"Making life better for all people affected by Dementia"
116 Thirteenth Ave
Tauranga 3144
PO Box 15 553
Phone: 07 577 6344
Freephone: 0800 004 001
Fax: 07 577 6346
Email:
Tauranga@alzheimers.org.nz
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Aids Hotline
24 Info & Phone Support
Freephone: 0800 802 437
"Making life better for all people affected by Dementia"
116 Thirteenth Ave
Tauranga 3144
PO Box 15 553
Phone: 07 577 6344
Freephone: 0800 004 001
Fax: 07 577 6346
Email:
Tauranga@alzheimers.org.nz
No longer BOP Office please contact head office.
Phone: 0800 663 463

Blue Lagoon Charitable Trust
Hearing Assistance
Help for hearing impaired, with education,
funding for aids
and communication equipment.
Cherrywood
Tauranga 3145
PO Box 8354
Phone: 07 576 1349
Fax: 07 576 1370
Email:
johnhelen.g@xtra.co.nz
Brainwaves Assoc. Tauranga Support Group Inc
Brainwaves provides rehab for individuals who have suffered a brain injury through accident or stroke.
We have access to a wide variety of Rehab Professionals.
Phone: 07 579 9698
Email:
brainwaves@kinect.co.nz
Breast Cancer Support Service
To provide support, advocacy and education to women with breast cancer and their families.
Phone: 07 571 3346
Community Living Trust Therapy Services
Services for adults with intellectual disabilities
Tauranga 3141
PO Box 519
Phone: 07 571 3141
Fax: 07 571 3146

Deaf Aotearoa NZ / BOP Branch
Information and services for the deaf including needs assessment, service co-ordination, training and advocacy
Historic Village
17th Avenue West
Tauranga
Phone: 07 571 5930
Fax: 07 571 5932
Email:
marlene.helmes@deaf.org.nz
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Diabetes Tauranga Inc
A/H: 07 549 0709
Phone: 07 578 8129
Help line 24/7
Tauranga
PO Box 15002
Phone: 07 571 3422
Email:
noelle.thompson@clear.co.nz
Epilepsy Association of NZ
Western BOP Field Officer
Chadwick House
250 Chadwick Road
Tauranga
Phone: 07 579 6091
Freephone: 0800 202 122
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Hanmer Clinic
Offers intensive outpatient treatment
programmes for people with
alcohol & drug dependency.
1235 Cameron Road
Tauranga
PO Box 9164
Greerton
Tauranga 3142
Phone: 07 579 6470
Fax: 07 579 6471
Email:
jenny@hanmerclinic.co.nz
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Support and Information
487 Anglesea Street
Hamilton 3240
P.O Box 1168
Phone: 07 839 1191
Fax: 07 839 5648
Email:
whis@wave.co.nz

Headway Brain Injury Assoc BOP Inc
Info, advocacy & support services to people with brain injury, families and whanau.
31 Gloucester Rd
Hillier Centre
Mount Maunganui 3152
PO Box 10050
Phone: 07 572 4547
Fax: 07 572 4549
Email:
liaison.headwaybop@brain-injury.org.nz
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Health Consumer Service
Advocacy & support for consumers who
have concerns about their health or disability.
PO Box 4023
Mount Maunganui 3149
Phone: 07 575 3398 / 07 575 6906
Freephone: 0800 801 482
Fax: 07 575 8100
Email:
burnett@wave.co.nz
Healthline
Free 24 hour telephone health advice from landline or mobile.
Freephone: 0800 611 116
Training and Support for Hearing Dogs.
PO Box 8117
New Plymouth 4342
Phone: 06 769 5000
Fax: 06 769 5400
Email:
info@hearingdogs.org.nz
Education, health promotion and cardiac care
47 Fraser St
Tauranga
PO Box 2457
Phone: 07 571 3013
Fax: 07 571 3015
Email:
sandyr@heartfoundation.org.nz
Junction Peer Support and Advocacy Services
Offering 1 on 1 peer support, advocacy and support groups for those suffering from mental illnesses. For more information on meetings and times contact the office.
4 Roys Rd
Greerton
Tauranga
Phone: 07 579 9890
Email:
vicky@junction.org.nz
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Leukaemia & Blood Foundation
6 Claude Road
Epsom
Auckland
PO Box 99182
Newmarket 1149
Phone: 09 638 3556
Freephone: 0800 151 015
Email:
lbf@leukaemia.org.nz
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LIFE Unlimited Disability Resource Centre Inc
Disability Information service.
Free Hearing Therapy service.
Chadwick House
250 Chadwick Rd
Greerton
Tauranga 3112
Phone: 07 571 6351
Fax: 07 571 6341
Email:
admintga@life.nzl.org
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Macular Degeneration NZ
P O Box 137070
Parnell
Auckland 1511
Phone: 09 307 2103
Fax: 09 307 2021
Email:
info@mdnz.co.nz
250 Chadwick Rd
Tauranga 3112
Phone: 07 578 7804
Email:
admin@mebop.org.nz or tina@mebop.org.nz

