Helping Hands Supported Employment

Helping Hands is a supported work agency that provides paid employment to clients as a step towards gaining more permanent work. Its purpose is to enhance the quality of life and independence of people through vocational rehabilitation.

The key focus of the successful, demand-proven Helping Hands business is to provide supervised opportunities for assessment, skills training and self-development within day-to-day work regimes.
Helping Hands secures much of its work through local ‘Trades and Services’ advertising and offers mowing, line trimming, gardening, landscaping, painting, cleaning maintenance work and small building jobs.

Our name

Te Whare Mahana means ‘The Warm House’ in Maori.

Who was Ann Castle?

Castle Place is named after Ann Castle (1926-1999), a founder member of the Te Whare Mahana Trust and Chairperson of its advisory Board for five years. Originally a nurse, then a teacher, she moved to Golden Bay in 1980 and became well respected for involvement in social and health issues, strongly supporting many causes as a GB Community Board member.