Who We Are

In funding partnership with Advanced Security Group, The Runway Foundation was established to provide support for youth development & the marginalised in our communities.

• The Runway Board was established with other passionate local community members joining the oversight team
• The Runway Board got to work with providing funding support for community support initiatives & those facing challenging circumstances.
• The great need for ADHD support in the community was recognised.

• Runway shifted into their new home at 58 Glasgow Road, Pukekohe, becoming the much loved ‘Runway House’
• Runway’s ‘ADDventurers’ initiative was born for ADHD support & Kate Rook, Runway’s first ADDventurers Manager was hired to begin pioneering services for the Franklin Region.
• Lorelei Turney, from Unforced Rhythms Counselling, joined Runway House to provide Counselling services & support our ADDventurers students & families.

• ADDventures Kids Clubs & Parent Support groups began providing support for primary aged children with ADHD & their parents. Public events for parenting & ADHD education were also provided.
• Runway continued to provide general youth support & support for the vulnerable through subsidising counselling, student scholarships & sponsorship, and funding support for causes such as special education resources in schools, food banks and crisis support.

• Runway recognised the need for a dedicated Youth Coach supporting teenagers with ADHD.
• The ADDventurers Youth Programme was pioneered, with Roger Tupu Tuia as ADDventurers first Youth Coach, working with schools & families in the Franklin region to provide mentoring support for students with ADHD.

ADDventurers began to offer workshops on ‘How to Teach Students with ADHD’

In the midst of Covid - Runway recognised the unmet need for further ADHD support in the Franklin region and ultimately New Zealand, and continued developing, strengthening & refining their unique, pioneered approach to ADHD support including:

• Increasing the capacity for small-group Kids Clubs, to cater for more children.
• Increasing the number of ADHD Youth Coaches to cater for more youth, including teenage girls with ADHD.
• Developing their very own ADHD curriculum & programme that flows from Primary to secondary students.
• Working closely with other organisations such as schools, and the Police for increased positive intervention for our at-risk students.
• Supporting our Youth into tertiary, employment & independence.