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Te Taiao Volunteer Expo Stall

Climate Action Campus, 180 Avonside Drive, Avonside

Saturday, 1 March, 10.00am – 2.00pm

As part of the Autumn Market, we will be giving away free wheelie bin latches, and fridge magnets for children.  Come and talk to us about the river and how you can volunteer to help it.

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2025 Events

1 March 2025

Climate Action Autumn Market stall

15 March 2025

EstuaryFest (Mini)

Mt Pleasant Community Centre

13 April 2025

Walking Festival

Historic Ōpāwaho Towpath – details

21 April 2025

Walking Festival

Reserves on the Awa – details

27 April 2025

Walking Festival

Headwater Springs – details

10 May 2025

Mother-of-All-Clean-Ups

Details

24 June 2025

AGM

28 September 2025

World Rivers Day

7 November 2025

Gathering of the Groups

23 November 2025

Farmers' Market stall

Just a couple of days before the big February quake in 2011, Zak Cassells led a group of volunteers on a clean-up of a loop of the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River. This small local initiative grew over time into the annual Mother of All Clean-Ups – an enormous clean-up of the main urban waterways of Christchurch held annually on the day before Mothers Day.

Click to play video of 1st Mother-of-All-Clean-Ups