This has been a long term project and commitment in supporting the growth of local Riverside community group – Panamasian’s. Over the years (since 2020) the has included capability to run community events, growing community members capacity and capability and set up their own systems. The Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board has been an ongoing support for us …
Palliative Care Research
Working alongside Auckland University, we recruited participants that had experienced or were currently experiencing the Palliative Care System - this could be for themselves or their loved ones, while also experiencing low socio-economic conditions. The research included recruitment, relationship management, empathy interviews, documenting and implementation of possible ideas. Having found it difficult to recruit interviewees, …
Growing Up In NZ
This work was based on App Creation Co-design. The Codesign Lab approached us to support Growing Up In NZ to co-design an app for their research project. Our part of the project was to work alongside the Growing Up team to learn the process of co-design, and then support engagement with Auckland based participants of …
Phenomenal Young Women
The ongoing support of a local youth programme for young women in Tāmaki. The original plan was to run the programme in Tāmaki College by two young women, but we pivoted to providing regular gatherings online for the wellbeing of young women to feel safe and empowered through the different lock downs. Support and acknowledgements …
COVID19 Response – Creating a Kai Collective
Working alongside a collective of amazing community food distributors during COVID19 lockdown has been an amazing experience for Rākau Tautoko. We have been very lucky to have received a grant from Foundation North to delivery kai support to our more in need whānau through Alert Level 3. Over this time, we decided to throw Business …
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Supporting the HEART Movement
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.
Jobs and Skills Hub Interviews
The beginning of interviews to support a co- design project with Tāmaki Regeneration to understand the success of The Jobs and Skills Hub in Tāmaki. Unfortunately, this project was halted due to the COVID-19 Lockdown.
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 …
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