Sponsorship opportunities

Yoga for Schools

Yoga for Schools is an 8-week yoga program for Lower Hutt school children delivered by Hutt City Council and Seedling Yoga.

Our tamariki are under pressure from all angles and this programme helps them with develop coping mechanisms and empowers wellbeing. The course combines physical stretches, controlled breathing activities and mindfulness.

The objectives for this programme are to:

• Support and enhance the physical, emotional, and mental well-being of students and teachers
• Encourage students and teachers to use yoga techniques as a tool for managing emotions and behaviour
• Create safe, attentive, supportive and focused classroom environments
• Support positive social interaction and promote respect for self and others
• Introduce yoga as an effective method to enhance the classroom environment
• Use yoga as an activity to improve social, emotional and academic competence

What's available for sponsorship?

We're looking for a corporate sponsor to help us deliver this programme to more schools throughout the Hutt Valley. 

Walter Nash Centre

The Walter Nash Centre is a sports venue, leisure and learning space and a hub for the local Taita community. It was redeveloped in 2015 as a regional sports facility with the addition of 3 new world-class courts.

The Centre comes alive everyday with sports leagues, community meetings and gatherings, library users, and corporate sessions. It is used for a variety of sports including basketball, netball, frisbee, volleyball, floorball, futsal and table tennis. The Centre can also host large events in the main sports hall, like the Hutt Valley Sports Awards which seated 1,100 for the awards dinner. 

What’s available for sponsorship?

Courts 2 and 3 are available for sponsorship (court 1 is currently under contract negotiations). Naming and branding of courtside billboards, centre circles, and back boards are all available for discussion as well as negotiating venue usage, staff engagement opportunities, joining our networks and being included in Council’s family of sponsors.

Naming rights of this facility is also an option, so get in touch if you’d like to explore the options. 

Koraunui Stokes Valley Community Hub

Situated in the northern-most suburb of Lower Hutt, Stokes Valley is home to a purpose built community hub that opened in 2018.  The hub includes the Stokes Valley Library, toy library, Plunket, 12 public computers and 3 bookable meeting rooms. 

What’s available for sponsorship?

Meeting and community spaces:

• Tanekaha - 2 large rooms that open to make 1 multi-purpose space. Up to 80 people per room or 180 if combined.
• Kawakawa - a medium sized room for up to 30 people
• Miro - a medium sized room for up to 25 people
• Kamahi - a small room for up to 12 people

Get in touch for a site tour to see the impact that this hub is making on it’s community.

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