Building engagement and empowerment
This past year (2022) has seen ongoing growth and community led responses by Panamasians ō Tuia, who formalised their Trust, and developed a weekly wellbeing workshop programme focussed around Te Ao Maori principles of manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and tikanga. These workshops have seen elderly residents at a local rest home the ability to connect and engage …
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 …
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, …
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.
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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This work is with Tāmaki Response (a part of the Tāmaki Regeneration Programme) to understand the needs of people in Tāmaki to create a wrap around support service for whānau in high need. “The Whānau by Whānau service will be for Tāmaki families who face complex and multiple problems, struggle to access the services and …
We were approached by the Tāmaki Regeneration Company to conduct interviews and a group workshop as part of the scoping phase of the Co-Design creation for the Early Years Hub soon to be created in Tāmaki. Three of our practitioners recruited for, then conducted a series of interviews with parents of young children in Tāmaki. We then …
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 …
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.
Rākau Tautoko 