We hope you are all well and happy and ready for some community activities when we are able to get back into things. We’re writing this article a month in advance so it’s a bit hard to tell you what’s definitely happening, but here’s what is likely to be happening when allowed during the next few months and a list of places you can go to find out more.

Winter Fun Preschool Play will start once we have the go ahead from the government and Council venues. This will hopefully be by mid-June. Preschool play is free to attend. To find out more about our free Winter Fun pre-school play programme, visit our website or Facebook/summerfunplay . You can also find loads of great ideas to keep the kids busy on our Facebook and Instagram @takapunanorthvillage pages.

Own Festival: The Our Women’s Network invites women to their festival ‘Past, Present and Future’. The event was postponed from mid-May and we hope to hold it later in the year. Tickets are $25 and include a light lunch, entertainment and workshops. To be advised when the event will take place and to buy tickets, email info@own.org.nz

Get involved with bringing back the birds: Are you keen to help us bring more native birds back to our area? Get in touch with our Environmental Coordinator Fiona Martin to find out more about volunteer pest eradication and environmental restoration activities in your suburb or to request a trap to set in your garden. enviro@takapunatrust.org.nz . More information on our website and Facebook/northshorebirdsongproject

Online workshops: During lockdown, we ran a series of sustainable living workshops on things like growing food in small spaces, backyard chicken keeping and composting. These workshops were incredibly popular and we’re keen to run more during the year so if you have a great idea for a workshop that you’d like to join, please do get in touch with us and let us know.

All of our events will have full health and safety plans and Covid-19 policies in procedures in place.

Where can you find out more about what’s happening? Visit www.takapunatrust.org.nz or Facebook.com/takapunanorthcommunitytrust

Search up “Hauraki, Takapuna, Milford, Forrest Hill, Castor Bay & Sunnynook residents” on  Facebook  or type in www.facebook.com/groups/TakapunaNorth/ to find it.

Phone Sarah Thorne (Takapuna North Community Coordinator) on 486 2098 or email: office@takapunatrust.org.nz