Mt Vernon Park
PORT HILLS PARK TRUST
NEWS AND EVENTS
Thursday Sessions
Keen to help our landscape?
Join our regular weekly volunteer group each Thursday at 12:30.
Volunteers undertake a range of land management tasks, if interested and you have a good level of fitness please get in touch.
Planting Day - Upcoming Event
On Sunday the 27th of August join the Mt Vernon Park team for our
Annual Plant Out Day
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Meet at the end of Albert Terrace 10am
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Bring a spade, gloves, and sturdy footwear
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School Sessions
Are you wanting to connect and engage in planting activities with your students?
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Please get in contact with us to see in how your group can support the restoration of Mt Vernon Park
We need your historic and recent photo records
Documenting change in Mt Vernon Park
We are wanting to show how the landscape of Mt Vernon Park and the surrounding valleys have changed.
Why
We have been actively protecting the environment and restoring the valleys with Banks Peninsula sourced native vegetation for almost forty years. Photo records can help us show how we as a community have supported nature.
How
Send through your digital images, scanned or printed photos.
To support us in using your images please include the following details with your images, image ID, approximate date, location, and credit / photographer.
How to get us your images
Scanned and emailed to mtvernonpark@outlook.com – Subject Title Historic Photo
Digital files - emailed to mtvernonpark@outlook.com – Subject Title Historic Photo
By mail – Note if you would like your photos returned please include a stamped self-addressed envelope. Send to -
Port Hills Trust Board
74 Albert Terrace
St Martins
Christchurch 8022
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We thank you for supporting Mt Vernon Park and the Port Hills Trust