Make your own Easter Hot Cross buns or Easter Loaf
2025-04-06 10:30 - 13:30 (Pacific/Auckland) | St Alban’s Church, 11 Ngaio Street, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, 5013, New Zealand
Make your own Easter Hot Cross buns– with apple, raisins and cinnamon for children aged 5-12
or Easter Loaf with almonds, dried apricots & cherries for teenagers and adults.

Easter baking day: Sunday 6 April at St Albans’ hall kitchen in Ngaio Street.
Hot cross bun making at 10.30 am for children aged 7-12:; Easter loaf making at 12 noon for teens and adults,.
Please register soon at office@stalbanschurch.nz so there are enough ingredients for everybody.
Koha for St Alban’s Church seismic strengthening fund.

Waste collection: Red (general) & Blue (glass)
2025-04-07, 2025-04-21, 2025-05-05, 2025-05-19, 2025-06-02, 2025-06-16
Non recyclable rubbish
Your rubbish bin / ipupara
This is your wheelie bin with the red lid, and it’s just for rubbish.
When green waste goes to landfill it creates methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide.
Instead of putting it in your red bin, consider composting or using our green waste collection.
Did you know? I get collected weekly.

Your glass recycling crate / pouaka kara- he
This is your blue open-top crate, which is just for glass
YES

Glass bottles
Glass jars

Remember: Rinse bottles and jars to make sure they’re clean.
NO

Lids
Tableware and Pyrex
Broken glass
Light bulbs
Mirrors or window glass

Tip: One person’s waste is another’s treasure. Keep an eye out on noticeboards and social media for opportunities to save useable items from going to landfill.

RSA Poppy Day
2025-04-11
Poppy Day is the RNZRSA’s main fundraising activity. Donations collected on Poppy Day help us improve the health and wellbeing outcomes for New Zealand’s veterans of all ages.

You can donate to the RSA at anytime: Click here to donate online.
The RSA was established in 1916 with the aim of taking care of New Zealand’s veterans and their families as soldiers returned from Gallipoli. While today’s soldiers face different challenges, our support to them and their whanau continues.
In 2024 we celebrated 102 years of the Poppy Appeal – with the Poppy campaign running throughout the month of April and Poppy Day, our street collection, occurring on 19 April.
The first poppy appeal in 1922 netted 13,166 pounds – poppies were sold for one shilling each. Today’s poppies are sold for a gold coin donation and we average close to a million poppies sold each year.

Burdan's Gate Beach Clean
2025-04-13 09:00 - 12:00
We pick up rubbish along the shoreline from Burdan’s Gate to the Pencarrow lighthouses. Everyone is welcome, for any length of time. Even half an hour makes a difference! You’ll find us at the picnic table just past Wildfinder bikes, before the locked gate. Bags & gloves provided.

Waste collection: Red (general) & Yellow (paper/plastics/cans)
2025-04-14, 2025-05-12, 2025-06-09
Non recyclable rubbish
Your rubbish bin / ipupara
This is your wheelie bin with the red lid, and it’s just for rubbish.
When green waste goes to landfill it creates methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide.
Instead of putting it in your red bin, consider composting or using our green waste collection.
Did you know? I get collected weekly.

Paper & plastics
Your recycling bin with the yellow lid / ipu hangarua
This is your wheelie bin with the yellow lid, and it’s just for rubbish.
I get collected on yellow weeks. When incorrect items end up in the wrong bin, they contaminate the recycling / ipu hangarua, which can mean the whole truckload ends up going to landfill. That’s why we need to make sure the only thing that goes in our yellow bins is the stuff that’s too good to waste.

What can be put in the Yellow bin?
YES

Paper and cardboard
Tins and cans
Plastic containers marked with these symbols, often embossed on bottom of item
Plastic symbols 1,2,5

NO

Glass
Batteries
Nappies
Drink cartons / Tetrapak
Polystyrene, clothes hangers and toys
Soft plastics, cling film and strapping

Note: Many of these non recyclable materials can be recycled through other channels – some options are listed here.

