Introducing the one and only Oakley Curley! Oakley loves swimming, messy play and most of all playing with his siblings. Oakly is just over a year old and lives with Mum Monique, Dad Paul, sisters Tiger Lily and Savanah and brothers Odin and Loki (pictured below). When Oakley was three weeks old, he was diagnosed with unicuspid aortic valve with critical stenosis and severe regurgitation which required open heart surgery. Following this, he was able to return home briefly for

At Manawanui, we always strive to improve our digital tools to make things easier for our customers.   Last year, we went through an accessibility audit, which recommended some improvements to make the Portal as user-friendly as possible.  We are implementing these changes tonight (Friday 1st March 2024). These changes will only impact the appearance of the portal. Nothing else will change, but we believe it will make it easier for customers to use.   Please see below some im

Renee loves music, dancing, doing puzzles, gardening and.... chickens! Ever since she was a little girl, Renee has always been fascinated by chickens, from holding the baby chickens at the A&P show to experience at school incubating eggs and caring for the baby chickens as well as time on her Nana and Grandad’s farm feeding the chickens and collecting eggs (pictured below). Renee is 18 years old and lives with Mum Alison, Dad Leon and her twin sister Hollie. She was born with

With financial support now available for NZQA training, there’s never been a better time for support workers to upskill and get qualifications that really count.   Getting a Certificate in Health and Wellbeing is a really useful qualification for support workers who are focused on self-directed support and is a great way to boost the confidence and skills of your staff while they support you. At Manawanui, we want to make things as easy for you and your support workers. We ha

Manawanui’s Fund for Good is an innovation programme which awards grants to help fund big ideas that cannot be funded through Individualised Funding or other funding sources. It’s all about self-direction and one of the ways that Manawanui, as a social enterprise, reinvests profits into initiatives that give customers choice and control about how they live. We want to say a massive thank you to everyone who applied for the 2023 round of Fund for Good – the judging panel had a

We recently attended a show that was out of this world! Created by the incredibly talented crew at the Smoky Mirror Arts Company(SMAC), Galactic Grooves was a show filled with dance numbers and costumes that were simply stellar, Interstellar! The Rose Theatre on Auckland’s North Shore was the perfect intimate venue for the show, providing a safe environment for the performers that seemed to thrive off the interactive and enthusiastic crowd. Galactic Grooves tells a story abou