Building engagement and empowerment
Phenomenal Young Women is a youth group for young women only, and creates spaces for young women in Tāmaki to connect. Twice a week, two wonderful facilitators (Latisha and Loma - being young women themselves!) run the sessions and create hang out spots for young women in Tāmaki to connect with each other. Mentoring support …
Rākau Tautoko was very lucky to be chosen by Ākina to receive two SAP employees on a Social Sabbatical for two weeks. Social Sabbatical is a pro-bono programme, which matches SAP employees with social enterprises that will benefit from their specialist skills and resources. Russell Martin and Ameet Balasubramanian joined Rākau Tautoko for the first …
Our funders wanted to research and document how Tāmaki residents would like to learn about Living Lightly - making lifestyle choices to save money, and have a healthier life and planet. This was then followed by a small pilot programme to test the thoughts gathered in the research phase. We held three community focus groups enabled key …
Responding to the need of the community after a contagion of seven young people lost their lives to suicide, Rākau Tautoko led a community meeting, calling people together to create a “united community response to suicide prevention”. This led to an application for funding to The Vodafone Foundation in collaboration with Tāmaki Community Development Trust …
One of our practitioners views of a local community dinner that The HEART Movement facilitates every Friday night.
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 …
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.
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 …
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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