Youthtown

At Youthtown, we create a space where you can be the best version of yourself—on your terms.

Our mission is to empower all young people through positive and powerful connections in the community.

We offer a wide range of programmes nationwide for those aged 5-24. These programmes are built around key principles like promoting life skills, collaboration, and unlocking potential.

Whether it's school holidays, before, during, or after school, we've got it covered! We also host community events, project groups, workshops, youth hubs, camps, and outdoor adventures.

As an MSD-accredited OSCAR provider and OutdoorsMark certified for our EOTC (Education Outside the Classroom) programmes, you can trust that our services are safe, reliable, and designed with care.

Everything we do at Youthtown is designed using our Youthtown Curriculum. It's our guide, filter, inspiration and it's a living thing that grows every time we learn something new!

In everything we do, we are intentional: we plan for outcomes, deliver our programmes for outcomes, and evaluate and review for outcomes.

We operate in a way that is proactive, preventative and powerfully positive. Youthtown's safe practice is guided by the Code of Ethics For Youth Work in Aotearoa New Zealand.

We love the Mana Taiohi framework for those working towards youth development, and we celebrate the journey that the Native American and First Nations Circle of Courage model is undertaking through Lloyd Martin's work on the Pacific-centred "Circle of Mana".