Visionwest Report: Budget Summary 2026
Visionwest responds to Budget 2026, recognising the constraints of a challenging fiscal environment, but centred on the needs of the whānau we serve.
Visionwest Intergenerational Learning Centre Feasibility Study
With the Visionwest Glendale Campus under redevelopment, this report explores the feasibility of an Intergenerational Learning Centre (ILC). It considers contextual factors in order to understand how the ILC concept might work.
Visionwest Report: Christmas From The Heart 2025
For whānau facing the persistent challenges of poverty, Christmas can intensify the fear and whakamā (shame) of not having the means to celebrate. This report captures the impact of this key event and the heart behind our year-round work with whānau.
GoodMeasure Homes Housing First Chronic
In February 2025, Visionwest wanted to better understand their impact and learn how they could do even more good. They partnered with ImpactLab to estimate the social value of their programme.
Visionwest Report: Christmas From the Heart 2024
This report is prepared as an encouragement and inspiration for those involved in Christmas From The Heart 2024, and to highlight the impact a connected community can have in supporting others during challenging times. It provides an overview of Christmas From The Heart 2024 and contains high-level data about whānau receiving Christmas support.
Informing Mauri Tipuranga – Stakeholder Input Report
This report provides a summary of stakeholder input to inform the possible future development of Mauri Tipuranga – a training programme, including tools and a model of practice for youth workers in Aotearoa New Zealand. The report was initiated by Visionwest Community Trust with philanthropic support from SkyCity Community Trust.
Building Financial Capability –
Financial Mentors Report
This report focuses on BFC clients that use Money Mentors, Visionwest’s financial mentoring service. The aim of this report is to gain a better understanding of the needs of Visionwest’s current BFC clients and understand the impact that engaging with Money Mentors has on their financial and overall wellbeing.
Visionwest Report: Christmas From the Heart 2023
In December 2023, Visionwest held its fifth Christmas From The Heart Event giving over 4,000 people a Christmas they might otherwise have missed out on. This report provides an overview of the event with data and insights on poverty in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Visionwest Report: Flood and Cyclone 2023
This report records Visionwest’s response to Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s catastrophic weather events in the first couple of months of 2023. Within hours of the flooding, Visionwest team members were on the ground providing for the needs of those displaced from their homes. Over the coming weeks, Visionwest provided wraparound support for those affected; support which is ongoing and expected to be required for months, perhaps years, to come.
Visionwest Report: Social Supermarket Feasibility
Social supermarkets have been operating for many years internationally, often with a waste minimisation focus and the intention of offering dignity and choice to shoppers. This report was produced as a feasibility study and precursor to Visionwest’s social supermarket.
Research Paper Maintaining Balance for Christian Counsellors
Lisa Woolley’s thesis on Supportive Housing, with a particular emphasis on the Housing First model, remains a vital piece of work in helping to shape the way community housing is provided today.
Visionwest Pae Aronui ImpactLab Report
Throughout our lives, different events occur which impact our overall wellbeing trajectory. This report measures the impact on an individual’s wellbeing across multiple domains when they’re supported by a programme to make positive changes in their life.
Visionwest Report: Budget Response 2023
For the past two years, Visionwest has been invited to be a part of the Budget Day lock-in at Parliament Buildings. This has given us an early look at the contents and enabled us to prepare a response. This is our response to Budget 2023.
Research Paper Housing Choices for Young People
Brook conducted in-depth interviews with several Māori young people to determine what they saw as their preferred, and most likely to succeed housing options.
Food and Financial Hardship Report
Despite impressions that the impacts of COVID are retreating, the latest food security survey by Visionwest shows needs in the third quarter of 2022 have not dropped back to pre-COVID levels.
Research Paper Housing Support Services
Lisa Woolley’s thesis on Supportive Housing, with a particular emphasis on the Housing First model, remains a vital piece of work in helping to shape the way community housing is provided today.
Visionwest Report: Christmas From The Heart 2022
This report provides an overview of the Christmas From The Heart 2022 event and high-level information about whānau who needed support at Christmas, and reveals some of the reasons why that support was necessary.
Lockdown in Waitakere 2021
This report describes the impacts of the Alert Level restrictions (lockdowns) on Visionwest service delivery, for both whānau who access Visionwest services and the wider West Auckland community. The emerging priorities for Visionwest are also identified.
Our Covid Story
In the years 2020 and 2021, Aotearoa New Zealand was twice plunged into prolonged periods of lockdown due to COVID-19. During these times, the needs faced by the most vulnerable in our communities intensified.
Visionwest Whetu Paerangi Report 2020
During the Covid-19 crisis, the most profound impact for New Zealand have been in the areas of health and the economy. As New Zealand adapts to Alert Level 4 of the COVID-19 lockdown, it is important to note that the economic marginalisation due to social exclusion poses an added risk to health, especially of those who are most vulnerable.
Research Paper Whetū Paerangi
Brook conducted in-depth interviews with several Māori young people to determine what they saw as their preferred, and most likely to succeed housing options.