Events and dates for your calendar July is Plastic Free July …. …. is a not-for profit global social movement that stops around 300 million kgs of plastic polluting the world each year because millions of people like you choose to make a change for cleaner streets, healthy oceans, and beautiful communities or just to do the right thing https://www.plasticfreejuly.org/ Sew Good is back - 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month. Whangarei. 5.00 – 7.00 pm. Join your Ecosolutions tutors @brontefay and Jules as we help you with all your mending and upcycling projects! You'll now find us at Hatea Studio 91 Dent St Whangārei (entrance next to Boatshed Store) on the 2nd & 4th Thursday of the month 5-7pm. Contact: bronte@cebec.co.nz Saturday, 13th August, 2022. Tai Tokerau TimeBank Bread Making Workshop and Social 2.00pm. 7a Waimahanga Road, Onerahi Love the smell of freshly baked bread?? Come to this workshop and learn how to make bread really easily! This is for Timebank members & members in the application process. Non-members are welcome for a $30 workshop fee. Your local TTT coordinator: Janey Pares Edney Janeype.tttimebank@gmail.com https://taitokerau.timebanks.org/ Saturday, 13th August, 2022. Love Whangārei Monthly Clean Up. 10am - 12pm. Venue to be advised. Contact Karen 0220820847, karen@force.org.nz https://www.facebook.com/events/598495334743577 Tuesday, 16th August, 2022. August Green Drinks, again at Dickens Inn, Whangarei. 6.00 - 7.30pm. This time we will be downstairs on a table so grab a drink and come find us in a quiet corner. If anyone would like to speak and share any upcoming news and events, just let me know or just feel free to share on the night. Contact: Bronte hamiltonbronte@gmail.com http://www.greendrinks.org/--/Whangarei Saturday, 20th August,2022. Film and Auction Fund Raising, Kerikeri. Cornerston. 6.00 pm Doors Open, 6:30pm Film Starts (approx. 1 hour) Planet Local is a newly released documentary showing local communities in action, examples of local economies, local food systems, local solutions…. everything local! 7.30 pm – 9.00 pm. Refreshments and Silent auction. Entry: $10 Adults, $5 Youth (16 - 6), Free 5 years and under - fundraising to help set up a community hub at the Kerikeri Organic Community Garden. If you can donate an item for the auction or raffle, or volunteer to help, please get in touch with us asap. All gratefully received with a smile! Timebank hours can be used. Contact: Email us at transtown.boi@gmail.com or call Asha 021 181 9919. Heads Up Saturday 17th to Friday 23rd,September, 2022. Keep New Zealand Beautiful Clean Up Week is returning. Whangarei District Council are offering FREE disposal and FREE pick up of your litter if you sign up to take part in a litter pick via the Keep New Zealand Beautiful website. By signing up, FREE clean up kits will be available on request for community groups who don’t have access to their own clean up materials. Get in touch with Whangarei District Council’s Waste Minimisation Officer Meltem Lang to find out more. (021 782 807 – meltem.lang@wdc.govt.nz) Northland Edible Garden Trail mid February 2023 The success of the 2022 Northland Edible Garden Trail has cemented a good foundation to make this an annual event. We are looking for new gardens or businesses from around Northland that incorporate edibles and sustainable ideas to take part in the trail in mid February 2023. We will work with those interested to plan the next event. If you are keen to be part of the next event please go to the webpage and fill out the expression of interest form. Please register via the website below. Northland Edible Garden Trail https://www.northlandediblegardentrail.org.nz This is a not for profit event which has been supported by the Kai Ora Fund and the Far North Resilient Communities Trust. Please feel free to share amongst your contacts. Blair, Northland Edible Garden Trail. Note: Transition Whangarei’s newsletter/notice accepts and distributes a wide range of topics and opinions. These don’t necessarily reflect our own individual opinions, but meet our overall objective of building an inclusive local community allowing all voices to be heard. Any response, in the first instance, should be directed please to the respective contact details provided. |
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