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It incorporates the concepts of ‘kaitiakitanga‘ (guardianship and care-taking of our natural resources) and Manaakitanga (hospitality) and whanaungatanga (family).
We are all about these purposes at Kakapo Creek. 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 responsibility to create a genuine ‘families first’ approach where quality is never compromised for profit.
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.
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.
As customers of Meridian Energy 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. Every year we sponsor and adopt a Kakapo or two in order to support their breeding program.
Workshops for parents are provided to our Kakapo Creek parents as well as our wider community. These workshops are professionally presented and based on evidence based attachment theory, neuroscience and developmental psychology. They are not only transformational, they are fun and engaging as well.
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
