The Southern Initiative

The Southern Initiative team champions and enables social innovation. In practice this calls for experimenting, learning and delivering what it takes to assist real socio-economic transformation. TSI is dedicated to supporting South Auckland to be a prosperous, resilient place where children and whanau thrive. The Southern Initiative is focussed on key projects which will produce high-quality results and have the most impact for enduring change - employment and skills, entrepreneurship and enterprise and families and whanau. Its three pronged vision statement for South Auckland is: Children and young people in South Auckland have the best start in life South Aucklanders have access to meaningful, high value jobs and are expertly equipped with the work skills needed for the future South Auckland is recognised as the social enterprise capital of New Zealand and a highly successful leader in community-led economic development. Our work Shared Prosperity Demonstrating inclusive,...