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Current Park Information and Events

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Simon Cartwright

Genera’s generosity set to support native restoration work in Te Mata Park

Te Mata Park Trust is delighted to have received a donation of $10,000 from biosecurity industry leader Genera.
Simon Cartwright

Thank you volunteers!

It’s Te Wiki Tuao ā-Motu - National Volunteer Week - and Te Mata Park Trust would like to acknowledge and thank the incredible volunteers who give their time, energy, and expertise to Te Mata Park.
Peak Trail Blazer

Peak community spirit from Peak Trail Blazer

We are so grateful to have received over $16,500 from the two recent Peak Trail Blazer events that have supported Te Mata Park Trust and Havelock North Primary.
Clive School

Clive School helping to grow the future of Te Mata Park

We’re excited to be working alongside the incredible team at Clive School, where environmentally conscious tamariki from their Enviro Team have been hard at work transplanting self-sown tītoki seedlings to support future planting in Te Mata Park.
Sarah Austin-Smith

$10,000 grant from Eastern & Central Community Trust

Te Mata Park Trust is delighted to have received a $10,000 grant from Eastern & Central Community Trust (ECCT) to support the operations of Te Mata Park.
Sarah Austin-Smith

QEII National Trust visit Te Mata Park

Te Mata Park Trust was delighted to host members of the QEII National Trust board and team in the Park recently. The QEII contingent visited the Park as part of a field trip to Hawke’s Bay, exploring two covenants while they were in the bay.
Paul Needham

Te Mata Park Trust Board seeks new Trustee and Aspiring Trustee

Applications are sought from suitably qualified candidates to become a trustee on the Te Mata Park Trust Board (the Board) or to participate in the Board’s Aspiring Trustee Programme as an ‘Aspiring Trustee’.
Alyce Millar

Summer news from Te Mata Park

Summer news in this edition includes a Green Flag award win, thanks and farewell to our veteran volunteer Mike Lusk, an invitation to join our Friends of Te Mata Park group, and more.
Sarah Austin-Smith

Te Mata Park awarded international Green Flag Community Award

Te Mata Park has been awarded the Green Flag Community Award 2024/2025, an international recognition of quality that highlights the Park’s recreational and environmental value.
Mike Lusk

Season’s Greetings!

Season's Greetings to all our Park community. We wish you a relaxing and enjoyable festive season as you spend time with friends and family.
The Surveying Company

Recloaking Te Mata Park: 64,000 native trees planted in five years

Te Mata Park Trust has reached a significant milestone in its ngahere restoration programme with the planting of 64,ooo native trees over the last five years, part of a larger, long-term restoration strategy to protect, enhance and restore ecosystems across the maunga. 
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Spring Newsletter

As the days grow longer and new life springs forth in the Park, we’re pleased to share our Spring Newsletter with you, including an update on a significant planting milestone, results from our recent survey, a celebration in the Little Redwoods, and more.
Eleanor Lonergan

Te Mata Park 2024 Survey Results

Results from the Te Mata Park 2024 Survey are out, providing useful insights that will support the Park’s operational decision making and long-term strategy, and confirming the taonga is central to wellbeing and health.
Eleanor Lonergan

Te Mata Park’s Little Redwoods grove turns 50

Members of the Rotary Club of Hastings and representatives from Te Mata Park Trust gathered in the Little Redwoods on Friday 1 November to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the planting of the grove.
Eleanor Lonergan

Winter Newsletter

Despite the winter months, hibernation has not been on the agenda of our Park team, supporters, or volunteers.
Maria Chalmers

Hawke’s Bay trail run back blazing with charity partner Te Mata Park Trust following cyclone

Organisers of Hawke’s Bay’s annual Peak Trail Blazer, a 12.8km and 3.5km trail run and walk over Te Mata Park and through Tainui Reserve, are hoping for a large turnout when the event returns in November this year after it was cancelled in 2023 due to Cyclone Gabrielle.
Eleanor Lonergan

Have your say in the Te Mata Park 2024 Survey

The Te Mata Park 2024 Survey is out now, and we invite Park users to participate and have their say.
Paul Needham

Public sentiment sees Te Mata Park Trust retain regional council funding

An annual grant of $120,000 from the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council (HBRC) to Te Mata Park Trust is set to be retained, following a reversal of the funding cut proposed in the council’s draft Three Year Plan (2024-2027).
Emma Van Wyk

Autumn Newsletter

Welcome to our Autumn Newsletter. We hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful time of year in the Park - the cold mornings and misty views from the summit certainly signal that Autumn is here.
Damon Harvey

Funding loss could limit public access to Te Mata Park

The loss of vital funding from the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council will set Te Mata Park back by a decade and will fail to protect the region’s most popular recreational and tourism asset. 
Sarah Austin-Smith

Chambers Walk Closure – starting 8 April

Work starting on Monday the 8th of April will temporarily close access to Te Mata Park from Tauroa Rd, as well as some tracks.
Autumn in Te Mata ParkSimon Cartwright

Join our Autumn Working Bee – Sunday 7 April

You are warmly invited to join the Te Mata Park team and volunteer crew on  Sunday 7th April, 8.45am - 12pm, for our Autumn Working Bee.
Green Flag Award 2024Te Mata Park

Green Flag Award win

Te Mata Park Trust is delighted to have been awarded the distinguished international Green Flag award for the fifth time.
Te Mata Park

Summer news from Te Mata Park

Welcome to our summer newsletter. Seeing the throngs of people enjoying the Park this summer is particularly heartening as we think back to this time last year when the Park was closed following the cyclone.
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Haere mai | Welcome to Te Mata Park and its famous peak, one of the most loved and visited places in Hawke’s Bay.
Gifted in perpetuity to the community in 1927 and managed by a small group of volunteer trustees, with appreciated help from local councils and the community, the Park is a cultural, historical and recreational treasure.

Seven time winner of the prestigious international green space award.

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