Community notice boards

Community notice board sites | Televised community notice boards

Community notice board sites

Community notice board

• Introduction
• Use of boards
• Sites

Introduction

If you are a non-profit community group or organisation you may like to take advantage of one of our free community advertising sites. There are sites available across Auckland city where you can place a (bill)board to advertise a community service or event eg Red Cross book sale or Christmas carols.

Use of boards

• all (bill)boards need to be landscape and either
  • 1100mm (length) x 815mm (height)
  • 1200mm x 1200mm
  depending on the size of the site available
• your (bill)board will need to be professionally sign written, made out of coreflute and be between 5mm and 7mm thick
• sites are booked for two or four weeks. You may book a board at individual sites for a maximum of four weeks per year
• you will need to deliver your boards to the metallic box attached to the garage at the Brixton Rd entrance to the Mt Eden War Memorial Hall (489 Dominion Rd, Mt Eden). For identification purposes please write your name and group on the back of the board(s).

Contact us to find out more about the community notice boards and to enquire about the availability of a site. You will need to book in advance to ensure you get the space on the notice board you require and to avoid disappointment. We will need to ring you back during business hours to confirm your booking.

The noticeboard application form is available below for downloading in PDF format:

• Application for advertising on a community noticeboard (141kb PDF)

Sites available

Please note: sites 1 to 9, 18, 19, 30 and 31 are 1100mm (length) x 815mm (height). Sites 11 to 17, 20 to 29, 32 and 33 are 1200mm x 1200mm.

The site lists showing start dates are also available below for downloading in PDF format:

• Community noticeboard sites information - 2011 (134kb PDF)
• Community noticeboard sites information - 2012 (87kb PDF)

Televised community notice boards

• Introduction
• Options
• How to apply

Introduction

Auckland Council's community notice boards on Triangle Television are available, free of charge, for community groups to advertise their group, event or service.

The notice boards are open to all not for profit community groups or organisations that deliver benefits to Auckland residents.

Options

Two options are available:

1. static text notice boards. The static notice boards screen three times every evening, Monday to Friday at 7.15pm, 8.30pm or 9pm depending on programming, and at 10pm. Each slot consists of eight 15 second community notices
2. a three minute face to face interview. (One interview will be selected to screen each week at Auckland Council and Triangle TV's discretion.)

How to apply

• requests for the text notice boards should be sent directly to Triangle Television a week prior to the day of screening
• requests for interviews need to be forwarded to Triangle Television two weeks prior to screening.

The Triangle Television details form is available below in PDF format.
Triangle Television details form (29kb PDF)

Complete all the details and

• mail to: Triangle Television, P O Box 78 034, Grey Lynn or
• fax to: 09 376 5049

Alternatively you can email all the following information to info@tritv.co.nz

• name of the community group or organisation
• a contact name and phone number
• address - postal, street and/or email
• preferred broadcasting dates
• requests for static text notice boards
  • should include the wording. Please note this should not exceed 30 words, photographs are not acceptable and any logos should be supplied in jpeg format
• requests for interviews 
  • should include a brief description of the group, its objectives and the subject of the interview. All interviews will be pre-recorded on Thursday afternoon.

Note: the subject line for faxes and emails should read "Auckland Council community notice boards". No telephone bookings will be accepted.

The content of the text notice boards and interviews must not contravene the New Zealand Broadcasting Standards or New Zealand Advertising Standards.

PDF format

To view PDFs download Acrobat Reader from the Adobe website. Further help on how to view PDFs.

Updated November 2011