Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust manages a busy waterfront facility in Auckland’s Okahu Bay - home to multiple sailing and watersports clubs, a large event centre, and a restaurant. As the Akarana team grew, they needed an HR solution that could keep up. MyHR delivered.
Organisation: Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust
Industry: Sport & recreation / Not-for-profit
Location: Okahu Bay, New Zealand
Team size: 100+ employees
A growing team, without the HR tools to manage it.
Before MyHR, Akarana Marine Sports was struggling with the fundamentals. Employment agreements, employee start dates, leave tracking, and payroll were all difficult to keep on top of. And the Trust lacked confidence that it had the systems and expertise in place to properly manage its HR functions.
As a charitable trust, keeping operating costs lean while still managing people well wasn't optional — it was essential to the mission.
A cutting-edge HR platform backed by real expertise.
MyHR has provided Royal Akarana a single, unified HR system for contracts, leave, and payroll, all backed by human support every step of the way. The MyHR team has become a trusted extension of the organisation, available day-to-day whenever General Manager, Nicky Tuck and her team need guidance.
"Over and above the platform, is the people behind it. Being in touch with the team there on a day-to-day basis when it's needed has been absolutely invaluable — and I know has saved us from a lot of situations that could have been far stickier."
— Nicky Tuck, General Manager, Akarana Marine Sports Charitable Trust
Employment law compliance shifted from an internal worry to something MyHR simply handles. The trust no longer needs to stay across every legislative change; MyHR does that for them.
Nicky says MyHR is a better way to do HR, without the overhead. The Trust has been able to grow the team from a few dozen employees to over 100, without the need to hire any additional internal HR resource. The MyHR platform has scaled with the organisation’s demands every step of the way.
With HR running smoothly, MyHR has allowed the Akarana team to focus on their mission: getting more kids on the water, serving the community, and running a tight ship.
Service delivery that matches the sales pitch.
For Nicky, the most meaningful endorsement is simple, MyHR did what it said it would. In a world of software that overpromises and underdelivers, that's worth a lot.
"For anyone sitting on the fence about adopting MyHR — just do it. There are so few sales processes I've experienced where the delivery actually met what the pitch proposed. MyHR delivery has definitely matched what they promised." — Nicky Tuck.
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