Photos Credit – Toby, Lincoln High School A Celebration of Businesses Sustainable Practices. On Friday 1st November over 80 people gathered at the Tai Tapu Community Centre to celebrate prize winners, receive certificates, and hear citations regarding the excellent work of all the businesses who participated in the 2024 Selwyn…

Selwyn Timebank has formed a new Board Games Group which now meets regularly. What a lot of fun and laughter we had during our first get-together! After a quick explanation of Rummukub, two rounds of the game were completed while we nibbled on some snacks and had coffee. A timebank…

Celebrating Selwyn Businesses’ Sustainable Practices We are again looking forward to assessing and celebrating the environmental and community initiatives that our businesses undertake. Every two years the Trust, organise the Selwyn Responsible Business Awards. The awards are made at a celebratory evening in early November but prior to that our…

Waste Art Competition & Exhibition Art the Challenges the Way We Look at Waste The exhibition, held at Te Ara Ātea, showcased all entries to the 2023 Selwyn High Schools’ Waste Art Competition. The exhibits were on display over a weekend in August 2023. Our thanks go to the staff…

Annual KidsFest Craft & Science Event LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS PUT ON EXCELLENT HOLIDAY EVENT Friends in the Forest, July 2023 We would like to thank those rangatahi from Lincoln High School who gave up holiday time to organise and assist with our annual craft and science day for children and…

Fungi In Your Garden Friends and Foes If you missed the recent presentation by Wendy Kentjens on fungi, here are a few tips from the well attended workshop that took place in April. While we have useful fungi such as mushrooms and yeasts, Wendy devoted most of her talk to…

Kim Hill Hot Topic 2024 If you missed this year’s Kim Hill Hot Topic: “PLASTIC – How Do We Live With It” you can now watch it on YouTube. Thanks to Lincoln High School for filming the event where Kim Hill leads a panel of experts to delve into the…

A member of Selwyn Timebank recently ran a workshop on the benefits of essential oils. It was very informative and opened our minds to the numerous advantages of these oils, and how they can impact health and wellbeing. The timebank member was very knowledgeable and had years of experience working…

Mini BioBlitz at the Mahoe Reserve City Nature Challenge 2024 On Sunday 28 April, we held a thoroughly enjoyable and hopefully, informative and educational, Mini Bioblitz at the Mahoe Reserve. The weather cooperated and over 60 people of all ages searched the trails of the reserve identifying the flora and…

Selwyn Responsible Business Network Welcomes New Coordinator and is looking forward to an exciting 2024. We have recently been privileged to make the appointment of Maree Hamilton to the position of Selwyn Responsible Network Coordinator. Maree has recently returned from Europe and brings extensive experience from working on large business…

Exploring Waste Management Selwyn Timebank head to ReDiscover Waste and Sustainability Centre. A group from Selwyn Timebank recently visited the ReDiscover Waste and Sustainability Centre outside of Rolleston. An introduction to how different materials break down in a natural environment led down a different pathway for the intended workshop! There…

Timebanks Connect Selwyn Timebank and Mid-Canterbury Timebank Get Together Let’s get the Timebanks meeting! An idea was sparked between Fiona, the coordinator of Selwyn Timebank, and Kate, the Mid-Canterbury Timebank coordinator. They decided to get folk from the timebanks to meet together in Rakaia at the end of January. Seventeen…

One Hundred Items Brought to Repair Cafe! Fantastic Celebration of World Repair Day 2022 The people of Selwyn brought no fewer than 100 household items to be repaired at the Repair Café held at Te Ara Atea on Saturday 15th October 2022. Nearly all of these were restored to their…

This popular event takes place every year in November at the Lincoln Event Centre.  Last year it was hugely successful with the biggest display of clothes, shoes and accessories to date. There is no payment for entry or clothes. The event provides a chance to enjoy changing one’s wardrobe, as…