Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise Park

Duration: 3:16

Gentle music.

[Wide drone shot over a large, modern building and car park – Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise park]

[Logo appears: Kānoa Regional Economic Development and Investment Unit]

[Text: Ngawha Innovation & Enterprise Park Te Tai Tokerau]

[Mid shot of Toa Faneva. He sits at a table in front of traditional Māori artwork]

[Title: Toa Fanevea – Te Ahurei Executive Director for Te Pūkenga]

Toa Faneva: One of the great aspects of the Ngawha Innovation and Enterprise Park is that we have this beautiful world class facility now.

[Pull shot revealing the front entrance of the Ngawha Innovation Park.]

Andy Knock: The hope and the opportunity it creates for Northland- these buildings should have been here years ago.

[Mid shot of Andy Knock. He is standing inside the new building, wearing a brown checkered suit.]

[Title: Andy Knock – CE, Far North Holdings Ltd.]

Andy The hope and the opportunity it creates for Northland- these buildings should have been here years ago. you know, Northland's lost out in terms of development and facilities because it's got a small demographic base, it's outside the large city. And, of course, generally last to secure funding, like a lot of regions in New Zealand.

[Wide drone shot over the countryside, heading towards the innovation park in the distance.]

[Two people stand in front of a construction site, Rachael Packer, a pākeha woman and Sonny Tipene a Māori man.]

[Titles: Rachael Packer – Operations Manager, Webb Contracting and Sonny Tipene – Web Contracting]

Sonny Tipene: You got to look at it like that old saying, you know, you give a man a fish, and he'll eat it. You teach them how to fish, and he'll feed his whole family.

[Overhead drone shot shows the construction of a building. People in hi-vis work on the site]

Sonny: You know, the rangatahi, our mokopuna will come in here. And this is their ocean, they can choose what they want to do.

[Mid-shot of Andy Knock as he speaks]

Andy Knock: It's creating the ability for people to fulfill their own dreams in life. They don't have to travel hours and hours anymore. It's on our own doorstep. So we've got employment opportunities, we've got skills based training opportunities and we hope to keep adding to that.

[More footage of people working on the construction site]

[Mid-shot of Toa Faneva as he speaks]

Toa Faneva: So not only is there a commercial and an economic driver for the innovation and enterprise park, but there is also these opportunities to be able to explore how we address the environmental impacts and changes that are happening around a lot of our communities.

[Footage of two Māori peopl walking through a field]

[Panning shot of a forest]

[Mid-shot of Toa Faneva as he speaks]

Toa Faneva: And so as a repository and an enabler of knowledge, particularly mātauranga Māori, mātauranga whānau, mātauranga hapū, that's one of our aspirations.

[Drone shots of the exterior of Ngawha Innvation & Enterprise Park]

Toa Faneva: So we have the business sector there, we have the research sector there, we have us, obviously, in terms of vocational education and training as Te Pūkenga there, but we think combined, we can actually really deliver on some of the expectations a lot of our communities have.

[Drone footage of the landscape of rural Te Tai Tokerau]

Wayne Rodgers: Within a 50 kilometer radius of this park sits just under 4,000 Māori land blocks.

[Mid-shot of Wayne Rodgers standing inside the café at Ngawha Innovation Park. He is a Māori man and he wears a black and white check shirt.]

[Titles: Wayne Rodgers – Skills & Employment Coordinator, Ngawha Innovation & Enterprise Park]

Wayne: And those 4,000 Māori land blocks have multiple owners, but the park has been set up as a catalyst to help whānau utilise their whenua.

[Foogate of a Māori man and woman working on their whenua. They smile and climb onto a tractor]

[People in hi-vis working around the park]

Wayne: So not only are we providing work on the park, the park will become a catalyst for whānau to utilise their own whenua to generate employment for their own whānau. The park has huge ramifications.

[Panning shot of a construction site. The foundations of a building have been completed.]

[Mid-shot of Mark Henwood. He wears an orange hi-vis vest over a navy-blue shirt.]

[Title: Mark Henwood – Project Manager, Far North Holdings Ltd]

Mark Henwood: I love watching people grow. It's great for Northland and it's about time that we've got something like this in Northland and so it's really, I'm really proud to be part of this.

[Mid-shot of Moana Timoka standing inside the newly completed meeting room at Ngawha. She is a Māori woman and wears a navy-blue shirt and a pounamu necklace]

[Title: Moana Timoko – Tumaki Tuarua, Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Kaikohe]

Moana Timoko: I come here with a different lens every day, like I'm here as our Tumaki Tuarua. I'm here as a peruperu helper sometimes in the garden. I'm here as a māmā and I'm here as a owner of a neighboring property to the space.

[Various shots of the surrounding whenua in Kaikohe, people working on a farm. Moana sits on the tractor with a Māori man.]

[Mid-shot of Moana as she speaks]

Moana: I think it's just good to see something new and fresh, and it's just here in Kaikohe below the maunga, Putahi.

[Wide drone shot of Ngawha park]

[Logos appear: Kānoa Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Hīkina Whakatutuki, Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa New Zealand Government.]

Music fades.

[Fade to black]