Building engagement and empowerment
Rākau Tautoko was very lucky to be chosen by Ākina to receive two SAP employees on a Social Sabbatical for two weeks. Social Sabbatical is a pro-bono programme, which matches SAP employees with social enterprises that will benefit from their specialist skills and resources. Russell Martin and Ameet Balasubramanian joined Rākau Tautoko for the first …
Our funders wanted to research and document how Tāmaki residents would like to learn about Living Lightly - making lifestyle choices to save money, and have a healthier life and planet. This was then followed by a small pilot programme to test the thoughts gathered in the research phase. We held three community focus groups enabled key …
In October 2017, Rākau Tautoko was approached to support Auckland Council in engaging key Mangere groups to come together and create a way of working together to meet the needs of the Mangere community. The following took place over two half day workshops... The facilitator was to enable all of the groups to work together …
Responding to the need of the community after a contagion of seven young people lost their lives to suicide, Rākau Tautoko led a community meeting, calling people together to create a “united community response to suicide prevention”. This led to an application for funding to The Vodafone Foundation in collaboration with Tāmaki Community Development Trust …
Our of our practitioners Ren, has undertaken a project that spanned more than two years with renewed funding over three phases. The aim was to lower the social supply of alcohol to young people in the community of Oranga - this meant coordinating the community in creating many different activities. Ren was supported by a practitioner from …
One of our practitioners views of a local community dinner that The HEART Movement facilitates every Friday night.
What better way to enlist the commitment of young people than Co-Design with them, their own pledge? Our lead practitioner Tara ran a full day session with the support of four Hapai Te Hauora staff to use a Co-Design process to decide collectively on key statements that the young people involved could commit to upholding. The …
TIES being re-designed involved developing and implementing TIES into a sustainable, community-led initiative on behalf of the TIES Taumata Rōpu. The engagement process included several wananga at Ruapotaka Marae, for the Tāmaki community to connect and engage with TIES - learning about the original tools and help to implement the next steps of what TIES …
Creating spaces for community groups to flourish and grow, Rākau Tautoko became a part of a partner to create a network of hot desk spaces in Panmure, Auckland.
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