Eldernet Happenings

With our 25th birthday just around the corner, we’ve moved to a new home in the heart of New Brighton, Christchurch – less than 1km away from where the company began in 1997.

Where from Here is all about empowering people to journey through this stage of life by giving them the tools needed to make decisions that are right for them.

This year the Christchurch residents are celebrating 75 years as best friends. Their milestone coincides with the 10th International Day of Friendship on July 30, a United Nations initiative that promotes friendship between people, countries, cultures, and individuals as a way of inspiring peace efforts and building bridges between communities.

The release of the latest Where from Here He Ara Whakamua handbook – which covers the Upper South Island – marks more than 30 years of what is commonly referred to as the “older person’s bible.”

Retirementvillages.co.nz, the newest kid on the Eldernet block, has marked its first birthday! To celebrate the milestone we enlisted Driving Miss Daisy to deliver a scrumptious birthday cake to all those lovely clients that signed up right at the start. As you can see from the photos, the cake and …

As the COVID19 lockdown is in place across the country it’s given me (Esther Perriam, Director of Eldernet) some time to think about what we’ve done so far, and what we might yet have to do. It’s fair to say, that being a nationwide business based in Christchurch we’ve faced …

The Eldernet team spent their Christmas end of year function giving back to their community. The team had a working bee, gardening next to some great apes at the incredible Orana Park in Christchurch.                 The team were then treated to an experience …

Last month here at the offices, we celebrated Chinese Language Week (a week early) at our team day on the 17th September. We love having a multi-cultural team and we all were excited to learn from Damien, one of our talented software developers, about his home country. We got a …

At the end of last month we had our mid-winter work do. This was a little different to previous years – for starters it was 1950s theme which required us all to don our best glad rags to come together as a team to celebrate our achievements. It was also …

Happy Chinese New Year! This year Eldernet celebrated Chinese New Year by adorning the offices with lanterns to bring in the year of the pig! Take a look at some photos: A little bit more information about this Chinese New Year: 2019 is a Year of the Pig according to …