The Team

The Team

In our five year plan we always had the aspiration to have a project manager or coordinator to help with funding applications, volunteer days, predator control, communications, visiting groups and all the other everyday jobs which require a bit more time than the...
Lion Team at Matuku Link

Lion Team at Matuku Link

The first and last business planting group of 2020 – thanks to Covid we have had to cancel everyone else. But the team from Lion worked tremendously hard on their volunteer day to make up for that and planted hundreds of trees, shrubs and flaxes. It was right...
Fiftieth Fundraising Forest

Fiftieth Fundraising Forest

What a great day to plant a 50th Forest for Anko’s birthday! Beautiful weather (though a bit windy, look at my hair!), lovely company, great cakes… and we planted our 100 trees as well as some extra flaxes and grasses! Thank you to everyone, from all over...
Sunny September

Sunny September

What a great turnout to enjoy our very sunny working bee in September! We had one group of volunteers in the nursery, one group protecting our plants with a thick layer of mulch, and another group busy with ‘infill’ planting: adding bigger trees where the...
Jobs for Nature

Jobs for Nature

Jobs for Nature are established by the government, through the Department of Conservation, to help the environment as well as help people in a job who are currently unemployed or underemployed. Matuku Link’s proposal was part of the Sustainable Business Network...
Retirees Retreat

Retirees Retreat

If you are getting under your partner’s feet, have seen enough of each other during the lock down or just want a change of scenery, why not join our merry team of Weekday Volunteers? We’re setting up a group of people who like to come to Matuku Link for...