Birkenhead Community Link
Our location
Street address:
87 Birkenhead Avenue
Birkenhead
Postal address:
Private Bag 34906
Birkenhead
Auckland 0746
Fax: 09 419 4387
Directions:
On the corner of Onewa Road and Birkenhead Avenue. Off-street parking is available across the road in the Highbury Shopping Centre, for a maximum of three hours duration, and outside KFC where there are two mobility parking spaces.
Our services and partners
Birkenhead Community Link is located on the North Shore, within the Birkenhead shopping centre.
Birkenhead Community Link partners include:
- Beneficiaries Advocacy and Information Service – provides free benefit information and advocacy to beneficiaries and low income people in regard to financial assistance from Work and Income and Inland Revenue
- Career Services – provides free information and advice for all New Zealanders whether at school, entering tertiary or trade training, returning to work or thinking about a career change
- De Paul House – provides emergency housing for families plus a range of family support services, including outreach support and advocacy, play group, living skills and adult education programmes
- Edge Employment – offers a range of employment-related services to people whose lives have been altered by the experience of mental illness
- Housing New Zealand Corporation – provides housing, home ownership loans and education for those on lower incomes
- Inland Revenue Department – provides information about Working for Families Tax Credit and Child Support
- North Harbour Budgeting – provides a budgeting advice service including financial advice and planning
- North Shore Women’s Centre – provides essential support services for women
- The Salvation Army – provides budgeting and life skills assistance
- Waitakere Community Law – provides free legal advice to people in the community
- Work and Income – provides help to get a job and income support
- Workbridge – provides a professional employment service for people with disabilities, injury or illness
- Youth Transition Services – assists young people into further education, training, work or meaningful activities.
