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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...