​Ngāti Ranginui Iwi Society Incorporated are now inviting nominations for the position of Deputy Chairperson on our board. All nominations must be received by 4.00pm on Friday, 19 November 2021.

Nomination forms are available from Ngāti Ranginui Iwi Office, 166 Seventeenth Avenue, Tauranga or via email.  All enquiries should be directed to Kylie Heke at kylie.heke@ranginui.co.nz, telephone 07 777 0410

The Ngā Mātarae and Turirangi Te Kani scholarships are again available to tertiary students who are descendants of Tauranga Moana iwi (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Pūkenga). These scholarships are provided through the Port of Tauranga, the Ngā Mātarae Charitable Trust and Tauranga Moana iwi.
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Ngā Mātarae Scholarship
The Trustees of Ngā Mātarae Charitable Trust are pleased to offer the Ngā Mātarae Scholarship Programme.  The Trust is a partnership between the Port of Tauranga and Tauranga Iwi with the primary purpose to promote the wellbeing of Te Awanui Tauranga Harbour.  Applicants intending to undertake study in a discipline that will benefit the wellbeing of the harbour and who are descendants of Tauranga Moana iwi (Ngāti Ranginui, Ngāi Te Rangi and Ngāti Pūkenga) are invited to apply.

Turirangi Te Kani Memorial Scholarship
In recognition of the relationship with the Port of Tauranga and the respect Turirangi Te Kani held within the Tauranga community, a scholarship is offered within the area of the Tauranga Moana Trust Board, the Port of Tauranga is pleased to offer the Te Kani Memorial Scholarship Programme.  Applicants will have affiliation with Tauranga Iwi and will have been resident (but allowing for schooling or University study outside the area) within the Tauranga Moana Trust Board area for the last five years.

Application Eligibility
An Applicant must be able to provide evidence of affiliation with Tauranga Iwi only (Ngāi Te Rangi, or Ngāti Ranganui, or Ngāti Pūkenga) and application eligibility requirements are outlined in the Application.  An eligible application must include a completed Whakapapa Form showing the applicant’s primary line to show primary affiliations.  The scholarship is $1,500 per year with recipients eligible for continued entitlement up to 3 years.  This continued support is conditional on the recipient’s performance during the year and confirmation of plans to continue with the qualifying education in subsequent years.  In the interests of fairness, any current recipient of one scholarship will be ineligible for the other scholarship.

Application Availability
Applications open in November 2021 and close at midday on Monday 31 January 2022.  For more information on how to apply, and to download application forms please follow the link below.

All Enquiries to:
Kylie Heke at kylie.heke@ranginui.co.nz, telephone 07 777 0410
*Subject to Covid restrictions, the AGM may need to be on-line. We will contact to advise should this occur

We are recruiting whānau for our next intake for the Healthy Lifestyle program.

Do you have children aged 5-18 years old who struggle with their weight and need support to improve their health and wellbeing? Do you want to make positive lifestyle changes for your whānau?

We will have fun and interactive healthy lifestyle workshops and resources available to whānau. Every whānau will be allocated up to $500 to support you with your hauora journey over the 12 week program.

If you are interested please contact us for more info and complete the survey in the link below.

Margo Te Mete (Co-ordinator)
Mobile: 022 314 4188
Email: margo.temete@ranginui.co.nz

Krystal Hika (Dietitian)
Mobile: 022 359 7600
Email: krystal.hika@ranginui.co.nz

​With the launch of the Ngāti Ranginui app, 'Te Whare Korokī', the Mauri Ora team invite you to take this opportunity to get your whānau out and about to reconnect with Ngāti Ranginui Iwi marae and incorporate a bit of physical activity along the way. 
The whakataetae starts the day of the Te Whare Korokī app launch (Friday 30th July) and finishes Friday 3rd September, five weeks later. Check out the whakataetae below and see how you might be able to win some wicked iwi merchandise for you and your whānau.

The kaupapa of this challenge is for whānau to be more proactive with their taha tinana, taha whānau, and taha wairua and to enable Ngāti Ranginui uri to reconnect through visiting our marae.
Encourage your whānau members – tamariki, friends, cousins, aunties, uncles, even nan and koro – to join in and take part. On arrival, complete an exercise together in the hope that this could spark some kōrero about your marae and pass on pūkenga one might not know about. If you need some help with kōrero about the marae, simply open your TE WHARE KOROKĪ app!

