Selwyn Responsible Business Awards 2022

We would again like to thank all the businesses and schools that participated in the Selwyn Responsible Business Awards 2022 along with our supporters that made it possible. There was a tremendous response this year and we hope that the many people who were able to attend the Awards Evening enjoyed the occasion. We certainly enjoyed the celebratory atmosphere and the citations delivered by our Assessors to each certificate recipient showed that there are great efforts being made to conduct business activity with the Environment and Community in mind. We heard about many excellent initiatives. All are to be congratulated. The area and overall winners are listed below along with all the organisations that took part this year.

In the forthcoming year we do not run the Awards but we operate a Responsible Business Network which we hope people will join. This is not intended to be a time consuming activity but simply a way of businesses, as they have time, sharing and receiving information largely on media and discussing activities and initiatives. There will be a few get-together’s with guest speakers for those interested.

Thanks to Our Speakers

It was a pleasure to hear from Tony from Loxley Innovation Ltd. The advancement of electric tractor technology is a fascinating topic and we certainly hope Tony and Duncan find success with their business.

Anyone wishing to get in contact with Loxley to further support or discuss their endeavors can find more about them here. Spread the word!

It was also a pleasure to hear from John Veix who has been busy planning the Selwyn Sustainability Expo which takes place in Rolleston in January 21st and 22nd 2023.John also supplied a gift of native plants to the award attendees, which was very much appreciated.

Thanks to Our Sponsors

Selwyn District Council, the Rata Foundation and Lincoln University are greatly appreciated as long term supporters. Many thanks also to Councillor Nicole Reid who presented the certificates and trophies.

This project also relied on specific supporters; The Waste Management Department of Selwyn District Council separately support the work of our Assessors and survey development which enables us to visit widely scattered businesses and make for a thorough and thoroughly enjoyable process; Lincoln New World enabled us to provide a great spread of food and some of the refreshments and Rossendale Winery supplied the wine; all of this support is at an extremely generous level.

And finally… Congratulations to our winners!

The OVERALL WINNER is….

A Little R & R Massage Therapy!
Well done Thea, and thank you for such an exemplary model of how to care for your clients, your planet and your local community!

The area winners are….

Ellesmere: Fires N Things
Runner up: Straight 8 Estate

Rolleston: Kreative Kiwi
Runner up: Fix Ur Ride

Prebbleton: ReCycle ReCreate
Runner Up: Kakariki Kitchen

Lincoln: Bento Ninja
Runner Up: Brown Acres

Malvern: Darfield Eco Garden Centre
Runner up: A Twisted Bunch

Education: Glentunnel Primary School
Runner Up: Ararira Springs Primary School

Diamond Awards

A Little R&R – Therapeutic Massage, Overall Winner	Lincoln
Ararira Springs Primary School, Runner Up Education Category	Lincoln
Bento Ninja, Winner Lincoln Area	Lincoln
Glentunnel School, Winner Education Category	Malvern
Kreative Kiwi, Winner Rolleston Area	Rolleston
Ladbrooks School	Lincoln
West Rolleston Primary School	Rolleston

Platinum Awards

Brown Acres, Runner Up Lincoln Area	Lincoln
Darfield Eco Garden Centre, Winner Malvern Area	Malvern
Fires N Things, Winner Ellesmere Area	Ellesmere
Fix ur ride, Runner Up Rolleston Area	Rolleston
Kakariki Kitchen, Runner Up Prebbleton Area	Prebbleton
Lincoln Library	Lincoln
Lincoln University Early Childhood Centre	Lincoln
Lincoln University Gym	Lincoln
Neemo Childcare Centre	Rolleston
New World Lincoln	Lincoln
ReCycle Recreate, Winner Prebbleton	Prebbleton
Southbridge School	Ellesmere
Straight 8 Estate, Runner Up Ellesmere	Prebbleton
Weedons School	Malvern
Yoga by Karma	Rolleston

Gold Awards

A Twisted Bunch, Runner Up Malvern	Malvern
APT Garden Creations	Rolleston
Austin Bluewater	Rolleston
Biological Husbandry Unit (BHU)	Lincoln
Café on the Green	Malvern
Challenge Tai Tapu	Lincoln
Clean Green Laundry	Malvern
CNC Solutions	Rolleston
Coffee Culture	Lincoln
DWG – Landscape Architect and Outdoor Kitchens	Lincoln
Edwards & Co Builders	Lincoln
Ellesmere Butchery	Ellesmere
Filter Crusher NZ	Lincoln
Food Art Science	Prebbleton
Hammer Hardware	Lincoln
Herslevgord / Nordic Concepts, Forest Quip H&M Machinery	Rolleston
Intelligro	Rolleston
Klox Business Solutions	Rolleston
Leech Wood Products	Ellesmere
Lincoln University	Lincoln
Melton Estate	Malvern
NZ Look Shuttles & Christchurch Combined Shuttles	Lincoln
Reinvent Boutique	Lincoln
Rossendale Wines	Lincoln
Selwyn Cattery	Lincoln
Solarcorp	Lincoln
Southern Woods	Rolleston
SRS New Zealand	Rolleston
Streamside Organics	Ellesmere
The AgriBusiness Group	Lincoln
The Chaff Chaps	Prebbleton
The Ellesmere Echo	Ellesmere
The Laboratory	Lincoln

