Project Updates
Below is a selection of activities and updates from this project.
Covid 19: Grey Lynn Community Response 2020
We partnered with the Grey Lynn Farmers Market stallholders to deliver fresh food to 50 families the Auckland Women’s Refuge support. Community resilience and partnership in action. We applied for and received an MSD grant for COVID-19 Community Awareness and Preparedness to look after vulnerable people in our community and also support the local market…
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Covid Lockdown Photography Challenge
Lockdown was something new to everyone. We wanted to create an opportunity that would allow people in our area to document this difficult, unusual and unique time. We invited people to take photos of their COVID-19 lockdown lives in their “bubbles” and share them in on Facebook group. Car free streets, home cooking, appreciating nature,…
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Covid: Applaud our Essential Workers
We highly respect the work our essential workers did for our people during the COVID-19 Alert Levels. To celebrate and show our appreciation for these dedicated members of our nation, Grey Lynn 2030 struck up an initiative during lockdown, joining many countries across the globe. Each Saturday at 7pm starting from the 4th of April,…
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Covid 19: Adopt your Street
Neighbours in our community looking out for each other during COVID-19. The “Adopt Your Street” initiative was set up by Grey Lynn 2030 in the week leading up to the first COVID-19 Lockdown as a way of keeping in contact with members of our community during this time. So, how did it work? We invited…
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Grey Lynn Finally fruit-fly free
The confirmation yesterday that Auckland is free of the Queensland fruit-fly is great news for the Grey Lynn Farmers Market and all produce retailers in the zone. The market is open with no retrictions every Sunday 9am – 12.30pm at the Grey Lynn Community Centre Media Release Auckland Council: Auckland free of Queensland fruit fly Grey…
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Want to see our community even more resilient, connected and vibrant?
At the end of June representatives from a wide range of Grey Lynn groups came together for an afternoon workshop to share ideas, brainstorm for Grey Lynn’s future and plan some actions. This is core to Grey Lynn 2030 as our name is about how we want Grey Lynn to be in the year 2030.…
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Invite to attend: Grey Lynn visioning our future
Grey Lynn in 2030? Visioning our Future An afternoon workshop for Grey Lynn locals and those who would like to get involved in our community groups. Come along to share ideas, brainstorm for Grey Lynn’s future and plan the actions we wish to take forward in making our community stronger, more resilient, connected and vibrant.…
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Empowering Food Resilience: Seed-Saving Workshop
2013 On Sunday May 5th, local food and permaculture expert Robina McCurdy of Institute of Earthcare Education Aotearoa will be running a great seed-saving workshop from 11:00am to 12:30pm in the oval room of the Grey Lynn Community Centre in conjunction with the Grey Lynn Farmers Market. Workshop includes free heirloom seeds to take home,…
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Permaculturists have created forests in the desert, provided free emergency water and hygiene facilities in international emergencies and are revolutionising farming in small pockets of land all over the world. Now a major international event aims to spread permaculture thinking and practise throughout NewZealand. More than 500 permaculturists from New Zealand, Australia and beyond, together…
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