service (8:30am), Contemporary Family Service (10:30am)
Contact (if appropriate): office@stcolumba.org.nz; 09-274-4864
Town or City: Auckland
Name of Event: White Ribbon event
Date: 29 November
Time: 2.30 – 4.30pm
Venue: Highland Park Community House, 47 Aviemore Drive, Howick
Description: To raise awareness about prevalence of male violence against violence
Contact (if appropriate): Harjit Singh, 0211590928
Town or City: Blenheim
Name of Event: White Ribbon event
Date: Wednesday 25 – Friday 27 November
Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm
Venue: Marlborough Media
Description: Pop in to our office at 52 Scott Street, Blenheim to purchase a white ribbon for a donation. All proceeds will be donated to Women’s Refuge Marlborough.
Contact: anna@marlboroughmedia.co.nz
Facebook or Web Link: https://marlboroughweekly.co.nz/
Town or City: Cambridge
Name of Event: WALK IN HER SHOES (hosted at Harrier Athletic Christmas Market)
Date: 28 November
Time: 9.00am – 1.00pm with Walk in Her Shoes 10.30am – 11.00am
Venue: Cambridge Athletic and Harrier Club Grounds, corner Hamilton Road and Vogel Street, Cambridge. The lovely people organising the Cambridge Athletic Park Christmas Market have generously offered premium spots in the food area at this event so those of us out there helping our community can let the people know what we can do to help. Violence Free Waipa will have a stall there promoting White Ribbon and there will be a “Walk in Her Shoes” around the track so bring your heels!
This is a great opportunity for us to reach out to people who may not know the support is there.
Town or City: Carterton
Name of Event: White Ribbon Breakfast
Date: 25 November
Time: 7.00am – 9.00am
Venue: Holloway Street Operations Yard
Description: A White Ribbon breakfast is being hosted by the Carterton District Council for staff. White Ribbon Ambassador Mark Shepherd will b in attendance. He will speak to the current messages. A4 White Ribbon conflute cutouts will be displayed on our library square lawn in Holloway Street – each will represent a reported domestic violence callout in our town for the last 12 months. White Ribbon banners will be flying throughout November in Holloway Street. White Ribbons will be tied around the trees in Memorial Square in Carterton.
Contact:
Town or City: Christchurch
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: 20 November
Time: 5.00pm – 6.00pm
Venue: Ripene ma Reserve, Aranui
Description: This year the Aranui Community Trust is again holding our annual White Ribbon event at Ripene Ma Reserve on the Corner of Hampshire Street and Wainoni Road, Aranui. Like every year we have fantastic support from all Aranui community members who come along for the hour to support a violence free Aranui. Agenda this year 2020 will hear speakers and performances by
St James Primary School, Haeata Community Campus, Twin Harmony. Guest speaker Hon. Poto Williams.
All welcome to join us. CHALLENGE #The Outdated, #ACTIS
Contact: tracey@actis.org.nz
Facebook or Web Link: https://www.facebook.com/AranuiCTIS
Town or City: Christchurch
Name of Event: Barnardos White Ribbon Charity Day
Date: 20 October
Time: 2:30pm
Venue: Shirley Intermediate School
Description: Barnardos with the assistance of other local community organisations and talents will be hosting a White Ribbon Charity day at the Shirley intermediate school. There will be motivational speakers, entertainment, a fundraising raffle and more importantly White Ribbon merchandise to help spread the message. With the help of our White ribbon ambassador, Angelo, we look forward to supporting a great cause and creating a fun but meaningful day for children and families in the community to come enjoy.
Contact:
Town or City: Christchurch
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: 25 November
Time: 9.00am – 7.00pm
Venue: Ladies’ homes or church
Description: The Inner City Branch of the Catholic Women’s League as well as the Halswell Catholic Women’s league are praying the Rosary for violence to Women and children to end.
This will happen from 9am to 7pm, with members all taking an hour each to pray, some hours there will be 2 or maybe 3 ladies praying as there are more ladies than hours.
The ladies will either pray the Rosary in their own homes or some may choose to go to the church to pray.
Town or City: Christchurch
Name of Event: White Ribbon Pledge
Date: 25 November
Time: 8.15am
Venue: Christchurch Court
Description: Court staff gathered to recite the WR pledge on White Ribbon Day.
Contact:
Town or City: Culverden, Cheviot, Kaiapoi [ Would it be best to split these into three? ]
Name of Event: Presentation to School
Date: 19-25 November
Time: 12 Noon – 2.00pm
Venue: Amuri College, Cheviot School and Kaiapoi High School
Description: Violence Free North Canterbury will be presenting to year 9 and 10 at Cheviot Area School, Amuri Area school and Kaiapoi High School from 23-25 November. The events will take place over a lunch hour with Police, Aviva, Organa Tamariki and Te Runanga O Nga Maata Waka helping to engage students in a conversation around healthy relationships and consent – with the chance to spin the chocolate wheel! There will be white ribbons and other resources to hand out.
