In March, Neighbourhood Watch Australasia (NHWA) is joining with our crime prevention partner, Crimsafe, to share practical tips and expert advice to help secure your home. Take the free online Secure Score quiz to ‘Crimprove’ your home.
One lucky homeowner will also win a $5,000 Home Crimprovement package, including security screens and home security products installed by a qualified handyman.
Take the secure quiz today to enter.
Get all your friends to enter by 31 March 25.
Help primary school children to enter our new Calendar Drawing Competition. The theme is, How to be a Good Neighbour.
Get more information and entry forms.
Entries close on 31 May 25 so please don’t put it off. Do you know a primary school teacher who might like to champion their class getting their entries in? Do you have friends, relatives or neighbours with primary school students you could encourage to enter? Each age category winner receives $100 and their drawing is featured in our next Calendar.
Please help us make this another successful activity as part of our 40-year anniversary next year of Neighbourhood Watch in Tasmania.
We would like to extend a very warm welcome to three new Neighbourhood Watch groups that have been established this year. Beaconsfield, Fern Tree and Weymouth Progress Association. If you don’t know where these places are – take a moment to find them on your map of Tasmania and improve your knowledge of our state!
Fake Delivery Messages. You may receive fake texts or emails claiming you have a parcel for pick up or delivery. These messages can look very real and appear to be legitimate. Do not click on any links. Put messages you are unsure of into the ‘Junk’ folder and then check the sender’s email address or the website URL address provided.
See lots more home security tips.
Belonging is the sense of safety and comfort we feel when we are accepted for who we are. Share this tip with your Facebook friends. Practice it yourself!
Make an effort. Creating a sense of belonging takes effort. It requires you to put yourself out there. Seek out activities and groups of people with whom you have common interests and respectfully engage with others who you may be different to.
Neighbour Day is a Relationships Australia initiative that has been around for 20 years, and an ideal we have always been pleased to support. The name has now changed to Neighbours Every Day which fits even more closely to the ethos of Neighbourhood Watch. The last Sunday in March is still a focus to reflect on the benefits of neighbourly connections.
For more information and resources that you can use to support an event or post on your social media site, you can find it here: https://neighbourseveryday.org/
Because feeling great should be a part of everyday life we are sharing the below link about how you can participate in public consultation relating to preventative health.
20-Year Preventive Health Strategy | Tasmanian Department of Health. Open the hyperlink and be better informed.
All March 25 The Month of Home Security
30 March 25 Neighbour Day
26 April 25 Bunnings Sausage Sizzle at Kingston
31 May 25 Calendar Drawing Competition Closes
All September 25 Secure September
11 September 25 RUOK Day
27-28 September 25 Secure Your Home Day
October 25 Get Online Week
18 October 25 AGM, Awards & Prizes at County Club
November 25 NHW/Bunnings Crime Prevention Week
19 November 25 CWAC in Wellington Court, Hobart
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It’s not about how many friends you have; it’s about the quality of the friendships. The Social Network 2010.!
Yours in Neighbourhood Watch
Peter Edwards, President
Good Neighbours Create Safer Communities
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