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 …
What makes The Pockets of Hope Community Dinner successful?
One of our practitioners views of a local community dinner that The HEART Movement facilitates every Friday night.
Hapai Te Hauora Smokefree Youth Pledge
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 Re-designed
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 …
The Community Office
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.
TIES in 2017
Two Rākau Tautoko practitioners - Dickie Humphries and Tyrone Tangata-Makiri worked in collaboration with Karl Bailey from Tāmaki Wellbeing (an ADHB initiative) to create a codesign process of engaging with the community and create a way of engaging and creating alongside community workers and residents. In 2017, Rākau Tautoko was contracted by Tāmaki Redevelopment Company …
Community Group Development Workshops
Our Rākau Tautoko facilitators Jo and Tara plus a number of community and external key facilitators ran eight capability workshops through the second half of 2017 in Tamaki Maungakiekie local board area. Participants enjoyed weekly workshops and one on one mentoring. The following topics were delivered across the workshops; Social Enterprise Financial Literacy Business Planning …
Technical Training for Youth in Tāmaki
In April 2017, three of our staff supported the development, facilitation and delivery of the technical training programme. Together with a technical tutor, they piloted a collaborative way of working with young people aged 16-24 year olds from Tāmaki local board area, who are out of education, employment and training. 4 weeks - Design and …
HEART Community Connections
Continuing supporting The HEART Movement work through Change Agent growth and development and Whānau engagement.
Tāmaki Online
The development and facilitation of a community calendar that has local administrators adding their activities onto an online calendar that all can access.

