Projects

EnviroHub

Our EnviroHub is a great place to get relevant local information and resources – from cleaning and personal care eco refills and upcycling materials to waste minimisation and recycling ideas.  It’s also home to the community trap library, seed bank and planting kete. 

The EnviroHub also regularly hosts community educational events, focusing on waste minimisation, sustainability, reuse, and creativity.

Clean reuse items such as jars with lids, fabrics, egg cartons, ice cream containers, and garden pots are warmly received.  Lids that are no longer accepted with kerbside recycling can also be dropped at the EnviroHub for recycling.

The friendly team are always ready to help you on your sustainability journey.

Green Bikes

Green Bikes is an open workshop where the Whanganui community can come and fix their own bikes.  With friendly mechanics on hand to help, the focus is on learning how to DIY and provides access to our library of tools, building skills and knowledge in the community.

Cycling is a clean, green, and inexpensive means of Active Travel, with positive health benefits. In Whanganui, a predominantly flat and sprawling town, cycling is a great way to get around. It can reduce isolation and transport poverty, providing people with a sense of independence and autonomy.

A complementary aspect is the reuse of donated bikes, as parts or whole, towards refurbished bicycles for sale at low/affordable prices.  And a bike trailer allows these guys to visit schools to  and maintain kids bikes and run workshops too.

Check for updates on our Facebook page.

LINK TO GREENBIKES VIDEO

Predator Free Whanganui

Predator Free Whanganui works to protect native flora and fauna through effective predator control and is part of the national Predator Free 2050 programme targeting possums, rats and mustelids (stoats, ferrets and weasels).

You can become part of this community by setting up a trap in your backyard, contributing your trapping data or becoming a volunteer to check our existing Traplines

With a growing trap library (it only costs $2 to borrow a trap), Predator Free Whanganui seeks to combine local values and context with expert knowledge of predator control so flora and fauna can thrive.

If you have traps in your garden, please visit Trap NZ – Whanganui, request membership to the Project (Predator Free Whanganui?) and select urban or rural for your trap siting. This will enable you to register your traps, upload data and participate in the movement, and view the communal efforts achieved. You could also join our Predator Free Whanganui Facebook group if you would like to show your support.

Please send us a message or email if you have any questions.

LINK TO PREDATOR FREE VIDEO

Repair Café

Our Repair Café provides an opportunity to give damaged items a new lease of life and save them from landfill.  The range of repairs possible is growing all the time: general repairs; mending for clothes and soft toys (no zips); costume jewellery; hard plastics; wooden items e.g. toys, stools, dining chairs; ceramics; shoes (patches) and leather goods; bikes; stained glass; knife sharpening and our café will be open so you can purchase a hot drink and something to eat while you wait.

Repair Cafe events are held on the last Saturday of each month 11am-1pm at the Harrison Street Community Church Hall.  Donations for repairs appreciated.

Please contact us if you wish to join our happy team of volunteers – or know someone who might. Full training is provided!

LINK TO REPAIR CAFÉ VIDEO 

Greening Whanganui

Greening Whanganui is all about fostering community engagement to increase planting in our region.  Working with kura, schools, marae, churches and other community groups and individuals, we have relevant local information to support the successful planting of natives, fruit trees.

A Planting Kete, kindly donated by DOC, with both tamariki and adult size planting tools is available to borrow from the EnviroHub so you have the right tools for the job.

LINK TO GREENING WHANGANUI VIDEO

Workshops

Open to all members of our community, our regular workshops provide an opportunity to develop skills in sustainability – from Tamariki creative sessions utilising recycled and natural materials making everything from bug hotels and terraria to robots and sculptures, to composting and ways to increase backyard biodiversity through predator trapping and thoughtful planting. 

We also support local and national events such as Plastic Free July, Earth Day, and host our popular Feijoabulous Festival. 

Have ideas for a workshop? Get in touch as we would love to support your initiative.  Our large meeting room, comfortably seating 20 people can be hired and is equipped with whiteboards, and technology connections.