Eketāhuna Health Centre – Te Whare Ora O Eketāhuna

Eketāhuna Health Centre – Te Whare Ora o Eketāhuna is situated at 1 Bengston Street, Eketāhuna.
We can attend to many of your family health needs, and if we can’t help, we likely know who can!
Come and meet the team of nurses and support staff. Our mission is to provide services to promote a
healthy community through affordable health services, community participation and education.
Enrolment is easy and you remain registered with your GP (if you are lucky to have one)

Our nurse-led clinic is open Monday – Thursday 9am – 12pm, 2pm – 4pm; Friday 9am -12pm, 1.30pm
– 2.45pm. When we are closed, call Healthline on 0800 611 116.

Please note on Christmas Eve (Wednesday) and New Year’s Eve (Wednesday) we will be closing at 3pm
Over the festive period, we will closed Christmas Day (Thursday) and Boxing Day (Friday), New Year’s
Day (Thursday) and Friday 2nd January 2026. We are open Christmas Eve, Monday 29th December,
Tues 30th December and New Year’s Eve. Please ensure all your prescriptions are picked up prior to
both long weekends.

Our holistic health offering includes our nurse-led clinic, counselling, health coaching and exercise
programmes for those with long term health conditions from Jono. Gym facilities are open during
clinic hours for gold coin donation. We have user pays service from Back in Action every Wednesday;
go to www.getbackinaction.co.nz to book this service.

Weekly Well-Being activities: Mondays Chair Yoga 9.45am at St. Cuthbert’s Hall and Wednesdays
Menz Shed (next to the health centre) from 9.30am. Both continue in December; the last Chair Yoga
session is Monday 15th December. Menz Shed will be running up to and including Christmas Eve.
Wairarapa Community Law Tuesday 2 November 1pm – 3pm. Come and talk to Victoria Walker for
legal advice.

The excellent Eketāhuna Crop Swap is Sunday 14 December 10.30am. Please ensure you bring
something garden related to swap. We are having a shared kai to celebrate Christmas and going to 21
Alfredton Road for the occasion! No dogs please and no hot food.
Our next monthly lady’s brunch will be on Monday 15 December 11am at the health centre in the
community garden.

Eketāhuna Community Garden working bee will be Thursday 18 December 10am – 12noon. We would
love some more volunteers over the summer period. If Thursdays don’t work, please get in touch and
we can tee up another time.

Eketāhuna Food Bank can provide kai assistance to those living in Eketāhuna. Call or text Emma on
021 250 3015 to access this service.

We have billboards up in town thanks to Property Brokers advertising the Christmas Food Drive on
Monday 15 December from 6pm. Many thanks to Eke Fire Brigade, Police and local tamariki for their
assistance in collecting from doorsteps or mail boxes. If you are new to town, this is a great way to
give back to the community; food from the night helps us provide Christmas food parcels and stocks
our foodbank cupboards. If you live outside the 70kmph zone, please drop your donation of non-
perishable goods to the health centre during clinic hours.

Thank you to those who turned out for White Ribbon Riders and read to stories of those who suffered
violence which have been on trees near the community centre. It is really important that we stand up
and speak out. The Police report here in this newsletter has too many family harm incidences in our
town.

If you read this in time, please visit us at our stall on Saturday 29 November at Eketāhuna Christmas
Parade: we will be running a raffle for the health centre, selling Menz Shed products and spreading
the White Ribbon message.

To all our wonderful patients and supporters, and to the wider Eketāhuna Community Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year. We are so grateful to serve this community.
Eat well, be kind and don’t forget to slip, slop, slap.
Kendra, Kim, Sara, Lee-Anne, Emma and the executive committe