Come and join the Papanui Library crafting session for teens and young adults on Sundays from 1-3pm. You can simply turn up with a project that you're working on and the library provides a space for everyone to gather.

While this is not a teaching workshop (keep your eyes out for some of those coming up!) there are some crafty staff around that may be able to help out when projects hit some tricky instructions.

Dates: Mondays – 14 October to 25 November

Time: 7-8.30pm

Cost: Free

Location: The McFaddens Centre, 64 McFaddens Road, Mairehau

Tuning Into Kids focuses on strengthening the connection between parents/caregivers and their children through emotion coaching. When children and parents develop skills in effectively communicating emotions, family relationships are stronger. This is done through helping parents better understand and manage their own emotions and through this facilitate healthy emotional communication in the family where children can learn to understand and express emotions adaptively.

The programme looks at emotional Intelligence, meta-emotions, parenting styles and the impact they can have on a child, empathy, tuning into children's emotions, helping children to understand and name emotions and for the parents/caregivers and the child to increase connection. All this helps form a stronger relationship and healthy communication towards managing emotions, trust and the child feeling accepted and heard.

Contact Jan: cdw@nht.org.nz

Visit the Avebury Halloween House on Saturday 25 October from 10am-12md at 9 Eveleyn Couzins Avenue.

Enjoy a range of activities and crafts. Dress up and possibly win a prize for the best dressed (fairy, elf, buccaneer, cowboy/girl, your imagination is the limit)

Gold coin entry to help towards costs.

Yo, ho, ho – Let’s set sail on the high seas on Friday 31 October from 5-7pm at Emmett Street Community Church, 106 Emmett Street at the Shirley Community Trust’s Light Party.

The kids will love playing dress up as pirates and princesses while the adults catch up over a cuppa and a sausage (and referee the sword fights).

Bring your kids along for a late afternoon of fun and entertainment. Friday 31 October 2025 from 4.30pm–7pm at the St Albans Baptist Church, 64 McFaddens Road

Disco the afternoon away interspersed by a sausage sizzle, finger food, face painting and Bouncy Playground. Fun for everyone.

50B Vogel Street, Richmond

The Riverlution Farmers Market is starting up again for the 25/26 Summer Season.

Come along and enjoy the atmosphere, the café and the wonderful selection of home-grown, locally-produced produce and products. Something for everyone.

Due to the heavy rain warning for Saturday 4 October 2025, the opening market had to be cancelled.

However, it will open again on Saturday 1 November 2025 10am-1pm (weather permitting) on the corner of Worcester Street and Stanmore Road (car park of the Linwood Community Arts Centre).

Lots of stuff and very reasonably priced refreshments.

Come along to the Redwood Scouts Book Fair –

Saturday 1 Nov and Sunday 2 Nov from 9am to 3pm both days at the Redwood Scout Den, 20 Sturrocks Road, Redwood.

There will be all sorts of books to choose from. Entry is free and it’s $2 a book or $6 for 10.

And if you have some books you’d like to donate, that would be great too. We’re collecting donations and drop-offs are welcome (refer to info at the bottom of the poster)

So please come and support your local scout group.

Phillipstown Community Hub is gearing up to hold its next big event Spring Gala at Phillipstown. So come along to the Hub at 39 Nursery Road and enjoy the community atmosphere, including:

- A music stage

- Bouncy Castle,

- Kids fun and games,

- Market Stalls

- Info Stalls

- Food stalls provided from the community, for the community - ideally free or very affordable options

- Fun activations

And more