Community spirit is alive and well in Northland.
After a house fire just outside of Moerewa on June 10 destroyed the home of Ronnie Potae, Lee Nankivell and teenage children Kacey and Wiremu Potae, friends and family came together to come up with ideas on how to help the family to get back on their feet.
One of those was to hold a netball tournament that all the community could join in. Netball is a big part of Ronnie and Kacey's lives and so it seemed only fitting.
With the normal netball competition taking a break for school holidays there was an opportunity to use the courts at the Kerikeri Netball Centre for the tournament.
The school holidays also normally means people are away, but exceptions were made and people came from all over Northland and as far away as Matamata.