Student Volunteer Army have come to town!

1st Oct 2022

A massive shoutout and thank you to the Student Volunteer Army for their mahi in our Community Garden today - check out the before and after photos! It wasn't an easy job, lots of twitch and buttercup! So grateful for the help and looking forward to planting the corn in our koru garden.

Such a cool group of young people wanting to come and volunteer their time in another community - very impressed guys, thank you ~ Sarah.

YCD

28th Sep 2022

We've had a great time with YCD in Kaikōura - a huge thanks to the team that came up from Chch. There was kapahaka, a dance party, haircuts and DJ workshop - it was all amazing.

Check it out... MTFJ at it again!

15th Sep 2022

Ripeka Manawatu - employed at Kaikōura's famous Seafood BBQ and Moki Manawatu - employed at the equally famous Pier Hotel both have recently signed up with Service IQ to do cooking studies.

Both were presented with knife kits to support them in their employment by Mayor Craig Mackle thanks to the Mayors' Taskforce for Jobs!

Empower Te Rangapikikōtuku

29th Aug 2022

We had an awesome two days at the Empower Te Rangapikikōtuku thanks to Marlborough Chamber of Commerce and all the sponsors and contributors. Shout out to Ngati Gaming for the korero about tech hubs!

We were super impressed with our Kaikōura rangatahi and their tech skills - a couple even managed to win themselves a mobile phone!

It's also opened our eyes a bit to the many possibilities of Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and the opportunities in gaming and creative design technology. We are keen to pull together anyone who is keen to jump on board with thinking about how we build opportunities for our rangatahi, (and the rest of us) in this tech space - there's so much happening and it's pretty exciting.

So if you have either tech skills, or are just interested, get in touch with us to talk more about how we can create a community tech hub.

Pizza and Politics

19th Jul 2022

We hosted a 'Pizza and Politics' night upstairs at the Lobby, for young people aged 18 - 24 (ish) to come grab some free pizza, enroll to vote, and learn a little about the upcoming local elections! Thanks to all the people who came - it was an awesome night! Congratulations to Josh - the prize winner of the evening - on winning $150 fuel vouchers! 

Pottered Potter

16th Jul 2022

We just had an amazing trip to Christchurch to see 'Pottered Potter' at the Court Theatre!

Side Hustle

29th Jun 2022

What an amazing group of young business people we heard from tonight! Our young entrepreneurs pitched their business ideas to Tony Henderson-Newport from Rebel Business School Aotearoa - wow, these guys have a huge amount of creativity and talent!

All of these businesses are winners but the recipient of our prize tonight of $500 seed funding is Rochelle Clark for her business - The Tasty Tams - selling tamarillo plants!

A massive thank you to Tony, to the Ministry of Youth Development, The Prince's Trust NZ, our local entrepreneurs who presented at the Beach House a few months ago at the start of this journey - Gus, Mātangi, Corrina and Lauren - and to Wero Wayfinding for their fostering of these young people's entrepreneurial skills.

Careers Day

20th Jun 2022

We had an awesome time at careers day today - thanks Kaikōura High School!