Mentoring HEART Change Agents to create and run community events in Tāmaki to enable healthy relationships and prevent family violence through local community BBQ’s, relationship workshops & the Mana Wāhine conference that was held online due to the lockdown restrictions. Click through to see the HEART Movement in action on their website and facebook page.
Papakura Food Scraps Service
This was started as a co-design project to bring local Papakura community members together to understand what the Council food scrap system is like for the community, and how we could make it better. Unfortunately, this project was halted due to the COVID19 Lockdown.
Rākau Tautoko is growing and developing!
Since our collective began in 2016, we have been very busy building up communities through engagement and empowerment. As we grew, our way of working alongside the community did as well, it's always been important to us, to ensure that communities want us to work alongside them, and that what ever we create together is …
Capability Building Workshops
Nikki has been facilitating community capability building workshops in the Tāmaki Maungakiekie Local Board area to support waste based social enterprise development. Five workshops have been held in Tamaki covering understanding business models, employment and contracting requirements, waste based community networking, tax requirements, marketing and promotion, building a business collective and taking advantage of the current …
Human Rights Measurement Initiative Pacific Co-Design
Planning and facilitating a three day co-design learning experience for HRMI, delivering to Pacific leaders that gathered in Auckland to learn about co-design and HRMI’s aspirations to expand into the pacific region.
Youth – Placemaking
Placemaking is a fundamental tool in creating healthy, connected and thriving urban environments, recognising public space as civic assets that can serve as common meeting grounds and contribute to the creation of healthy, resilient cities that people want to live in. Panuku Placemaking supports the development programme, focusing on working with local communities in their …
Matariki Soup for Youth
After Step up, Speak out, a group of us community workers gathered to talk about the outcomes that we observed and how we found the experience. As much as we believed that the initiative was successful, a lot of us felt that it didn't reach out to the youth that we wanted to reach - …
Riverside Capability Building + Rent Smart
Our lovely Rākau Tautoko practitioner Jo has been supporting the growth of the Panamasians (based in the Riverside Community Centre) to learn how to run basic workshops, network, plan and deliver. With Jo, the Panamasian Facilitator has been developing and delivering alongside external key facilitators the Rent Smart programme at the Riverside Community Centre. This …
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Oranga Rising
The project continued the work of our previous work around lowering the social supply of alcohol to young people with a more general view to work on the harmful effects of alcohol on all whānau - still within Oranga. Our Rākau Tautoko practitioner Ren, worked through the second half of 2019 to support five organisations …
Youth – Community of Practice
To create a community of youth and those that work for/with youth to meet with the shared purpose of fostering and maintaining youth wellbeing in Tamaki. Suburbs include Glen Innes, Mount Wellington, Panmure and Point England. The Community of Practice is a space where we can see one another as a source of shared learning, …
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