2025-26 Community Impact Report
In 2025, The Y Hawke’s Bay continued to strengthen its impact across youth development and community-based programmes, with a strong focus on connection, physical activity, and creating equitable access to positive experiences for tamariki and rangatahi across the region.
Our youth development programmes remained at the heart of our mahi, providing safe, inclusive, and youth-led spaces where young people could build confidence, form friendships, and explore new interests. A key highlight this year was our ongoing partnership with Sport Hawke’s Bay, which enabled rangatahi to take part in a wide range of active recreation and sporting experiences. Through this partnership, young people were able to try new sports, build physical literacy, and experience the joy of being active in ways that were fun, accessible, and responsive to their interests. For many participants, these opportunities removed barriers to participation and created first-time experiences that helped foster confidence, motivation, and a sense of belonging.
Alongside our youth programmes, we began the reintroduction of outdoor education in Hawke’s Bay, working in partnership with the Hawke’s Bay Regional Sports Park. This marked an important milestone for The Y, reconnecting our history of outdoor education with a modern, accessible delivery model. During the year, we delivered taster rafting and archery sessions to more than 60 tamariki, providing safe and confidence-building introductions to outdoor adventure activities. These sessions offered tamariki the chance to step outside their comfort zones, develop teamwork skills, and experience the outdoors in a supported and encouraging environment.
In addition, tamariki from our programmes were given amazing opportunities to attend two local outdoor adventure camps, where they engaged in immersive experiences that strengthened resilience, independence, and connection with others. These camps were particularly impactful for young people who may not otherwise have access to overnight outdoor education experiences, reinforcing The Y’s commitment to equity and inclusion.
Together, these programmes and partnerships reflect a year of meaningful progress for The Y Hawke’s Bay. By combining strong youth-led practice, trusted community partnerships, and the reintroduction of outdoor education, we continued to create opportunities for tamariki and rangatahi to be active, try new things, and grow in confidence and wellbeing. We remain committed to building on this momentum in the coming year, ensuring our programmes continue to respond to the needs, voices, and aspirations of young people and whānau across Hawke’s Bay.
2024-25 Community Impact Report
In 2024, The Y Hawke’s Bay continued to deliver meaningful, high-quality programmes across youth development, OSCAR services, and community outreach. Our youth development programme provided over 90 sessions and 1,000 attendances, offering safe, creative, and culturally enriching opportunities such as sports, arts, outdoor adventures, and a significant youth-led pou unveiling and overnight camp. OSCAR programmes strengthened compliance, quality, and staff capability, completing a full policy review, improving administrative systems, and enriching daily programming through initiatives like the Y Challenge and the Five Ways to Wellbeing. Meanwhile, the Y Ki Waho Play Trailer brought accessible play to local parks, engaging more than 1,700 community members across 46 sessions and forming strong partnerships in Camberley and Flaxmere. Together, these programmes demonstrate our commitment to safe, impactful, and community-centred services, with a continued focus on strengthening outcomes, measuring impact, and meeting the evolving needs of tamariki, rangatahi, and whānau across Hawke’s Bay.
2023-24 Community Impact Report
In 2023, The Y Hawke’s Bay delivered a year of strong positive impact, offering diverse, child-led OSCAR programmes, vibrant holiday activities, and transformative youth development experiences. Tamariki enjoyed a wide range of programme options, from crafts and sports to technology and group play, while holiday programmes provided standout adventures such as cycling from Clive to Haumoana, horse riding at Acres Wild, and visits from Circus in a Flash, Giants Boxing Academy, and Basketball Hawke’s Bay. Our Intermediate Leadership Camp supported 24 Year 7 and 8 students with a free four-day experience focused on confidence, leadership, and connection, and community partnerships extended these benefits even further. A major achievement was the launch of Raise Up, where a committed crew of six youth delivered events, workshops, and outreach that contributed to 1530 youth engagements. Overall, 2023 was a year of growth, engagement, and meaningful outcomes, reflecting The Y Hawke’s Bay’s commitment to empowering tamariki and rangatahi across the region.
2022-23 Community Impact Report
In 2022, our programmes supported tamariki and rangatahi across Hawke’s Bay to grow in confidence, connection, and leadership through safe, inclusive, and engaging experiences. Our before and after school care programmes were child-led and interest-based, offering a wide range of creative, physical, and social activities that supported wellbeing and positive relationships. Holiday programmes provided a balance of adventure and calmer on-site days, including outdoor challenges, sport, creative workshops, and life-skills activities such as cooking. We also delivered a number of intermediate leadership camp for students at no cost to families, building confidence, teamwork, and resilience through outdoor education and challenge-based learning. In addition, we launched a youth-led development programme for rangatahi aged 13–18, supporting young people to design and deliver events, workshops, and community initiatives. Across all programmes, we achieved over 1,500 youth engagements in 2022, creating meaningful opportunities for young people to connect, lead, and thrive.