Flourish Taranaki is a charitable community collaboration focused on making
parenting a little bit easier.

Our Programmes

Walk, stroll, amble or run, with or without your off-road buggy, then sit back and enjoy a coffee at Flourish.

The benefits of nature, exercise, and social connection (and coffee!) for the mental health of a parent are well known and accepted.

The art of board gaming teaches us practical skills, useful lessons, engages our emotions, and challenges our intellect. There's nothing better to create memories, generate traditions, and foster relationships. 

Just when we all think we’re getting the hang of this parenting thing, our toddlers become 5-year-olds going on 13-year-olds and we find ourselves facing a whole set of new challenges! Starting school, navigating friendships and deciding how may hours of screen time are too many hours of screen time?

Walk, stroll, amble or run, with or without your off-road buggy, then sit back and enjoy a coffee at Flourish.

The benefits of nature, exercise, and social connection (and coffee!) for the mental health of a parent are well known and accepted.

You are invited join Renee to connect over sharing of food and learning some sentences and words in Te reo Māori that we can use at home with our children. We will sing some songs, learn some karakia and play some games to support our journey.

The art of board gaming teaches us practical skills, useful lessons, engages our emotions, and challenges our intellect. There's nothing better to create memories, generate traditions, and foster relationships. 

Parenting your toddler or preschooler comes with a surprising amount of unexpected challenges! Sleep deprivation, strong-willed two-year-olds, picky eaters and food flying everywhere!

Flourish Taranaki is proud to launch Te Mama Wellbeing Wednesday sessions in 2023. Come along, and access wellbeing tools, courses, and services from leading local providers in the wellbeing space.

Just when we all think we’re getting the hang of this parenting thing, our toddlers become 5-year-olds going on 13-year-olds and we find ourselves facing a whole set of new challenges! Starting school, navigating friendships and deciding how may hours of screen time are too many hours of screen time?

  We love to meet through games - cubing, chess, 3D design and print, Catan, DnD, Lego, cup stacks Curious kids who love these kinds of games, welcome to come […]

Walk, stroll, amble or run, with or without your off-road buggy, then sit back and enjoy a coffee at Flourish.

The benefits of nature, exercise, and social connection (and coffee!) for the mental health of a parent are well known and accepted.

The art of board gaming teaches us practical skills, useful lessons, engages our emotions, and challenges our intellect. There's nothing better to create memories, generate traditions, and foster relationships. 

Parenting your toddler or preschooler comes with a surprising amount of unexpected challenges! Sleep deprivation, strong-willed two-year-olds, picky eaters and food flying everywhere!

Flourish Taranaki is proud to launch Te Mama Wellbeing Wednesday sessions in 2023. Come along, and access wellbeing tools, courses, and services from leading local providers in the wellbeing space.

Just when we all think we’re getting the hang of this parenting thing, our toddlers become 5-year-olds going on 13-year-olds and we find ourselves facing a whole set of new challenges! Starting school, navigating friendships and deciding how may hours of screen time are too many hours of screen time?

If you are supporting a grandchild on a full-time basis or understand the blessings and challenges that this role brings, we would love to meet with you. We welcome you sharing your experiences – to be seen, heard and celebrated.

Choices in Childbirth classes are intended to be taken in addition to Antenatal Classes.

Active Birth Taranaki Inc. is a group of people passionate in supporting natural birth, working towards a community which is confident in woman’s ability to birth naturally, where woman and their birthing partners experience the power of positive childbirth. We are here to inform and inspire you from our personal birth experiences and knowledge.

Walk, stroll, amble or run, with or without your off-road buggy, then sit back and enjoy a coffee at Flourish.

The benefits of nature, exercise, and social connection (and coffee!) for the mental health of a parent are well known and accepted.

You are invited join Renee to connect over sharing of food and learning some sentences and words in Te reo Māori that we can use at home with our children. We will sing some songs, learn some karakia and play some games to support our journey.

The art of board gaming teaches us practical skills, useful lessons, engages our emotions, and challenges our intellect. There's nothing better to create memories, generate traditions, and foster relationships.