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Community Projects in partnership with Auckland Council, Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust provides funding toward community projects within west Auckland that promote litter and waste reduction, tree planting, re-vegetation, and similar initiatives. Applications for grant funding may be made at any time. Grant funding is typically awarded for requests up to $300 in value, and success of your application will depend on the volume of applications received.
EcoWise Community Awards 2012
The EcoWise awards celebrate West Auckland residents who show a commitment to care for their environment through volunteer action and pride. The heart warming ceremony was held at the Council Chambers in Henderson on November 16 and attracted 200 members of the community committed to keeping Waitakere beautiful.
To view photos from the evening please CLICK here or visit https://www.facebook.com/KeepWaitakereBeautiful
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Karaka Award
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- For the best Community Edible Garden that is tended and utilised by the community
- Winner: Epping Esplanade Community Garden
- Well organised and tended community garden with regular working bees, composting facilities and great community engagement. All gardens are communal and neighbours love popping by for fresh herbs.
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Rata Award
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- For the Caretaker in a Waitakere school who is making a difference to the school environment through their ongoing pride, actions and care
- Winner: Sandra Fletcher, Kaurilands School
- Sandra is passionate about caring for and upgrading the creek area in Kaurilands School. Her ecological restoration work is outstanding. Overwhelmingly popular with students - comments include "Mrs Fletcher is stupendous because she keeps our environment clean and lets us plant in the sticky mud!
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Kahikatea Award
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- For the Teacher who empowers students to take action to create a sustainable community
- Winner: Russell French, Henderson Primary
- For many years, Russell has tirelessly motivated Henderson Primary school students to care for the planet and community. The school has a native plant nursery that propagates seedlings to help fight Kauri die back.
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Puriri Award
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- For the best School Grounds, edible garden tended by students, that are litter, weed and graffiti-free and/or feature composting facilities and plant propagation sites
- Winner: New Lynn Primary
- Inspired by their passionate teacher Jo Anna Crosby, the students have created dishes for sale at school such as beetroot chutney and lemon curd, they have installed a scarecrow and have a worm farm along with new planters and fruit trees with veges around them.
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Kowhai Award
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- For student leadership, whose positive actions have helped beautify West Auckland
- Winner: Flanshaw Road Primary School – Memorial garden group and Maori garden group
- Students researched, planned and created a memorial garden to commemorate the Christchurch earthquakes and the Japanese Earthquakes and Tsunami.
- Alysia came up with the idea to create a Maori vegetable garden to learn more about plants and herbs and have a boil up at the end of the year.
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Totara Award
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- Most active group of volunteers working in the community to beautify West Auckland by reducing litter, weeds and/or graffiti
- Winner: Dera Sacha Sauda
- Hard working Dera Sacha Sauda have helped plant over 8000 native, eco-sourced plants this year along with weeding and mulching the banks of Waitakere streams and reserves. The size of the group has created a great momentum for large scale projects. They plant with a smile and provide lunch of chai and chapattis for everyone. They benefit the environment immensely with their enthusiasm and actions.
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Kauri Award
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- Most active individual volunteer working in the community to beautify West Auckland by reducing litter, weeds and/or graffiti
- Winner: Camilla Ashley-Wilson
- Camilla is constantly active as the local sustainability coordinator. Clearing roadsides of weeds and litter, replanting and helping transform the grounds at Waitakere Primary into a fertile and abundant oasis.
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Brent Peters Award
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- For the contractor who goes over and beyond the call of duty to help educate groups and residents of West Auckland around graffiti vandalism issues
- Winner: Monique Bridge
- Monique is one of three Tag out Trust Parks Operators who removes graffiti in New Lynn, Green Bay, Titirangi, Huia and Glen Eden. She does an exceptional job and is one of the first people to put her hand up to give a colleague a helping hand.
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Operation Spring Clean is an annual event that aims to increase awareness about waste in the environment. It encourages schools, service organisations, sports clubs, churches and community groups, businesses and individuals to take an active role in cleaning up the environment.
Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust provides rubbish bags, gloves, jumbo bins, and disposal to anyone registering a clean up on public land. Operation Spring Clean will be held from September to October.
Download an Operation Spring Clean Registration
Trees for Babies in May each year, family and friends are invited by Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust to celebrate the birth of their new baby by planting a native tree in a local reserve.
The project is delivered in partnership with Auckland Council and Plunket and a personalised invitation is sent to all babies registered with Plunket in the year prior to the planting event. Four neighbourhood parks, one in each of the four city wards, are selected for a grove of 'baby trees'.
At each event, families are given a planting demonstration and educated about the importance of trees in the urban environment. Free entertainment is provided including clowns, a bouncy castle, and face painters. Every baby
attending is presented with a 'new citizen' certificate.
Parks are selected with the guidance of the council arborist and in consultation with the four community boards. Parks are chosen to enhance a public area, and to encourage families to visit and utilise their local park more often.
For viewing photos PHOTOS for the Trees For Babies 2012 see below.
Please note once you’ve viewed the photos, you need to take down the number of the photo and where the tree planting was held, come back to this page and to order photos CLICK here
Maywood Res Photos
Tony Segedin
Ferngrove Park
Hart Domain
War on Weeds encourages local residents to remove invasive weeds from their property, to reduce the amount of illegal dumping of weeds and to increase general awareness of invasive plant pests and their threat to native bush.
These pest plants are a major threat to Waitakere's native bush:
Ginger Plant - Blue Morning Glory - Japanese Honeysuckle - Climbing Asparagus - Jasmine - Moth Plant - Plectranthus - Smilax - Tradescantia (Wandering Jew)
Help rid west Auckland of these fast spreading invaders!
If you are having difficulty identifying any of these invasive weeds, please visit the Weedbusters website.
Keep Waitakere Beautiful Trust can supply west Auckland households with 10 biodegradable bags per year, for them to fill with environmental weeds from their properties. This service is provided free of charge and includes collection of the bags from your property once they are full.
This project is run with the support of Auckland Council and WeedFree Trust. WeedFree offers advice on weed removal methods and suggestions on native plants for replanting. All weeds are deposited at the Auckland Council Transfer Station.
For information phone (09) 826 4276 or email info@kwbt.org.nz
Attachments:
Trees for Babies |
Operation Spring Clean |
Ecowise Nomination Form |
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