Media release for immediate use: Friday 15 November 2024

BEGINS

100+ Community Volunteers clean-up Gulf Harbour Country Club’s abandoned Golf Course

A community-led initiative to mow the entire Gulf Harbour Country Club (GHCC) with a small team of helpers and support from local businesses got underway on Monday 21 October. On Sundays the 3rd and 10th of November a group of approximately 100 volunteers in total gathered on the golf course and undertook a major cleanup of the grounds. The following is a video showing the substantial impact the second volunteer day made. KWGS is not directly involved in this initiative but have played a supporting role to enable the team of mowers to get an action plan drawn up, gather resources to get volunteers on-board and devise a comprehensive clean-up plan and move towards establishing a “Gulf Harbour Community Trust” to run these initiatives. We are also collecting donations for the mowers’ operational expenses on behalf of the mower team at the point. The Trust will have its own banking arrangements in the New Year. Please support our fantastic local business sponsors and not-for-profit supporters. They are listed at the end of the video.

View the video here: https://youtu.be/ZBVi4NpqiWs

Further Volunteer Clean-up Days

Four more Volunteer Days will take place on the following Sundays:

15th December 2024; 26th January 2025; 16th February 2025; 16th March 2025

If you are already registered to help with the Volunteer Days the Gulf Harbour Community Trust team will be in touch with you by email with detailed instructions closer to those respective dates. If you would like to help with the clean-ups but haven’t registered your interest yet please email: comms@kwgnz.org as soon as possible.

Donate to Mower Operational Expenses

Thank you to everyone who has donated towards the mowers’ operational expenses. KWGS are co-ordinating donations on behalf of the mowing group at this stage. Use our bank account details to make a transfer or complete a Stripe Credit card donation on this page:  https://www.kwgnz.org/donate.html

ENDS

For more information contact:

Howard Baldwin: comms@kwgnz.org

Visit our website: www.kwgnz.org