World Suicide Prevention Day is on Saturday, 10 September 2016. Being aware of some of the risk factors for suicide can help you recognise when someone needs help.
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Suicide prevention – connect, communicate and care
World Suicide Prevention Day is on Saturday, 10 September 2016. Being aware of some of the risk factors for suicide can help you recognise when someone needs help.
Richard Tankersley – “I stopped playing rugby because I’m gay”
For Commissioner Tankersley, we will have arrived when a gay guy can play third grade rugby for his local club and turn up to the after function with his male partner.
A new life for Sophie
Five-year-old Sophie arrived at the SPCA Auckland Animal Village last year after she was rescued by an Inspector from a situation of neglect. She had been confined to living in a small space and needed love, care and medical treatment.
Raising healthy kids
Like most kids, Patrick Edmonds is starving when he gets home from school. Chippies and biscuits used to be what he’d load up on. But that’s all changed since he’s been on Sport BOP’s Active Families programme.
SPCA gives animal lovers the sweetest reason to bake
The SPCA is pulling on heart and apron strings for this year’s SPCA Cupcake Day, encouraging New Zealanders to arm themselves with a mixing bowl and wooden spoon in the fight against animal cruelty.
NZ Bravery Medal recipient for rescue: ‘I got away with it’
A Bay of Plenty Police officer honoured for his rescue of a man from Tauranga Harbour says he is humbled by the accolade. Senior Constable Deane O’Connor, who recently retired, is to receive a New Zealand Bravery Medal for an act of bravery in saving a man on an evening in August 2013. He was the first officer to arrive at the scene where a van had crashed through the railing on the Maungatapu Bridge and dropped into the harbour.
SPCA launches school education programme to reduce animal abuse
The SPCA has today launched a nationwide education programme into primary and intermediate schools aiming to shape how the next generation of New Zealanders treat animals.