Tay's K's 2025

February 2022, Taylor Kite (TK) - our precious son, brother, cousin, nephew, partner and mate - a young man full of promise, with a beautiful smile and heart, loving and loved by all - died by suicide aged just 22.

In memory of Taylor we created Tay's K's. We are a group of friends and whanau who choose to participate in the annual Whitianga Runfest event as a fundraiser for preventative youth mental health in New Zealand. The choice of event is deliberate as Taylor spent most of his life holidaying at Cooks Beach. He loved the ocean and in particular fishing. He loved life. Until he didn't.

In our first 2 years of participation we raised $26,000. We are returning on 31 May, 2025 to run, walk and remember.

Please help us, in Taylor's name, to help support our young people in New Zealand. Your support can literally save lives. It's easy to think that a tragedy like this only happens to "other people" - until, like us, you become them.

All funds raised will go to Soul Learning Charitable Trust which has been created to fund implementation of the Soul Learning preventative mental health programme (https://www.soullearning.co.nz/) in to lower decile secondary schools throughout New Zealand which need financial support. Soul Learning was founded by Leigh Patuawa who taught our son Taylor at Tauranga Boys' College.