2014/15 Programme
The 2015/14 Future Auckland Leaders' Programme is now underway. If you would like to know more about this Programme, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Timothy Giles, Future Auckland Leaders Programme Manager, Committee for Auckland.
Programme Participants
| Organisation | Name |
| ATEED | Rakel Liew |
| Auckland City Mission | Ilana James |
| Auckland Council | Austin Kim |
| Auckland Council | Sanchia Jacobs |
| Auckland War Memorial Museum | Liz Cotton |
| Auckland War Memorial Museum | Rachael Davies |
| AUT University | Megan Skinner |
| AUT University | Enrico Tronchin |
| Boffa Miskell | Heather Docherty |
| Chorus | Mark Tod |
| Hapai Te Hauora Tapui Ltd | Ants Hawke |
| Independent Maori Statutory Board | Tania Winslade |
| Kiwi Income Property Trust | Stefan Winstanley |
| KPMG | David King |
| McConnell Group | Daniel Williams |
| Mighty River Power | Tim O'Halloran |
| Ministry of Social Development | William Ulugia |
| New Zealand Institute of Architects | Courtney Kitchen |
| Ngati Whatua o Orakei Trust Board | Graham Tipene |
| NZI | Drazenka Dordevich |
| Salvation Army | Kylie Tong |
| Silo Theatre | Sophie Roberts |
| Simpson Grierson | Nick Wilson |
| Sir Hugh Kawharau Foundation | Tom Irvine |
| State & AMI Insurance | Merran Anderson |
| The Warehouse | Greg Nelson |
| University of Auckland | Helen Ross |
| University of Auckland | Emma Dent |
| Waterfront Auckland | Anna Skelton |
* 2014/15 Future Auckland Leaders Programme cohort at the Welcome Weekend held 21-23 February, 2014 at Orakei Marae
Legacy Projects
The Future Auckland Leaders are now better-informed about Auckland key drivers and issues and this understanding helped shape their business case ideas. From the 82 project ideas, eight were voted into business case stage for review by the Dragons – Jenny Gill, Heather Shotter, Earl Gray, Quintin Blackburn and Diane Robertson - at the Dragons Den held at the Auckland City Mission on Wednesday 3 December 2014.
The five projects below were chosen by the Dragons to be developed as projects throughout 2015:
| Donating Brains | Donating Brains is a project that has been developed following wide ranging consultation with senior-level participants in the volunteering sector. It has been developed to provide a focussed solution to a real barrier that limits the participation levels of skilled volunteering in New Zealand. We have confirmed that there is currently substantiate underutilised skilled volunteer potential in Auckland and a substantial demand for such volunteers across the many not-for-profits (NFPs) working with Auckland communities. We have the buy-in to partner with key participants in the volunteering sector in Auckland. | |
| Community Kitchen | Internationally, community kitchens have been successful in reducing food insecurity through collective group purchasing, increasing local capacity and providing leadership opportunities for families/whanau and communities. While providing individuals within communities with skills related to cooking, nutrition and budgeting, they have also served to improve community access to healthy food and create cultural awareness and social cohesion through the sharing of food. Often, the set up of community kitchens requires minimal ongoing resourcing but adds significant value to participating individuals and whanau and their wider community. | |
| Tīmata Tours | The Project seeks to create a self-sustaining enterprise which provides a human face to greet visitors to our city and is the starting point (or ‘tīmatanga’) for exploring Auckland. The Project will pilot a scheme over 2015 (the Pilot) of short guided walking tours in the city centre, leaving at set times from a set downtown location (no booking required). It will better link visitors from visitor information centres (or i-Sites) to established Auckland tourism operators, businesses, restaurants and highlights. In this way, the Project seeks to encourage visitors to go on to do other things in the region by providing them with a taster of uniquely Auckland experiences and guiding them to what is already on offer in the region. | |
| Garden of Knowledge | We will install or use pre-existing vegetable gardens in a RACF, and partner that facility with a youth group. The younger people will be drawn from either schools or community groups, with a target age of between 8 and 14. They will be taken on supervised visits to the vegetable gardens to help tend them and to interact with the older people, and in the meantime the older people can use the gardens whenever they wish. We will identify potential sites where a residential aged care facility is within walking distance of the youth group, which will then inform our choice of pilot project site. There will be a loose curriculum framework provided, put together in conjunction with a partner such as Enviroschools or Garden to Table, but primarily driven by residents. | |
| Volcanic Field | Using a design-led approach, we will work with the newly created Maunga Authority to identify a maunga site or sites for a pilot project and our target audiences. We will design our project around our audience’s needs to collect and tell the cultural and community stories of that maunga in a way that is meaningful and relevant today. This will create a cache of stories that can be used by different communities and groups in any way that they wish. |