Our People
Neil Denney
Chief Executive
Navin Jhinghan
Business & Finance Manager
Avril Bear
Finance & Building Administrator
Wiremu Walmsley
Operations Manager
Katrina Meafua
Programmes Administrator
Serena Murdoch
Community Centre Co-ordinator
Tatum Knight
Programmes Assistant
Karen Cragg
Counsellor
Taitoko Tafa
Counsellor
Daphne Taylor
Community Development Co-ordinator
Ronita Prasad
Social Practice Worker
Ruta Ulberg
Social Practice Worker
David-Lee Manter
Senior Café Assistant
Tina Chapman
Café Staff
Jackie Kaihe
Café Staff
OUR TEAM
Staff
Café Team
Community Centre Team (frontline staff - information, referrals, room bookings)
Social Practice Team (counsellors, social workers and family violence workers)
Contractors (programme facilitators)
In addition to employed staff, Friendship House contracts approximately 20 trained and appropriately experienced course facilitators. Many of these facilitators have worked with Friendship House for more than 15 years. The facilitators reflect the range of ethnicities participating in the programmes, e.g. Māori, Samoan, Tongan and New Zealand European. Programmes are run in English, Te Reo Māori, Samoan, Tongan and Hindi languages, so that participants can benefit from authentic and effective communication.