Eastbourne Community Board Meeting
2025-04-15 19:15 - 21:00 | East Harbour Womens Club, 145 Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 5013, New Zealand
Here’s the agenda for next Eastbourne Community Board meeting at 7.15pm Tuesday 15 April, at the East Harbour Women’s Club.
Everyone is welcome.
Agenda is now available
Or use the public speaking spot to talk for up to 3 minutes about any community matter.
ECB members will be available from 6.45pm to discuss any issues or concerns before the meeting.

ANZAC Day
2025-04-25
ANZAC Day & Poppy Day
This year ANZAC Day falls on a Friday – creating a long weekend – and hoping that not too many go away.
Poppy Day is on Friday 11th April – and we look forward to your and the communities generous support again.

ANZAC Day
2025-04-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Memorial Gates, Muritai School, 166 Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt 5013, Lower Hutt, Wellington, New Zealand
Anzac Day is usually commemorated by the Eastbourne Community at the war memorial adjacent to Muritai School, followed by refreshments at the Eastbourne Sports and Services Club.
Assembly at Ballinger Gardens, Makaro Street from 9.30am – March to the Memorial Gates, Muritai School. ANZAC Service commences at 10am.
Anzac Day is observed on 25 April. It commemorates New Zealanders killed in war and honours returned and serving servicemen and women.
Anzac Day dates
1916 – Anzac Day gazetted as a half-day holiday
1921 – Anzac Day becomes a full public holiday
1939 – Dawn ceremony widely included in New Zealand Anzac Day commemorations for the first time
1949 – Legislation passed preventing Anzac Day from being ‘Mondayised’
1966 – Current Anzac Day Act liberalises activities allowed after 1 p.m. on Anzac Day
2013 – When 25 April falls on a Saturday or Sunday, the Monday will now be a public holiday
2020 – All Anzac Day public ceremonies in New Zealand cancelled because of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic
The date marks the anniversary of the landing of Australian and New Zealand soldiers – the Anzacs – on the Gallipoli Peninsula in 1915. The aim was to capture the Dardanelles and open a sea route to the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. At the end of the campaign, Gallipoli was still held by its Ottoman Turkish defenders.
Thousands lost their lives during the Gallipoli campaign: 87,000 Ottoman Turks, 44,000 men from France and the British Empire, including 8500 Australians. To this day, Australia also marks the events of 25 April. Among the dead were 2779 New Zealanders, about one in six of those who served on Gallipoli.
They may have ended in military defeat, but for many New Zealanders then and since, the Gallipoli landings signalled that New Zealand was becoming a distinct nation, even as it fought on the other side of the world in the name of the British Empire.
Anzac Day was first observed in 1916. The day has gone through many changes since. The ceremonies that are held at war memorials up and down New Zealand, and in places overseas where New Zealanders gather, are modelled on a military funeral and remain rich in tradition and ritual.
(https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/anzac-day/introduction)

Monthly Skip Bin (Eastbourne Lions)
2025-04-26 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-05-31 08:00 - 11:30, 2025-06-28 08:00 - 11:30 | Burdan’s Gate
(Note, no collection in December)
Simple and affordable rubbish disposal is available monthly at our skip. We are trialling a new e-waste collection system over spring and summer. Payment in cash only.
Open on the last Saturday of each month, from 8:00 am to 11:30 am. We’ll be there to help you unload!
Types of rubbish and charges are here.
Email: EastbourneLionsNZ@gmail.com

East by West ferry moving to Winter Schedule
2025-04-27
Kia ora ferry users,
Please be aware we’re moving to our winter timetable from Sunday 27th April.
This mostly affects our weekend schedule but some of our weekday times are changing slightly too. See below link to the new timetable.