Contact: natalie.paterson@wmk.govt.nz
Facebook or Web Link: https://www.waimakariri.govt.nz/community/working-with-the-community/safety-and-wellbeing/violence-prevention
Town or City: TBC
Name of Event: Workshop on Strangulation
Date: 19 November
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Description: We will be hosting Rob Veale as he presents his Strangulation workshop
Contact:
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: Whānau Ora Event
Date: 23 October
Time: All day event
Venue: Main Street, Dannevirke
Description: Community sausage sizzle, Family games and White Ribbon giveaways with the White Ribbon Ambassadors, Police & members of the White Ribbon Committee organising and facilitating on the day.
Contact:
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: Official Opening of White Ribbon Week in Tararua
Date: 23 November
Time: 10am
Venue: Cnr of Main & Ward Streets, Dannevirke
Description: Morning tea with Mayor Tracey Collis, WR Ambassadors and community leaders, iwi, NGO’s etc. White Ribbons tied around the trees leading into the main centre and balloons and banner tied throughout the main street of Dannevirke.
Contact: Hannah Kingi (Tararua White Ribbon Chair)
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: Police Radio Interview with WR Ambassadors
Date: 24 November
Time: 9am
Venue: Manawatu Radio
Description: White Ribbon Police Radio interview with White Ribbon Ambassadors Sergeant Gary McKernon (NZ Police) and Steve Dunn (Tararua Council).
Contact: Sergeant Gary McKernon
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day Celebrations
Date: 25 November
Time: 11:30am
Venue: Dannevirke New World
Description: White Ribbon Day Celebrations/Community Police BBQ/White Ribbon giveaways/info etc.
Contact: Sargent Gary McKernon- Dannevirke Police
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: White Ribbon Rock Hunt
Date: 26 November
Time: All Day Event
Venue: At participating Tararua Schools & Local Parks
Description: White Ribbon Rock Hunt for all schools and children within the region. Find a WR rock, Bring into Tararua REAP, collect your spot prize and go in the draw to win the major prize pack.
Contact: Hannah Kingi (Tararua White Ribbon Chair)
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: Community Event
Date: 27 November
Time: 5:00pm
Venue:
Description: White Ribbon Police and Fire Fighters Friendly Touch Rugby Game against local Touch Rugby teams, BBQ, White Ribbon stand with banners, balloons, stickers, tattoos, etc.
Contact: Haley Butcher at Rangitane Tamaki nui a Rua
Town or City: Dannevirke
Name of Event: Dannevirke Community Christmas Parade
Date: 5 December
Time: 9.00am
Venue: Main Street Dannevirke
Description: Community Christmas Parade
Contact: Hannah Kingi (Tararua White Ribbon Chair)
Town or City: Dunedin
Name of Event: Dunedin Art Show
Date: 19 November Opening Night
Time: from 7.30pm
Date: 20 November
Time: 10.00am-6.00pm
Date: 21 November
Time: 10.00am-8.00pm
Date: 22 November
Time: 10.00am-5.00pm
Venue: TBC
Description: Art Show featuring a White Ribbon exhibition. Tickets can be purchased here https://tickets.theartshow.co.nz/dunedin-tickets/
https://www.dunedinartshow.co.nz/
Contact:
Town or City: Dunedin
Name of Event: White Ribbon Art Celebration
Date: 26 November
Time: 11.00am
Venue: Otago Corrections Facility
Description: A celebration with their inhouse art group to thank them for their contribution to White Ribbon. Internal event for White Ribbon Ambassadors and the Artists.
Contact:
Town or City: Dunedin
Name of Event: Stopping Violence Dunedin / Dunedin Collaboration Against Family Violence
White Ribbon Day 2020
Date: 25 November
Time: N/A
Venue: N/A
Description: This year Stopping Violence Dunedin and the Dunedin Collaboration Against Family Violence will be taking a more “conservation starter” stance to White Ribbon. To do so we are going to yarn bomb a tree in Dunedin (trees to be announced) and we are going to decorate fences in Dunedin with white ribbons and scan barcodes to Stopping Violence Dunedin’s website and the White Ribbon website.
Contact: dcafvadmin@stoppingviolencedunedin.org.nz
Town or City: Dunedin
Name of Event: White Ribbon Art Celebration
Date: 26 November
Time: 11.00am
Venue: Otago Corrections Facility
Description: Otago Corrections Facility are holding a celebration with their inhouse art group on Thurs 26th November at 11:00am to thank them for their contribution to White Ribbon.
Internal Event for White Ribbon Ambassadors and the artists
Contact:
Town or City: Dunedin
Name of Event: Alas it’s Baser and Allen, with Jackson Caine, a White Ribbon Event
Date: 5 December
Time: 7.30om till late.
Venue: Zanzibar, George St, Dunedin.
Description: the dynamic duo of Alas it’s Baser and Allen present an evening of familiar and odd ball covers. With Jackson Caine, playing a set of party favourites, at Dunedin’s top gin joint: Zanzibar
Contact: Darryl Baser, 0277808705
Town or City: Edendale (Southland)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: 20 November and 27 November
Time: 12 Noon – 1.00pm
Venue: Fonterra Edendale Site Canteen
Description: Hosting two White Ribbon $10 BBQ lunches. For every meal sold $5 will be donated to White Ribbon.
