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OUR WORK

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OUR PROGRAMMES

Since 2016, WELLfed's mission has been nourishing communities through food and connections. We are dedicated to helping individuals and families thrive by growing skills and confidence, improving health and wellbeing, and strengthening community connections.

Supportive, practical classes to grow confidence, create connections, and develop cooking and nutrition skills to nourish communities

Skills for
Life

Programme includes:

  • Up to 16 weeks of weekly classes

  • Skills for Life practical education classes, including:

    • healthy cooking and nutrition

    • life skills

    • budgeting and nutrition

    • food safety

    • kōrero and kai to share

  • Access to WELLfed Plus activities, including:

    • goal setting​

    • parenting workshops

    • first aid workshop

    • ... and lots more

Supportive, welcoming space for hapū and new māmā to build confidence and learn practical life skills.

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Pēpi me Māmā

Programme includes:

  • Up to 20 weeks of weekly classes

  • Skills for Life practical education classes, including:

    • healthy cooking and nutrition​

    • ... and lots more

  • Discussion-based education sessions with a specialist facilitator and expert guest speakers, including:​

    • navigating local services

    • infant first aid

    • postnatal wellbeing

    • child development and parenting

    • ...and lots more

  • Access to WELLfed Plus activities

Practical education and skills for people with a diagnosis of type 2 or pre-diabetes to manage their health.

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Diabetes

Programme includes:

  • 10 weeks of weekly classes

  • Practical education classes, including:

    • delicious, healthy cooking

    • growing your own kai

    • easy exercises

  • Essential diabetes education, including:

    • understanding how food works

    • understanding diabetes

    • understanding medication

    • accessing local services

  • Access to WELLfed Plus activities

A hands-on space for WELLfed learners and local tamariki to learn to grow kai, care for Papatūānuku, and be active outdoors.

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Garden Education

The WELLfed Garden offers:

  • Education and active movement sessions for tamariki from local schools

  • Allotments for WELLfed learners to grow their own produce with guidance from the garden team

  • Waste Minimisation 

    • Education sessions in WELLfed classes​

    • Landfill diversion

    • Set up home compost systems

Supportive, practical classes to grow confidence, create connections, and develop cooking and nutrition skills to nourish communities, and learn skills for work or study

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Skills for Work or Study

Programme includes:

  • Up to 16 weeks of weekly classes

  • Skills for Life practical education classes, including:

    • ​healthy cooking and nutrition​

    • ... and lots more

  • Work or study preparation, including:

    • goal setting

    • CV preparation

    • communication and interview skills

    • job and study preparation

    • application support

    • first aid workshop

    • driver's licence training

  • Access to WELLfed Plus activities, including:​

    • parenting workshops

    • first aid workshop

    • ...and lots more

Supportive, practical space for rangatahi to build confidence, connections, and knowledge to develop essential life skills.

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Rangatahi

Programme includes:

  • ​Up to 16 weeks of weekly classes

  • Practical, flexible education classes with a youth focus, including:

    • essential life skills

    • youth-friendly recipes

    • self management

    • budgeting and nutrition for young adults

    • kōrero and kai to share

    • community connections

    • goal setting

    • literacy

COMING SOON

Safe, supportive space that fosters harm recovery and long-term resilience for wāhine.

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Wāhine

More information coming soon.

A productive space that grows produce to supply WELLfed classes, supported by volunteer mahi.

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Māra Kai

The WELLfed Garden supplies:

  • Produce for planned recipes made in WELLfed classes

  • Produce for fruit & veggie packs for WELLfed learners

  • Weekly Plant and Learn volunteer sessions that are open to the community and supporters

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WELLfed Plus Activities

Plus courses are available to support the needs identified by our participants. We provide workshops and support services aimed at education and holistic personal development.

 

Some of the courses available may include:

WHERE YOUR DONATIONS GO

Kai + Equipment

Supplies for hands-on learning

Nutritious shared kai (to assist

with learning)

Nutritious meals to take home

Produce packs to take home

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Skills Support

In-person classes and workshops

Building literacy, numeracy, social connections, practical skills,

and community

Pastoral care and support - pathways, referrals,

work and study opportunities

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Garden

Creating a local sustainable food production cycle

Building food resilience and security

Educating the next generation

Community mahi opportunities

HOW CAN I HELP?

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