About Kids Alive Holiday & After School Care

The‘Holidays @ Kids Alive’ (ages 5 to 13 year olds) and ‘After School @ Kids Alive’ (ages 5 to 13 year olds) Programmes provide outstanding care for children. We provide a safe, caring and nurturing environment including quality indoor andoutdoor play areas and equipment and resources.

The programme is operated under the umbrella of The Geraldine Family & Youth Trust. The Kids Alive programmes embody the Christian values of love, service, forgiveness, peace and justice in all its dealings with families and children. These beliefs and values are communicated by the staff through role modelling.

We provide a well-planned, stimulating and age-appropriate programme, which enables children positive interaction with other children, adults and the environment.
We encourage children to be their best at all times. We empower children to make choices and give them ownership of their programme.
We employ high quality staff team who are both experienced in dealing with children and have a love for working with children. Our staff ratio is 1 adult to 10 children.

Staff are available to deal with parent queries. Our policy manual is available for parents to read.
Our staff are non-sexist and non-racist and are sensitive to the special needs of children appreciating their values, customs and culture.

We provide an environment that acknowledges children with special needs providing support for them and their parents/ whanau.

Our Staff

All our staff at Kids Alive are dedicated people who have been chosen due to their love, commitment and understanding of children. They enjoy working with the children and their first priority is to provide a safe and caring place. The staff ratio is 1:10 or 1:8 off site with the minimum of two on site at all times. Our staff work hard to provide the children with a happy and stimulating environment. There is ongoing training in first aid, behaviour management and health and safety.

Kids Alive Geraldine relies on both paid staff and volunteers to run our After School @ Kids Alive and Holidays @ Kids Alive programmes. If we currently don't have vacancies, you are able to register your interest below:

Please attach a current CV with your application of interest when submitting to the programme manager kidsalive@xtra.co.nz.

Funding

winz subsidies

Out of School Care and Recreation (OSCAR) Subsidy

Who can get it:

You may get an OSCAR subsidy if you:

Are the main carer of a dependent child
Don’t have a partner who can provide childcare
Are a New Zealand citizen or permanent resident.

It also depends on how much you and your spouse or partner earn.

The child or young person must be:

Aged five to 13 years old (or up to 18 years if you get a Child Disability Allowance for them)
Attending an approved OSCAR programme for three or more hours a week
The child should also normally live in New Zealand.

This information is a guide only. Contact WINZ to talk about your individual circumstances.

Geraldine Family & Youth Trust

Kids Alive Geraldine operates under the umbrella of the Geraldine Family & Youth Trust, which is a registered Charitable Trust. The purpose of the Trust is to be a funding vehicle for Christian organisations (churches, groups or individuals) to promote Christian work primarily for projects benefiting children, youth and families, and where appropriate engage in these activities in its own right. It is a stand alone legal entity.

"Organisations approaching the Trust set their own objectives and complete their own funding applications.
They may operate under the name of the Trust if this best serves their funding purposes. In this case organisations will have their own management teams who will oversee all matters relating to the planning and running of that organisation."

Kids Alive Geraldine has its own Management Team and functions independently. It operates under the Trust to maximise its access to funding. What this means is that:

All funding applications are made under the name of the Geraldine Family & Youth Trust
Staff are employed by the Trust
All payments are made to, and receipts issued by, the Trust