Contact:
Town or City: Gisborne
Name of Event: White Ribbon Cycle Ride
Date: 25 November
Time: 10.00am
Venue: Meet at Rose Garden by Gisborne District Council
Description: Tauawhi Men’s Centre with Sports Gisborne Tairawhiti will be taking over the city on pushbikes for this year’s White Ribbon Ride. They will ride along the Oneroa walk and cycleway to Churchill Park where a free sausage sizzle and fun activities await.
Contact: For more information and to register contact katen@sportgisborne.org.nz
Town or City: Glendene (Auckland)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Breakfast
Date: Friday 27 November
Time: 8.00am
Venue: Glendene School, Barrys Road, Glendene, Auckland
Description: This is our fifth White Ribbon Breakfast. The Glendene Community HUB along with local volunteer residents put on a hot breakfast for Students and staff and invite them to bring their families to breakfast in the courtyard. In collaboration with our local constable our male volunteers engage and serve breakfast as visual role models for children and families.
This is a private event as it is only open to School staff, students & families.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Gore
Name of Event: Cuppa with a Coppa
Date: 24 November
Time: 10.00am
Venue: Thomas Green
Description: All the community is invited and will be on FB discussing what White Ribbon is and family harm and the services around to support people. For the community to meet the frontline workers and have time to ask questions. Guest speakers to be arranged.
Contact: Cynthia Fairly or Sam Munroe 027 227 5557
Town or City: Hamilton
Name of Event: Fairfield Enderley Resillence Network March
Date: 25 November
Time: 9.00am-11.00am
Venue: Fairfield Hall, Clarkin Road
Description: We invite the 9 schools in our area to meet and march down Clarkin
Rd and back up to the Hall where we then have a sausage sizzle for
the students and a short korero. Last year we had students speaking
and hope to again this year.
Contact:
Town or City: Hamilton City
Name of Event: Hamilton City Council White Ribbon Road Show
Date: 25 November
Time: all day
Venue: Multiple HCC sites
Description: HCC is doing a road show and going to many of our satellite sites to bring a presence and awareness to our staff about what ribbon day is and means. Would love to get more staff to take the pledge and or become ambassadors. This is just a private event we are doing for HCC staff.
Contact (if appropriate): +6478386505
Town or City: Hamilton
Name of Event: Running an Online awareness campaign
Date: 19 – 25 November
Time: Online
Venue: Online University of Waikato
Description: Online University of Waikato
Contact: karen@widesmile.co.nz
Town or City: Hamilton
Name of Event: HUSH
Date: 25-28 November
Time: 7.30pm
Date: 28 November
Time: 3.00pm
Venue: THE METEOR
1 Victoria Street, Hamilton
Description: DIRECTED BY GAYE POOLE
CAST Julianne Boyle, Conor Maxwell, Missy Mooney, Kelly Petersen Georgia Pollock, Nicolas Wells, Jared Wooldridge, Sara Young
FOR TICKETS: go to themeteor.co.nz
Contact:
Town or City: Hastings
Name of Event:
Date: 25 November
Time: 10.00am
Venue: Hastings Inner City Mall
Description: White Ribbon Ambassadors and members of the Safer Hastings Coalition will be sharing White Ribbon campaign information with the public between 10.00am – 12 noon.
Contact: debbien@hdc.govt.nz
Town or City: Hawera
Name of Event: Taranaki Safe Families Trust White Ribbon Event
Date: 19 November
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: Hawera Town Square
Description: Community Engagement opportunities. Also running a photo competition asking people to submit their best picture of men demonstrating White Ribbon values. The public can vote online and the winners will be announced on the official White Ribbon Day, 25 November.
Contact:
Town or City: Hawera
Name of Event: Taranaki Safe Families Trust White Ribbon Event
Date: 20 November
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: Huatoki Plaza
Description: Community Engagement opportunities. Also running a photo competition asking people to submit their best picture of men demonstrating White Ribbon values. The public can vote online and the winners will be announced on the official White Ribbon Day, 25 November.
Contact:
Town or City: Invercargill
Name of Event:
Date: October 15, 2020
Time: All day
Venue: Southland Girls High School
Description: Students are encouraged to wear white accessories with their uniform. e.g. white wig, white ribbon in their hair. Please bring a gold coin to purchase a white ribbon.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Invercargill
Name of Event: Church Service
Date: 22 November
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: St Paul’s Church, Invercargill
Description: White Ribbon Ambassador Very Rev Ray Coster has been asked to speak at a special White Ribbon combined church service – St Paul’s Church Invercargill 6pm
Contact:
Town or City: Invercargill
Name of Event: White Ribbon meetings with Presbyterian Support
Date: 24 November
Time: Morning
Venue:
Description: White Ribbon Ambassador Very Rev Ray Coster shares with the Presbyterian Family Works Team and then later meets the Senior Leadership Team of Presbyterian Support to discuss the campaign and also listen to what they are doing re Family Harm (morning) Private event.