Winter Schedule : eastbywest.co.nz

Waste collection - Red (general), Yellow (paper/plastics/cans) & Green (organic/garden)
2025-04-28 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-05-26 08:00 - 17:00, 2025-06-23 08:00 - 17:00
Your rubbish bin / ipupara
This is your wheelie bin with the red lid, and it’s just for rubbish.
When green waste goes to landfill it creates methane, a greenhouse gas much more potent than carbon dioxide.
Instead of putting it in your red bin, consider composting or using our green waste collection.
Did you know? I get collected weekly.

Your green (garden) waste bin / ipupara tupu
Your green bin is for garden waste only. What can you put in this bin?
YES

Grass clippings
Plant cuttings
NO
Rubbish
Concrete or stone
Nappies
Food waste

Tip: If you don’t have a green waste bin, or you have large quantities of green waste, you can take it to the Silverstream transfer station. If you have compost waste, here are some options.

Your recycling bin with the yellow lid / ipu hangarua
This is your wheelie bin with the yellow lid, and it’s just for rubbish.
I get collected on yellow weeks. When incorrect items end up in the wrong bin, they contaminate the recycling / ipu hangarua, which can mean the whole truckload ends up going to landfill. That’s why we need to make sure the only thing that goes in our yellow bins is the stuff that’s too good to waste.

What can be put in the Yellow bin?
YES

Paper and cardboard
Tins and cans
Plastic containers marked with thes esymbols, often embossed on bottom of item
Plastic symbols 1,2,5

NO

Glass
Batteries
Nappies
Drink cartons / Tetrapak
Polystyrene, clothes hangers and toys
Soft plastics, cling film and strapping

Note: Many of these non recyclable materials can be recycled through other channels – some options are listed here.

Professional Deer Culling Northern Forest East Harbour Regional Park: 5 May - 13 June
2025-05-05 - 2025-06-13 | East Harbour Regional Park, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
Greater Wellington Regional Council contracted, professional deer cullers will be hunting in East Harbour Regional Park, Northern Forest between 5th May & 13th June. Hunters will be only hunting when weather conditions are conducive to hunting. There will be 16 days of actual hunting in the period. No hunting will be undertaken on weekends, public holidays or school holidays. Hunting will on occasion be occurring at night. The EHRP website will be updated daily as the hunter communicates his plans to Jo or Zane at GWRC. Please feel free to text Jo on 0274673076 if you are unsure.
Please report deer, pig or goat sightings – include date of sighting, species, number, specific location, activity and photos are always useful – contact Jo Greenman at 0274673076, (text is good) or jo.greenman@gw.govt.nz
There is also an opportunity to undertake culling on private property. Written permission is required for the hunter to cross onto private land. The contract allows private hunting under the GWRC contract on a cost recovery basis. Cost will be $80 per hour of hunting time with a minimum of 3 hours. There is no guarantee of shooting an animal. Contact Jo Greenman – to discuss culling on private land.