Silver Awards

Ako Rolleston	Rolleston
Broadview Organic Produce	Ellesmere
Charing Cross Sheep Dairy	Malvern
Darfield ITM	Malvern
Eden Chiropractic	Lincoln
Farmlands Darfield	Malvern
Escoces Lane AirBnB	Malvern
Healthy Harvest	Prebbleton
iSushi	Lincoln
Jim’s Mowing Rolleston East	Rolleston
Johnny Fresh	Malvern
Lemonwood Grove School	Rolleston
Lincoln Hair Design	Lincoln
Lincoln High School	Lincoln
Lincoln Post Shop / Kiwibank	Lincoln
Liquorland	Lincoln
Mexicali Fresh	Lincoln
Property Brokers Selwyn	Rolleston
Roper & Son Limited	Lincoln
Sherlin Alpaca Stud	Malvern
Team Bookkeepers	Lincoln
The Flaming Rabbit	Lincoln
Tock Earth	Lincoln
VetEnt Darfield	Malvern
Woodshack Kitchens	Rolleston

Don’t treat your soil like dirt!

October 29 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Free

A workshop on the key characteristics of soil, their importance, and how to maintain healthy garden soil.

Soil is the foundation of a healthy garden, whether it is a lawn, a vegetable garden or a simple flower garden.

Roger McLenaghen of Lincoln University will present the workshop at the Lincoln Envirotown Community Gardens.

Roger is a Senior Tutor in the Soil Science Department. He is responsible for the soil science laboratories for undergraduate classes, and lectures to Diploma students.

Bring along an icecream container of your vegetable garden soil if you would like to have it assessed.

Gold coin donation greatly appreciated.

Contact Lincoln Community Gardens

021 074 3905

ruth.wood@xtra.co.nz

Lincoln Envirotown Community Gardens. The gardens are located behind the maternity hospital, please park on the street.

35 James Street
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Veges 101

October 22 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

Free

If you know next to nothing about growing vegetables, but would like to get started, this workshop is for you!

It’s much cheaper to grow your own than to buy them!

In just 90 minutes, Graham Burge and Errol Wood will take you through the basics of bed preparation, planting seeds and seedlings, and the maintenance requirements (weeding, thinning, watering, etc.).

A gold coin donation to support the activities of the Gardens will be appreciated.

Lincoln Envirotown Community Gardens. The gardens are located behind the maternity hospital, please park on the street.

35 James Street
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

Contact Lincoln Community Gardens

021 074 3905

ruth.wood@xtra.co.nz

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Waste Art Exhibition & Awards

August 13 @ 10:00 am – August 14 @ 4:00 pm

Free

Art exhibition that will challenge the way we look at waste.

About this event
On display will be all the entries to this years Selwyn High Schools’ Waste Art Competition.

The exhibits will be on show from 10am on Saturday 13 August until 4pm Sunday 14 August. We are grateful to Deputy Mayor Malcolm Lyall; who will be presenting the awards at 1pm on Saturday.

This event was first held last year and exhibited a genuine concern for the issue of Waste along with high standards of work. It has been a difficult year for schools and students but a pleasing number of them have taken the time to complete projects that will showcase their alternative view of “rubbish” in Art form. “From Bags to Riches” was the imaginative title of piece of art which won 2021’s Waste Art Competition. A dress which led a field of 22 entries was made from used feed bags and bailing twine. We also had an R2D2 constructed from a used gas cylinder and offerings using all sorts of so-called waste materials destined for landfill.

Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust

+64 3 423 0445

projectmanagerlet@gmail.com

Te Ara Ātea

56 Tennyson Street
Rolleston, 7614 New Zealand + Google Map

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Green Fingers Galore – Selwyn Vegetable Garden Competition

February 23 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Free

An inclusive Lincoln Envirotown event to celebrate Selwyns’ many keen gardeners in our community, and to promote best practices in vegetable production.

Anyone can participate and there is no entry charge.

Judging with inspection visits will be arranged at the end of February (around 26th/27th), to interview the entrants and view their gardens.

Click to Open the Assessment Criteria

Only vegetable gardens will be assessed, not flower gardens, shrubs or fruit trees, unless these are integrated with the garden area.

The emphasis will be on participation rather than winning. All gardens’ achievements will be celebrated. Some prizes will be awarded to gardens of special merit. An awards gathering will be held in early March 2022. Vaccination Passport Required.