Contact:
Town or City: Invercargill
Name of Event: White Ribbon Breakfast
Date: 25 November
Time: 7.30am – 9.00am
Venue: Ascot Park Hotel
Description: White Ribbon Day Breakfast hosted by Presbyterian Support Southland and Otago Southland Employers Association, Ascot Park Hotel from 7:30am – White Ribbon Ambassador Very Rev Ray Coster to attend and introduce White Ribbon Business Accreditation. Tickets $25+gst. for members/$26+gst fornon-members. Register at https://www.osea.org.nz/training/osea-events/white-ribbon-breakfast/ Participants are encouraged to bring a gift or monetary donation for a family in need this Christmas.
Contact:
Town or City: Invercargill
Name of Event: White Ribbon Awareness Day Community Event
Date: 25 November
Time: 10.00am – 2.00pm
Venue: First Presbyterian Church Front Lawn
Description: White Ribbon event for the community of Invercargill at First Church which White Ribbon Ambassador Very Rev Ray Coster will attend and mix n mingle with the people
Contact:
Town or City: Invercargill
Name of Event: Invercargill South Rotary Club meeting
Date: 25 November
Time: 6.00pm
Venue: Elmwood Gardens
Description: White Ribbon Ambassador Very Rev Ray Coster will speak to the Invercargill South Rotary club meeting on the 2020 campaign. 6pm held at Elmwood Gardens
Contact:
Town or City: Kaitaia
Name of Event: White Ribbon Ride
Date: TBC
Time: All day
Venue: From Kaitaia to Pukenui
Description: We will be doing a motorcycle ride from Kaitaia to Pukenui in support of this year’s White Ribbon campaign to increase awareness and help STOP men’s violence towards women. Date yet to be confirmed. Call 02040015553 if you wish to join us on our ride. Anything on 2 wheels is welcome. Thank you
Contact:
Town or City: Kawerau
Name of Event: White Ribbon Parakuihi
Date: Wednesday 25 November 2020
Time: from 9.00am
Venue: Firmin Lodge, Kawerau
Description: Breakfast with three keynote speakers:
Woody (Charles Woods)
Chris Majoribanks, CEO of Tuwharetoa Ki Kawerau Health, Education and Social Services
Sgt Dave Beattie, FH Supervisor Whakatane Police and White Ribbon Ambassador
for community members and agencies. Theme: Raising boys to be gentle men.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Lower Hutt
Name of Event: Cops with Cakes
Date: Saturday 14 November 2020 (with Sunday 15 November as a rain day)
Time: 10.00am – 2.00pm
Venue: Avalon Park
Description: Cops with Cakes is a unique road safety expo and community event, combining road and community safety information with family friendly activities and lots of fun for kids.
All our local emergency services will be on site and many of Lower Hutt’s community organisations and businesses too, giving demonstrations, driver training and community advice and support.
White Ribbon will be represented at Cops with Cake by White Ribbon Riders with their motorbikes and they will provide White Ribbon resources – posters, flyers, temporary tattoos, balloons and window stickers to attendees and talk about challenging #outdated stereotypes, healthy masculinity and the importance of respectful relationships.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Lower Hutt
Name of Event: Te Ra O Te Raukura Virtual Event
Date: 30 January – 5 February 2021
Time: 1 week duration of one hour per day
Venue: Radio and social media
Description: Te Ra O te Raukura are having a change in format for their next annual event making it into a virtual event using radio and social media along with promoting different kaupapa with current community work they are already doing. Each day there is opportunity for kaupapa promotion in hour slots for the week.
This even usually reaches thousands of our Māori community in Te Awakairangi through Te Atiawa Toa FM and Atiawa Runanga holding the event at Te White Park; however the change in format was decided due to the risks involved with Covid 19.
Contact: Ruth Howlett, Ngaropo 027 251 2340
Town or City: Lyttelton, Canterbury
Name of Event: White Ribbon Riders Visit (Staff only)
Date: Tuesday 24 November
Time: 7.00am
Venue: Lyttelton Port Company
Description: White Ribbon Riders from the region will talk with staff about the campaign and provide resources.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Lyttelton
Name of Event: White Ribbon Morning Tea with Speaker
Date: Thursday 26 November.
Time: 10.00am
Venue: Lyttelton Fire Station. London Street.
Description: Lyttelton Community House has organised a White Ribbon Morning Tea and has a guest speaker attending. Cloth white ribbons will be handed out.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Manukau
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day 25 November 2020; Lets all take the time to Challenge the Outdated
Date: Monday 23 November to Wednesday 25 November
Time: 9.0am – 10.00am each day
Venue: Manukau Community Corrections
Description: The event is private as it is held for staff at Manukau Community Corrections
Monday 23 November: dedicating space on team notice boards to post the “Outdated Rules” heard from clients, in public places and in our own homes.
