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Kainga Aroha is a place offering support to anyone in our community who needs it. A Financial Mentor may be available to visit you offsite.

We offer support in a number of areas:

Financial Mentoring (budgeting)- assistance with dealing with debt management, formulating a realistic cash flow budget and provide advocacy with creditors/debtors and Work & Income if necessary. Family Support - assistance with a wide range of issues such as parenting, dealing with government agencies self confidence and other ways of developing your streng

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Counselling - includes issues such as relationship, anger, grief, depression, self esteem, childhood trauma, domestic violence. BACKGROUND STORY
Kainga Aroha Community House was established in 1984 by Bruce & Steph Owen & Dennis Howell. Based at Hall St, Kihikihi they offered a drop in centre for tamariki and rangatahi, holiday programmes and camps, budgeting and family assistance to local whānau/families. Due to increased demand for services, Kainga Aroha (KA) we moved to our current location at 301 Bank St, Te Awamutu in 2007. We have since grown into an organisation that provides:

Family Violence/WSW (Whaanau Support Worker) - Family harm/violence intervention support, support with obtaining protection & parenting orders, formulating safety plans, advocacy & referrals. (Sandra & Maria)

Family Support - Supporting whaanau/families in areas with parenting, advocacy, referrals & dealing with other government agencies. Building Financial Capability - Support in gaining financial capability, advocacy, working with debtors/creditors on your behalf. (Please note we are not Financial Advisors) (Sue)

Provide Supervised Contact - We are an approved Oranga Tamariki supervised contact agency, we are also a handover point for unsupervised visits. - Fees may apply

Counselling - Helping you work through relationship/family issues, grief/loss, stress, anger & self esteem. Fees may apply (Michelle)

Children’s Holiday Programme - We run an annual camp during the Christmas school holidays for children aged 7 - 14 years. We are the call centre for foodbank

2020 Whaanau Resilience Kaimahi (Ange Holt) - Preventing Domestic Violence for future generations and assisting with the healing and trauma of those impacted through programmes, advocacy and support.

21/05/2026

Huge thanks to our local Kiwanis Club of Te Awamutu for the wonderful donation of children's pajamas. Your kindness will bring warmth to many younger members of the community who need it most now the nights are turning chilly. We are grateful to be connected with such a caring group.

10/05/2026

Thanks to the amazing GB bakers Good Bi***es Baking for looking after our Whānau so well. Check these yummy treats

30/04/2026

We need to fill a $30.5m gap in steady funding for financial mentors through the introduction of levies on industries and increased government contributions. We've published a paper with detailed analysis on the gap in steady funding for the essential work that financial mentors do.
You can find the paper and more information about how you can help on our FinCap website: https://lnkd.in/eyyQJ_Wc

30/01/2026

Leanne our amazing Financial Mentor in 2024 & 2025 is off to a new role this year in Hamilton.
Thanks for all your dedicated mahi at Kainga Aroha.

Best of luck with your latest adventures - your new team are lucky to have you.
You will be missed!

29/01/2026

So this was us, this time last week, on our annual KA Camp at Waihi Beach. What was to be our shortest camp in a long time turned into our longest with a hiccup or two on the way home. Despite, what ended up an 8 hr bus trip complete with being caught in the traffic of a pretty serious accident, a flat tyre followed by a flat battery we made it home from our adventure and on balance had a pretty fun time based on feedback!

I would like to take this opportunity to say a huge thanks to all our campers, they really were an amazing bunch and through all of this they never complained and got through smiling and laughing. Well done guys, we are super proud of you all.

To our director and leaders- Aron Tamaki-Woolly, Floyd Owen, Jordan Wellington, Brayden McCammon, Shea Redgate Joanna Sun, Luke Sun, Manaia Ngataki, Terry Ngataki and Harli Nicholas.
Without this fantastic and generous bunch of volunteers we would not be able to have a camp and definitely not have got through this one. They went above and beyond, having an extra unexpected very long day added to the itinerary they continued to put the kids first regardless of the setbacks they faced. There are not enough words to express our gratitude for what you all have done for us during our week away. So a massive THANK YOU and please know you are all very much appreciated. 🤗🤗
I'd like to make a special mention to Aron, who not only single handedly ran camp but also spent hours in the lead up preparing camp lists, letters, the activities and itinerary, and so much more of the very important behind the scenes stuff. Aron, my friend we truly are blessed to have a volunteer like you who has done so much for us and camp would not have happened without all of your mahi. He also stepped up under pressure and handled everything like a pro. We are super proud and super grateful to have you as our Director.Thank you so very much.
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Last but by no means least our mean kitchen crew, Sue, Michele and Kane. Ably led by Sue our kids were so well fed, and meals enjoyed that there was barely a scrap on a plate after each meal. A huge thanks to you all. 🙏🙏🙏

Camp is a team effort and I think we were a great team. 👏👏👏🤗🤗🤗
Ange

15/12/2025

Many Thanks for more generous donations Mitre 10 MEGA Te Awamutu, your amazing customers and the Kindness Collective.
Dylan is also a legend for putting on a Santa Hat and helping with the collection.

Our aim - to support families and communities to thrive.

05/12/2025

Many Thanks for the generous donations Mitre 10 MEGA Te Awamutu, your amazing customers and the Kindness Collective.
We are all helping towards Santa being able to visit every child this Christmas!
Our aim - to support families and communities to thrive.

18/11/2025

Stay Safe Everyone!

According to Sorted.org.nz 72% of New Zealanders have been the target of some kind of scam, either online or by telephone. Scams are increasing in number and sophistication – it’s big business.

Scammers are smart and unregulated. If one scam or tactic doesn’t work, they simply change the game plan or set new rules.

Most of us can fall victim to a fraud, especially when we are going through something challenging. Some of you may have already been a victim of a scam and not even realised.

We’re all at risk. Here are our top tips to avoid being scammed. Stop and think: Is this for real?

Only click on links if you’re 100% certain they are legitimate. Always check the link by hovering over address with your mouse, and the return email address, too.

Remember that banks and other companies will not ask for your passwords or personal details by email, text or phone. If you receive a request like this, delete it or hang up.

Just hang up! Cold calls with investment offers are illegal in New Zealand.

If you’re suspicious of any caller, hang up and call the official number of the organisation they say they represent to check if the call was genuine.

If you’re not sure who you’re talking to, whether online, over the phone or at the door – end the conversation and look them up to confirm that they are who they say they are.

Make your passwords unique and hard to guess. We recommend using a password manager.

Never send money to anyone you don’t know or haven’t met in person.

Be suspicious when the love interest you met online wants to use your bank account for receiving and forwarding money.

Avoid giving personal details that could be used to impersonate you.

If you think you are being scammed, stop all contact and don’t send further payments.

10/11/2025

Thanks to everyone who stopped by our display at the Te Awamutu Community Gala on Friday. The lollies in the jar were won by a lovely young lady who had a great strategy for counting and was only two off the actual amount. Enjoy the 158 Jelly Beans Piper 😁

09/11/2025

Big shout out to Good Bi***es Baking. Thank you ladies for the delicious home baking. We will have some very happy Whanau today.

Address

301 Bank Street
Te Awamutu
3800

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Website

https://www.ka.org.nz/

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