Taimahi Trust

On-the-job training and development for young adults with learning and intellectual disabilities.

Whangarei, Northland

Taimahi Trust is changing lives by walking alongside people with learning and intellectual disabilities, growing their self-determination, teaching them how to work and changing mindsets about disability.

Want to stand with Taimahi Trust and our trainees. Have some dollars that you’d love to put towards a great cause? We currently have 28 trainees growing and developing their work and social skills through our job training program, and making great progress. Your support can help them continue to flourish and shine. Make a donation today!

We envision a future where there are meaningful, diverse and genuine opportunities for young adults with learning and intellectual disabilities to thrive within the community. Donate today to help realise this vision.

More about us

Taimahi Trust is the brainchild of two mothers of sons with intellectual disabilities – our co-founders Rachel Hill and Alison Faithfull. Frustrated at the lack of training and employment opportunities for their highly capable children, these women embarked on a hugely rewarding but challenging path to do better for young people with intellectual and learning disabilities in Whangarei.

From the coffee cart beginnings, we now have a range of employment training programs for our trainees, including our retail shop, commercial kitchen, herbarium, barista and own brand coffee, and operations administration.