Take Care

Take Care is Greater Wellington's community environmental programme. Through Take Care , the council makes financial support and specialist assistance available to community groups that want to look after their local environment. There are opportunities for individuals, groups and businesses to work on environmental projects that contribute to the health and restoration of our region's most threatened ecosystems, including the following:

rivers and streams
wetlands and lakes
estuaries
dunes
coastal escarpments.

Groups supported through Take Care do it all; from weed removal to re-vegetation. Sometimes from bare ground to thriving ecosystem. If getting down and dirty and planting trees isn't your thing there are many other ways you can become involved with a care group: helping care group meetings run smoothly, publishing a newsletter, creating a website for a care group, running community awareness programmes or working with schools.

Lots of people of all ages, backgrounds and with varying skills have volunteered to help with environmental projects in our region. These fantastic people all havesomething in common - they care about their local environment and want to see it healthy and in good condition!

Greater Wellington has a partnership with over thirty community environmental groups. Explore this website to learn about the group nearest you!Find out what the groups do, and some background on each project. We have even includedlinks to some of the groupswebsites.

Take Care groups form when a group of people want to work together to help the environment. Greater Wellington staff in the Environment Management, Catchment Management, and Finance & Administration divisions work with Take Care groups to look after beaches, sand dunes, estuaries, wetlands, streams and rivers all over the Wellington region.

Volunteers also do a huge amount of work in many of the regional parks. Greater Wellingtons Water Supply, Parks & Forests staff work with volunteers on sand dunes, wetlands and streams in the regional parks, and on a few of the major rivers aroundthe Greater Wellington region.