Building engagement and empowerment
Rākau Tautoko was given a wero | challenge to support Maungakiekie Tāmaki local board to build meaningful and productive relationships with the Māori community of Maungakiekie-Tāmaki, in service of: Advancing Māori wellbeing Promoting Māori success, innovation, andenterprise Recognise and provide for Te Tiriti o Waitangioutcomes Showcase Māori identity and culture Our Approach Initially, we approached …
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Another busy day. I visited Roxy for a seedlings install and let her know I'd heard from a good source that she was a smooth mover at a dance party! She laughed and said she'd had a good time. We got her seedlings in and she said hubby was very interested to see this development. …
Big day today so we started out early with Lorenzo waiting for me and the fenced area was mostly made from old pallets as we had discussed. Some he had sideways (which are shorter) and some end on end (which are taller). I explained the shorter ones will need replacing/turning as it's a little too …
Over 2023 our team worked together with Tamaki WRAP to support the roll out of food scraps with Auckland Council Waste Solutions. Check out all these amazing whānau that connected with our team and joined us in learning all about the food scrap service rolling out across Auckland. Summary Dates of engagements: July - December …
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
Maungakiekie/Tamaki Working in partnership with Tāmaki WRAP, we ran a total of 10 x capability building workshops and 11 x community events throughout 2020 - in between each of the lockdowns. Funding was sourced by the Maungakiekie-Tāmaki Local Board who graciously extended our timeframe out to the end of 2020, in recognition of all of …
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 …
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.
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 …
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