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Activity Centre, Taranaki

Aims: To support students in behaviour change in order to return to mainstream schooling.

Adult Literacy Services, Taranaki

Aims: To improve literacy and numeracy skills of adults in Taranaki.

AFS Taranaki

Aims: Intercultural student exchange.

Agriculture Ito

Aims: To manage and co-ordinate agriculture training for people employed in agricultural industries. All qualifications/training available is registered on the National Qualification Framework with NZQA.

Alpha Training & Development Centre

Aims: Training in boat building, engineering, and welding.

Astronomical Society, New Plymouth

Aims: Sharing of knowledge and interest in all astronomical matters for education and entertainment.

Auroa Centre

Aims: We are a team of professional counsellors/educators committed to providing a quality service. Our aim is to help clients to be in charge of their change and growth.

Boys' High School, New Plymouth

Aims: To provide guidance and counselling for all students and caregivers in educational, social, family and vocational areas of concern.

Christian Women Communicating International

Aims: Christian teaching for women.

Coastguard Taranaki

Aims: To provide boating safety services, education and support to the boating public. Maintain efficient, professional response search and rescue capabilities. Provide a trip report and breakdown service within advertised hours of service.

In an emergency the public must call 111.

Communities Kindergarten, Opunake

Aims: We are an early childhood centre who cater for children aged from one to five years. In 2009 we moved to a new purpose built centre.

CPS (Institute for Child Protection Studies)

Aims: To make New Zealand the safest place in the world for children by empowering adults to keep them safe. We provide child protection training to achieve this.

Devon Kindergarten

Aims: Pre-school education. Children learn through play. Teachers provide stimulation, guidance, encouragement and support in an attractive environment. All teachers trained. Child age range three to five years.

Dyslexia HELP

Aims: To provide dyslexia support to children and adults using the Davis Dyslexia Correction Programme.

Educare Training Trust, Taranaki

Aims: Specialists in free training for Teacher Aides and Early Childhood Educators. 

Education Taranaki

Aims: We are a regionally focused education group undertaking research and projects which enhance the targeting of education in our region. Recent projects include the Lion Foundation Young Enterprise Scheme, Taranaki Careers website and researching the potential of a Taranaki Trades Academy.

EF Foundation

Aims: A non-profit organisation dedicated to encouraging cultural awareness through international education and exchange. We bring students from over 26 different countries into New Zealand to experience a year abroad. If you would like to host a student, call us today.

English Language Partners Taranaki

Aims: We provide free one-to-one and group assistance for immigrants (with non-English speaking backgrounds) with language and social skills that will enable them to function effectively within the community.

Environment Centre, Taranaki

Aims: Promote a sustainable Taranaki through a range of services, providing and supporting education and information about sustainability, demonstration and practical examples of sustainable design, research and development of appropriate technology and networking within the Taranaki bioregion and beyond.

Environmental Education Trust, Taranaki

Aims: Promote a sustainable future - a permaculture.

Ex Royal Naval Men Association, Taranaki Branch

Aims: A community service for naval personnel and their families.

FEATS, Taranaki

Aims: An adult learning centre creating flexible solutions for the needs of local people. We offer training for employment. All training offers units towards national certificates and on-the-job training is included.

Francis Douglas Memorial College

Aims: Integrated Catholic Boys' Seconday School years 7-13. (La Salle House Boarding Hostel years 9-13.)

Geosciences Society Of New Zealand Taranaki Branch

Geosciences Society of New Zealand (GSNZ) aims to encourage interest in geology.

Meet at New Plymouth Girls' High School science lab room N2 on the first Monday of each month.

Hawera High School

Aims: To provide education, personal counselling and guidance to high school students and their parents and caregivers.

Hawera Intermediate School

Aims: Year seven and eight education.

To provide quality learning for emerging adolescent students.

Inglewood Playcentre

Aims: The Inglewood Playcentre is a parent cooperative that provides early childhood education for children from birth to six years old.

Parents learn through participation. Inglewood Playcentre invites you to enjoy your first three sessions free. Our session times are Monday and Thursday 9.00am to midday.

Kindergarten Association, North Taranaki

Aims: Provides quality early childhood education for children aged three to five years.

Kindergarten Pohutukawa, Bell Block

Aims: A large variety of curriculum (Te Whariki) activities are provided for three to five-year-olds by trained, registered teachers, encouraging children to learn through play.