Tuesday 24 November: looking at rephrasing and ways to use motivational interviewing to address the unspoken rules that promote unhealthy masculinity
Wednesday 25 November: showing support for White Ribbon day by wearing a ribbon and getting involved in making some cookies to be made available for our colleagues and clients who come in for the remainder of the week.
Town or City: Masterton
Name of Event: White Ribbon Community Karakia
Date: 25 November
Time: 8.30am
Venue: ChangeAbility Counselling and Family Violence Services
Description: We will be hosting the weekly community karakia, a chance for local social service community agencies to meet and discuss their mahi. We’re planning to have some resources for other community agencies to take with them: ribbons, pens, posters, and discuss the work we do in the community around family violence. We’ll also have morning tea serving black iced cupcakes with white ribbons on them.
We will take photos to share
Contact: Liat Gush 06 377 0933
Town or City: Masterton
Name of Event: Community event
Date: 25 November
Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: Masterton Town Square
Description: Take a photo or your business , group, team , family or self with our white ribbons in the town square and go in the draw to win 1 of 3 morning tea shouts. There will be a sausage sizzle on the day between 11.00am and 1.00pm. Joint initiative between Changeability and Violence Intervention Team WDHB
Contact:
Town or City: Motueka
Name of Event: White Ribbon Riders/Ambassadors attending Tribal Nations RATS (Riders
Against Teen Suicide) Event
Date: Saturday 7 November
Time: From 1.00pm
Venue: Motueka Recreation Centre
Description: White Ribbon Riders and Ambassadors will attend the Tribal Nations RATS (Riders Against Teen Suicide) Event and will spread the kaupapa and provide free resources. Visitors are welcome to leave a memento of someone they have lost.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Nelson (Ngakuru)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Community Event
Date: 22 November
Time: 10.30am
Venue: St Paul’s Union Church, Ngakuru
Description: Supporting and educating our community about family unity, relationships and available help.
Contact:
Town or City: Nelson
Name of Event: White Ribbon Community Event
Date: 25 November
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: Nelson Hospital foyer
Description: Display table manned by our Child & Family Safety Service and Violence Intervention Champions – giving away cupcakes to staff and members of the public who stop and have a chat with us
Contact:
Town or City: Nelson
Name of Event: White Ribbon Baking Bash
Date: Wednesday 25 November
Time: 9:00am
Venue: Nelson Police Station
Description: Morning tea to support White Ribbon Day with Tasman District Headquarters staff Nelson Police and Agency Partners. Gold coin donation for White Ribbon and baked goods.
Contact (if appropriate): Jen Murray
Town or City: Nelson
Name of Event: White Ribbon Riders at Nelson Market with Soroptimists
Date: Saturday 5 December
Time: 8.00am – 1.00pm
Venue: Nelson Market
Description: White Ribbon Riders and Ambassadors will attend the Nelson Market with Soroptimists to spread the kaupapa and provide free resources to encourage violence prevention. Come down and join us!
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: New Plymouth
Name of Event: Tegel Foods New Plymouth Wellbeing Committee – Highlighting White Ribbon Day
Date: 25 November
Time: 3.00pm – 8.00pm
Venue: PRIVATE – Tegel Foods Workplace (being a food manufacturer, we are not able to have others come on our site to join us unless pre-approved by us and completed an induction)
Description: Tegel Foods New Plymouth is committed to promoting safe and respectful relationships and helping to keep our families free from family harm. We have worked closely with the Taranaki Safe Families Trust and NZ Police in training our leadership teams in recognising and referring those in need so white ribbon fits our vision of a safe and healthy community, not just for us at work, but also for our whānau.
The Wellbeing Committee will be promoting non-family violence for all of November with table toppers, information on our electronic noticeboards, brochures and a big push with balloons and other things on 25 November.
Contact: 06 215 4071
Town or City: Ngawha, Northland
Name of Event: White Ribbon Day @ NRCF
Date: 25 November and 27 November
Time: Throughout the day on 25th, 1.00pm on 27th
Venue: Northland Region Corrections Facility
Description: White Ribbons distributed to staff for a koha to be donated to a charity, other activities & speaker from Victim Support on 27th for staff training
Contact (if appropriate): Toni Brown
Town or City: Otara (Auckland)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: Wednesday 25 November
Time: During the day/lunch time
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Description: Tutor time activities with senior school students and knowledge sharing around “Challenging the #Outdated”. Lunch time activities within the Senior school & Middle school (activities yet to be confirmed). Proposed sausage sizzle with senior school only Private School activity – TBC Sean (White Ribbon Youth Social Worker on the Blueprints programme ) and Pam (White Ribbon National Relationships Manager) hope to attend the sausage sizzle on White Ribbon Day.