The Whakataetae is simple:

1. Download Te Whare Koroki app (available 30th July)
2. Using the app, go to 5 Ngāti Ranginui Iwi marae
3. Take someone or group with you (each person counts as one entry)
4. Complete 5 repetitions of any exercise you choose
5. Post a photo/video on the Whakakori Tinana Whakataetae FB event page

VERY IMPORTANT NOTE:
Make sure you write your name and those involved as well as the category they enter. For example: Te Aihe Toma, Tāne.
Categories for entries are:

• Up to 12 = Tamariki
• 13-18 = Taiohi
• 19-54 = Tāne
• 19-54 = Wāhine
• 55+ = Kaumātua

Once we see you have completed 5 marae, the Mauri Ora team will add you and those that were involved into a draw to win some wicked Ngāti Ranginui Iwi merchandise to be announced Friday 3rd September 2021.

E te iwi,
​Hikaka katoa ana Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui ki te whakarewa i tō mātou taupānga “Te Whare Korokī” ā te 30 o Hurae, hei te poupoutanga o te rā. He taupānga tēnei i hangaia e te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui kia ngāwari ake te ako i ngā kōrero me ngā waiata o ia marae. Hei te 30 o Hurae, ka rite te taupānga ki te tiki atu. Ki te hiahia te whakarongo ki ngā kōrero ki ngā waiata rānei, me tae atu ki ngā marae hei tūwhera i te Pataka Kōrero o taua marae. He rautaki tēnei kia hoki atu ngā tangata ki o rātou marae me te ako hoki i wēnei taonga Ranginui, ka kitea!

Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui are excited to launch our app, ‘Te Whare Korokī’ on the Friday 30th July, midday. This app has been created by Te Rūnanga o Ngāti Ranginui to help enable an easier path to learning the korero, and waiata of our marae. The app will be ready to be downloaded on the 30th July. If you want to listen to the kōrero and waiata, you must go to your marae to release the Pātaka Kōrero for that marae. This is a strategy to bring our people back to their marae and learn these taonga.

Through May and June, Mauri Ora are conducting a 6 week cooking competition to see who is our master chief of Tauranga moana. This wero not only brings out the best kai cookers in Tauranga, but allows:

• Manaakitanga through whānau having access to other delicious kai ideas
• Whanaungatanga in the hope that all whānau members help out in the kitchen 

The whakataetae is simple and easy for our whānau to engage in.
They must:

1. Cook a kai for four or more whānau members
2. Kai must be less $50
3. Must include 5 fruit or vegetables
4. Must take less then 60min to cook 

Each week Mauri Ora will randomly select a lucky whānau from the entries who will receive a koha.

At the end of 6th week Mauri Ora will invite two whānau who have participated in the event. They will be invited to a final cook off with special judges Mel Tata, Stephen Wilson (Happy Puku), and Charlie Rahiri. The whanau that wins will be rewarded, but also the whānau that particpates.

For more information on this kaupapa, follow the link below:

As a part of our Te Tai Whanake Ki Tauranga Moana project, we are holding a series of wānanga both as separate hapū and together as iwi.

The hapu wānanga will all be held at the Ngāti Ranginui office board room at 166 17th Ave from 10am to 12.30pm with each hapū meeting on their respective day outlined below.

• Wednesday 21 April – Ngāi Tamarāwaho
• Thursday 22 April – Ngāti Te Wai
• Friday 23 April – Ngāi Te Ahi
• Tuesday 27 April – Ngāti Kahu
• Wednesday 28 April – Te Pirirākau
• Thursday 29 April – Ngāti Ruahine
• Friday 30 April – Ngāti Hangarau

Wānanga for the whole iwi will also be held at the Ngāti Ranginui office board room at 166 17th Ave on the following days and times.

• Friday 23 April – 6.00pm to 8.00pm
• Saturday 24th April – 11.30am to 1.30pm
• Friday 30th April – 6.00pm to 8.00pm

This project looks to create iwi-specific resources for Tauranga moana and these wānanga are part of the Ngāti Ranginui Education Strategy for the Te Tai Whanake Ki Tauranga Moana project. Ngāti Ranginui seek to implement hapū-centric and marae-specific content into this resource project.

The following list guides the format of these wānanga. The purpose being that their inclusion into these proposed resources of Te Tai Whanake ki Tauranga Moana will have Ngāti Ranginui korero stand distinct and in view.

You can register your attendance by messaging us through our Ngāti Ranginui Education Sector Facebook Page or by emailing Yolande at yolande.tipuna@ranginui.co.nz