Our mahi spans five inter-related foundations for a good life:
Through Te Hiko, our Centre for Community Innovation, we work alongside communities to help turn the sparks of community innovation turn into flames of creative change. These initiatives work across the five foundations for a good life.
At Wesley Rātā Village in Naenae we are working with the local community to build an intergenerational community that supports the five foundations for a good life.
Our work supporting connected and supportive whānau spans the whole life cycle, from pēpi (babies) and new parents to kaumātua / seniors. We also work with rangatahi (teenagers and young adults) and with wāhine and tāne who are looking for connection, support, challenge and growth.
Te Waka Haumaru, our older persons team, works alongside vulnerable and lonely kaumātua and kuia so they can stay living safely and well in the community and enjoy social connections with others. The team is responsible for three programmes:
Healthy whānau can be supported by focusing attention on the needs and aspirations of rangatahi, wāhine, and tāne. We work in partnership with these groups to co-design and host a range of unique initiatives.
Our work to build financial stability creates opportunities for local people to develop and drive initiatives that help grow and sustain wealth within their own community. The goal is to support a local economy that enhances the wellbeing of local people and provides opportunities for them to shape, contribute and gain from it. Our work is based on a theory of change developed by a wide group of people from Porirua East who were looking for ways to address growing levels of debt in their community.
Having access to good quality, affordable, healthy food is a fundamental human right. The focus of our kai work is on addressing the root causes of poverty-related hunger and working with others to build long-term, sustainable solutions that create food security.
We’ve been involved in providing warm, safe, dry affordable housing since the 1950s. We currently provide homes to 95 people in 62 affordable rental properties in the greater Wellington region.
We believe that taking action to help nature to heal helps support good health in our social systems. Doing what we can to care for the environment and counteract climate change fits with our kaupapa as an organisation committed to building and sustaining healthy systems.
Te Hiko is our koha towards sparking local community economic systems that truly value what makes people’s lives better.
We’re always on the lookout for sparks of community innovation that we can help turn into flames. Through Te Hiko we work to understand and create the right conditions for those sparks by supporting the design of new community-led responses. We work to evaluate, measure and share knowledge on what’s working and what we are learning.
Wesley Rātā Village is an intergenerational village in Naenae with a special position for seniors/kaumātua.
You can find the Village at 249 Rātā Street in Naenae. It’s the site of the former Wesleyhaven Resthome and Hospital which we ran from 1955 to 2017.
The Village currently has 55 affordable homes It Is also host to a range of regular community activities and it has a number of venues available for hire.