Town or City: Otara (Auckland)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: Thursday 26 November
Time: 8.15am/Lunch time/class time TBC
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Description: Sean will be presenting to our senior school staff at 8.15am. Lunch time activities for collegiate. Middle school and Junior school classroom activities (yet to be confirmed). Proposed sausage sizzle with Junior school only. Private School activity – TBC
Town or City: Otara (Auckland)
Name of Event: White Ribbon Mufti Day Event
Date: Friday 26 November
Time: 8.15am/Lunch time/class time TBC
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate
Description: Middle school Mufti Day (All students and staff will be encouraged to wear white for white ribbon day). Lunch time activities for the collegiate (activities yet to be confirmed). Proposed sausage sizzle for middle school only. Private School activity- TBC
Town or City: Otara, Auckland
Name of Event: Staff morning tea & photo with students “challenging to outdated” with hashtags
Date: Thursday 26 November – Staff morning tea / Monday 23rd to Friday 27th (tutor class & lunch periods)
Venue: Sir Edmund Hillary Collegiate – 2 Franklyne Road, Otara, Auckland 2023
Description: Request staff to promote White Ribbon Day by displaying posters around the school and sharing important facts during their daily tutor classes. Also if possible get teachers to promote the t-shirts throughout the week.
Contact (if appropriate): Peter Mata – Pou Manaaki Student support worker
Town or City: Pahiatua
Name of Event: Pahiatua Community Christmas Parade
Date: 8 December
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Description: Community Christmas Parade
Contact:
Town or City: Palmerston North
Name of Event: Korowai presentation
Date: 16 October
Time: 9.30am
Venue: Palmerston North Police Station
Description: Rick Hepi, who is one of our Ambassadors and Riders will be attending the korowai presentation to represent White Ribbon.
Contact: Liz Perawiti and Te Whanau O Ringatoi Foundation
Town or City: Palmerston North (Takaro)
Name of Event: Men’s Breakfast
Date: 28 November
Time: 8.00am – 9.30am-ish
Venue: St Michael’s Church
Description: This will allow any riders to support the Palmerston North Square event. There will be accommodation at St Michael’s on the evening of 27 November for riders coming in.
Contact:
Town or City: Palmerston North
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: 28 November
Time: 10.00am
Venue: The Fight Shop NZ
Description: We are excited to announce that 4th Degree Black Belt Sensei Shane will be teaching a Kenpo 5.0 Martial Arts Seminar in support of White Ribbon Day, which will be held Saturday, 28 November 2020 from 10am. Our amazing hosts for this event is Stew and Tash Chambers from The Fight Shop NZ, located at 527 Church Street, Palmerston North.
Contact: https://www.facebook.com/bullyproofingkids/
Town or City: Palmerston North
Name of Event: Riders Event
Date: 28 November
Time: 10.00am-2.00pm
Venue: Te Marae O Hine (The Square)
Description: The Ride event in November will include a number of local riders and will be co-ordinated by Rick Hepi, White Ribbon Ambassador.
Contact: Liz Perawiti and Te Whanau O Ringatoi Foundation
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: Presentation at Porirua College
Date: 6 November
Time: 12.30pm onwards
Venue: Porirua College [ aimed for their lunch time but the College are wanting an assembly format instead so they will need to confirm. ]
Description: Sausage sizzle, raising awareness with giving out info packs and a korero on challenging the outdated.
Contact: Tavita Jnr Tuifao, Family Violence Prevention Co-ordinator, tavita@poriruawhanau.org.nz
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: Visit to schools
Date: 9-20 November
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Description: Visits to Rangikura, Ngati Toa, Natone Park and Windley schools providing them sausage sizzles and raising awareness.
Contact: Tavita Jnr Tuifao, Family Violence Prevention Co-ordinator, tavita@poriruawhanau.org.nz
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: RED Programme in conjunction with White Ribbon
Date: 17 November
Time: 9.30am – 11.30am
Venue: Mungavin Community Hall
Description: Will be delivering the RED Program in conjunction with White Ribbon. This is a program designed to help Restore survivors and perpetrators of violence to a safe place, Empower each other to rebuild, and to help Defend their loved ones to fortify strong futures. Red is an acronym that stands for: Restore, Empower, and Defend.
We are very excited to include the W/R into this program.
This program is not open to the public.
Contact: Tuakana Turua – 0272280037
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: Flag Tournament (TBC)
Date: 21 November
Time: TBC
Venue: Cannons Creek Park
Description: Running a flag tournament to raise awareness in sports team. [ not yet confirmed pending funding ]
Contact: Tavita Jnr Tuifao, Family Violence Prevention Co-ordinator, tavita@poriruawhanau.org.nz
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: Talk/taking The Pledge
Date: 25 November
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Description: Speaking with elderly group about taking The Pledge.
Contact: Tavita Jnr Tuifao, Family Violence Prevention Co-ordinator, tavita@poriruawhanau.org.nz
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: Breakfast
Date: 25 November
Time: 6.30am-9.30am
Venue: Porirua train station
Description: Breakfast provided by the Rapid Relief Team and giving out info packs.
Contact: Tavita Jnr Tuifao, Family Violence Prevention Co-ordinator, tavita@poriruawhanau.org.nz
Town or City: Porirua
Name of Event: Daddy/Daughter Breakfast
Date: 27 November
Time: 7.00am-9.00am
Venue: Porirua Whānau Centre
Description: Speaking with elderly group about taking The Pledge.
