Trust dividend for local initiatives

 

Once again the Mangawhai Walking Weekend Charitable Trust has raised significant funds to provide support to a number of volunteer community groups and initiatives. 

This year the Trust is very pleased to be able to distribute $11,000 in support of the following organisations:

 Mangawhai Tracks Charitable Trust. Always our primary sponsorship since this organisation directly contributes to the maintenance and development of walking tracks throughout the wider Mangawhai area and lobbies KDC and NRC for access and opportunities to improve walking and cycling infrastructure.

 Kaiwaka Mangawhai Scouts. Scouts strongly supports the Walking Weekend with parking and clean-up offering an outstanding example of community service to our local youth. 

 St John Cadets, Mangawhai. This new initiative will pay big dividends in the future and the Trust is pleased to offer a helping hand at this early stage.

 Mangawhai Heads Volunteer Lifeguard Service. A critical volunteer service to a community with a major recreation focus on its coast and harbour, keeping both locals and visitors safe.

 Plastic Free Mangawhai. A great example of a group taking the initiative on a problem increasingly recognised as one of the most serious threats to the environment we all enjoy so much.

A big thank you to everyone both local and from further afield that support our weekend of activities and we look forward to seeing you all again in 2019 for our very special 20 year celebration on March 28-31, 2019. Visit mangawhaiwalking.co.nz.

- Dorothy Freeman

From left, Michael (St John cadet leader), Shannon (ADM St John Youth Mangawhai) and some of their 40 local cadets.
Jan Jacob, Barbara Lambert, Dorothy Freeman, Bronwyn Heasman (Mangawhai Walking Weekend).
Gordon Hosking, Mike Robinson (Mangawhai Tracks Charitable Trust). 
Bruce Ferguson with Kaiwaka Mangawhai Scouts
Absent: Mangawhai Heads Volunteer Lifeguard Services and Plastic Free Mangawhai.