REAP Wairarapa

06/06/2026

⭐Coming up on Monday 8th June we have Kathryn Berkett presenting Raising Resilient Teenagers
⭐An evening session being hosted at Te Kura o Paetūmokai / Featherston School at 6.30pm
⭐The event is for whānau of pre-teens and teenagers to help them understand what is going on in that beautiful teenage brain of theirs.
⭐This is a free event but please register by scanning the QR code in the image below, or PMing our page.
Thanks to our team at Heartland Services Martinborough

29/05/2026

🌟Join our team!🌟
If you love working with whānau, enjoy getting out into our rural communities, and want to make a real difference for tamariki across the Wairarapa, we’d love to hear from you.
Head to the link below to learn more and apply:)

https://www.reapwairarapa.nz/vacancies/

27/05/2026

Amazing news for us here at REAP Wairarapa, and the Wairarapa community, as our own Makuini Kerehi has won the Leader of the Year, Tangata Whenua, at the ACE annual awards tonight in Auckland. This award recognises the incredible work she does for us and our communities by leading a huge range of inspiring programmes and initiatives. Congratulations Mā, we are all so proud of you and acknowledge the mahi you do for us and our community. Ka rawe!!!

27/05/2026

🌟Out of Office🌟
The REAP Wairarapa Team will be away next week from 1st - 5th June.

We'll be back in the office on Monday the 8th of June.
If you have an existing room booking - you would've received a call from our team with the process for next week.

27/05/2026

I’ve just been with the team at Whaiora and they have these amazing new free resources!
Te Rerenga o te Tuna is a guide to simple and doable healthy lifestyle tips and it comes in Te Reo Māori and English.
FAST the Community Cook Book has some super simple recipes that promote healthy eating and will help keep things like stroke, heart conditions and cholesterol levels at bay.
Get your free copy from us at REAP house reception in Queen Street from tomorrow.

13/05/2026

The Puāwai Pūrau Academy is back for its 5th year as a locally run, grassroots uplift programme supporting Māori learners to succeed in STEM subjects at school. We will be launching with our first whānau night. For all ākonga Māori at secondary school. Come to our open night, register for the programme and enjoy some inspiration and whanaungatanga. See you there whānau mā 🙂

Kia ora whānau, the Puāwai Pūrau STEMM Academy is back for its 5th year as a locally run, grassroots uplift programme supporting Māori learners to succeed in STEM subjects at school. We will be launching with our first whānau night. For all ākonga Māori at secondary school. Come to our open night, register for the programme and enjoy some inspiration and whanaungatanga. See you there whānau mā :)

08/05/2026

🚗Last week Rachael and Mark, our licence tutors spent three days at Tararua College working alongside their careers teachers and 15 awesome rangatahi to achieve their Learners Licence.
We worked in partnership with who set up at the college on the last day to allow them to sit their test on site.
Partnerships like this are essential for our rural rangatahi, to transport them all to their closest AA centre would be a financial and logistical challenge and a barrier to them achieving.
A huge THANK YOU to Therese and the AA who also provided these students with a set of L Plates each to support them on the next phase of their driving journey🚙

08/05/2026

Proud to be able to support yesterday's event 'Speed Date an Editor' as part of the Featherston Booktown's Young Reader's programme.
Thank you to Piers Fuller, Claire Mabey and Kristy McGregor for inspiring the next generation of Editors!

The 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗴 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗲 kicked off today with our 'Speed Date an Editor' event which saw school children from across the region come to the ANZAC Hall for some hands on learning with our three amazing presenters 𝗣𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿, 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘆 and 𝗞𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘆 𝗠𝗰𝗚𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗼𝗿. Thank you to REAP for their support of this event, our presenters & our wonderful volunteers.

07/05/2026

The REAP Wairarapa team has just finished up a huge 3 days at the REAP Aotearoa National Conference in Wellington.

We got to work with the other 12 REAPs from throughout NZ, participate in workshops, hear from great speakers, and even have an awesome panel with Warren and Students from Kuranui College!