Hauora Hokianga

15/12/2025

Are you passionate about working with whānau and making a meaningful difference in your community?

Join Our Te Whare Āwhina Team – as an ACC Navigator l Pou Ārahi

📩 For more information, a position description or to apply,
email HR@hauorahokianga.org.nz

📅 Applications close Sunday, 4 January 2026

15/12/2025

🚑 Hato Hone l St John — Start your year of care today.

An Ambulance Membership helps ensure you and your whānau can access emergency medical assistance, advice, and transport when it’s needed most.

Membership covers you at home and when you’re out and about.

Find out more or join at: https://www.stjohn.org.nz/

15/12/2025

Summer Holiday Pharmacy Hours

✅Please check your medication supplies ahead of the Christmas and New Year period and arrange repeat prescriptions early where possible.

📦 Processing times at pharmacies may be longer over the holiday period, and courier or delivery services will be reduced between Christmas and New Year.

Patients requiring urgent medication may need to collect prescriptions directly from their pharmacy.

Pharmacy Contacts:
📞 Unichem Orrs Pharmacy, Kaikohe – (09) 401 0055
📞 Far North Pharmacy, Kaitaia – (09) 408 0851
📞 Browns Pharmacy, Kaitaia – (09) 408 0404
📞 Te Hiku Pharmacy, Kaitaia – (09) 408 4921
📞 Unichem, Kerikeri – (09) 407 7144

🏖️ Stay prepared and plan ahead this holiday season!

14/12/2025

👩‍🌾 Our whānau at the Ara Rongoa Hikoi Whakaora would like to wish everyone a Meri Kirihimete and a beautiful summer 🌻

✨️We will still be holding all our Wednesday volunteer days from 9am-12.30 at the maara 🥦 🍅 🌱 there is still kai to pick and share out, and gardens to w**d and water ☀

All are welcome to join us or awhi, no experience necessary 🥰

📅 Every Wednesday
⏰️ 9.00am - 12.30pm
📍 Ara Rongoa – gardens below the Honey Street carpark, Hokianga Hospital

Join us every Wednesday for:
🥔 Harvesting fresh kai to share with whānau
🌿 Growing
🤝 Sharing mātauranga
💬 Creating space for connection

🥫 Kai drop-offs are welcome – help us support whānau in need.

🧥 Bring a drink bottle and weather-appropriate clothing – we’re here, rain or shine.

💚 Nau mai, haere katoa mai koutou!!

11/12/2025

✨️ Last Open Healing Day for the Year ✨️
Nau mai, haere mai e te iwi.

🌱Taumata Rongoa will be at Pou Kara Ariki Marae, Hauora Hokianga Today Friday 12th December 9am - 2pm

🌻All whānau of Hokianga are warmly invited to join us for a day of healing and connection.

Receive:
🌿 Wai Rongoa
💧 Wai Whakaora - Kangen Water
💆 Tūru mirimiri (Mirimiri massage chair)
🧡 Opportunities for healing connections and meaningful kōrero

No appointment needed—just come as you are and reconnect.
🚗 Parking: Available at the Honey St entrance (lower carpark)

📞 For more info: Contact Moana Harris
(09) 405 7709 ext. 226

🌻Ka koha a Taumata Rongoa ki te tangata, ka koha te tangata ki a Taumata Rongoa.
Koha mai, koha atu.
🍃 Reciprocity is when everyone receives through the presence of koha in its many forms... Mauri ora. 🍃

11/12/2025

🔗 LYNKZ NEWS - Special Olympics and Bookworms
Another lovely week 🌟

NINIWA
🏆 Special Olympic Games Day
🧘‍♂️Warm-up: Began with seated exercises, and Rory's 15-lap run up and down the hall.
🎳 Games Included: Ring Toss, Coconut Shy, Obstacle Course, Equestrian, Rice Risotto, Connect 4, Discus, and Beer Pong (no beer).
🏅Atmosphere: Lots of healthy competition, medals shared. Fun was had by competitors and spectators.
💃Entertainment: Mihi and Rory performed singing, and Aylah did an awesome dance.

ARAI TE URU
📚 Opononi School Library Visit
🤩 Roma - he mihi nui ki a koe
👍Community Access: Roma said the library will be open to the community when school returns next year.
🧹Activity: Everyone helped dust shelves and books.
🎤 Highlights: Reece took books home, and Rory entertained everyone with a song about books.
🤹 Future Plans: Next year, Roma will arrange for schoolchildren to visit to read and entertain.
🥪 Lunch: After the visit, everyone had lunch at Freese Park caught up with Denis Orme we chatted and had Xmas lolly cake.

