Nabo Blog

Farewell autumn, hello (reluctantly) winter! Before things get too chilly, let's have a look at our favourite posts we've seen from the Nabo community this month. We love finding these gems amongst the thousands of posts we see each month and I hope you enjoy reading about them! 

Winter can be a difficult time, particularly those having a tough time. Free supplies to combat the cold and often wet weather during the winter months can be hard to find.

Given we’re in Volunteer Month, we wanted to highlight a number of worthy causes or projects that you could help with this month – either by donation of your time, excess goods, money or food.

If you think your group or community organisation is too small, or too specialised, to be awarded a grant – or that you haven’t a chance of successfully applying for one – here’s the good news: more than $40 billion in grants is given away each year in Australia, and the range of grants is huge...

This month, Nabo is raising awareness about National Volunteer Week. Volunteers are such an important part of our community and their work doesn’t go unnoticed. To celebrate all the amazing things our volunteers do, we’ve been encouraging all Nabo members to nominate either themselves...

Whatever happened to the days of neighbours becoming good friends? With so many of us working long hours, ferrying the kids to and from school, studying, commuting, going to appointments or a million other things, it can be difficult to prioritise ‘getting to know the neighbours’. We’ve come up...

Chris, from JCO Cleaners shares with us his experience with Oneflare - one of Australia’s largest online marketplaces for connecting businesses to customers in need of local services.

This month we are ready to give away more books, thanks to our amazing partners at Hachette. To celebrate our new "reading" interest group we want our members to let us know which book they would like to win in our May Book of the Month Competition...

In April, our first book competition went live. We are giving away up to ten copies of your chosen book for you and your book club, thanks to our partners at Hachette. To be entered into the draw, we asked members to have "reading" as an interest on Nabo and to simply vote on our poll with which...

From great tips on using the events listings to advice on meeting up in real life, Nabo members have some excellent ideas! In our recent Member Survey one of our questions was “What’s your favourite tip for getting the most out of Nabo?” and your answers were full of good suggestions.

This month, Volunteers Australia and Nabo will be celebrating National Volunteer Week from 21 to 27 May. Nabo members love their local community, and we’re sure there are already a few of you on the site who volunteer regularly.

At Nabo, our passion is to provide a private online space for members to engage with their local community. Over 300,000 Nabo members love meeting new people, hearing about local events and classifieds, learning about new businesses and joining local groups, which they can all do on Nabo - for free.

One thing that separates Nabo from other social media networks is its commitment to connecting our members to their local communities. Sometimes it can be a little tricky to get the ball rolling though, so each month we highlight some of our favourite interactions on Nabo from across Australia.

This Wednesday marks Anzac Day, our national day of remembrance for the Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in all wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations.  It is an opportunity to reflect on and honour the contribution of all those who have served. 

At Nabo, we love a good book and we love book clubs even more. This is because book clubs are about more than just reading, they can be very sociable and are a great way to meet new people in your community. To encourage more book clubs, our partners at Hachette are giving you...

Nabo is here to help you make real connections in your neighbourhood. Verifying your address is a safe way to make sure that you know exactly who you are talking to – and opens up access to private messaging through Nabo, and other features, too.

It takes all kind of people to make up a community, but isn’t it even better when you can share common interests with one another? Connecting through hobbies, sharing problems and finding solutions together is what makes a community meaningful. After all, a problem halved is a problem solved...

It was great to see our members get so involved in Neighbour Day on Sunday 25th March. This day was all about bringing the community closer together and being neighbourly. No matter how big or small the event was, you sure celebrated and we would like to thank you for all your contributions...

Whilst we were celebrating Neighbour Day on Sunday 25th March we ran a few competitions to join in on the celebrations...