Our Projects
The Howick Youth Council is focused on serving our local community and providing meaningful opportunities for young people to make a difference. Through our projects, we strive to create lasting change and positively impact our city. Explore our work below to learn more.
Howick Youth Summit
Bringing together over 100 young people from the secondary schools of East Auckland, in order to find innovative solutions for local issues — forming these ideas into recommendations with potential to create a real difference for the community
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East Auckland Youth Visual Art Showcase
In partnership with Arts Out East, UXBRIDGE Arts & Culture and Te Tuhi, the East Auckland Youth Visual Art Showcase attracted over 60 submissions in 2023 and showcased the best of the young visual artists living in East Auckland — whether it be painting, sculpture, animation, photography, or mixed media.
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Photography: Sachi Kapadia
Elections Candidate Forums
HYC has extensive experience running youth-accessible, moderated, community election forums in local and general elections — stretching back to our first candidates meeting in the 2014 general election. More recently, we've run candidate forums in the 2020 general election, 2019 local elections and 2018 Howick ward by-election. We also collaborated with other youth councils in Auckland to produce Recruit Your Mayor in the 2019 mayoralty elections.
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Photography: Sachi Kapadia
East Auckland Youth Awards
The East Auckland Youth Awards aims to celebrate young people’s achievements. Awards were given for community leadership, sporting achievement, arts achievement, cultural pursuits, environmental service, projects and entrepreneurial pursuits, and service to the community.
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Photography: Sachi Kapadia
Howick Youth Survey
Two years in the making, the Howick Youth Council’s Youth Survey is the most comprehensive look at the state of East Auckland's rangatahi. Check out the survey here.
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East Auckland Youth Film Festival
Young aspiring filmmakers were given the chance to submit films they had created for judging by professionals. These films were then showcased in a public viewing at a real cinema, which was enjoyed by the public, and represented an amazing opportunity for young filmmakers. Supported by Monterey Cinemas in Howick, and attracting over 100 audience members in 2019.
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Pride Allied
Supported by RainbowYOUTH, Pride Allied connects youth from East Auckland’s LGBTQIA+ community and allies in a safe, casual, and fun environment. Young people around the community came together to share their experiences, listen to speakers, and connect with each other.
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East Auckland Schools
Attracting over 380 people, this was a joint-project between the East Auckland Schools head students and the Howick Youth Council which raised money for mental health awareness — with a great line up of rock bands, dancers, school cultural groups, singers and more.
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Photography: Douglas Bagg
Organisations and schools
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Macleans College, Botany Downs Secondary College, Pakuranga College, Ormiston Senior College, Edgewater College, St. Kentigern College, Elim Christian College, Howick College, Sancta Maria College