Wellington City
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Overview
Life Education Trust Wellington City has been successfully delivering the Life Education programme to children throughout Te Whanganui-a-tara/Poneke since 1990. This has given us a proud history in the community and helped our programmes to become respected in the education sector.
Being a health resource, Life Education takes children on a journey through five subject strands; identity and resilience, food and nutrition, human biology, relationships and substances. Exploring these strands helps them to understand the wonder of their own bodies, and how best to take care of them. Since Covid, we have also been working with a particular emphasis on building students resilience.
In order to keep the costs to schools as low as possible, the Trust relies on donations and grants received to continue to deliver our service to the children of Wellington City through our highly skilled educator, and modern learning environment – the mobile classroom.
If you require more information on how we can work with you and your school, or would like to find out how you can support our trust please get in touch!
Our Educator
Kyra Basabas
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Kyra grew up in the Northern Suburbs of Wellington and now lives on the beautiful Kāpiti Coast- although she is a Johnsonville girl at heart! Kyra completed her secondary schooling at Newlands College and received her BA/Bteach from Victoria University. Kyra enjoys singing, dancing and involving herself in local musical theatre productions. She is excited to bring her enthusiasm for health and education to the Wellington City whānau. Kyra loves the opportunity to work with school communities - sharing unique experiences from the mobile classroom and supporting teachers to further embed hauora into their teaching and learning programmes. She truly values whanaungatanga and seeks to build relationships and learning opportunities that inspire positive change. |
Our Region
From Khandallah to Seatoun
Our vehicle
We’re incredibly lucky to have been donated a car by Rutherford & Bond and King Toyota. This is used by our educator so that she can get to the classroom (and Harold) every day. We cannot thank Rutherford & Bond and King Toyota for their generous donation, as it makes a world of difference for our educator.
Our Charity Luncheon
In 2023 and 2024 Life Education Trust Wellington City held a charity luncheon to raise funds to support our work with Wellington tamariki and schools, and to purchase a ramp for our mobile classroom.
This wonderful event includes guest speakers, food and drinks, music, a charity auction and lots of laughter.
We are incredibly grateful for the support of our community, with about $40,000 raised each year which goes toward supporting the health and wellbeing education of thousands of children in the Wellington City region.
Our Team
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Sarah Churstain – Chairperson Sarah is a partner of Ford Sumner Lawyers, specialising in commercial and corporate law. Sarah has been involved with the Life Education Trust (Wellington City) since 2020. During this time, Sarah has been a trustee and supported the Trust from a governance and legal expertise perspective. Having had the benefit of the Life Education learning experience as a primary school student in rural Waikato, Sarah appreciates the invaluable education and life skills Life Education offers our tamariki. |
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Michelle Dow - Trustee Michelle was previously an Educator for the trust for 7 years, before moving to Life Education Trust NZ as Education Support Manager. She joined as a trustee to help the trust working with our Wellington City schools and tamariki. Having taught in schools, both as a class teacher and as an Educator for Life Ed, Michelle has seen first-hand the amazing impact we can have to support schools with their health teaching. |
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Helen Pinson – Trustee Helen has been a Trustee since 2019. She supports Life Education Trust because of the great work they do developing and delivering excellent health education programmes in our schools. |
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Stuart Darvill – Trustee Details coming soon... |
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Lauren Taylor – Trustee Lauren is currently working in administration at Hudson Taylor and had the opportunity to be taught by Harold (and our lovely educators) at both primary and secondary school. Lauren has been a trustee of the Wellington City trust since late 2018 and is really enjoying it. Life Education is incredibly important for tamariki in New Zealand, and she is proud to be able to help. |
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Paige Jardine – Trustee Paige works at Forsyth Barr and is registered as a financial adviser, is accredited as an NZX Adviser and holds a New Zealand Certificate in Financial services. She has 11 years of experience in the financial services sector managing and building clients wealth for the long-term. |
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Joanna Simpson – Trustee Joanna, a former secondary school teacher, has been a real estate agent at Tommy’s since 2008. She is also a mother and grandmother and believes strongly in Life Education Trust’s mission. She is thrilled to be helping educate and support tamariki in Wellington. |
Proudly Supported By
The Life Education Trust, Wellington City, would like to thank Tommy’s, Rutherford & Bond and King Toyota, and Trade Me Property for their continuous and generous support of our trust. It’s incredibly important and we are so grateful.
Current Local Donations/Services
Grants
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Service Providers
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Harold Club
Life Education is the largest, independent provider of health and wellbeing education for primary and intermediate children in New Zealand.
Making the decision to contribute to Life Education Trust Wellington City will mean that we can continue to deliver a high-quality health and wellbeing programme to support our local schools, where children learn in a fun and unique environment to empower them with the knowledge and confidence to make healthy decisions.
We do not receive any government funding and rely solely on grants and local fundraising, plus a small contribution from the schools, to cover the costs associated with our programme delivery.
By joining the Harold Club, you will become part of a caring group of people who are invested in building the future of children and the community. We will recognise your support by advertising you on our Wellington City website, you will receive a ‘Harold’ Toy, you will be invited to an annual Harold Club event, and you will have our permission to advertise on your own social media that you are a supporter of our Trust.
To discuss membership opportunities, please contact our Trust Chair, Todrick Taylor, for a confidential discussion.
(Life Education Trust Wellington City is a registered charity CC22384.)
Contact Details
Chairperson: Sarah Churstain, [email protected]
Educator: Kyra Basabas, [email protected] 021 658 235
General Enquiries: Lauren Taylor, [email protected]
Instagram: @lifeedwellingtoncity
