Celebrating National Volunteer Week 2025

This week marks National Volunteer Week from the 16th- 22nd June.

The theme this year is Whiria te tangata – weaving the people together. This couldn’t be more apt, as we recently hosted our friends Te Kākano who held a weaving workshop at the wetlands. Weaving is about more than the physical though, it is about the woven connections and collaborations and interactions and work between us all; it is that which brings us together for a common cause.

As a group based primarily on volunteer power, Friends of Bullock Creek, with our on-the-ground volunteers who turn up week in and week out in all-weather, to the folks who are passing through Wānaka and want to volunteer their time for the community, to our Board of Trustees who all act in a volunteer capacity in their governance and oversight of the ethos and vision of Friends to Bullock Creek Trust, to those semi-regular volunteers who live in Wānaka for periods of the year and come back again and again to put in the hard mahi. We couldn’t do the work we’ve been doing at the Bullock Creek wetlands for the past 9 years without volunteers. We see you and thank you.

As one of our volunteers Dave says, volunteering “…helps our community grow…”.

Thank you to all past and present and future volunteers, with us here at Bullock Creek, and more widely working within the Wānaka community. Here’s to you.