Click to Register your Entry in the Competition

Contact Lincoln Community Gardens

021 074 3905

ruth.wood@xtra.co.nz

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Mahoe Reserve Working Bee – December 2021

December 5 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm

Monthly Working Bee to look after our Native Reserve

Come along and help us in the restoration and maintenance of the Mahoe native reserve.

Please wear suitable shoes, bring spades, garden gloves, sunglasses or other eye protection, also a bucket for mulch, if you can.

Working bees are the first Sunday of every month from 2.00 pm.

Mahoe Reserve (opposite the high school main entrance)

34 Boundary Road
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

Contact Mahoe Reserve

03 4230445

mahoereserve@gmail.com

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Clothes Swap

November 11 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Free

Have fun swapping your pre-loved clothes for other quality clothes donated.

Donated clothes will be on display so bring your friends and make an evening of it.

Women’s, Men’s, Kids clothing and Accessories accepted, please no undergarments. If you don’t have clothes to drop off you can still come along on the evening and help yourself to free clothes.

We are excited that we are able to hold this event, however this year the swap may be a little different from previous events as numbers are limited due to current social distancing rules. This means that if the room capacity is reached, people will have to wait for someone to leave before being allowed in.

VIP tickets have been given to those who dropped off their clothes prior to the event. Those with VIP tickets will get early entry to the event. Sadly, we have no more VIP tickets left (there were not as many as last year due to Level 2 restrictions on numbers).

WAITING LIST: We are now giving out tickets that will allow you priority entry to the event – before those that don’t have a ticket and after the VIP’s. You will be allowed into the event as soon as numbers allow.

Drop off can be arrangement in Lincoln, Rolleston and Dunsandel. We also have several drop off locations and times listed below, we can be identified by our blue Lincoln Envirotown t-shirt with a fantail on it.

You can also get in touch through Facebook @LincolnEnvirotown, email lincolnenvirotowntrust@gmail.com or call 03 423 0445 to arrange.

DROP OFF LOCATIONS:

Lincoln Library
Thursday 7pm-7.45pm
4th November

Rolleston, Car Park outside Selwyn Sports Centre
Look out for our flag

Wednesday 5pm-6pm
27th October
10th November

Lincoln University, Mrs O’s Cafe
Monday, 9am-10am
8th November

Thursday, 9am-10am
11th November

This event will only take place in level two or below:

Masks must be worn at the Lincoln Event Centre, please scan in.
We ask you to remember to keep your distance from those not in your bubble.

Lincoln Event Centre

15 Meijer Drive
Lincoln, Canterbury 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

Contact Lincoln Envirotown Trust

+64 3 423 0445

projectmanagerlet@gmail.com

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Don’t Treat Your Soil Like Dirt!

November 6 @ 10:00 am – 11:30 am

A workshop on the key characteristics of soil, their importance, and how to maintain healthy garden soil.

The soil is the foundation of a healthy garden, whether it is a lawn, a vegetable garden or a simple flower garden.

Roger McLenaghen of Lincoln University will present the workshop at the Lincoln Envirotown Community Gardens. Roger is a senior tutor in the Soil Science Department. He runs the soil science laboratories for undergraduate classes, and lectures to Diploma students.

Bring along an ice-cream container of your vegetable garden soil if you would like to have it assessed.

Gold coin donation appreciated to support the Community Gardens.

Please note the venue for this workshop has changed to Lincoln Baptist Church, 109 Carnavernon Drive, Lincoln 7672.

Unfortunately at Level 2 we are unable to host visitors to the community gardens, we are very lucky that we can still hold this workshop thanks to Lincoln Baptist Church.

Contact Lincoln Community Gardens

021 074 3905

ruth.wood@xtra.co.nz

Lincoln Baptist Church

109 Carnavernon Drive
Lincoln, 7608 New Zealand + Google Map

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Starting & Maintaining a Worm Farm 2021

October 30 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

Worm farming is a fun way to turn your organic waste, such as kitchen scraps, into rich fertiliser for your garden in the form of worm castings and worm tea.

Our presenter is Lesley Ottey from Eco Educate. Eco Educate provides waste rethinking, help and support across Canterbury.

Lesley is happy for people to make mini worm farms to take home. Just bring two clean ice cream containers of the same size, with a lid that fits one of the containers. Spare newspaper would be good too.

Worms, and flower and vegetable seeds also available for purchase

This workshop is supported by Selwyn District Council.

Gold coin donation appreciated.

Please note the venue for this workshop has changed to Lincoln Baptist Church, 109 Carnavernon Drive, Lincoln 7672.

Unfortunately at Level 2 we are unable to host visitors to the community gardens, we are very lucky that we can still hold this workshop thanks to Lincoln Baptist Church.