Coming up next week.
🎄Tuesday 16th - this will be our last session for 2025.
🙋‍♀️Join us a the Kohukohu Town Hall for some: games, laughter, entertainment and a shared kai.
NAU MAI, HAERE MAI...

11/12/2025

❤️ Hauora Hokianga would like to extend a very special mihi and heartfelt thanks to the talented and committed Rawene Craft Group.

🧵🪡 So much love, creativity, and care have gone into every quilt you provide for our newborn pēpi.

Ka nui te mihi kia koutou katoa, ladies.
Your koha, generosity and dedication make such a meaningful difference in our rohe.

10/12/2025

— This Friday —

Join our Whānau Ora team for an Enrolment & Information Day for the upcoming Personal, Financial, and Emotional Health Seminars

Come along to meet Sarah Searle of Sarah’s Solutions and enrol your whānau in our seminars, designed to support:

💵 Greater financial security
🔋 Increased energy and vitality
🧠 Improved mental wellbeing
💗 Longer, healthier living
📈 Improved quality of life
🫂 Stronger relationships
🗺️ Expanded opportunities
🛡️ Increased resilience
✨ A deeper sense of purpose and fulfilment

Hokianga seminars begin February 2026.

📅 Friday 12 December 2025
🕙 10am–3pm
📍 Rawene Town Hall

For more information, contact Tayla Cook on 027 868 477.

Reduce staff attrition, improve workplace relationships, better health and safety, onsite literacy numeracy training, 100% Government approved and funded, best literacy and numeracy training reviews in New Zealand, Sarahs Solutions

09/12/2025

⛱ The Summer Holidays are Here Again!

🚴 Our tamariki will soon be out enjoying the break and sharing the road — so stay alert and drive safely

🚨The speed trailer will be on the Hokianga roads for the next 2–3 weeks
📈 Gathering stats to help keep our whānau safer

🚙 Remember: slow down, stay safe, and look out for one another — a message from the Hauora Hokianga Road Safety team.

Ko koe ki tēnā, ko au ki tēnei kīwai o te kete,
Everyone has a role to play in keeping our roads safe.

09/12/2025

📣 Free Online Workshop | Know Your Tenancy Rights and Responsibilities

🗓️ Tuesday, 16 December
🕐 10:00am – 11:30am
🔗 Register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LNKKNKW

📣 Free online workshop | Know your tenancy rights and responsibilities

We’re excited to be partnering with the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) to host a free Zoom workshop to help you understand your tenancy rights and responsibilities. We want to make sure this workshop is relevant and useful for you, so we encourage you to complete the short SurveyMonkey linked below to help shape the content around your interests and questions.

🗓️ Tuesday, 16 December
🕐 10am-11:30am
🔗 Register here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LNKKNKW

You’ll learn about:
✔️ Tenancy rights and responsibilities (understanding your entitlements).
✔️ Bond services - where your tenancy bond is kept.
✔️ Dispute resolution - where to get help for tenancy relationship issues.
✔️ The work of the Tenancy Compliance and Investigations Team.
✔️ Free help and support available to you.

08/12/2025

✨️ Last Open Healing Day for the Year ✨️
Nau mai, haere mai e te iwi.

🌱Taumata Rongoa will be at Pou Kara Ariki Marae, Hauora Hokianga this Friday 12th December 9am - 2pm

🌻All whānau of Hokianga are warmly invited to join us for a day of healing and connection.

Receive:
🌿 Wai Rongoa
💧 Wai Whakaora - Kangen Water
💆 Tūru mirimiri (Mirimiri massage chair)
🧡 Opportunities for healing connections and meaningful kōrero

No appointment needed—just come as you are and reconnect.
🚗 Parking: Available at the Honey St entrance (lower carpark)

📞 For more info: Contact Moana Harris
(09) 405 7709 ext. 226

🌻Ka koha a Taumata Rongoa ki te tangata, ka koha te tangata ki a Taumata Rongoa.
Koha mai, koha atu.
🍃 Reciprocity is when everyone receives through the presence of koha in its many forms... Mauri ora. 🍃

08/12/2025

🚗 Road Safety | Hokianga 🛣️

The Hauora Hokianga Road Safety team is currently out on our rohes roads.

⛱️ With summer holidays here, remember:

Slow down — safe speeds save lives

Buckle up — every seat, every time

Let’s all do our bit to keep our whānau, our tamariki and our roads safe!