Stories
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Coast Access Radio
Coast Access Radio is basically run by volunteers. Both live-to-air and recorded programmes are almost all created by volunteers, and the technical as...
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Ōtaki Heritage
Ōtaki Heritage: Te Whare Pouhere Taonga o Ōtaki choose to nominate two of their volunteers, Jan Harris and Aileen Lumley. They were inspired to nomin...
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Kaibosh Kāpiti-Horowhenua
At Kaibosh Food Rescue, our incredible volunteers are the heart of everything we do. Every week, they show up with sleeves rolled and smiles ready — s...
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Raumati South Repair Café
The Raumati South Repair Cafe started over 2 years ago running bi-monthly Repair events for Kāpiti. We have a wide range of volunteers who help run o...
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Waitohu Stream and Dune Care Group
We are volunteers who love nature and work together to care for 8 hectares of the Waitohu Stream estuary and dune system at the north end of Ōtaki Bea...
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Kāpiti Women's Centre
Without our team of volunteers it wouldn’t be possible for the Kāpiti Women’s Centre to offer our services to the wāhine of the Kāpiti Coast. They wel...
Volunteer Story Celebration 2025 - Ōtaki Bike Space Volunteers
Our wonderful group of volunteers from the Energise Ōtaki Bike Space meet approximately every six weeks for our community bike repair sessions. Durin...
Spotlight on a Member: Red Cross Meals on Wheels Service
The New Zealand Red Cross has been running a Meals on Wheels service since 1951. Originating out of a need to provide Canterbury residents with soup d...
Youth Week: Aimee Keokotavong
This week (19th - 25th May) is Youth Week, a week all about celebrating young people – your voices, talents, and the amazingness you bring to your whā...
Spotlight on a Member: Ōtaki Heritage: Te Whare Pouhere Taonga o Ōtaki
Ōtaki’s Main Street boasts some interesting architecture that reveals a fascinating history of a town with many stories to tell. Stature wise, perhaps...