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 …
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 …
A. Social Impact Summit 2019
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 …
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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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, …
Youth – Wellbeing Index
This project aimed to create a tool that can measure the levels of wellbeing among the diverse youth of Tamaki. After the use of the tool, it is hoped that the results give a picture of the enablers and disablers of youth wellbeing in order for effective policies and projects to be put in place …
Youth Wellbeing – Suicide Prevention continued…
After a suicide contagion at the end of 2017, Rākau Tautoko called for a united community response and continued to support a Youth Wellbeing programme of activities. This included: Creation of a network of youth workers and community membersLocal and open youth drop in spaces for our at risk young peopleResearch for learning about the …
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