Home Birth Aotearoa Trust

Home Birth Aotearoa Trust

The Home Birth Aotearoa Trust (HBAT) is a charitable trust, formed in 2007 and consists of a board of eight elected trustees who invest in their regional home birth groups as well as in HBA/HBAT. HBAT holds the kaupapa or spirit of the home birth movement in Aotearoa New Zealand by representing the collective interests of New Zealand’s volunteer-led regional home birth support groups and associations.

HBA holds the National Home Birth Coordination Contract with the Ministry of Health and the Trust Board applies this contract by initiating opportunities for regional groups to invest in national level movement – with the aim to create a wider impact for positive promotion of home birth in New Zealand. Regional and national hui are held annually to strengthen bonds, create collective vision and build momentum and strategy towards that vision.