🍄 Esperenza Reyes — Mushroomate
🥇 Mushroommate Salt — GOLD
🥈 Mushroommate XO Spread — SILVER

🌱 Jill Hermansen — Jill’s Complements
🥇 Jilly’s Rustic Seed Crackers — GOLD
🥉 Jilly’s Beetroot Relish — BRONZE

Participants are asked to bring:

• Current Community Services Card
• Photo ID (e.g. driver licence)
• Proof of address
• Phone or laptop

Please register using the link provided for each event.

📍Tokoroa – Thursday 30 April, 4–6pm
Samoan Community Hall, 8 Giles St, Tokoroa Click to register

📍​​​​​​​Kaihu / Dargaville – Thursday 7 May, 10am–2pm. (In collaboration with Dargaville Heartland Services)
Ahikiwi Marae, 202 Ahikiwi Rd, Kaihū, Northland Click to register

📍​​​​​​​Hamilton – Friday 8 May
Sessions: 12.30–2.30pm or 3-5pm
Te Whare O Te Ata, Fairfield Park Hall, 214 Clarkin Rd, Fairfield Click to register

Other Upcoming Events

1. Gisborne – Thursday 11 July. More details coming soon
2. The Generator National Awards – Saturday 19 (TBC)
   Māngere Arts Centre – Ngā Tohu o Uenuku 
   4.00–7.30pm

Whāriki x Amotai are teaming up to connect our whānau with real procurement opportunities. Amotai links Māori and Pasifika-owned businesses with 175+ corporate, government, and iwi buyers – spending billions every year.

🔥 Special kaupapa:
The first 100 Whāriki members to join Amotai get a guaranteed ticket to the Amotai Meet the Buyer event at Go Media Stadium, Mt Smart Auckland | 22 April.

🚗🌱 Work smarter. Grow faster. This one’s for you.

Invercargill couple Gabriel & Abigail Garcia have built a thriving eco‑friendly car detailing business—supporting their whānau and community, even through health challenges.

Now Gabriel’s sharing the no‑cost marketing strategies he uses to land premium clients—no ads, no fluff—in hands‑on workshops.

Ready to level up? Register HERE!
Invercargill Automotive Detailing

Foodstuffs North Island, alongside the Food Innovation Network, invites you to the Emerging Supplier Forum.

An opportunity to learn from the Foodies team and a dunnhumby insights expert, and to connect with local small businesses building their path into grocery. 

👉Register www.foodstuffs.co.nz

Forum dates and locations

• Christchurch – 28 May 2026, BNZ Centre, Christchurch
• Wellington – 6 August 2026, Naumi Hotel, Te Aro
• Auckland – 9 September 2026, Foodstuffs NI Support Centre, Māngere

Applications for the 2026 Sir Āpirana Ngata Memorial Scholarship are open until 1 May 2026!

If you’re Māori and studying at a tertiary level (this includes any university, polytechnic and wānanga) in 2026, you’re eligible to apply.

The scholarship is made possible by the Māori Soldiers Trust and administered by Te Tumu Paeroa.

Apply HERE!

Find out what benefits and payments you can get from Work and Income if you're eligible. The full list can be found HERE!

This is your chance to pay it forward.
Your survey response helps prove the programme works—and opens the door for more whānau to access the same opportunity.

This is how we grow the kaupapa.
Complete the survey so the data backs what we already know: the programme delivers real outcomes for whānau.