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Lawn Care
You grow it, we’ll mow it. We can care for your lawns, whether it’s at home, a business or a park. We have commercial ride-ons, push mowers, weed-eaters, gardening skills and sprayers. We can help maintain your lawn and gardens. Our workers are all well trained, they love to work and to help. Our prices are very reasonable.
Kindy Caretakers
We specialise in keeping Early Child Care Centres looking great by maintaining and developing gardens, cleaning windows, re-barking playgrounds, caring for sandpits, cleaning the outside of buildings, water blasting footpaths and mowing lawns. We understand the complexities of running an Early Childcare Centre and are willing to work around your opening hours (by working early mornings, late afternoons and weekends). Contact us for a free quote.
Parks & Schools
Open Spaces – We maintain all Open Spaces (e.g. parks) in our neighbourhood. This includes mowing large areas and currently three sports fields, spraying field edges, picking up rubbish, cleaning hard surfaces and public toilets. We are trained and sub-contracted by CityCare https://www.citycare.co.nz for this work. All Stepping Stones workers have undergone their Health and Safety Training and are expected to achieve a high standard of work.
Odd Jobs
We’d consider any odd jobs – including weed eating long grass, cleaning up rubbish, sorting out building material on sites, water blasting, hedge trimming, dirty cleaning jobs – contact us to see if we can do it. And if we can’t, we often know others who specialise in various areas that we can refer you to.
History
Stepping Stones Lawns, a Social Enterprise, began in 2015, in response to opportunities that arose from a $6 million development of a central public park (www.randwickpark.co.nz). The Randwick Park Residents’ Association submitted a park redevelopment proposal, and successfully developed partnerships with Auckland Council and Manurewa Local Board. Local care and maintenance of our parks has developed a sense of responsibility and ownership. Local caretakers have become more conscious of their neighborhood and the desire to make it an even better place to live. Responsibility & ownership gives a strong feeling of pride, creating dignity and hope. Hope and dignity are key ingredients for transformation. Our neighborhood has developed local leadership, local projects, youth programmes and local social enterprises. Stepping Stones works closely with Manu Tukutuku and the Randwick Park Sports and Community Trust (www.manutukutuku.co.nz) and this effort was recognised by Recreation Aotearoa, awarding Randwick Park with the Green Flag Award for 2019 and 2020. Stepping Stones takes a Community-led Development approach to its work, believing transformation of society starts from the grassroots and advances to change systematic structures for the Common Good of everyone. Working with other Randwick Park entities and leaders is expressed with these 4 principles:
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Neighborhood, leaders and residents, have a right to self-determinate and have input into the future of their neighborhood.
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Working together to share power (the ability to make decisions for) and wealth creation (creating resources) is shared with Community Leaders.
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creating Social Enterprises to develop community economics and resources to support local projects and dreams.
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Working with locals to create a creative flow of social change, economic advancement (especially for those on the margins of society) & places of connection.
Stepping Stones Lawns
Dave Tims
Frank Walton
Garry Taia
David Wilson-Pu
Local projects we sponsor
Community Van
Thanks to the profits from Stepping Stones along with the generosity of a local Foundation, UNOH has been able to purchase this Toyota 12 Seater Van. The van replaces an old vehicle and is used for youth programmes, community outings (eg to the beach) and long trips out of Auckland. The van has low kms, Read more about Community Van[…]
The Song of the Tui
We’d love to see and hear the return of the Tui, and other native birds, to our neighborhood. Over the next 5 years we are planning to use some profits to re-imagine our parks by planting native trees and shrubs. Randwick Park Skate Park gardens will be re-planted in 2020. We will also be assigned Read more about The Song of the Tui[…]
Good in the Hood
“Only the hood can change the hood” In 2019, we sponsored one local to attend training to gain his full Truck Licence. This will open more employment opportunities for him. In 2020, we will sponsor some Scooter Workshops, in partnership with the Wiri Licencing Trust, so that local kids, can be taught how to maintain Read more about Good in the Hood[…]
Re-Imagining our Parks
Between 2020-2023 we will be working with the Manurewa Local Board to develop irrigation and drainage on one sports field at our Riverton Reserve Park beside our Community Centre. While this field is well used, over winter it is closed due to the amount of water causing the ground to be muddy. Over Summer the Read more about Re-Imagining our Parks[…]