Community engagement

One of our Trust’s objectives is to have community engagement. In this past year we have had Sam the Trap Man “walk and talk” which was organised by HCC. Sam is so knowledgeable and a great storyteller. He can make little things so interesting. We hosted the Green Pavlova conference field day. This conference was attended by a number of council employees from around New Zealand. They showed a lot on interest in how our Trust worked and were particularly impressed with our achievements. National Tree Cropper Association’s conference also had a gully visit to Mangaiti as one of their field day options. There was an impressive amount of interest considering our restoration project was a bit outside their sphere of interest. The Kids in Nature programme run by HCC had numerous school class visits to see the eels. Three students from Rototuna High School chose our trust for their community project this year and have been attending our Wednesday working bees each week. We hosted the scouts and cubs (Photo)with a planting each this season. It was fortunate that this season we had suitable planting areas for this type of group planting. It was done between 6.30 and 8pm in the evening. We put up a temporary light and most had head lamps. They were all so enthusiastic.