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For The Love Of Bees: Communities of Regenerative Learning 2023-2024 Tāmaki Makaurau

Communities of Regenerative Learning Mentoring Network Programme developed through conversations and a pilot programme over some years as a next step to support community connected Alumni farms who participated in For The Love of Bees Earthworkers Programme Regenerative Horticulture 101.Earthworkers is a five day course with access to an ongoing WhatsApp mentoring group and attracts a diverse range of people with the desire to help mitigate climate change through learnin...

The Peace Foundation: Empowering Youth to Resolve Conflicts Constructively Through Peer Mediation

Te Röpú Rongomau o Aotearoa/The Peace Foundation delivers innovative training in conflict resolution skills to kura (schools) and their wider communities throughout Aotearoa, New Zealand.We are a registered charity and have been a leader in peace education since 1975. The Peace Foundation is the only organisation in Aotearoa that offers a national programme of peer mediation for primary, intermediate and secondary kura which is contemporary and culturally responsive for tangata whenua. See mor...

Butterfly Creek’s Wētāpunga Breeding Programme

An adult wētāpunga...

Tread Lightly Charitable Trust: Inspiring New Zealanders To Live Sustainably

The Tread Lightly Charitable Trust was established in 2007 to ‘inspire New Zealanders to live sustainably’. It works towards this goal by providing environmental education programmes to Auckland Tāmaki Makaurau primary schools.At every Tread Lightly teaching session, students aged 5 to 12 years make pledges to protect and nurture the environment and are encouraged to involve their whanau in implementing them. A key message young people take home is that small actions such as picking up litt...

EnviroPAST: Plastic And Sustainability Talks, Two-Day Conference 2024

Examining bugs during Bio Blitz activity...

Significant Increase In Demand For Woven Earth Services 2024

Woven Earth is experiencing significant increase in demand for our services, with over 50 agencies in greater Auckland now relying on us to transform empty houses into furnished, loving homes for families rebuilding their lives free from domestic violence. To meet this demand and ensure our future, we recognised the need to shift to a donor-centric model. This transformation was essential to not only maintaining but also expanding our regular donors who are fundamental to our sustainability...

Manawatawa Native Restoration Project

The Manawatawa Native Restoration Project aims to restore approximately 25 hectares of hill country on the Hokianga Harbour in Motukaraka, Northland. The project benefits from significant voluntary community input and, in turn, supports a local tree nursery as well as whanau nurseries.While the planted trees are thriving and native regeneration is impressive, the terrain is steep in parts and susceptible to weed infestation.The Jenkins Foundation responded to a funding request to support an ongo...

Garden to Table Food Education Programme For Young Children

The Jenkins Charitable Foundation generously provided funding for the Garden to Table Trust.  These funds were used in the Garden to Table food education programme for use in early years settings.A pilot project was run with two kindergartens to establish and develop the programme that tamariki (children) were involved in all four programme pou (pillars) – Grow, Harvest, Prepare and Share.Information gathered through the pilot project helped in the development of resources appropriate for...

For The Love Of Bees: Communities of Regenerative Learning Programme

Participants on our weekend of site visits and workshops in November 2023.In November 2023 For The Love Of Bees launched a long dreamed of programme called Communities of Regenerative Learning. This programme gathers together a mentoring network of 27 people from six Tāmaki Makaurau community-connected growing spaces for a year, to provide site specific mentoring and group learning. The participating farms are Growing Point at Dignan Street Community Gardens in Point Chevalier, Kelmarna Communi...

Trees For Survival 2023

This winter marked Trees for Survival's 32nd planting year and The Jenkins Foundation and New World Victoria Park are proud sponsors of the Trees for Survival programme, at both Freemans Bay and Herne bay Primary Schools. The sponsorship helps fund the purchase of seedlings and transportation to the planting sites with keen, excited young students.Planting season is a true highlight the Trees for Survival students who raised their native plants from tiny seedlings and their diligent work pays of...

The Manawatawa Project

The Manawatawa project is a native tree restoration programme on hill country in Motukaraka on the Hokianga Harbour. The aim is to revegetate about 25 ha that forms the immediate catchment for a community water supply. The land is under the Ngāi Tūpoto ki Motukaraka Trust; a hapū trust with charitable status. The project started in 2021 and over three seasons over 16,000 trees have been planted and thousand of regenerating natives have been subjected to weed control and enhancement work....

