Whangaparāoa Hub Community Trust was founded by deed on 27 July 2009 and had operated as an informal group for some years prior. It’s early goal was purely the delivery of a Community Hub (then called a Family Centre) for the Whangaparāoa Peninsula. Future Whangaparāoa Trust was formed by deed after acting as a catalyst group known as Whangaparāoa 2030 to develop an understanding of community needs funded by the Hibiscus and Bays Local Board.
Achievements of the Trusts include:
A Community Needs Study
A Hub Feasibility Study
A pop-up hub experiment at 707 Whangaparāoa Rd
The creation of business lobbying and service group Business Whangaparāoa
Active facilitation of community consultation over the Whangaparāoa Library Courtyard upgrade and initial plans for that project which after massive scale backs by Council were ultimately delivered as can be seen today
Delivery of the annual “A Very Coastie Christmas” event at various locations in Stanmore Bay since 2018
After the pop-up hub closed a version of it was delivered in various locations until the owners of Coast, the local shopping centre, offered the opportunity to deliver the facility at a community rental within the walls of the Plaza
In the financial year ended 31/3/25 delivered the capacity for 245 hostings of everything from personal counselling for youth seeking career assistance through to supporting local events, other Trust Board meetings, sign language classes, sewing classes, maths tutoring classes and playgroups hosted by ethnic communities mothers groups.
Youth Hauora Event at the Hub – 30 May 2024
Become a Trustee
Our constitution requires we have at least five trustees with a maximum of ten. If you would like to give to our community through the things we do, we welcome your approach. Email us in the first instance at admin@whangaparaoa.info and we will send you an info package.
Volunteer at the Hub or Community Events
If you’d like to know about one off opportunities to volunteer hosting at the Hub or supporting our big events, please fill in this form
This form will enter your details into a database that we will email with opportunities to volunteer at the Community Hub or at other local events. You will be contacted only by Future Whangaparāoa with such opportunities and no other use of this personal data will be allowed.
‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the town, Parents were frazzled, running around! The to-do lists were endless, the stress levels high, “One more errand!” they’d shout, with a weary sigh. But wait! There’s good news coming your way— The Community Hub is here to save the day! 🎄 We know December is absolutely bonkers. Between the shopping, wrapping, baking, and trying to remember if you already bought something for Aunty Sue (you did, twice), it’s a LOT. So this Monday and Tuesday, we’re throwing open the doors at Coast Plaza from 10am-3pm for some much-needed creative calm in the chaos. Bring the kids! Bring yourself! We’ve got:
Colouring pages galore Paper crafts to make Christmas cards Decorations to colour and paint
If you’re a local business, it could be “A Very Coastie Christmas” enabled by “yourbusinessname” – contact us with a message to hello@whangaparaoa.info.
🎄✨ Calling all Coasties! Be part of A Very Coastie Christmas 2025! ✨🎄
Our much-loved A Very Coastie Christmas community festival is coming back — bigger, brighter, and more full of local spirit than ever! 🌊🎅
We’re on the lookout for local makers, performers, foodies, volunteers, sponsors, and community groups who want to help make this magical day come alive. Whether you want to run a stall, perform on stage, lend a hand behind the scenes, or help spread some Christmas cheer — there’s a place for you!
This event is all about celebrating our Coast community, bringing people together, and creating memories that make Whangaparāoa shine. 🌟
📅 Date: Sunday 7th December 📍 Location: Coast plaza, Whangaparaoa
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is officially here! 🥳🖤🤍❤️ Whether it’s your very first kupu (word) or you’re building towards a full kōrero (conversation), you are part of this journey, and you are part of keeping our reo alive.
Here are some easy phrases you can use this week, and we’d love to hear you give it a go! This week is for EVERYONE, no matter what your reo level. Together, we are making te reo Māori heard, spoken, and loved in every corner of Aotearoa 🌿
Kia kaha te reo Māori – give it a go! 💪 ✨
Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Check out www.reomaori.co.nz 🔗
Kia Kaha te Reo Māori | Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
Ka pai, Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, me ngana ki te whakaora i te reo maori.
Cheers! It’s the week of the Māori language, let’s do our bit to save it.
There’s not a lot of mahi to contribute to keeping our nation’s first language alive. Learn a few words, use them regularly. Celebrate the fact that we have real differences that enhance our pakeha world view.
Te Wiki o te Reo Māori is officially here! 🥳🖤🤍❤️ Whether it’s your very first kupu (word) or you’re building towards a full kōrero (conversation), you are part of this journey, and you are part of keeping our reo alive.
Here are some easy phrases you can use this week, and we’d love to hear you give it a go! This week is for EVERYONE, no matter what your reo level. Together, we are making te reo Māori heard, spoken, and loved in every corner of Aotearoa 🌿
Kia kaha te reo Māori – give it a go! 💪 ✨
Join us in celebrating the 50th anniversary of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori. Check out www.reomaori.co.nz 🔗
Kia Kaha te Reo Māori | Te Taura Whiri i te Reo Māori
A massive set of thanks to the team behind yesterday’s meet the candidates event, the candidates for showing up and the 80 or so people who showed up.
First to Coast Whangaparāoa for giving us access to the space that both they and us at Future Whangaparaoa – Whangaparāoa Āpōpō hope may become the much improved Community Hub and all new Maker’s Space.
Second to Whangaparāoa College for the chairs and microphones to make an event possible in this long empty space. A special note of thanks to School DP Marara Schreurs and her whanau, Bruce and Johann who with the latter’s flat bed truck efficiently moved nearly 150 chairs from the College to the venue. A real mahi of love and community commitment.
Then to Business Whangaparaoa who co hosted and supported the event.
And thanks to Liquorland Whangaparaoa for the loan of their van for the weekend’s to and fro.
And up the front thanks to moderator John Davies, and timer Wayne Tancred, both Trustees at Whangaparāoa Community Hub / Hub o Te Hapori Whangaparāoa .
Finally to the tangata, all the trustees, the audience and the candidates who showed up on a less than hospitable day to share and learn.
Ka pai, nga mihi nui, Cheers and thank you all so much for supporting another A Very Coastie Event . See you at A Very Coastie Christmas in the same space and all over Coast, Sunday December 7.