Contact: Tavita Jnr Tuifao, Family Violence Prevention Co-ordinator, tavita@poriruawhanau.org.nz
Town or City: Reefton
Name of Event: White Rlibbon Day
Date: 14 November
Time: 11.00am-3.00pm
Venue: King George Park, Reefton (Community Centre if wet)
Description: Community Fun Day in support of White Ribbon Day. We will have music, obstacle course, stalls, and some WR riders attending (still some details/activities to be confirmed.
Contact: Kyra Morgan at Homebuilders West Coast Trust – 03 788 8065
Town or City: Rotorua
Name of Event: White Ribbon Community Event
Date: 22 November
Time: 10.00am
Venue: St John’s Presbyterian Church
Description: Supporting and educating our community about family unity, relationships and available help.
Contact: admin@rdpc.org.nz
Town or City: Selwyn
Name of Event: “An Evening with Gilbert Enoka” [ POSTPONED – new date to be confirmed ]
Date: 21 October
Time: 7.30-9.30pm
Venue: Lincoln University (Commerce Auditorium)
Description: Hosted by Selwyn Safer Families. Guest speaker Gilbert Enoka ONZOM, the man who gets inside the minds of the All Blacks. Tickets are $12 and can be booked through <https://facebook.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=704a63d72296273f9abd8a648&id=4138ff5c31&e=5e718aba41
Contact:
Town or City: South Taranaki
Name of Event: South Taranaki White Ribbon BBQ
Date: 19 November
Time: 10.30am-1.00pm
Venue: Hawera Town Centre
Description: Various partner agencies including Taranaki Safe Families Trust
Contact:
Town or City: Takaka Golden Bay
Name of Event: Local White Ribbon Ride
Date: 28 November
Time: 10.30am
Venue: Court House Café Collingwood then Bainham Store then Village Green Takaka
Description: Motorbike ride and sausage sizzle.
Contact (if appropriate): Jo Sharpe sf@mohuasocialservices
Town or City: Takaro, Palmerston North
Name of Event: Men’s Breakfast
Date: 28 November
Time: 8.00am – 9.30am-ish
Venue: St Michael’s Church
Description: This will allow any riders to support the Palmerston North Square event. There will be accommodation at St Michael’s on the evening of 27 November for riders coming in.
Contact:
Town or City: Taranaki region
Name of Event: 30 Days/30 Men/30 Messages – Taranaki Safe Families Trust
Date: 1 November-30 November
Time: Daily
Venue: Online – https://www.facebook.com/taranakisafefamilies
Description: A series of short videos of local Taranaki men standing up and supporting the White Ribbon kaupapa. Real men, no actors, speaking from the heart. One video post per day for the month of November.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Taranaki region
Name of Event: 30 Days/30 Locations/1 White Ribbon – Taranaki Safe Families Trust
Date: 1 November-30 November
Time: Daily
Venue: Around the region. See online at Online – https://www.facebook.com/taranakisafefamilies
Description: A series of pictures of local people/groups/organisations/businesses in different locations around our beautiful province posing with a large white ribbon to show their support for the campaign. One picture post per day for the month of November.
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Taranaki region
Name of Event: Taranaki Safe Families Trust White Ribbon Photo Competition 2020 – Promoting Good Men
Date: Voting from 2 -22 November
Time: Anytime
Venue: Online or you can also vote manually in the New Plymouth Library.Just inside the entrance toward the right by the broken down escalator.
Description: https://www.facebook.com/taranakisafefamilies
Contact (if appropriate):
Town or City: Te Awamutu and Tauranga
Name of Event: White Ribbon cookies and cupcake making
Date: 25 November
Time: 9.00am – 12 Noon
Venue: homes of clients
Description: As an organisation we are just trying to raise awareness for our staff and clients as part of our wellbeing goal, this is a private event.
Contact
Town or City: Te Kuiti
Name of Event: Maniapoto Art Fest
Date: Tuesday 17 November – Friday 20 November
Time: Daily 10.00am – 4.00pm and 6.30 – 8.30pm Closes Friday at noon
Venue: Les Munro Centre
Description: Visual and performance arts festival
The journey from hurt to healing; artists and community coming together to nature connections, improve our responses to family harm and support positive change
Contact (if appropriate): Violence Free Maniapoto email mfvin@wwwrefuge.o.nz
Town or City: Timaru
Name of Event: FREE White Ribbon BBQ
Date: 27 November
Time: 10.00am-2.00pm
Venue: Mitre 10 Mega Timaru
Description: For the White Ribbon BBQ at Mitre 10 Mega Timaru Rapid Relief are doing the catering. Local White Ribbon Riders and South Canterbury White Ribbon Ambassador Craig Calder from SCRFU will attend and many first responders will call in. Come down and join us!
