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Oro—Upper Hutt report

By Gina Rembe | July 19, 2017

Oro was Lifehack’s first intensive place-based programme. The programme built on existing relationships Lifehack had in Upper Hutt and was co-designed with local stakeholders. In trialling this new place-based approach we wanted to apply learnings from previous programmes about how …

Working with our young people: reflections on Oro from Mike Ryan, Director Community Services, Upper Hutt City Council

By Penny Hagen | January 19, 2017

Mike Ryan, Director Community Services at Upper Hutt City Council has written this guest post on Oro, Lifehack’s most recent place-based collaboration based in Upper Hutt. In it Mike shares his reflections on the development and benefits of the programme, …

Oro: Final hui and programme celebration evening

By Gina Rembe | December 15, 2016

Over the past two months the Lifehack team has been running a programme in Upper Hutt called Oro, which focuses on mobilising the local community around a series of local initiatives and igniting localised cross-sector collaboration. This blog post is …

Lifehack Weekend – Oro Upper Hutt

By Dayna Carter | December 14, 2016

On 11 November 2016, around 15 people over the weekend came together to support the Oro whānau in their aspirations to develop existing and build new wellbeing initiatives that are co-designed with young people of Upper Hutt.

This weekend event …

Oro–Upper Hutt Programme has begun

By Dayna Carter | November 9, 2016

Our new programme, Oro, kicked off two weekends ago. And what a weekend it was!

We were joined by twenty five people, all whom had deep personal or professional connections to Upper Hutt. We couldn’t have done this without support …