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Western Bay of Plenty | Tauranga is one of the few regions in Aotearoa | New Zealand without a connected Heritage Strategy.
Taonga Tauranga | Heritage Bay of Plenty (TTHBoP) is an independent registered charitable trust, supported by all local councils, who came together in 2017 to research heritage and to facilitate the bringing together of - and then to promote - the various heritage initiatives and experiences across our region who were all working in isolation. This is happening through initiating conversations between the region's tangata whenua, heritage organisations, local councils, government and funding agencies, interested commercial entities, members of the community, and all those interested in seeing a united heritage programme across our region. As of May 2021 TTHBoP has completed two years of research - has had a Scope document written and facilitated numerous meetings which have gradually bought together a group called, Tangata Whenua / Heritage Partners who together have named our Heritage Together - Kotahitanga Strategy | Orokohanga Poutama which loosely means: weaving a stairway from creation towards heritage unity, recognition and excellence. |
Community Support: There is strong levels of community support and goodwill locally, regionally and nationally towards developing this heritage strategy. An initiative which is likely to create an entirely new industry for our region around heritage. This has significant social and economic advantages for hapū, local tangata whenua as a whole, individual heritage organisations, the business community and the region. Click for Synopsis of Heritage Together - Kotahitanga | Orokohanga Poutama. This is a significant step forward for connecting heritage in Western Bay of Plenty | Tauranga, the wider region and beyond.
Heritage Awareness: TTHBoP conducts heritage awareness events, the most recent being an evening with Simon Dallow - telling us about his Ngāti Pūkenga journey followed by Justice Sir Joe Williams (Ngāti Pūkenga and Te Arawa) talking on Te Tiriti o Waitangi in Tauranga. Heritage Symposium: In September this year we are planning a Heritage Symposium promoting partnerships as expected under Te Tiriti o Waitangi. We have an impressive array of speakers and workshops arranged with our evening key speaker being, Sir Ian Taylor. |
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