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Celebrating creativity, learning and diversity
A service for adults with a disability based in Te Puke &
Tauranga
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Our Trustees
Shelley Payne
(Chairperson)
I have been a member of the Arohanui Art and Education Trust
Board of Trustees since its inception and am presently
serving as Chairperson for the Board. I have been involved
in a volunteer role with disability services for a number of
years. Our family have lived in Tauranga for eighteen years
and our four children have completed their secondary
education here. My husband and I are hotel company
directors. Our son, who is 27 years old, attended Kaka
Street Special School in Tauranga until the Arohanui Art and
Education Studio was opened in Te Puke in 2001. He has
multiple disabilities and has flourished in this more
intimate environment of friends and tutors with an
individualised programme. |
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Jenny Hutchings (Secretary)
Jenny was the initiator of Arohanui Art and Education Trust,
bringing together the initial Trustees, and is enormously
proud of the achievements of the Trust and Arohanui as a
unique organisation offering real choice to people with
disability. Past Chairperson, currently Secretary of the
Trust, and mother of three with her eldest daughter an
Arohanui Client. Jenny has served on the board of the Mount
Maunganui IHC and volunteered in SAMs reviews. |
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Paul
Hickson (Treasurer)
Paul Hickson, Chartered Accountant, with an office at his family
farm, Century Farm, Pongakawa, Te Puke. Trustee of
Arohanui since inception. Also a director of Bay of Plenty
Cricket and several private companies. Interested in success
of Arohanui as his late mother, Jean, was involved with the
former IHC Centre in Te Puke.
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Dr Candy Cookson-Cox
Dr. Candy Cookson Cox of Te Arawa/Ngai Tahu descent has been
involved in the health and education sector for over 30
years. She has held senior positions in both sectors in New
Zealand and overseas. Currently she is the Director of Ua-Cox
Consulting Ltd, a company involved in audit and evaluation
of service organisations and has recently been appointed as
the Lakes District Health Board Child and Youth Mortality
Review Co-ordinator. Candy has a child with special needs
and is very committed to ensuring that children and adults
with special needs are treated with the dignity, respect,
compassion and consideration that they deserve and further,
that this philosophy can be seen to be evident through-out
their life time. |
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Therese Thorn BE(Hons)
Therese has worked with TrustPower for over 15years. She
joined a small regional Power Board with 75GWHs of
generation and 40,000 customers. TrustPower has become a
3000GWHs generator with over 200,000 customers across NZ. A
TrustPower Divisional Manager, Therese runs the Electricity
and Carbon Trading functions and is responsible for the
purchase and trading of electricity for the TrustPower
retail base. Therese has lived in Tauranga for over 25
years. She has three adult children, Lexi a web architect
working in the UK, Rhea just completed a nursing degree in
Hamilton and Aric who is at University studying Electrical
Engineering.
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