Father & Child Trust is opening an office in Wellington to complement its offices in Auckland and Christchurch.

The Trust’s head office will remain in Christchurch and the purpose of the Wellington office is to extend Father & Child services to the Wellington region. The new local coordinator is Quentin Solomon, better known simply as Q, of Ngati Kahungunu and Ngati Porou descent. Quentin is an at-home father of two of his three children, a six year old girl and one year old boy, and lives with his wife Justine.

Father & Child Trust is funding the foray into Wellington from its own reserves, and the first task is to find the financial support to create a physical office and ongoing employment.
This is Father & Child’s second attempt in Wellington, after a separate Father & Child Trust Wellington was set up in 1998 by local dads to facilitate a forum about fathers. However, no ongoing services were established and the Trust has since been struck off the company office’s register.

No separate legal entity will be created for this new initiative which will be managed jointly with the Christchurch and Auckland offices. Father & Child’s Board of Trustees, it’s governing body, contains members from all three locations.

To contact Quentin email wellington@fatherandchild.org.nz or phone (04) 9097294