2025 Motutapu Volunteer Planting Season | September 14 RSVPs now closed

September 11, 2025

UPDATE


Due to the March for Humanity on the Auckland Harbour Bridge on the 13th September potentially impacting logistics around the waterfront, we are moving this planting day to Sunday 14th September.

 

If you have already received a confirmation, please check your email again for updated details and please let us know if you can no longer make this date.


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Registrations for this planting day are now closed as we have received a high level of registrations and now have an extensive waitlist

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This is the last of our community volunteer planting days for the 2025 season, so make sure you come along and contribute to the collective mahi being done to restore Motutapu as a sanctuary for taonga species, which has already seen over 10,000 rākau planted this year alone!


All ages are welcome (though please note, if you bring your children, you take full responsibility for their supervision) and no experience is required - and as always, transport on the Explore boats and lunch are on us.


Pick ups will be from the Viaduct (approx. 8.30am) and Stanley Point (approx. 8.45am), with the return trip departing from Motutapu at 4.00pm.

PS: Think you could pull together a decent-sized group of people from your workplace to volunteer as a corporate group in the meantime? We’re looking to host a few corporate planting days in the lead up to September 14, so send us an email at volunteer@ngaitaitamaki.iwi.nz to discuss options.


And finally, ngā mihi to the hundreds of volunteers who have mucked in this season, including representatives from the following groups and organisations:


  • Uru Whakaaro
  • Motutapu Restoration Trust
  • Ardmore School
  • Hauraki Gulf Conservation Trust
  • Skills Update Mangere
  • Cockle Bay School
  • Westpac
  • South City Barber
  • Otara Lakes and Water Ways Trust
  • Kaipatiki Project
  • PFK
  • Restoring Takarunga Hauraki
  • Motuihe Trust
  • Tiritiri Matangi
  • Windsor Park Baptist Church
  • Plan C
  • Te Kāhui Rongoā
  • Jacobs NZ
  • Pest Free Grey Lynn
  • RYLA/Rotary
  • DOC
  • New Zealand College of Chinese Medicine
  • Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust
  • The CarbonCycle Company



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