Tuia te Hapori, Orchard / Karaka Street Community Hub

Tuia te Hapori, our newly opened community hub on the corner of Orchard and Karaka Street, Stoke, is ready for your use and we’re looking forward to welcoming you into the space.

The purpose of Tuia te Hapori is to provide a safe space for the community to engage and connect with agencies, groups, or services available. Tuia te Hapori can be used by any agency or group to host activations, workshops, or events that are beneficial to this community.

Moving forward, our partners at Te Korowai Trust will lead the day-to-day operation and co-ordination of Tuia te Hapori. Kāinga Ora will continue to support Te Korowai Trust, and we plan to use this space as much as possible!

Since February, a lot of work has been underway to get Tuia te Hapori ready for the general public to use. Te Korowai Trust continues to lead the community engagement in the street and has been present every week to connect with whānau. A local community constable has made themselves available each week for several hours.

Background
Tuia te Hapori, a name gifted by the community which means to ‘sew/bind the community’, is one of the initiatives that has come out of a multiagency group – including Kāinga Ora, Te Korowai Trust, Nelson City Council, Nelson Tasman Housing Trust, New Zealand Police, and the Department of Internal Affairs – that has collaborated to support the southeast Stoke community.

Many groups completed a substantial amount of work to transform what was then an empty Kāinga Ora site on the corner of Karaka / Orchard Streets into the community space, including funding from the Lottery Grants Board. Mitre10 MEGA Helping Hands, with the assistance of our local trades, also played a huge part in the delivery of this project.

Prior to the opening of Tuia te Hapori, we completed a community survey that went out to around 350 neighbours of Tuia te Hapori, seeking their input around “who” and “what” they wanted to see in Tuia te Hapori. From those results, we held an engagement session on the opening day to vote on those options (and provide other ideas if they missed out on the survey).

Here is a summary of those engagement results (in order from ‘most important’ to ‘still important’). We hope the results from the survey will spark some ideas about how you could use this space.

Who
Community Counsellor
Te Korowai Trust
NZ Police
Community Art
Kāinga Ora & the Housing Support Manager
Menz Shed
Bike Hub
Artists
Budget Advisors
Skilled Volunteers
NMIT / Tutors
MSD
Te Whatu Ora
Nelson City Council

What
Life skills workshops for children to get a good start
Community Nurse
Kai swap
Gardening course
Writing workshop for CV
First aid course (for kids too)
Cooking classes
Emergency clothing
Driver licencing workshops
DIY workshops
Fitness group sessions eg Yoga/pilates
Educational classes & speakers
Borrow gardening gear
Assistance to access & complete agency paperwork
Events e.g. Matariki
Education around sustainability
Library to share or book swap

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If you have any questions or queries about this space, feel free to contact us on the below email.

Lastly, thank you to our community, our trades, and our partnering agencies who all put their hands and minds together to get Tuia te Hapori where it is today. The success of this space is not by one, but by all.

He aha te mea nui o te ao? He tangata he tangata he tangata!
What is the most important thing in the world? The people, the people, the people!

Ngā mihi nui,
Kāinga Ora, NMWC Community Engagement and Partnerships Team
E: [email protected]

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