EcoHub
Experience a buzzing, environmentally ambitious community hub when you call in to EcoMatters EcoHub in New Lynn. Just on the edge of Olympic park and by the Waitahurangi Stream, the hub brings together many of our EcoMatters and volunteer efforts in one location, just a stone’s throw from local public transport hubs. You can’t miss our little black bungalow decorated by local artist Mandy Patmore with the kinds of native birds we’re all working to see flourish in the hapori (community).
What’s on offer
- Attend sustainability events and workshops.
- Visit the EcoMatters Store for a range of sustainable living products, advice, and to drop off a range of items for recycling.
- Borrow a book or two from our eco library.
- Visit the New Lynn Bike Hub.
- Volunteer for our native plant nursery or organic teaching garden.
- Book school visits and corporate volunteering.
- Hire a meeting room or workshop space.
Hire our fantastic space
At the heart of our Ecohub is our beautiful Kōwhai Room, a fabulous professional space that can be hired for a multitude of uses, such as workshops, presentations and planning days. The room, which can seat up to 25 people, includes access to:
- a digital whiteboard
- wifi and access to a photocopier
- kitchen and bathroom facilities
- library and garden spaces for breakout/relaxation.
To enquire about venue hire, please email [email protected] with your potential date and number of people.
Our incredibly reasonable hire rates also support the general growth of EcoMatters work in the environment and community:
BOND $200, returnable 10 working days from the date of booking.
- Per hour: $30
- Per half day (4 hours): $100
- Per day (8 hours): $200
All prices exclude GST.
Fascinating Fridays for schools
A visit to the EcoHub can show tamariki (children) that efforts in many areas of life are important in our role as kaitiakitanga. From recycling, to food forests and worm farming, we promise a fascinating and fun half day out for up to 25 primary school children or 20 intermediate and above children, at just $5 per child.
Knowledge focus
Depending on your class or group age and stage, you may have a specific area of learning in mind. We love to help children focus on knowledge-building and investigation around a specific topic so they go away with a deeper level of understanding and a willingness to make a difference.
To enquire about school visits, please please email [email protected] with your potential date and number of students.
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Corporate volunteering for team building
When people visit the EcoHub for corporate volunteering and team building, they tell us that it’s not just the range of positive impacts on the environment and community that they’re amazed by, it’s also the collective impact that each area of work has, when put together.
By recognising how each area of improvement works with another, EcoMatters is presenting visitors with a view of what can be done in our own lives when we combine efforts. For instance, consider cycling instead of driving one day a week, and growing your own organic veggies – all of this can be learnt at the hub. We hope to see this on a much larger scale across the country. In some ways, we see the EcoHub as a form of practical whanaungatanga (interconnectedness).
Learn about a particular area of environmental restoration or volunteer with us at one of our regular sessions. For group visits we do charge a fee.
To enquire about corporate volunteering and team building please please email [email protected] with your potential date and number of people.
Borrow from our eco library
Expanding your knowledge on caring for the environment is something EcoMatters wholeheartedly supports and offering our library resources to the public is one way we can show that tautoko (support). We’ve been developing these shareable resources since 2005 and have found operating on an honesty-form policy for three-week rentals is the best way to do this – the instructions are all here at the library.
We accept donations from public libraries and from individuals so if you have anything with a sustainable subject line that you no longer want, please let us know! Email [email protected]
