The Flaxmere Heroes Calendar profiles people doing good things in the community. Alice Lock chats to those who feature this year.
November brings together a group of people from all walks of life who have come to uplift, inspire and encourage one another.
The Flaxmere Boxing Academy is a place for men, women and children to live a healthy and positive life together through the medium of boxing.
Founder Henare O'Keefe said boxing was used as a vehicle to create warriors in the ring but ladies and gentlemen in the home.
"We restore, uplift and heal one another. We don't judge or condemn we take on the good, the bad and the ugly and love them to bits."