Community Projects and Volunteers

A conservation group, a church group or a sports team running an activity that engages people with nature anywhere around their city or home. These are all community projects with volunteers - where people and nature benefit.

Introduction

Waitakere is proud to have approximately fifty known volunteer groups operating in the city. Some are community groups who use conservation tasks as a tool toward achieving other objectives (e.g. the sports team), some are neighbours caring for their local environment and some are dedicated conservation groups. Other examples include:

• Neighbours co-ordinating their effort to plant a stream bank that runs through each of their backyards
• School children, scouts, guides etc. learning by doing a planting project in a local park
• A business building their team.

How could your group use the opportunity to benefit?

What environmental benefit could you contribute?

For each project, there are common tasks that need organising. Here are some "tools" and contacts to make your job easier.

See the 'big picture' termed the Green Network that shows some areas of priority.

Obtaining permission of landowner

Streams, weeds, birds they all go about their businesses regardless of our boundaries. Sometimes the problems they have - or the work needed to restore health to our land, can be overwhelming, beyond our skills, or beyond our boundaries.

Support for or from others around us can provide a solution, and be fun. 

If you plan to take a shared approach you need to make sure landowners or other parties share the vision.

This form is to help ensure plans and expectations are clear between the parties - all power to everyone involved!

Note: You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer in order to view and print this document.  For help opening PDF files or tips on copying information see Helpful Tips.

Community Project Agreement & Landowner Permission Form (Size 79K)

Use this form to help you ensure that all parties are included in your plans.

Other "tools" include:

Planting information

Weeds information

Note: You will need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed on your computer in order to view and print these documents.  For help opening PDF files or tips on copying information see Helpful Tips.

Planning the project  (Size 153K)

Coordination with landowners (Size 95K)

Register your interest

If you are starting a community project by providing the following details:

• the project name
• the organisation's name (if applicable)
• a contact name and telephone number and
• a description of the project and its location