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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. Arohanui has now grown into three
centres which are in Te Puke, Greerton and Fraser Cove, and
provides a rich variety of activities for our clients.
Our family has lived in Tauranga since 1990. We have four
adult children, one of whom, Ryan attended the Arohanui
studio in Te Puke for nine years until he passed away in
2011. Ryan had multiple disabilities and flourished in this
more intimate environment of friends and support staff, and
his individualised day programme kept him engaged and happy.
My husband and I own and direct a hotel business in
Tauranga. I also choose to be involved in a voluntary role
in disability services as we feel very strongly about
advocating for and supporting people with disability to have
a rightful expectation for a good life.
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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. |
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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 20 years and is
shortly to retire. 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 30 years. She has three adult children, Lexi a web
architect working in Australia, Rhea having completed a
psychiatric nursing degree in Hamilton has joined her sister
in Australia and Aric has just headed off on his OE.
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