Our final holiday programme for 2019 was a great success. Over the second week of the school holidays, we had 20 of our kids and 8 staff join us for a full-on week of fun and activities. Throughout the week, the kids put a great amount of effort into their Kapa Haka,...
Two of our Te Aranui boys were chosen to do community work in Vanuatu by their church group, Marine Reach. We saw this as a fantastic opportunity for our boys to experience travel and to fully immerse themselves in a new culture for the first time. The wider team at...
Te Aranui Youth Trust has joined forces with old and new friends (organisations) from around Tauranga to see how we can work together more effectively to better the lives of the youth that we work with. Our group has called itself, Piritahi Youth Collective. Piritahi...
In August, Eden attended an Easy Evaluation workshop through Ngā Pou Mana in Wellington to learn how we can evaluate and improve our programmes. This workshop was incredibly useful as she was able to use some of the skills to improve the Wāhine Toa programme at...
Over the past two months, we have had the opportunity to share what we do at Te Aranui Youth Trust with the frontline Police within Tauranga. This amazing opportunity was brought to us through Operation Akotanga which is an initiative started to educate Police in...
In June, we will be holding our 2019 Blue Light Safer Young Driver Expo. Our expo is aimed at all year 11 students in the Western Bay of Plenty. The expo covers topics such as licencing information and the dangers of drink, drug and distracted driving. We have talks...