Contact: Te Rito Collaboration Coordinator Michelle Thew terito@pssc.co.nz
Town or City: Tolaga Bay
Name of Event: Barnardos White Ribbon Event
Date: 26 November
Time: 11.00am – 12 Noon
Venue:
Description: Handing out cookies and White Ribbon Flyers
Contact:
Town or City: Tokomaru Bay
Name of Event: Barnardos White Ribbon Event
Date: 26 November
Time: 11.00am – 12 Noon
Venue:
Description: Handing out cookies and White Ribbon Flyers
Contact:
Town or City: Upper Hutt
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event 2020
Date: 21 November
Time: 11.30am-1.30pm
Venue: Upper Hutt Primary School
Description: Our White Ribbon Event is a convoy of classic cars, White Ribbon riders, fire service, etc meeting at St ats, Silverstream, and driving down Fergusson Drive (done instead of a march with covid lurking), the main arterial route to the city. White Ribbon Ambassador and Rider Rick Hepi is leading this. They arrive at our primary school for a rally at 11.30am, we have kapa haka, local stories – Greg Finnigan from Man Kind (our house for men who use violence) will be interviewing a few guys on this journey, a Kira region-wide haka is planned, bouncy castle, food and coffee for 1.5 hours. I have also asked a Youth Ambassador, Harrison Carrey, to come along and talk of his experience of being in YALP.
Contact: Sallie Calvert, 027 599 7000.
Town or City: Upper Hutt
Name of Event: “Challenge the Outdated” White Ribbon Event 2020
Date: Leading up to White Ribbon Day on 25 November
Time:
Venue: A White Ribbon Stall in the Mall, an Information Station at the Upper Hutt Central Library and Black and White Pom-poms up the Main Street to raise awareness.
Description: Sponsored by White Ribbon Ambassador Mayor Wayne Guppy and the Upper Hutt City Council.
Contact:
Town or City: Wairarapa
Name of Event: T-shirt Slogan competition
Date:
Time:
Venue: Wairarapa Hospital
Description: Year 7 and 8 students have been invited to take part in a t-shirt slogan competition. Each school that participates will submit two finalists, the overall winner will be selected by Ambassador Mark Shepard. The winner will receive 10 t-shirts with their slogan to be gifted to whoever they choose, VIP and SW staff at Wairarapa hospital will also wear the winners design.
We also have some white ribbons in various sizes made from ply that we are hoping to gain consent to display in various public spaces around the Wairarapa. This is still very much a work in progress!
Contact (if appropriate): Narina.Sewell@wairarapa.dhb.org.nz
Town or City: Wairau
Name of Event: White Ribbon Event
Date: 25 November
Time: 9.00am – 3.00pm
Venue: Wairau Hospital foyer
Description: Display table manned by our Child & Family Safety Service and Violence Intervention Champions – giving away cupcakes to staff and members of the public who stop and have a chat with us
Contact:
Town or City: Waitangi, Chatham Islands
Name of Event: White Ribbon Women’s Hauora High Tea
Date: 23 November
Time: from 9:30am
Venue: The Den
Description: We will celebrate women’s wellness with a high tea and informative presentations from police and Ha O Te Ora and activities such as perfume making, belly dance, miri miri and meditation.
Contact (if appropriate): Holly Cunningham 03 3050 211
Town or City: Waitara
Name of Event:
Date: 14 November
Time: 9.30am
Venue: Waitara Districts Citizens & Services Club
Description: The Waitara White Ribbon Poker Run is in its fourth year of riding to end men’s violence towards woman.
The motocycle ride takes us around the beautiful Taranaki maunga.
Registration is at 9.30am at the Waitara RSA and then as we start the ride we do a lap around the sprint car track before heading to Stratford where we stop at the Tutaki Youth Center. BBQ and displays will be underway at this stop. Depart after approximately half an hour. Our next stop will be at Opunake where we park along the main street, the Lions are involved along with the community. From there we will be stopping in Okato for a short break before heading back to the Waitara RSA to share in a BBQ and prize giving.
Every ride will go home with a prize.
The committee works hard throughout the year to gather sponsors, supporters and riders to ensure this is a successful day. And they just keep getting better.
Contact: sherien@xtra.co.nz We do have a Waitara White Ribbon page
Town or City: Wellington
Name of Event: Radio Interview
Date: 17 November
Time: 9.30am – 10.00am
Venue:
Description: Radio Interview with Takurua Tawera, Chair, White Ribbon Board
Contact:
Town or City: Wellington
Name of Event: Police Commissioner’s White Ribbon Breakfast hosted by Police Commissioner, Andrew Coster
Date: 27 November
Time: 7.00am – 8.30am (6.45am arrival)
Venue: Police National Headquarters Café, Level 15, 180 Molesworth Street
Description: Private – Invitation only
Contact:
Town or City: Whanganui
Name of Event: Street March to Challenge the Outdated
Date: 27 November
Time: 12 Noon
Venue: Assemble at the corner of St Hill Street and Taupo Quay
Description: Street March to Challenge the Outdated
Contact:
Town or City: Woodville
Name of Event: Woodville Community Christmas Parade
Date: 8 December
Time: TBC
Venue: TBC
Description: Community Christmas Parade
Contact:
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