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The Jenkins Foundation Supports The Mixit Van To Keep Youth Moving

Mixit is grateful to receive funding support from The Jenkins Foundation to cover the costs of the Mixit van, including maintenance, a driver and support for Mixit’s Core Programme, which runs every Saturday during the school term.For many young people from former refugee and migrant backgrounds, getting to the studio is the first hurdle. Auckland’s transport system can be overwhelming, expensive and onerous for new Aucklanders, so Mixit offers free transport for them. Families find this ess...

The Jenkins Foundation Keeping The Tread Lightly Caravan On The Road

The Beautification Trust’s Tread Lightly Caravan has been helping tamariki learn about the environment for nearly 20 years, travelling to schools across Tāmaki Makaurau with hands-on environmental education. To keep this award-winning mobile classroom safe, reliable and ready to travel, the caravan recently needed a range of repairs and maintenance. Support from The Jenkins Foundation has helped make that work possible, ensuring the caravan can continue delivering environmental education...

The Jenkins Foundation Supports Accessible Bathroom Upgrades at Recreate NZ

Recreate NZ is delighted to acknowledge the generous support of the The Jenkins Foundation, who contributed funds towards our new and accessible bathroom facilities at our Ellerslie head office in Auckland. Completed in August 2026 by Brendan Smith, the project has made a significant difference to the functionality, accessibility and comfort of our facilities, helping us better support the young people, staff and volunteers who use our space....

A Thousand Plus Homes With The Jenkins Foundation By Our Side

The Jenkins Foundation has been part of Woven Earth’s journey for five years, supporting specific projects as our needs have evolved. That consistency has meant a great deal to us.As a small organisation experiencing significant growth, project funding gives us the opportunity to do things beyond our day-to-day work — to stop, reflect, document our impact, tell our story properly and reach people who may never otherwise know what happens after a family leaves violence....

The Moehau Environment Group Are Back On The Road

Moehau Environment Group (MEG) are thrilled to receive funding support from The Jenkins Foundation for an appropriate vehicle for the rough northern Coromandel roads and conditions. MEG have a field team that needs to travel around the region to clear tracks for stoat trapping lines in a network covering 16 000 ha from Coromandel town to Sandy Bay for kiwi protection. Over 120 dozen eggs are delivered around the region for trappers to bait traps each month....

66th Annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF)

In July 2025, I had the opportunity to attend the 66th annual London International Youth Science Forum (LIYSF), where students from around the world gathered to share ideas and explore the frontiers of science. I was one of 500 attendees from 92 countries worldwide, including a dozen New Zealanders. ...

Earthworkers: From Grassroots Learning to National Impact

Over the past three years, The Jenkins Foundation support has been instrumental in allowing Earthworkers to evolve from a small, grassroots education initiative into what we believe will become a nationally significant biology-first regenerative education pathway.What you have helped build is no longer a single programme, but an integrated learning ecosystem - one that now spans beginner growers, small-to-medium producers, and, from 2026 onward, commercial growers and emerging agronomists who wi...

Development and Implementation of The Garden to Table Early Years Programme

Through the generous donation from The Jenkins Foundation, Garden to Table has been able to develop and implement The Garden to Table Early Years Programme. This includes a bespoke range of training and resources for our youngest learners and is now being successfully implemented in ECE centres and kindergartens across Aotearoa, New Zealand from Kerikeri in the far north to Christchurch in the South Island. The hands-on resources developed to support kaiako (teachers) in helping young ...

Recreate NZ Gets a New Kitchen and Launches Garden To Plate

Our team at Recreate NZ, along with our community of young people with disabilities, are thrilled to be supported by the Jenkins Foundation in 2025. Through this generous support, we have been able to fully renovate the kitchen space at our head office in Ellerslie, Auckland.This has enabled the launch of our new Garden to Plate educational course and provided a home base for our Our Harvest product-making groups and community social events. Previously, we were required to run our kitchen-based ...

CUE Haven's New Secure Garage and Storage Area

CUE Haven has been restored into a community native forest reserve to be used for education and quiet enjoyment. The 24+ hectare property overlooking the Kaipara Harbour, is a former dairy farm and since 2008 over 5,500 volunteers have planted 175,000+ native trees and built over 3km of walking tracks and boardwalks. Due to lack of secure storage facilities, entry to the reserve has been by appointment only. To enable the public to visit CUE Haven at their convenience, we needed a secure st...

South Coast Environment Society’s 3rd Annual Bountiful Backyards Workshop Weekend in October 2025

Workshops on backyard poultry, soil wellbeing, food growing and making yummy treats were on the menu for the South Coast Environment Society’s 3rd Annual Bountiful Backyards Workshop Weekend in October 2025.Attendees came from across Southland, from Winton to Te Anau, and even as far as Palmerston to pick up helpful tips, get some inspiration and make connections with others looking to increase their resilience and boost their family’s wellbeing with homegrown fresh produce. Those who may ha...

Tread Lightly: New E-Van Growing Its Impact

To practice what we preach, Tread Lightly has recently acquired a fully electric e-van, a good way to ‘tread lightly’ on the environment, while we carry out our mission. The acquisition of the e-van was made possible through the Meridian Decarbonisation Fund. Additional funding from The Jenkins Foundation enabled us to fit out the e-van internally with benches and storage cupboards featuring nature-inspired graphics. This extra support from The Jenkins Foundation will help us expand our reac...

Celebrating a Powerful Partnership: The Jenkins Family Foundation & Woven Earth

At Woven Earth, we are incredibly proud to shine a light on one of our most valued relationships — the ongoing support from The Jenkins Family Foundation. Over the past five years, The Jenkins Foundation has been instrumental in helping us grow our reach, strengthen our service, and furnish lives through their strategic approach to funding our unique projects.Their commitment to Woven Earth goes far beyond funding — they are truly part of our whānau....

Kiwi Set Foot On Waiheke For (perhaps?) The First Time Ever

In mid-May we were delighted to be among a group of Waiheke Islanders gathered at Piritahi marae, overlooking Blackpool Beach in Te Huruhi Bay.A small, grey barge rounded Kennedy Point and excited chatter broke out on the ātea and among the many onlookers on the beach. A dad pointed to the boat, showing his daughter who squealed with childish excitement. And a woman next to him called out, her eyes damp and her voice catching with emotion: “They’re back. They’ve come back.”Technically, ...

Connecting Young Minds with Conservation: Rotoroa Island’s Education Programme

What does it take to inspire a new generation of environmental guardians? At Rotoroa Island, the answer lies in connection - with place, with people, and with purpose. Thanks to the generous support of the The Jenkins Foundation, over 780 students from seven Auckland schools took part in the Rotoroa Island Education Programme in Term 1, 2025. The programme offered an immersive, place-based experience that introduced students to the unique ecology, history, and restoration journey of this Ha...

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...