Building engagement and empowerment
Rākau Tautoko was approached by the Infrastructure and Environmental Services team at Auckland Council to facilitate community engagement workshops with key community stakeholders in Maungakiekie-Tāmaki, to seek feedback about their climate action priorities. We held two online workshops in March 2022 which focused on gathering community input towards identifying goals, barriers and priorities around climate …
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Note - the following is part of the full report, to see the full report please click here. Rākau Tautoko was approached by the Auckland Council Waste Solutions Team to facilitate a focus group series throughout specific geographical areas, to seek feedback on the new Pay as You Throw system that was due to be …
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In partnership with The Good Fale, and with support from Foundation North, we hosted a space where practitioners and stakeholders from different sectors could connect, collaborate, explore and learn together. This year, we focused on food security, food sovereignty and the food system. The 3-day summit attracted over 100 practitioners and community workers that showcased, …
Working alongside Ākina and The Impact Initiative, Tara Moala and Philippa Holmes presented as part of the Social Enterprise World Forum Digital, on our experience of working within a Māori and Pasifika Collective and leaning on our indigenous values to create and grow an innovative response to the COVID10 lockdowns of 2020. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HvVqOFu8lg&feature=youtu.be
This consisted of the creation of a collective of community groups which came together to support our whānau most in need of food support. The collective responded by creating a network of food rescue, purchasing and distributing through many different local leaders in East and South Auckland. This was started in the first lockdown, in …
Continue reading "The Kai Collective – Our COVID-19 Response"
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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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.
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 …
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 …
The first-ever "A. Social Impact Summit" was held from the 7-10 August at the Panmure Community Hall in Auckland. 135 people registered pre-summit, and over 150 people attended over the four days. When Aspargove founder Philippa Holmes began designing the Summit series, it was done with a desire to create a Social Impact focused space …
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