Apply for Funding

Click on one of the links below to find out how you can apply for funding from the BOPDHB to improve nutrition and physical activity within your community group, health organisation, hauora, school, playgroup or marae.

Funding for projects may include: community gardens, cooking demonstrations, nutrition education, cuisine courses, targeted exercise etc.

Community Education courses
Maori community funding

click here to view some of projects which have already been funded

Community Education

Community groups, health organisations and Hauora wishing to improve nutrition and physical activity can request the support of the HEHA Community Educator,

Stephen’s role focuses on improving the nutrition and physical activity environment within the community by delivering interactive health education programmes. This may be through providing presentations or healthy nutrition cooking classes.

The goals of the programme are to provide:

• Good simple nutrition education
• Cost effective meal planning advice (working with a limited budget)
• Simple healthy cooking techniques
• Maintaining the essence of Maori kai preparation with a focus on good nutrition
• Interactive cooking classes with hands-on learning
• A fun and empowering environment

Healthy cooking classes

The five key elements of the healthy cooking classes are:

1. Giving the group an understanding about the three types of fats and importance of avoiding the animal fats (bad fats)
2. Giving the group an understanding about the importance of good amounts of kai moana in the diet which is high in omega 3, the good fat (oily fish, eel, mussels)
3. Education about high sugary drinks and ways to avoid excess of these drinks
4. The importance of fruits and vegetables and how they are high in vitamins, minerals and fibre
5. Providing a healthy cooking education class with tasty and nutritional ways to cook meats and vegetables

The Marae setting is the perfect place for these healthy cooking classes due to the familiar environment, location and cooking facilities. Twenty participants is a good number for these classes however higher numbers are not a problem, with assistance from facilitators.

Stephen can be contacted on:
Phone: 07 579 8285
Email: stephen.cameron@bopdhb.govt.nz

Click here to download the Healthy Cooking and Nutrition booklet filled with nutrition ideas and copies of all the recipes below

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Maori Community Action Projects Funding

Key priorities that the BOPDHB is keen to achieve include:

• increase physical activity
• improve fruit and vegetable consumption
• increase the amount of women breastfeeding and the duration they are breastfeeding for

Maori Community Action Projects Funding

• Hapu/Whanau-led and Maori community focused groups based in and around marae, Kohanga Reo and Hauora, have received funding to implement Maori Community Action Projects throughout the Bay of Plenty region These projects are led and run by Maori communities, to improve and increase physical activity and nutrition
• Projects range from marae-based communal gardens or maara kai; a comprehensive hapu-owned Food Forest based on permaculture principles; physical exercise classes and nutrition workshops for Kaumatua; marae-based cooking demonstrations in collaboration with the local branch of the Maori Womens Welfare League, new physical exercise resources for Kohanga Reo and many more
• Workforce development training has been provided by the DHB to support and facilitate training needs e.g. evaluation skills, traditional Maori Games skills and Maara Kai skills

To apply for funding, contact Cynthia Turuwhenua on 07 579 8555 or email on 07 579 8555 or email cynthia.turuwhenua@bopdhb.govt.nz

EBOP Breastfeeding Awareness Fund

The aim of the EBOP Breastfeeding Awareness Funding is to increase the amount of women breastfeeding and the duration they are breastfeeding for.

HEHA EBOP Breastfeeding Awareness Funding is now open. Closing date Friday 26th March 2010, 5.00pm.

Click here to download the application form