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AIA Vitality NZ Announces the Winners of our AIA Vitality Business And Community Grants Initiative.

Our dream is to champion New Zealand to be one of the healthiest and best protected nations in the world.

That's why we're excited to announce the winners of our new AIA Vitality Business and Community Grants initiative.

This initiative has been designed to help financial advisers make a difference in local neighbourhoods and highlight the importance of health, wellbeing and overall financial resilience to New Zealand.

Through a competitive application process, ten winners have been selected to receive up to $50,000 towards inspiring programmes that make a positive difference to the health and wellbeing of local communities.

We’re pleased to announce that the ten winners are:

The Adviser Platform in partnership with BBT, nationwide: country-wide campaign targeted at tradies and focusing on health and safety.

Kim du Chateau and It’s All Sorted, Auckland: development of an online app for Sisters United, providing a ‘one stop shop’ digital platform for young women with resources, workshops and a safe, engaging place for youth to build resiliency and positive wellbeing.

Alan Leuluai and Leuluai Financial, Auckland: a 12-week fitness programme targeted at Māori and Pasifika communities including discounted memberships and training support.

Leelee Li and her team from Millennium Insurance Group, Hamilton: seminars on depression, diabetes and exercise awareness focused on Hamilton’s Asian community.

Simon Gower and Millenium Insurance Group, Hamilton: facilitating learn to swim programmes in low decile schools in Hamilton.

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Hurford Parker Financial Services, Hawke’s Bay: activation at Hawke’s Bay A&P Show to promote mental health awareness.

Lance Parker-Wadham from Parka Insurances, lower North Island: championing men’s mental health through a series of events at local venues in partnership with community clubs and motivational speakers.

Thrive, Manawatu: pathway programme promoting healthy living and wellbeing in the local agricultural community.

Dean Logan from Logan Smythe and Associates, Canterbury: science-backed mindfulness and wellbeing courses to improve community mental, emotional and physical wellbeing in conjunction with Community Wellbeing North Canterbury and Mindfulness North Canterbury.

Joel Mclachlan from Advice Kiwi, Canterbury: establishing a Menzshed in the Waimakariri District to support men’s mental health through providing a place for men to foster friendships and give back to the community.

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At The Kindness Institute, our vision is for every young person to have the skills to overcome challenges, improve their wellbeing and live a meaningful life. 💚 Our ATAWHAI program is designed to, and effectively delivers on giving our rangatahi the tools they need to manage stress and improve their mental health and resilience. Tools needed now - more than ever. 💚 We are applying for urgently needed funding to ensure ongoing support of our rangatahi and the wider community. This is why we’re applying for the incredible initiative #aiahealthynz - run by AIA. 💚 Aiming to improve the health and wellbeing for all Aotearoa, together.

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Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi With your food basket, and my food basket, the people will thrive 🥬🍏🥦🍠🥔🍋🍊🍑🍓🍅 Our Vision: 🌱To regenerate health and wellbeing through a city-based community garden hub 🌱To support connection with the land and the people, centred around regenerative community gardening, with the goal of improving whānau (family health), tinana (physical health), hinengaro (mental health), wairua (spiritual health) 🌱To improve food security and actively engage with those most vulnerable in our community 🌱To do all of the above supporting environmental sustainability We are a group of health professionals who want to create a new type of social prescription in the form of a Garden Prescription. For this prescription, we need support to develop a fit for purpose free community garden where we can engage with those wanting to learn how to grow their own nutritious food and demonstrate what a sustainable edible garden can look like. 🌳 We will grow food together, connect, support, and learn together. Those referred to the Garden Prescription will be supported by a variety of health professionals such doctors, dieticians, rongoā Māori healers, health promotion coaches, social workers, gardeners, psychologists and counsellors. 🌳 Anyone visiting the garden will leave with something: kai to fill their pantry and regenerate their physical health, connection to a community to nourish their soul and regenerate their emotional health, a new skill to grow healthy kai of their own in whatever land they have available, and information to help regenerate their environment. Ngā Mihi, The Taranaki Garden Prescription Crew 🌱 @aiavitalitynz #aiahealthynz #socialprecribing #communitygardening #TeWhareTapaWha #foodsecurity #taranaki #community #wellbeing #regenerativegardening @sustainabletaranaki #taranakigardenprescription Big thanks to @joneshadyn for filming our video

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Dedication to suicide prevention has been Lifeline Aotearoa’s mission for over half a century. ⁣ ⁣ Our awesome Lifeline staff and volunteers have ensured that there is always someone to turn to - someone who will listen - when people are in distress. Our work saves lives.⁣ ⁣ During the COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve experienced our largest call and text volumes ever as people try to deal with loneliness, fear and the many effects of social isolation. ⁣ ⁣ We know how tough it is to live with uncertainty and Lifeline’s approach is needed now more than ever.⁣ ⁣ We would love to be able to join together with the @aiavitalitynz Business & Community Grant initiative so Lifeline Aotearoa can continue to keep giving back to communities in New Zealand. ⁣ ⁣ #aiahealthynz @aiavitalitynz