PICTURE PERFECT - Historical Society of Eastbourne: 7-17 May
2025-05-07 - 2025-05-17 | Hutt Art Centre, Myrtle Street, Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt, New Zealand
The eastern bays, through the eyes of local artists
It all started with a phone call, and an unexpected invitation: would the Historical Society be interested in mounting an exhibition in the Hutt Art Society’s galleries? Even better, an anonymous benefactor would pay the gallery fees. Of course we said yes! So, after months of preparation, we’ll be presenting Picture Perfect: A century of paintings and photographs of the Eastern Bays at the Hutt Art Centre in Myrtle Street, Lower Hutt, from 7 th to 17 th May.
The timing of the invitation was excellent. Two years earlier we’d embarked on a major project: to create a detailed inventory of the artworks in our archive Collection, to get them restored if needed, and to research the artists, some of whom we knew very little about.
The inventory and research were carried out by Claire Taggart, one of our dedicated volunteers. Her work meant we could start thinking about sharing these unique paintings and drawings, most of them never exhibited before, with the wider community. And because we had nowhere to display them permanently, an exhibition seemed the way to go.
So where did these artworks come from? Like nearly everything in our Collection, they’d had been donated to the Historical Society over many years. Some were inherited from the Eastbourne Borough Council in 1989; others were gifted by the artists or their families, or by local residents moving house or sorting an estate. A few were bequests. Several more artworks have been donated in the past year, and a few others are being loaned for the exhibition. Nearly all are by local artists, some of them
well-known names in Wellington art circles, such as Albert Hansen-Knarhoj, Elisabet Delbrück, Rena Swift and Alan Collins. Other names are less familiar, for example Arthur Percival Potter, Simon Prins and Catherine Clunies-Ross.
The collection ranges from small watercolours and pencil drawings to large oil paintings. Among them are two striking portraits: one of Miss Aileen Stace (1895-1977), a well-known Eastbourne resident, and the other of a colourful local character whose identity is currently under wraps.
The artworks actually span more than the ‘century’ of the title: the earliest is dated 1911, while the most recent was completed just last year. The timespan allows us to notice gradual changes, such as the regenerating bush and Eastbourne’s shifting shoreline. Recurring subjects include the harbour in all its moods, Lion Rock (clearly a popular landmark!), and the old ferries, especially the much-loved Cobar (1906-1948). Yet the visitor is also in for some surprises. A railway at Pencarrow Head in the early 1900s – who knew?
In the smaller of the two galleries, the visitor enters the black-and-white (and occasionally hand-coloured) world of early 20 th century photography. Most of the photographs came to us from the Borough Council and are being exhibited here for the first time. They include large, remarkably clear panoramas in their original frames, which makes them rare historical objects in their own right.
Also part of the Council’s legacy is a collection of framed photographs depicting aspects of life ‘at the bay’ from the 1920s to the 1950s. Some of these images may be more familiar, but together they provide a fascinating study of a young and growing community.
There’ll be surprises here too – even for us. A member of the Hutt Art Society found some ‘mystery’ glass-plate negatives of the eastern bays in a car boot sale, and these are currently being developed and printed. All will be revealed at the exhibition….
We look forward to seeing you there in May – and please tell your friends!
Ali Carew

Eastbourne-Bays Community Trust - Applications for Grants (close 15 June)
2025-05-20 - 2025-06-15
For the benefit of residents of the Eastbourne Community and in the exercise of the Trust Board’s discretionary powers charitable purposes shall include public recreation, enjoyment, health, education, instruction, and culture.
Grant applications are invited through print and social media from Eastbourne-Bays Not for Profit entities. Grants are given where there is an enduring benefit to the entity.
Closing Date: 15 June 2025
Applications from Eastbourne-Bays groups are invited. Application forms are available on the website www.ebct.org.nz
Contact: Gaby Brown 021179 5311 or email: trustees@ebct.org.nz

Eastbourne-Bays Community Trust - Applications for Freemasons Scholarship (close 15 June)
2025-05-20 - 2025-06-15
The Eastbourne Freemasons’ Scholarship has been established to encourage tertiary or post graduate study in the successful applicant’s chosen area of expertise.
Eligibility
Applicants for the scholarship must have lived in the Eastbourne-Bays area for a minimum of five years (not necessarily currently) and achieved with distinction in their chosen discipline during a minimum of three years study at a tertiary level.
Scholarship details
The value of the annual scholarship is $5,500 and will be paid upon confirmation that the successful applicant is able to comply with the terms of the scholarship.
Closing Date: 15 June 2025
Applications are invited. Application forms are available on the website www.ebct.org.nz
Contact: Gaby Brown 021179 5311 or email: trustees@ebct.org.nz

National Emergency Mobile Alert test
2025-05-25 18:00 - 19:00
National Emergency Mobile Alert test – save the date