Motor Neuron Disease Assoc NZ/ BOP Branch
Tauranga South
PO Box 15063
Phone: 07 578 6161
Email:
michelle@wrailton.co.nz

Multiple Sclerosis Society (BOP) Inc
55a Edgecumbe Road
Tauranga 3144
PO Box 15309
Phone: 07 571 6898
Email:
bopmssociety@xtra.co.nz
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Nationwide Health & Disability Advocacy Service
Provides advocacy,support to resolve complaints, education and information on rights of consumers
Seventeenth Ave
Historic Village
Tauranga 3140
Phone: 07 577 1715
Freephone: 0800 555 050
Fax: 07 577 1712
Email:
engawhare@hdc.org.nz
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Neurological Foundation / BOP
Phone: 09 236 0610
Freephone: 0800 650 659
Fax: 09 236 0788
Email:
jan@continence.org.nz
Telecommunication services for people who are Deaf, Hearing Impaired, Deaf/Blind and Speech-impaired. 24/7 service 365 days.
PO Box 106900
Auckland 1143
Phone: TTY 0800 4 713 713
Freephone: Voice 0800 4 715 715
Fax: 0800 4 329 697
Email:
helpdesk@NZRelay.co.nz
NZ Addison's Network (NZAN)
Support group for those who have failure of adrenal gland
Phone: 07 572 1430
NZ Federation of Disabiltiy Information Centres
Do you want to know how to access disability support and services?
Phone: 04 298 2914
Freephone: 0800 693 342
Osteoporosis NZ Inc
Wellington
PO Box 688
Phone: 04 499 4862
Parkinsonism Society Tauranga Inc
PO Box 714
Tauranga
Phone: 07 572 2952
Fax: 07 572 2950
Email:
tauranga@parkinsons.org.nz

Prostate Cancer Foundation
Education on prostate cancer and prostate problems.
PO Box 11 006
Musselburgh
Dunedin 0949
Phone: 0800 627 277 / 0800 477 678
Email:
info@prostate.org.nz

Recycled Teenagers
Affiliated Ph3 Cardiac Club. Exercise for older adults post heart, hip replacement sports science. Water exercise based at Fernland spa Wednesdays. Hall based Mon & Wed 14 Norris St. Mt. Maunganui Tues - St Mary's Church cnr Girven Rd and Marlin St, Bayfair
Phone: 07 571 1411
Email:
lochwood@xtra.co.nz
Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind
Tauranga Locality Office
73 Sixteenth Ave
Tauranga
Phone: 07 578 2376
Freephone: 0800 24 33 33
Fax: 07 578 8359
Email:
wisaacs@rnzfb.org.nz

Royal NZ Foundation of the Blind Telefriend
Sight loss support/peer support
Freephone: 0800 100 051
Free phone in service, friendly phone calls each day.
Phone: 0800 780 780
Email:
enquiries@stjohn.org.nz
Stroke Foundation/Midland Field Officers
BOP/Coromandel
250 Chadwick Road
Chadwick House
Tauranga
Greerton
Phone: 07 571 3050
Email:
strokebop@paradise.net.nz
Stroke Support
Phone: 07 571 3050
Tauranga BOP Hearing Association
Advocacy/Education and information for hearing impaired.
1342 Cameron Road
Greerton 3112
Phone: 07 578 6476
Email:
tauranga@hearing.org.nz
Tauranga Ongoing Pain Support Group
Centre for all age groups dealing with chronic pain. Group Meetings held on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month at the Central Baptist Church on the corner of Cameron Rd and 13th Ave.
Phone: 07 543 3661
Email:
goldendogs@xtra.co.nz

Waikato/Bay of Plenty Cancer Society
Womens Suppor Group held 2nd or 3rd Friday of every month at 12.30pm. General Support Group on the last Friday of the month. Men's Suppot Group on the 3rd Thursday of the month.
98 Fourteenth Ave
Tauranga
P.O Box 1081
Phone: 07 571 2035
Fax: 07 571 2036
Email:
tauranga@cancersociety.org.nz
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Western BOP Mental Health Trust
Phone: 07 577 1457

Zipper Cardiac Support Club
Provides information, support and
advice to people who are about to
have or who have had open-heart surgery
26 Grosmont Tce
Brookfield
Tauranga 3110
Phone: 07 576 5579
Fax: 07 576 5579
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