Welcome to the first edition of WeekendPlus for 2022! And the very first edition in the new and exciting format. We are kicking off the year with the 2022 Adelaide Fringe edition!

As teased late last year, the new Seniors Card website is the new home for WeekendPlus!

You can now access news, competitions, recipes, lifestyle and arts & culture content, news from regional SA, find out what’s on around SA and more, in a fun and accessible way.

We will still be partnering with some great SA festivals and organisations, like Adelaide Festival, History Festival and OzAsia, to bring you special editions of WeekendPlus. Look out for these editions throughout the year.

Journey to the new WeekendPlus

The first Seniors Card newsletter, Plus! was launched in 2010 with less than 20,000 subscribed Seniors Card members. WeekendPlus was launched in 2013 in a magazine-style format and the first edition was distributed to 48,000 Seniors Card members. With a total of 222 editions over nine years, WeekendPlus subscribers have grown to over 100,000… that’s a quarter of members!

Analytics show that engagement with WeekendPlus is consistently above the industry standard, making it a trusted and loved publication for older people in South Australia and our business partners. However, there were some limitations, for example, the magazine format wasn’t very mobile-friendly!

New website and WeekendPlus

We have listened to your feedback and developed the new Seniors Card website to be an accessible and inclusive online experience for members. WeekendPlus is a flagship of the new website – and it’s mobile-friendly, so you can ready it anywhere, anytime, on any device!

Subscribers will continue to receive a WeekendPlus email from Seniors Card each fortnight. The email will include links to featured articles and competitions published on the Seniors Card website.

Once on the website, you can navigate to other sections of WeekendPlus, or you can go back to the email to find the next article that interests you.

From the WeekendPlus pages on the Seniors Card website, you can browse:

You can also browse the WeekendPlus archives.

We’d love to hear your feedback about the new WeekendPlus. Email seniorscard@sa.gov.au and tell us what you think and what you would like to see more of.

2022 Seniors Card Discount Directory

Due to the current COVID-19 situation in South Australia, the 2022 edition of the Seniors Card Discount Directory, Your Lifestyle Guide, has been delayed. The hard copy 2022 Directory will be available throughout the community late March.

However, we have been working hard to bring members exciting discounts and deals and these will be available on the new Seniors Card website in the coming weeks. Members will be able to search for discounts; filter based on category or location; and browse hundreds of offers.

Look out for the announcement of the new online “discount & deals” soon!