Kia ora! I am very excited to have the opportunity to work with Takapuna North Community Trust. My background is marketing and event management, and I really look forward to helping the Trust grow and support the well-being of our community through events and programmes to build a thriving community who love where they live.

Pupuke Birdsong Project

Pupuke Birdsong Project offers free events, workshops, and volunteering opportunities for all the local community. We work in parks, schools, homes and businesses. This past year the creation of Ecological Halo projects to protect and enhance our natural environment have focused our attention on the areas that need protecting. Ecological halos are a buffer zone surrounding an area of significant ecological value, within which stakeholders work together in pest animals and pest plants control to restore the natural environment and protect local biodiversity.
These have been established in the following locations:

• Castor Bay Ecological Halo: Focus on Rahopara Pa, Braemar Reserve, and Campbells Bay Primary School 
• Milford Ecological Halo: The halo focuses on the Wairau Creek and Estuary
• Pupukemoana Ecological Halo: The Halo surrounds Lake Pupuke, the parks and residential property
• Smiths Bush East Ecological Halo: Wraps around the ecologically significant Smiths Bush East
• Patuone Ecological Halo: Protection of the upper Shoal Bay estuary beside Patuone Reserve
• We partner with residents' associations and park care groups in all the Ecological Halo areas

September is a busy month for action.
Conservation Week 5th - 11th September (www.doc.govt.nz), and Clean Up Week (www.knzb.org.nz) Saturday 17th - Friday 23rd September. Contact us to join a local event or organise a crew to clean up your own little patch of the world, and be part of a global movement to make a difference.

Make a difference to nature in your own backyard by joining the predator free movement, just ask us for our free traps and bait stations. In the past year over 80 traps or bait stations were lent out to residents, which makes our backyards a safer place for nature. Join a local park care group to restore your local park. We have groups in Castor Bay, Forrest Hill, Sunnynook, Milford and Takapuna. In the past year volunteers have planted more than 2,500 natives over 11 planting days. Support your school or kindergarten to get involved.

Head to www.pupukebirdsong.org.nz or get in touch with Tabitha on enviro@takapunatrust.org.nz for more information. Follow us on social media Facebook/Instagram

Winter Fun Preschool Play
Free Winter Fun preschool play is running at our local community centres on Mondays and Wednesdays, 10am-12 noon. Follow Facebook/summerfunplay or visit our website www.takapunatrust.org.nz to download a full timetable.