The nationwide test of the Emergency Mobile Alert (EMA) system is taking place in the evening of Sunday 25 May between 6-7pm. This is a routine test to make sure the system is working well, and we anticipate that over 5.5 million phones will receive this message.
Anybody who may be distressed by the alert, or those have a hidden second phone for their safety, should put their phones in flight mode or turn them off between the hours of 6-7pm on Sunday 25 May to avoid the sound of the alert. Switching to silent mode on most mobile phone models will not stop the alert from sounding.
Please feel free to share the date and time of the alert. Further messages to key stakeholders will be shared at a later date, and a nationwide ad campaign will run closer to the time to ensure the general public is aware of when the alert will take place.
In the event of a Tsunami Alert do you know where to go? Try this Tsunami Ready app to find out
You can find more information about the Emergency Mobile Alert system, including a factsheet and list of FAQs by clicking the button below.

All about the Emergency Mobile Alert system

Eastbourne Community Board Meeting
2025-06-10 19:15 - 21:00 | East Harbour Womens Club, 145 Muritai Road, Eastbourne, Lower Hutt, Wellington, 5013, New Zealand
Eastbourne Community Board meeting at 7.15pm Tuesday 10 June, at the East Harbour Women’s Club.
Everyone is welcome.
Agenda and Chairs Report
Or use the public speaking spot to talk for up to 3 minutes about any community matter.
ECB members will be available from 6.45pm to discuss any issues or concerns before the meeting.

Parangarahu Lakes Community Planting Day
2025-06-14 09:00 - 15:00 | Parangarahu Lakes, Pencarrow Head, Lower Hutt, 5013, New Zealand
Join us for a day of planting at these nationally significant lakes.
The Parangarahu Lakes are important to the surrounding environment and are home to native taonga. This includes a range of wetland plants, īnanga (galaxias maculatus), manu (birds), and our native freshwater mussel, the kākahi.
This planting day is perfect for those who enjoy a bit of physical activity, as you’ll be carrying plants and digging holes.
What to bring/wear:
• Sturdy boots or gumboots
• Long sleeves and pants, and a waterproof jacket are essential. Layering and wearing a hat or beanie is a good way to stay warm. This site can be very exposed, so it is a good idea to bring a spare change of clothes.
• Feel free to bring your own favourite spade and gloves.
• Bring your own water bottle, and snacks.
We provide:
• FREE transport from Burdan’s Gate, Eastbourne, along the rugged coast to the Lower Pencarrow Lighthouse at the harbour entrance and onto the entrance of the first lake. Please book your seat as we have limited numbers. No private cars will have access.
• Plants and planting tools, gloves.
• An experienced team leader, health and safety management and training.
Booking is essential to secure your seat on the bus to the lakes
Register here

Greater Wellington — Parangarahu Lakes Community Planting Day https://www.gw.govt.nz/your-region/events-and-meetings/parangarahu-co/

Community Climate Action Fund (closes July 13)
2025-06-16 - 2025-07-11
COMMUNITY CLIMATE ACTION FUND (formerly the Community Engagement Fund)
Criteria
The fund aims to contribute to the city’s carbon reduction goals by funding:
i. Community-led carbon reduction initiatives, with a focus on initiatives already identified in the Lower Hutt Climate Pathway
ii. Community engagement initiatives that can demonstrate a contribution to carbon reduction in the way they are delivered (eg waste minimisation).
To be eligible for funding:
• Initiatives/activities must take place within Lower Hutt.
• Physical assets must not be stored on Council reserve land or road reserve.
• Any asset purchased over the value of $1,000 must be added to the organisation’s asset register.
• Organisations/groups requesting funding must meet specified criteria, including legal entity status for applications above $10k and the project must align with Council’s Climate Action Pathway.
This is a one-off grant, and any future maintenance of physical assets purchased are the responsibility of the applicant organisations.
Eastbourne Community Board has $2,171 for further allocation in this round as of May 2025.
more information (on this website)
Application form, more information, and assistance in applying (is available) (Hutt City website)
