Next Steps 2026

South Island’s Leading Disability Community Expo! Wondering about the next steps in your disability journey? Come and meet accessible services and organisations from across Christchurch and New Zealand, all in one place. Free entry and parking.

When: Tuesday 25th August 2026

Where: Parakiore Recreation Centre, 50 Saint Asaph Street, Christchurch Central

With over 100 stallholders, Next Steps is a friendly space to discover choices for work, fun, study, friendship, support, living options, day to day activities and more.

Proudly supported by Christchurch City Council, Enabling Good Lives, Lifelinks, and Waitaha Regional Leadership Group (WRLG)

Check out the list of Registered Stallholders so far! (current as of May 2026)

Access Community Health
Adult Conductive Education Trust
Ara Institute of Canterbury
Arts Integrated
Aspire Canterbury
Beauty and Bloom
Brackenridge Services Limited
Camino Collective
CCS Disability Action
Choices NZ
Christchurch City Council
Christchurch City Libraries
Circabilty Trust
Courage Crew NZ
CRC Ltd
Crusader Carls Crafts
Deaf Aotearoa
Disability Business Network
Disabled Persons Assembly
Dj Ramanui
Donaldson Residential Trust
Driving Miss Daisy
Electoral Commission
Enabling Good Lives Christchurch
Florence Nightingale Agency
Flying Kites
Gens handmade cards
Hagley Learning Centre
Hawksbury Community Living Trust
Helen Anderson Trust
Here Toitu
Horizons Trust
I.Lead
Idea Services Ltd.
IHC New Zealand
IHC New Zealand - Stand Tall
Kate's Art Shed
Kilmarnock Enterprises Ltd
Learn Active
LifeLinks
Makayla's Creations
Marralomeda Charitable Trust
Move Otautahi
Muscular Dystrophy South Island | Te Waipounamu
Office of the Ombudsman
Opportunity Party
Paulownia Trust
People For Us
PGF Services
Phoenix Healthcare Group
Positive Pathways
Recreate NZ
Reid Technology Ltd
Risingholme Learning
Sexual Wellbeing Aotearoa
Sign Equity Ltd
SkillWise
SkillWise Friendship Connectors
Southern Music Therapy Ltd
Stats NZ
Step Ahead Trust
SuperGrans SuperSkills
Tamai’s World
Te Rōpū Tūhono
The Fifth Season
The Hāpai Access Card
The Loft, Community Wellbeing Services
The Samantha Room
The White Room Creative Space
The Youth Hub
Thermomix
Thrive (Thrive Aotearoa Charitable Trust)
Vehicle Adaptions
Volunteering Canterbury
Waitaha Enabling Good Lives (EGL) Regional Leadership Group
Woolston Development Project
Workbridge
Volition

and more to come!