Eastdale Hub

In partnership with Avondale Community Action, we secured the lease on an empty council building at Eastdale Reserve near the end of 2019. The following year, we established Eastdale Hub – a free space for recreation and youth activities.

We felt that focusing the hub on these activities made sense because Eastdale Reserve borders three schools, has sports fields and courts, a playground and exercise machines along a walking track. Plus we’d received feedback from school staff, social workers and youth workers that free and accessible after school activities were much needed.

The building itself comprises an office block with toilets, showers and a kitchenette, and a large shed space.

Even with all the interruptions caused by Covid-19, we’ve still been able to co-deliver or enable a mix of both regular and ad hoc activities. Frequent users include the Avondale Wolves rugby league team, Baha’i Junior Youth empowerment programme, Young Stars active play programme, Bike Avondale repair and maintenance hub, No-G-Ta fitness boot camps and Hungerball all-on-all soccer. The hub has also hosted Polynesian Entertainers’ siva afi workshops, TYLA Trust youth workers and their rangatahi, and a Youthtown school holiday programme.

We have renovated the shed over time thanks to The Kindness Collective and The Trusts, and resourced the space with sports equipment via Youthtown funding. In 2021, we secured ongoing sponsorship from West Auckland-based business The Frameless Glass Company, whose financial support helps us take care of incidentals and running costs.

Eastdale Hub is closed to all activities at Covid-19 lockdown levels 3 and 4.

Please get in touch if you have an activity you’d like to run or if you want to know more about what’s currently on at Eastdale Hub.