Te Whakaora Tangata
Whānau coaching for high-risk South Auckland Families
Funding of $3000 contributed to covering the salary costs of our Whānau Coach, Ngaire Munro works with our highest-risk clients. Ngaire provided them with:
• In-home parenting coaching: addressing issues such as addiction, budgeting, home management, coping strategies, life & parenting skills
• Crisis Intervention – Ngaire helped provide 24/7 in-person crisis intervention available for families in crisis
• Advocacy – Ngaire provided support and advocacy for clients with courts, Oranga Tamariki and other agencies.
• Supporting them to attend our courses, including Kia Kaha workshops and group mentoring.
The grant of $3,000 from John Ilott Charitable Trust helped us provide Whānau Coaching to high-risk South Auckland families by providing funds to help us cover our whānau coaches’ salary costs.
This funding has helped:
Equip mothers with critical life skills
Reduce isolation
Provide a safe place for vulnerable women to build healthy relationships, community connections and increase social confidence.
Build meaningful, genuine community where participants can support and encourage each other, sharing experiences and insight.
Ngaire also conducted first engagements with new whānau who were referred to us, or who came to us seeking help and support. Our First Engagements process helps us get to know the risk-level and individual challenges facing potential clients and helps us determine the best path forward for them. It also begins to establish a relationship of trust.
Your $3000 grant helped us fund our whānau coach, Ngaire Munro, to work with some of the highest-risk parents in South Auckland. The result is that parents who were struggling, overwhelmed and lacking the skills to parent well, are now becoming stable and safe. With our support, their children are no longer at high-risk of maltreatment and their families are on a journey to restoration – making it possible for those children to thrive and reach their full potential.
SPAN Charitable Trust (t/a SkillWise)
Weekly drama tuition for intellectually disabled adults supported by SkillWise.
The grant was a contribution to the annual fees of drama tutor, Paul McCaffrey, who specialises in teaching drama to people with intellectual disabilities and learning difficulties.
Our organisation benefits as follows:
• Educational outcomes – improvements in literacy, reading, creative writing, and comprehension skills.
• Social outcomes – better communication, verbal, and social skills; increased confidence from speaking and acting live on stage; pride and achievement; and the development of skills such as adaptability, problem solving and teamwork.
The community benefits as follows:
• Community outcomes – performing live on stage to audiences from the wider community enables non-disabled people to appreciate the performers for their skills as creative writers and theatrical performers, rather than as people with disabilities.
Dyspraxia Support Group
To support the running costs of our three Fun Groups
We have spent the grant on resources for our children's/youth programmes, which includes craft supplies, games, other resources, mini van hire for youths trips, bouncy castle for Christmas party, stone carving sessions and movement session
Your grant makes it possible for us to deliver amazing programmes to children/youth which gives them skills, confidence, teaches them well being and gives them opportunities that they may not receive otherwise.
Seabrook McKenzie Centre
Subsidising assessments of Specific Learning Disability (SLD)
$2000 subsidised professional assessments of SLD for approximately 21 clients
The purpose of subsidies is to keep professional assessments as affordable as possible, with the expected outcome of identifying learning difficulties and the best tools and strategies for support.
This benefited our organisation by helping us in our mission to support those with SLD so they can experience success in their learning and journey through life, by ensuring that the benefits of assessments are available at a fee that is affordable for families.
It benefited the community by not only helping the individual students begin to experience success in their learning but through a flow on effect to their school, family, and community. The first things parents and teachers notice once help is in place are a lessening in behavioural problems, an increase in self-esteem and social skills, and happier families and classrooms.
Motor Neurone Disease New Zealand Charitable Trust
MND News Magazine Wrapping and Postage costs
The funds were spent on the wrapping and postage costs for our Winter MND News magazine. Part of the postage costs is presenting the magazines to NZ Post in a format ready to be delivered. Our printers are responsible for this aspect as well as lodging the filled envelopes with NZ Post.
This magazine is an important aspect of our communications with our community. It informs, educates, inspires and engages the MND community. Stories of strength and resilience are shared, inspiring hope. Sadly, the client featured on the cover of this magazine passed away this week, highlighting how important our job is to support everyone living with MND to have the best quality of life possible for as long as possible.
Thank you for your support towards the production of this magazine. It is really appreciated.
Tauranga Living Without Violence Collective Trust
You supported our Subscription and Membership costs for Counsellors and Social Workers.
This has enabled our Counsellors and Social Workers to have up to date training and remain accredited providing our services to families in need.
By receiving support for Subscription and Membership costs, this has improved the organisations sustainability and supported women, children and families within local communities of Tauranga.
Our aim is to provide safe homes, safe communities and for all people in Tauranga Moana to live free from all forms of violence, abuse and oppression.
- Providing safe homes and safe communities
- Live free from all forms of violence, abuse and oppression
- To provide educational programmes for all
- Primary focus on men’s violence towards women and children
- Collaborate and advocate with other agencies
- Provide a successful free service
- Continue to be an integral service in the community
Pillars Ka Pou Whakahou
This grant was used toward the costs of our phones and phone system. It is vital that our clients are able to keep in touch with staff, so funding for our tollfree and mobile phones has been gratefully received and used. Some of this contact is made via text so mobiles are essential for this to occur. We have already had over 1000 calls to our National number this year, and this doesn't include all the calls directly received by our frontline staff to their mobiles.
The grant has been spent on mobile and National phone costs.
This funding has helped us to continue the work we do in our communities. Our services are ongoing, so any funding that supports us to support the vulnerable whānau and children helps us to continue improving outcomes and creating positive futures for the children that have a family member serving a sentence.
Thank you for your continued support.
Compassion Soup Kitchen
To restock the clothing room with clothes, sleeping bags, shoes, etc for the Compassion Soup Kitchen whanau to access when needed.
We purchased jackets, sleeping bags, hoodies, shoes, underwear, socks, trousers and jumpers in a variety of sizes.
353 people have chosen items from the Clothing Room (for free) since February this year. That is a huge increase on 178 for the same time period last year. These people how have more suitable clothing to help them through the coming winter.
Richmond Group Riding for the Disabled
$2,000 for Horse care
We spent $1,700 of the grant to purchase hay for our horses to support their nutritional needs during the recent drought and during the winter. The balance of the grant was spent on one of farrier Brian Biggs 6 weekly visit to trim our horses hooves.
This grant contributed to the costs of keeping the health and wellbeing of our horses at an optimal level to deal with the stresses that some of our more unbalanced riders place on them. Without our equine buddies we would not be able to provide weekly sessions to the 76 riders that attend to work on their short and long term goals.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of North Canterbury
“Sponsor A Match” - The cost to facilitate a successful Big Brothers Big Sisters match is approx. $2,000 p.a. and thanks to the grant from John Ilott Charitable Trust, we were able to provide professional training and welcome new volunteer mentor Emily to the whānau. Emily has since been matched with Brittany, with stories of their mentoring journey to date attached.
Mentoring Coordinator wages - with the help of North Canterbury’s local schools, Mentoring Coordinators are professional matchmakers, building new friendships based on shared hobbies, interests and personality traits.
Matching vulnerable children in our communities with a safe and trusted adult role model contributes to the health, wellbeing and resilience of our communities, communities where rangatahi have a sense of identity, belonging and cultural connection. The grant from John Ilott Charitable Trust funded a brand new match, resulting in Brittany having a positive model to look up to and a friend to spend weekly one-on-one time with. By investing early in our rangatahi and providing positive childhood experiences (thus decreasing the impact of adverse childhood experiences), together, we can impact the trajectory of our young people’s lives.