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Our Stories – Healthy Families Hutt Valley & our partners.

Experimenting, being agile and adapting in action

Apr 20, 2021 | Auaha Evolving Spaces

As Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets for People programme gains momentum across Aotearoa, we‘ve been reflecting on our local journey and the ability to experiment, be agile and adapt to redesign our spaces better for people. Lower Hutt secured...

Changing lives through the power of rugby league

Mar 31, 2021 | Auahi Kore, Systems

We've partnered with Wellington Rugby League to change lives through the game of rugby league, with their new smokefree sport initiative kicking off this April. The initiative powered by Wellington Rugby League aims to drive home the message that by creating...

Partnering for collective impact to create a movement for change

Mar 22, 2021 | Systems

Healthy Families Hutt Valley and Wellington Rugby League are partnering for impact on a range of new initiatives to normalise positive health behaviour in environments where whānau live, learn, work and play. Across many sporting codes there has been a significant...

Providing an opportunity for our people to be more active

Mar 12, 2021 | Healthy active streets

People in Naenae have been getting out and about lately utilising the ‘Free Ride’ community bike sharing scheme which aims to get more people using bikes to get around Lower Hutt.The brightly branded and geo-tracked Free Ride bikes are available to use at special bike...

Connecting people to good food

Mar 8, 2021 | Kai

Our communities have told us the important role food plays in their lives and how it contributes to their wellbeing. It is one of the key ways we share and celebrate culture and family traditions. However, across Aotearoa New Zealand there are too many...

Lower Hutt’s town centres proud to be smokefree

Mar 2, 2021 | Auahi Kore

Our shared vision is a future where our community spaces are all smokefree and vapefree, where our children don’t see smoking and aren’t exposed to second-hand smoke. Hutt City Council’s Smokefree Outdoor Public Places Policy is one of the strongest policies...

Making active travel an easier choice through Auaha Evolving Spaces

Feb 26, 2021 | Auaha Evolving Spaces

Healthy Families NZ whānau across Aotearoa are committed to creating change that makes the healthy choice the easy choice for our communities. This is the vision we share with our communities, to have social and physical environments that support and enable our...

Co-designing spaces with communities is the mission of Auaha Evolving Spaces

Feb 22, 2021 | Auaha Evolving Spaces

Kick-started through Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency through their Innovating Streets for People pilot fund, Auaha Evolving Spaces brings together projects that put making space for people at the centre of design decisions. Healthy Families Hutt Valley is actively...

Kai experiences in Te Awa Kairangi: Making good food the reality for our people

Feb 22, 2021 | Kai

Food plays an important part in our lives, it brings whānau and communities together and is one of the key ways we share and celebrate our culture and family traditions. In Aotearoa New Zealand, there are too many people experiencing the health and wellbeing...

Reimagining our streets and spaces

Jan 26, 2021 | Auaha Evolving Spaces

We’re making our streets and public spaces safer and more enjoyable to spend time in, through Auaha Evolving Spaces. Kick-started through Waka Kotahi NZ Transport Agency’s Innovating Streets for People pilot fund, Auaha Evolving Spaces is grounded in the principles of...

Play streets a massive hit across Lower Hutt

Jan 13, 2021 | Active in the Hutt, Play

There has been a hive of activity in our local neighbourhoods as play streets take off across Lower Hutt. Three Play Streets have ignited fun and connectedness over the past couple of months as residents take back their quiet streets and play right outside their...

Player of the Day kicks off for the summer season

Dec 18, 2020 | Wai

Summer sport has kicked off for another season and we are excited and proud to have 40 clubs on board this summer, across eight different summer sports codes. It is great to see these clubs and codes support the Go the H20 Player of the Day initiative for another...