parnell trust

Parnell Trust is a non-profit community services provider with more than 30 years experience in bringing people in our community together. We operate as a social enterprise with profits generated from the Trust's operations helping to fund a broad range of services to people of all ages in our community. We manage Parnell Community Centre on behalf of Auckland Council and from here we provide Community Classes and Social Activities including the weekly Parnell Farmers Market and monthly Craft Harvest market and Heritage Walks, and Venue Hire of a range of rooms within the Community Centre for community, business and private use. Parnell Trust offers a range of services for parents and children. We have two early childhood education centres in Parnell - Parnell and Gladstone Park Early Childhood Centres, and a third centre in St Johns. Our Programmes for Children operates one of Aucklands largest school holiday programmes and provides after school care programmes in Parnell and Epsom. A new service, KidsHQ SuperMeals, provides parents with a range of frozen meals for children, based on our centres gold award-winning Healthy Heart meals. Parnell Trust primarily interacts with people in the Parnell, Newmarket, Grafton and Central City communities, although or services attract interest from across the greater Auckland region. We have a strong focus on community well being and connectedness, with a particular motivation for providing services and activities that enable people to live richer and fuller lives. These include activities that remove barriers to isolation and others that celebrate our community, and services that assist families to thrive and people of all ages to enjoy lifelong education.