Nevertheless Trust

12/06/2026

09/06/2026

07/06/2026

🌈🌺Talofa lava & Kia ora Rotorua! We are headed your way to deliver our Meaalofa Rainbow+ Competency Training as part of Rotorua Matariki Pride Festival.

We are looking forward to educating all of our Rotorua whānau and aiga around the lived experience of being Rainbow+ through a Pacific & Māori lens. This is a FREE event but you need to register.

🗓️ Thursday 18 June
📍Rotorua Novotel
⌚️1pm-4pm
🎟️ Register https://events.humanitix.com/rotorua-nevertheless-meaalofa-rainbow-competency-training-rct

This training is made free thanks to the Pacific Su***de Prevention Community Fund.

02/06/2026

✅ Week 1 of our 6 Week Financial Literacy course delivered by the one and only Kelly from .hiddenfigures

We are very fortunate to be recipients of all this amazing matauranga around putea and wealth. This week we learned about Mindsets and disrupted some of the myths and beliefs we’ve grown up with when it comes to money.

Here are just some of the things we learned in our session tonight…. And these are just learnings from my personal perspective ( )

✨ When we introduced ourselves we all had to answer - What are some of our positive money habits? It could be things like “I make my lunch” or “ I automate my bills” or “I save X amount”. It was a nice place to start because often there’s a lot of shame about putea/money as its often been tied to trauma or a struggle to obtain and maintain… heoi anō it was great to share some of our positive money habits.

✨ Scarcity vs Abundance Mindset -A scarcity mindset assumes there is never enough—whether it’s time, money, or success—leading to fear, hoarding, and zero-sum thinking. Conversely, an abundance mindset believes there are limitless opportunities and resources available, fostering creativity, resilience, and a willingness to share

✨ How our behaviour is influenced from whānau, social media, church, culture etc. We had an awesome talanoa around Tangihanga and fa’alavelave. Fa’alavelave is when we have to send money back to the Islands because theres an event at home that requires money e.g funeral, wedding etc.

✨We ended by answering “Whats one belief around putea/money I inherited… and whats one I want to adopt…” My personal belief I shared was believing Debt was not good and to be avoided at all costs. However, I would like to adopt the belief that Debt is a tool and I’m looking forward to learning exactly how to use it.

Next week we are learning about Kiwisaver & Investing and I am so excited for our community to learn! Apologies this class is at full capacity with a waiting list however, we are committed to sharing our learnings each week. If you are keen to learn more we highly recommend following .hiddenfigures and check out all their posts whānau.

Mauri ora ❤️‍🔥

01/06/2026

🏳️‍🌈🇼🇸 Raindrops workshop this week is a Siva Samoa workshop facilitated by our very own April Matautia! Please register.

All Raindrops workshops this month in June are COMBINED! 16+ years old with under 16 needing a guardian please. Kai and Transport available. Please register ASAP if you need a ride.

🗓️ Wednesday 3 June
⌚️ 5:30-7:30pm
📍Nevertheless HQ 4/105 Pakowhai Road, Hastings
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/raindrops-samoan-language-week/tickets

31/05/2026

🇼🇸 Vaiaso o le Gagana Samoa - Samoa Language Week!
The 2026 theme for Samoa Language Week is “‘E afua mai i mauga tetele manuia o le ‘nu’u - From the high mountains are the blessings of the village.”

This week we will be highlighting our interviews with the Tuimaseve family! Stay tuned to see what we get up to this week!

27/05/2026

✨Thoroughly enjoyed being a judge for today alongside & .

Today we had Business students come through and they were absolutely inspiring.

The Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme (YES) is an opportunity for students to unleash their inner entrepreneur and experience the start-up world first-hand. It is an experiential programme where students set up and run a real business. Each YES company creates their own product or service and brings this to market.

25/05/2026

*POST UPDATED HUI IS ON WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 2026🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Acknowledging the heavy emotions circulating our community right now. Every step we take is a statement.
Not all of our actions will make it to a Canva made post but it doesn’t mean we aren’t active. Love to all those who have put out statements, love to to all those who haven’t been able to, for whatever reason.

To our communities

✨ First - lets all assess our own personal wellbeing and mental health. For our Hawkes Bay whānau If you want free counselling, mirimiri or peer support during this time Email Tammy [email protected] or Refer yourself/another through our website www.neverthelessnz.com

✨ Second - this Wednesday, we meet, we eat, we laugh, we talk, we listen, we cry, we feel, we karakia, we sit in the uncomfortableness of it all. And then… we get organised, educated, plot our paths forward, get a houses in order and then live, heal, overcome and thrive.

We don’t “watch this space”, we “create spaces”. We do it together.

✨ Thirdly - If you are someone who is “for” this Bill who doesn’t understand the detrimental impacts it has on our Rainbow+ community, but is curious or wants to understand - I am happy to have a kōrero with you in person. You can contact me directly at [email protected]

🗓️ Keen to come on Wednesday night - Register here for kai and transport purposes please

https://events.humanitix.com/combined-raindrops-session

25/05/2026

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Acknowledging the heavy emotions circulating our community right now. Every step we take is a statement.
Not all of our actions will make it to a Canva made post but it doesn’t mean we aren’t active. Love to all those who have put out statements, love to to all those who haven’t been able to, for whatever reason.

To our communities

✨ First - lets all assess our own personal wellbeing and mental health. For our Hawkes Bay whānau If you want free counselling, mirimiri or peer support during this time Email Tammy [email protected] or Refer yourself/another through our website www.neverthelessnz.com

✨ Second - this Wednesday, we meet, we eat, we laugh, we talk, we listen, we cry, we feel, we karakia, we sit in the uncomfortableness of it all. And then… we get organised, educated, plot our paths forward, get a houses in order and then live, heal, overcome and thrive.

We don’t “watch this space”, we “create spaces”. We do it together.

✨ Thirdly - If you are someone who is “for” this Bill who doesn’t understand the detrimental impacts it has on our Rainbow+ community, but is curious or wants to understand - I am happy to have a kōrero with you in person. You can contact me directly at [email protected]

22/05/2026

❤️‍🔥 FA’AFETAI TELE LAVA to Ulugia Lealailepule Edward Cowley aka Buckwheat Drag Diva for coming to Manioro and inspiring us all! Thank you for embracing each of us at Manioro through the way you held space for each of us as individuals and collectively as a group. Thank you Buckwheat for making us all feel seen and safe. Thank you for nourishing the vā and allowing us all to take photos with you.

We have nothing but alofa and gratitude for you and your husband making the trip and blessing us all with amazing memories!

Fa’afetai tele lava Buckwheat 🥰

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