What a full-on year 2011 has been. We have spent much of the year bolstering our existing programmes, strengthening their infrastructure and extending their reach into the community. It has been a busy year for all involved and a productive year for the Trust as a whole. This past year has seen the completion of our Bliss programme for teenage girls, with many success stories coming out of the programme and many girls being inspired to rise to their full potential in life.  

Our Te Ora Ake After-School & Holiday programmes have flourished throughout the year with many families being positively impacted by the programmes. Both programmes have been running at full capacity throughout the year and we are now looking for opportunities to expand their reach into the community. We purchased an additional Toyota 8 seater van this year to add to our transport capacity which is another way the Trust is benefitting busy families who are unable to leave work to transport their children from school to the after-school programme. This coming year we are also looking for further funding opportunities to replace some of our aging van fleet to ensure the ongoing success of the Te Ora Ake programmes so that they can continue to benefit the local community.

The year has been a fairly quiet year for our Wahine Tu Women's Fitness programme. Although we have finally secured the services of a qualified Zumba instructor and so we will be relaunching the programme next year in 2012. As part of the ethos of the Wahine Tu programme is to provide quality fitness programmes to women on a tight budget, we will be continuing to provide the Wahine Programme to the community at the lowest possible cost. We have secured a fantastic premises for the Zumba classes at Destiny Church in Pascoe St, with the church kindly hiring their auditorium to us at a really great rate. So with the agreement of the qualified instructor receiving half of the proceeds, we will be able to offer the Zumba sessions at the rate of $20 for 5 sessions or $5 per session and also only $2 per session for teens. Next year we will also be looking at formalizing and expanding a men's fitness programme that we have been trailing over the past few months to help improve the health of the men out there who could also use a cost effective fitness programme.

To all our wonderful volunteers and our hard working staff, I would like to extend my heart felt thanks for all that you have done throughout the year in making each of our programmes the success and the benefit to the community that they are. Your hard work is benefitting so many people and is directly making our community a better community to live in.

Looking forward to a successful year in 2012,


Martin Daly
Trust Chairman

 

Introducing our new "Abide Fitness" programmes, catering for both men and women with an assortment of structured programmes designed to promote fitness and health without blowing out your weekly budget. Abide Fitness is the new brand we will be using to run our Wahine Tu women's aerobics programmes as well as our recently started men's fitness sessions. Abide Fitness is designed to provide an alternative to expensive gym memberships, providing quality fitness programmes at cost to the community. Currently Adide Fitness has these programmes available on a weekly basis as follows...

 

Women's Zumba classes: Mondays & Wednesdays 4:30-5:30pm @ 75 Pascoe St

$20 donation for 5 sessions or $5 donation per session, including a qualified instructor

 

Men's Fitness sessions: Mondays, Wednesdays & Thursdays 5:30-7pm @ 75 Pascoe St

$20 donation for 10 sessions, $10 donation for 5 sessions or $5 A.P. weekly donation for all 3, including cardio based circuit training and weight lifting training.