The EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association), and Poutama will continue to deliver the 12-month ‘Poutama Tangata’ group coaching programme in the new year to small & medium sized Māori businesses (SMEs) across Aotearoa. The programme is FREE and available to Māori SMEs seeking guidance with their ‘people’ needs and requirements: Focusing on tools and techniques [...]
Our Poutama office will be closed from 12pm, 23 December 2021 to 9 January 2022. We will reopen and be available to respond to all enquiries from Monday 10 January 2022.
You are invited to a webinar about employment law changes relating to mandatory vaccination requirements for employees, under the COVID-19 Protection Framework (the traffic light system). You can register to attend one of the following webinars via the relevant link below. Each webinar covers the same content; you will only need to register for one: [...]
A central resource for COVID-19 business information with updates and guidance to help businesses covering: Operating at Red, Omicron (testing and returning to work) and Wellbeing Support (tools, tips and resources) can be found here. Types of financial support still available to businesses include: Small Business Cashflow Loans Scheme Self-isolating & unable to work from [...]
A reminder, the EMA (Employers and Manufacturers Association), and Poutama are delivering the 12-month ‘Poutama Tangata’ group coaching programme for small & medium sized Māori businesses (SMEs) across Aotearoa. COVID-19 has identified a growing need for Māori SMEs to have good access to quality ‘people’ expertise and advice. This HR coaching programme is suited for [...]
Poutama is supporting Activate Tāmaki Makaurau (ATM). ATM connects Tāmaki Makaurau-based pakihi with relevant business support given the impact of the COVID-19 environment for pakihi based in these regions. Some of the support includes: Business Advice Grant (up to $3k) Implementation Grant Poutama is directly supporting this so pakihi Māori could potentially access more funding [...]
This Christmas, we’re proud to support Māori-owned and operated pakihi and encourage everyone to buy Māori made gifts. We have collated a gift guide to help you with your Christmas gift shopping here. If you are interested in purchasing an item that’s not on a list, but in a gift category you think we may [...]
Our partner, Māori Women’s Development Inc, are excited to announce that nominations for the Awards have been extended till the end of January 2022. These awards are in celebration of Pakihi Māori/Māori business. Pakihi can be nominated for a rohe/regional award, as well as a business excellence award in one of the following categories: Business Collaboration [...]
This timely documentary by Amotai features pakihi/business owners in Tāmaki Makaurau who talk about their challenges over the last three months and the resilience it’s taken to get this far. The Documentary was directed and produced by The Hood & Co, a Poutama supported business, and includes stories from several businesses that Poutama has supported, [...]
Our partner, the MacDiarmid Institute is offering scholarships via its Discovery Scholarship Programme to Māori wanting to study science at University – up to $12k is available per student for 2022 academic study. Applications close 10 December 2021. More information can be found here.
