Social Interest Groups

Aims: An organisation for New Zealand soldiers, retired or serving, all eras, for social activities and maintaining interests in military history and traditions.

Aims: A café club for people who run a business from home or work independently to meet socially. Meetings are held at 10am on Thursdays at Salt, Waterfront Hotel. Meetings are fun, informal, based at a café and feature a monthly speaker.

Aims: To provide recreational activities for visually impaired people.

Aims: To help our people with disabilities to reach their full potential. To educate, equip and share Christianity.

Aims: To provide help, support, friendship and information to those in need. To provide a venue for other groups to meet. Social education. To refer people to other services and agencies.

Aims: To promote recreational camping and caravaning.

Contact: Graham Whittle
Phone: 06-751 1057
Postal address: 9 Wiremu Pl, New Plymouth 4310
Email: gjwhittle@infogen.net.nz

Aims: The RAOB (Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes) is a worldwide mens charity organisation made up of different sections (known as banners) that stands for charity, fun, friendship and sharing the burden.

Aims: To build awareness of sports cars and bring people together for outings, weekend trips, club nights and friendship.

Aims: Historical research.

Aims: To stimulate interest in Puke Ariki as a knowledge centre, collect and conserve items of interest to the people of Taranaki and promote Taranaki history.

Aims: Pukekura Park enthusiasts whose main interest is to safeguard the park's special nature. We work closely with the council's park management. Meet socially for talks, guided tours, field trips. Volunteers do hands-on work in the park. Buggy tours are available for those less mobile.

Aims: To promote international friendships through a programme of home-hosted exchanges.

Aims: A support group for the hearing impaired within the community. We meet on the last Tuesday of the month.

Aims: To promote true friendship. To encourage the ideals of personal service (charity). To foster international understanding.

Aims: Coffee mornings.

Aims: To promote the hobby of the study of minerals, lapidary work, rocks and fossils to the general public .

Aims: To foster and advance the motor caravan movement by providing relevant services and information. Providing fellowship, vehicle safety, road courtesy and protection of the environment.

Aims: Discuss and read poetry. Group meets first Tuesday of the month, February to December.

Aims: To help those with interest in family history and the various changing borders of Poland.

Aims: Promote the racing and showing of pure breed poultry and pigeons.

Aims: To provide top quality race meetings to the public of Taranaki.

Aims: The Red Hat Society is the leading worldwide organisation offering fun, community and empowerment for passionate, like-minded women who believe in the joys of sisterhood at any age. With our distinctive red hats and purple outfits, and nearly 40,000 chapters worldwide, the Red Hat Society has developed into a pivotal social movement redefining traditional notions of ageing women approaching 50 and beyond.

Aims: Community service.

Aims: Implementing the ideals of Rotary and providing community service.

Aims: Advanced development of the Christian religion in the sphere of marriage and family life.

Aims: To help one translate into practice in daily life, divine love and perfection. To fill ones life with joy, harmony, beauty, grace, human excellence and lasting hapiness. To ensure that all human relationships are governed by the principles of Sathya - truth, dharma, right conduct, prema, love, shanti, peace, ahimsa and non-violence. To make devotees of all faiths more sincere and dedicated in the practice of their respective religions.

Aims: Getting women together with Scottish connections to talk about old times and new things.

Aims: To play scrabble every Wednesday at 1pm and have fun.

Aims: Education, natural healing, self development and spiritual development.

Aims: A group of beekeepers working together and helping new beekeepers to get started.

Aims: Social club endeavouring to keep the Irish culture alive. We also have a yearly pagaent of "The Rose at Tralee".

Aims: Meets the first Monday of each month at the IHC Centre in Stratford.

Aims: We are a community of Tongan families who meet to talk, support and teach our children all aspects of our culture, including language, performing and crafts.

Aims: An activity and companionship club for older adults of the community to meet new people, establish new friendships and have some fun, and to empower them to remain independent in their own homes and community.

Aims: Continuing education for semi-retired and retired people. Monthly meetings held on second Thursday of the month at 2pm at the church.

Aims: Commonwealth friendship, social activities, bridge afternoons.

Aims: To unite members of W.A.A.C. and W.R.A.C - past New Zealand female soldiers who served between 1939 and 1945.

Aims: Widows and Widowers Taranaki aims to assist those who have been widowed to overcome the problems they face in adjusting to this changed situation. We aim to provide immediate and continuing caring support to the bereaved.

Aims: Meet monthly to taste and promote wines. Own cellar and visiting experts and wineries.

Aims: To provide a centre for women interested in social, public, professional, artistic and cultural affairs.

Aims: Provide an organisation for the purpose of enabling women to take an effective part in the life of the community and its development. To foster handcrafts, choral, drama and other cultural activities. To broaden women's horizons.

Aims: Home making and citizenship companionship for all women.

Aims: Homemaking, co-operation, citizenship.