Youth Hubs
Our Youth Hubs provide a space for rangatahi to hang out, relax, play, and connect with each other and our trained youth workers! Unstructured play is at an all-time low, so we’re enabling our youth to get imaginative together and detach from productivity.
The youth hubs are run at Evans Bay Intermediate School (EBIS), Rongotai College, Onslow College and right here at BGI.
BGI Youth Hub:
Our drop-in space for young people offering table tennis tournaments, gaming on the Playstation 5, youth worker led games and most importantly, snacks! We can also help to create or refine CVs, catch up on any study, provide access to arts and crafts including painting, carving, making music, Lego, and we even have a cricut machine. If you’ve got your Wednesday afternoons free, come get amongst!
Sessions are youth-led, meaning those who come along can guide conversation and activities to suit their interests and energy levels. Some weeks that might look like a Taonga Pūoro workshop, other times it may be cooking or baking, gardening in the māra kai, or just chilling and chatting. Our BGI Youth Hub is all about fostering whanaungatanga at BGI – connecting rangatahi from our programmes and from the wider community with each other. It’s also about keeping intergenerational knowledge alive.
When: 4:00-6:00pm every second Wednesday
Where: BGI, 3 MacDonald Cres, Te Aro, Wellington 6011
Evans Bay Intermediate School Youth Hub:
When: Lunch every Monday and Wednesday (12:30-1:20pm)
Where: Evans Bay Intermediate School
Onslow College Youth Hub:
Grow Your Place was a kaupapa that proved to be a powerful way for rangatahi to connect with identity through a te ao Māori lens while offering a different type of learning outside the usual school curriculum. Building on that success, we’re creating a Youth Hub inside the kura. A calm, welcoming space where students can reset, connect, and get the awhi they need to feel confident in their learning and wellbeing.
The hub will be facilitated by Mikaere Hiroti and Ocean Samuels, who will check in with rangatahi each week, build strong relationships, and offer steady support for those who might be feeling disconnected or needing a bit of extra encouragement to stay on track.
Kai is a big part of how the hub works. Sharing food creates connection and makes it easier for rangatahi to open up, have a kōrero, and feel comfortable in the space.
Alongside academic support, the hub brings in mātauranga Māori and creative activities similar to Grow Your Place. These sessions help keep students engaged, spark new interests, and strengthen their sense of identity. Throughout the term, manuhiri will visit to share stories, knowledge, and creative practices, giving rangatahi access to inspiration from different corners of te ao Māori. The hub is open to all Year 9–13 students, with a particular focus on those who would benefit from extra encouragement around attendance, learning, confidence, and building strong connections with trusted adults
When: Interval and Lunch every Tuesday & every Friday (11:15-11:45am, 11:30-12:00pm and 1:15-1:55pm)
Where: Onslow College
Rongotai College Youth Hub:
When: Interval and Lunch every Tuesday & Thursday (11:10-11:35am and 1:35-2:20pm)
Where: Rongotai College