Kindergarten, Brooklands

Aims: Activities offered at kindergarten encourage children to learn through play. Teachers provide stimulation, guidance, encouragement and support in an attractive environment.

Kindergarten, Inglewood

Aims: To provide quality early childhood education to children. Activities offered at kindergarten encourage children to learn through play. Teachers provide stimulation, guidance, encouragement and support in an attractive environment.

Kindergarten, Kahikatea

Aims: Activities offered at kindergarten encourage children to learn through play. Teachers provide stimulation, guidance, encouragement and support in an attractive enviroment.

Kindergarten, Marfell

Aims: Children are encouraged to learn through play. Teachers provide a stimulating environment offering high quality education in a calm, peaceful and purposeful atmosphere. Quality resources and meaningful interactions are a feature of this kindergarten.

Kindergarten, Pukekura

Aims: Early childhood education.

Kindergarten, Waitara Central

Aims: We are a not-for-profit community based early childhood provider offering an affordable, quality specialist educational service for all three to six year old children.

Philosophy:
Respect and Responsibility are fostered for ourselves,
the group and the enviroment.
Parents/Whanau, and Teachers are a Partnership.
Learning is FUN!
Play is a children's work, Children learn best through play.

Marfell Community School

McKendrick Early Childhood Centre

Aims: Early childhood education centre for children over two years old.

Okaiawa Preschool at Matapu

Aims: Quality education for pre-schoolers two-four years old. 

To provide an environment for children to grow up as confident healthy learners and communicators. By welcoming families and community into the centre we encourage a sense of belonging and security.

Opunake High School

Aims: To provide support, guidance and confidential counselling for students and their families of Opunake High School.

Playcentre, Waverley

Aims: Quality early childhood education service.

Practical Education Institute NZ Ltd

Aims: To provide quality tertiary education to national and international students in the fields of hospitality, computing and business.

Senior Net, New Plymouth Inc

Aims: Tutoring 55+, training and workshops.

Shakespeare Society

Aims: To study and discuss the works of Shakespeare. To support the production of Shakespeare's works.
Meet the second Wednesday of each month.

Spotswood College Alumni Trust

Aims: The purposes of the charitable trust are:
The advancement and passing on of education and learning through Spotswood College at New Plymouth. This includes financial assistance, scholarships and prizes for students of the college.

St Joseph's Primary School, Opunake

Aims: To create happy, healthy, holy adullts.

St Mary's Diocesan School, Stratford

Aims: To provide day and boarding secondary education for young women from year nine to 13 including all academic, cultural, sporting, arts, drama, social and spiritual aspects in small classroom numbers.

To provide a comfortable, friendly hostel environment for families who want this service.

Facilities available for hire.

Taranaki Careers and Training Expo

Aims: To provide an opportunity for students and the wider community to access training and career information to help them decide on their career paths.

Te Kohanga Reo, Manaia

Aims: To deliver Te Reo Maori to all pre-schoolers.

Toy Library, Taranaki

Aims: To provide a library of quality educational toys to all community families and special needs groups. Also at a cost within the budget of those families/groups.

Tree Trust, Taranaki

Aims: Promote and facilitate the establishment and preservation of all classes of natural ecosystems and landscapes within Taranaki. To promote planting of trees both indigenous and exotic. To preserve Taranaki's unique character by protection and planting. To promote an awareness and appreciation of Taranaki's distinctive natural heritage.

Truancy Service, New Plymouth District

Aims: Supporting and promoting partnerships between schools, family/whanau, students and the community.

TSB TOPEC

Aims: To provide outdoor education courses to the students of Taranaki. To provide accommodation and courses for any interested party.

Vocational Literacy Specialists

Aims: Vocational Literacy Specialists (VLS) is a foundation learning provider specialising in literacy, numeracy and also delivering NCEA Levels one and two.

Waitara Playcentre

Aims: The Waitara Playcentre is a parent cooperative that provides quality early childhood education for children from birth to six years.

Waiwhakaiho Te Kohanga Reo

Aims: To provide an environment of learning for all pre-school tamariki that caters for the individual and differing needs of mokopuna while being embraced with their whanau under Te Korowai. Te Whariki provides direct and indirect learning experiences using Te Reo, in a Kohanga Reo environment.

Work Trust Taranaki

Aims: Youth training, scholarships.