EnviroPAST: Plastic And Sustainability Talks Two Day Conference 2023

EnviroPAST: Plastic And Sustainability Talks, is a two-day conference, aimed to educate, inspire, connect, and challenge rangatahi, connecting them with the leading sustainability experts. Youth are becoming increasingly concerned about environmental issues; however, taking the next step of making a difference can be challenging, especially without adequate guidance and support. EnviroPAST aims to serve as a bridge between concern and action by providing young people with the space, tools, ...

The Garden to Table Early Childhood Education Project

The Garden to Table food education programme was established in 2008 and is now in more than 270 primary and intermediate schools around Aotearoa New Zealand. Each week, across the country, thousands of children are getting their hands dirty and learning how to grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh, seasonal food.  Garden to Table Trust is a registered charity that supports schools to teach hands-on classes in the garden, the kitchen and the classroom. Ses...

Woven Earth 2022

Woven Earth receives much needed support from the Jenkins Foundation to support the growing demand on their service.Through the generosity of the Jenkins Foundation we have been able to implement some significant operational items to help us sustain the growth and demand for our service. There are a number operation functions within Woven Earth that were identified as critical to be able to service the need and referrals flooding in from across the Auckland community.The Jenkins Foundation fundi...

Maintenance Pilot in the Whau Catchment, Te Atatu, Auckland 2022

At Sustainable Coastlines we believe we can't clean-up our oceans without cleaning-up the rivers that flow to them. One of our solutions to end ocean pollution is to restore freshwater ecosystems with riparian planting, weeding and releasing activities and citizen science monitoring. And thanks to the support of The Jenkins Foundation, we are able to innovate and pilot new initiatives to achieve our goals. One of these initiatives was the trial of a new organic weed control and maintenance ...

2021 Shmak Kit Funding

In 2021 Sustainable Coastlines launched a new strategic direction for their Love Your Water restoration programme, based on a long-term, whole catchment approach. With a focus that goes beyond planting trees, to deliver best practice frameworks to ensure high tree survival rates and enhanced biodiversity.This catchment approach also ensures communities are supported to look after and restore the full freshwater ecosystem. This includes delivering water-quality education, riparian planting days, ...

Woven Earth 2021

Woven Earth turns empty houses into homes for those who have fled violence and are trying to rebuild their lives. We are a caring community of individuals and businesses passionate about doing something positive in response to family violence.One of the barriers preventing women from leaving violent relationships is the fear of losing their homes and possessions and uprooting their children’s lives.A core part of our goal at Woven Earth is to support the children, who are walking the family vi...

Rotary National Science & Technology Forum 2021

Kia ora, my name is Te Rina Sinclair ( top left photo )and I’m a year 13 student at Auckland Girls’ Grammar School. These summer holidays I had the privilege of attending the annual Rotary National Science & Technology Forum thanks to the sponsorship of the Jenkins Foundation. Other than the lectures at the Auckland universities, we were given the chance to visit three institutes or companies of our choice; mine were the Auckland Medical School, HERA, and Landcare Research. Not only did ...

Garden To Table

Established in 2008, the Garden to Table Trust is a registered charity working with thousands of primary- school-aged children all across New Zealand, helping them discover a love for fresh food and develop important skills that will last a lifetime. We do this through the Garden to Table programme, which is all about getting kids into school gardens and kitchens, letting them get stuck in, and in the process “teaching” them about food: where it comes from, what is in it, how to harvest...

Plastic Pollution Education with Sustainable Coastlines

Sustainable Coastlines is a grassroots charity on a mission to enable people to look after the coastlines and waterways we all love. They deliver coastal clean-up events, educational programmes, public awareness campaigns, and riparian planting projects. Sustainable Coastlines began life organising large-scale beach clean-ups. While there is huge value in removing litter from our marine environments, Sustainable Coastlines saw that it was not a solution in itself. To truly make a difference to p...

Tree Planting with Sustainable Coastlines

Sustainable Coastlines is a grassroots charity on a mission to enable people to look after the coastlines and waterways we all love. They deliver coastal clean-up events, educational programmes, public awareness campaigns, and riparian planting projects.In September 2020, funding from the Jenkins Trust purchased 500 trees for Sustainable Coastlines’ planting site at Harbourview-Orangihina Park on Te Atatu Peninsula in Auckland.Dedicated volunteers along with Jenkins Trust trustees mucked in an...

CUE Haven

CUE Haven is the vision of Aucklanders Thomas & Mahrukh Stazyk, who bought a 24 hectare farm in 2003. Concerned about the effect of grazing on water quality and the lack of public native bush reserves in fast growing Auckland they decided to restore the farm into a native nature reserve for the community to use and enjoy into perpetuity.The restoration project which began in 2008 is an excellent example of individuals, government and the private sectors all working together for the common go...