Putake or Purpose incorporates the concepts of ‘kaitiakitanga‘ (guardianship and care-taking of our natural resources), ‘manaakitanga’ (hospitality), and ‘whanaungatanga’ (family).
At Kakapo Creek, we are all about these purposes. As a quadruple-bottom-line company, everything we do is designed to support our children, their families, our community, and our environment.
And this isn’t just a cliche. We really mean it. That’s why Kakapo Creek will never be just about profit! We take seriously our Purpose and responsibility to create a genuine ‘families first’ approach where quality is never compromised for profit.
Our commitment to ethical practices is unwavering. In addition to our family-focused, researched based children’s garden, we donate a minimum of 10% of each year’s profit to supporting families, children and our environment in both New Zealand and around the world, including sponsoring impoverished families in Rwanda, the endangered native Kakapo and our own local community through community workshops and education. We even provide plant-based, organic, wholegrain foods in our centre to help our environment. Our putake is broad and ethical and is foundational to everything we do.
Read about four specific ways we support our wider community below.
We love to celebrate together. We realise that families these days are often small, fragmented or live a distance away from relatives and close friends. So at Kakapo Creek we build regular celebrations and together times into our annual calendar to help parents get to know each other and to form bonds of friendship, connection and socialisation. $1 per week per child is our budget for these events – and our gifted, talented and enthusiastic staff do amazing things to make these events very special.
We directly sponsor the education of students in developing countries through the charity Lighthouse Orphan Foundation. Ian and Kaye founded this charity over twenty years ago, and they have directly helped over 70 children in two countries (Russia and Rwanda) finish high school and complete tertiary education. These students are funded directly and given financial and material support to enable them to gain tertiary qualifications and escape from poverty.
As Meridian Energy customers, we are partnering with them to support the breeding and repopulation of the critically endangered Kakapo Bird—an endemic flightless, nocturnal parrot found only in a few remote places in NZ. We are gold sponsors of the Kakapo Recovery program led by the Department of Conservation.
Each year we ‘adopt’ Kakapo to add to our Kakapo tree and we fundraise through our farm school fruit and vegetable garden.
We provide workshops for parents to our Kakapo Creek parents and our wider community. These workshops are professionally presented and based on evidence-based attachment theory, neuroscience, and developmental psychology. They are not only transformational but also fun and engaging. We offer parent support in other ways.
Privately owned and operated by Ian & Kaye McKean, Kakapo Creek is designed using the very best evidence based family research, incorporating attachment theory and neuroscience.
09 410 2181
Monday – Friday
7:30am – 5:30pm
409 – 411 Beach Rd,
Mairangi Bay, Auckland, New Zealand