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Our mission is to raise funds to offer evidence based supervised exercise rehabilitation for cancer patients. 🎗️⠀ ⠀ Cancer treatment is brutal and cancer patients are often just not fit and strong enough to survive treatment.⠀ ⠀ Strong scientific evidence exists that exercise treatment does not only make a significant difference but are actually essential for cancer patients.⠀ ⠀ Medical and ACSM guidelines stipulate that cancer exercise rehab needs to be managed and supervised by accredited exercise rehabilitation specialist (e.g., registered clinical exercise physiologists).⠀ ⠀ Currently, no funded exercise rehabilitation service exists for cancer patients in the Manawatu. Which is why we as a registered clinical exercise physiology clinic applied for an #aiahealthyynz grant with AIA.⠀ ⠀ #aiahealthynz ⠀ ⠀ http://www.orakinetics.co.nz

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We strive to support anyone find sport and recreation opportunities!! 🤩Here’s some snaps from our inclusive Junior programmes 🙌 #aiahealthynz

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We are looking to support the New Zealand community that struggle with Dyslexia as adults. Providing awareness, tools + support 🤙 We would love @aiavitalitynz ‘s support to make a difference to this large portion of the population. #aiahealthynz #auckland #newzealand

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We are big believers in the power of mentoring to help improve the well-being of young people in our community. CYC is excited to be teaming up with Youth in Transition to set up a youth mentoring program on the Coast. Coast mentoring will connect young Coasties with an adult Coastie mentor - someone who will be a helpful guide, friend and positive role model. We believe that together as a community, we could support, encourage and equip our young people to step into a brighter and healthier future! _ How would we use AIA's Community $50,000 grant? We know that there is a big demand for mentoring in our community, with many young people struggling with mental health issues, life skills, education and a lack of positive role models. This grant would enable us to support more young people in our community to participate in our programme. This involves connecting a young person with a mentor for the period of 12 months, mentor training and supporting mentor relationship activities that increase self-confidence and help the young person develop new skills. #aiahealthynz #coastiesmentoringcoasties

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Making a stand against our whanau dying too young from preventable causes: diabetes and heart disease and empower them with knowledge to enable this positive change (Huringa Pai). Group fitness, swimming, cycling, running, mountaineering, diet coaching and so much more - Huringa Pai Charitable Trust removing barriers to good health! #aiahealthynz #964movewhanauheart #964ngauefamililoto

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Is to support more of our youth with mindset tools and to educate them about recovery pre and post fitness. Sadly those that need it the most have obstacles. ♦️With 10-20% of adolescents experiencing mental disorders worldwide ♦️ half of mental illness starting at aged 14 our younger generation need more support than ever. Which is why I have applied for #aiahealthynz grant with AIA. It would be an amazing position to be in to be able to have this support in our community!! ♥️♦️♥️♦️♥️♦️♥️♦️ @aiavitalitynz ♦️

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Delivering education in schools to increase the importance of health and wellbeing for our tamariki 👩‍🏫 swipe right to find our more about what we do in the Counties Manukau region. #aiahealthynz @aiavitalitynz

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Help men and families have safer, happier, and healthier relationships. . NO Excuses is Shine’s stopping violence programme that helps men: 👉understand their behaviour, its impact, and how they can heal 👉learn new skills to overcome challenges and deal with emotions 👉change their lives and be better men . We want to help men who want to change but can’t afford to do the programme. . The NO Excuses programme is free if referred by courts or probation, but there are men who know they have a problem and want to change BEFORE they harm their partner or end up in court. There is already so much stigma attached to stepping forwards and the cost adds another obstacle. By funding scholarships for men who want to change, we can make New Zealand a safer and healthier place for men, women, children and families. . Together with an awesome @aiavitalitynz Business & Community Grant, we can help kiwis live healthier, longer, better lives and end family violence in Aotearoa/New Zealand! . . . #aiahealthynz @aiavitalitynz #shinenz #enddomesticviolence #endfamilyviolence #community #doinggood

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Lossandgriefcentre#aiahealthynz.

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We received this idea for the Vitality Community Grants initiative from Oke. @oke_charity are all about bringing Kiwis together one garden at a time. What’s your idea? How would you spend $50,000 in your community to promote health and wellbeing?

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AIA Vitality NZ Announces the Winners of our AIA Vitality Business And Community Grants Initiative.

We’re pleased to announce that the ten winners are:

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