Social Enterprises
Creating Employment to make a Difference.
The story behind Manu Tukutuku
The story behind Manu Tukutuku is about a small group of local Randwick Park residents who worked in partnership with Manurewa Local Board (lead by Angela Dalton) to design, develop and lead the Parks development. In 2014 the Randwick Park Community and Sport Trust was set up to become a local Randwick Park legal entity, for the purpose of becoming Kaitiaki – caretakers of the park: Local Neighbours serving the Neighbourhood. The founding Trust member was Bruce Howe (Chair), Dave Tims (Secretary), Keo Mataroa, Anna Scanlan (treasurer) and Tony Rakich – all Randwick Park residents.
Thanks for posting this Dave – a perfect example of empowering a community, but not without our challenges right? A newish Council, a determined community a Local Board Chair (me) who was all for walking alongside but not interfering unless there were barriers to navigate. All credit to Randwick Park Residents on achieving this community dream that was led and designed by you all – the Heart and Soul of Randwick. It will stay forever in my heart as an experience of a lifetime in community empowerment, governance at a distance, friendships forever. – Angela Dalton, Auckland City Councillor
Short Videos
Street Play
Street BBQ
RANDWICK PARK
“For those that don’t know Citycare Open Spaces actually subcontract a not-for-profit social enterprise in Randwick which is a suburb in Manurewa. The social enterprise is called Stepping Stones and they maintain all of the parks in Randwick on behalf of Citycare.
The work they do is edging, gardening, mowing and loose litter. The idea of Stepping Stones is to give local people, local jobs. Everyone who works for Stepping Stones lives in Randwick. This gives locals, local employment opportunities, which creates small stepping stones into employment. Since they have been a subcontractor for Citycare there have been success stories of people starting out at Stepping Stones to become a lawyer, primary school teacher and a drain layer.
The two people in the photographs is David and Andre who were gardening at the time of my visit and they take great pride in maintaining Randwick not only that but they had very positive personalities. Kudos to them, Dave Timms (Founder of Stepping Stones) and Francois Viljoen (Stepping Stones Manager). Keep up the great work.”
Urban neighbours drawing hope
An article by the daily encourager about the on-going work being done by Urban Neighbours of Hope
Randwick Parks New Playground
I tēnei ata i te Rāhina i whakamoemiti mātou i te papa takaro hou kei Randwick Park.
It was a special morning today where Rangi McLean blessed our new playground that has just been built beside our beautiful building Manu Tukutuku …Randwick Park Sports and Neighbourhood Centre.
A massive thanks to The community of Randwick Park, the children of Randwick Park School involved in the design, the Randwick Park Residents Association, the youth leaders, DIA, our Manurewa Local Board Chair Angela Dalton and Councillor Daniel Newman who have stood beside our community to advocate for our park, skate park, building and finally our playground. Blessings and Thanks To You All who have been part of this journey.
Appreciative Inquiry
Strengths based Approach to Planning and Evaluating in Communities.
“In his work in Randwick Park, Manurewa, Dave Tims has seen AI used to assist his community to grow and change. The AI approach inspires people to identify things that could be changed, get involved in the work to effect change and also to monitor the changes. Dave says that, “If you follow the process, it creates ownership and responsibility – the people own the mission and become responsible for implementing it.”
In 2017 Randwick Park won the NZ Community of the Year Award.
An amazing story of transformation and development. Dignity brings Dreams, Dreams enables Hope and Hope brings Dignity. Jesus brings Mana – Mana instead of shame, Mana instead of poverty, Mana instead of pain.
