Partners

St Andrew's College provides a world-class learning environment that values innovation and tradition, empowering students to graduate with confidence, compassion, and a commitment to global responsibility. 

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Education

Greening the Red Zone advocates for restoring wetlands and forests in Christchurch’s Residential Red Zone. It works to protect the Ōtākaro River by returning its floodplain, reducing pollution, and creating resilient, nature-rich spaces.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

A global professional services company solving challenges in water, energy, and urbanisation. Combining local knowledge and global expertise to deliver sustainable solutions that connect and strengthen communities across Aotearoa.

Christchurch-wide Business

A not-for-profit early childhood provider across Canterbury fostering environmental citizenship through hands-on learning and nature connection. The Ōpāwaho River's proximity offers rich opportunities for children to connect with the awa.

Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Education

Little Kiwis Nature Play helps tamariki thrive through nature-based learning by offering bush kindy, nature play spaces, and training for parents and teachers to confidently connect children with the outdoors.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Business Education

Supports community-led conservation and catchment projects across Aotearoa including planting, waterway restoration, and education to improve water quality and biodiversity.

Christchurch-wide Community Trust

A specialist consultancy delivering engineering, science, sustainability, and geospatial services. Creating environmental change and embedding Te Ao Māori perspectives to achieve thriving, sustainable ecosystems.

Christchurch-wide Business

A farmer-owned co-op working with communities, farmers, councils, and catchment groups to improve water quality and reduce agriculture’s environmental impact, while helping customers achieve productivity and sustainability.

Christchurch-wide Business

Red Tree creates regenerative ecologies through nature-based solutions, restoring wetlands and riparian margins with innovative seeding and traditional methods to support thriving land, water, and communities.

Christchurch-wide Business

Protecting waterways by engineering solutions to remove plastics, litter, sediment, and contaminants from stormwater. Innovative, cost-effective systems for healthy urban waterways are delivered locally and globally.

Christchurch-wide Business

With a collaborative, open-minded approach, Storm Environmental delivers policy, planning, infrastructure, and cultural advisory services to improve waterway health through stormwater management, treatment facilities, and community initiatives.

Christchurch-wide Business

For over 20 years, the Trust has worked to protect the health of the Pūharakekenui-Styx River by supporting learning and research, raising awareness of the catchment’s ecology, culture, and heritage to create a thriving living laboratory. 

Pūharakekenui-Styx Catchment Community Trust

A NZ charity reducing litter and protecting our moana. Through clean-ups, education, campaigns, and litter data, communities are empowered and policies are influenced to ensure cleaner coastlines and waterways.

Ihutai-Estuary and Coastal Catchment Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula Catchment Community Trust

Student Volunteer Army empowers youth through volunteering, building resilient communities and leading disaster recovery. From clean-ups to crisis response, they connect thousands of volunteers to help where it’s needed most.

Christchurch-wide Community Trust

HydroVac is a NZ-owned leader in drain maintenance and vacuum services, delivering stormwater solutions and spill cleanups, and committed to sustainability through innovative practices that reduce environmental impact.

Christchurch-wide Business

Rotary’s Community Action for Fresh Water initiative protects and restores freshwater ecosystems. In Canterbury, they deliver biodiversity education, citizen science water monitoring, and partnerships that empower communities to care for waterways.

Christchurch-wide Community Trust

Building a sustainable, equitable world by creating infrastructure for lasting impact, and driving urgent action on restoration, fossil fuel divestment, and regenerative economics to protect our planet and future.

Christchurch-wide Business

SŌC promotes strong sustainability across environmental, social, cultural, and economic wellbeing through education, advocacy, and the provision of a platform for ideas and informed voices to influence change locally.

Christchurch-wide Community Trust

The Society manages three Port Hills reserves, restoring gullies to improve habitat, water quality, and reduce fire risk. Planting helps protect waterways like Annes Falls and enhances the Ōpāwaho-Heathcote River and Whakaraupō-Lyttelton Harbour.

Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula Catchment Community Trust

Restores native habitats and waterways in Selwyn through community planting days and school programmes, and empowers tamariki as tiaki to connect learning with action for biodiversity.

Huritini-Halswell Catchment Community Trust Education

With community partners, Ilam School has explored and cared for Haere Roa through river measurements, clean ups, riparian planting, and ecosystem learning, fostering tamariki awareness and action for healthier waterways.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Education

Since 1983, Travis Wetland Trust has worked to protect Travis Swamp from urban development through monthly working bees, volunteer events, and education initiatives designed to conserve this unique wetland ecosystem.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

Providing public health services across Waitaha, such as monitoring and advising on recreational water quality for health protection and delivering community projects that foster wellbeing through connection with each other and the environment. 

Christchurch-wide Agency

A leading environmental and engineering consultancy with 50+ years’ experience delivering expertise in waterway health through services like hydrology, ecology, flood management, water quality science, and catchment planning.

Christchurch-wide Business

Researchers and students work with communities and councils to protect and restore urban waterways, with expertise spanning engineering, ecology, hydrology, water quality, and policy to create healthier freshwater systems in Ōtautahi.

Christchurch-wide Education

Working to restore waterways and biodiversity through advocacy, waterways ecological projects, youth engagement, and research. Current efforts are focusing on the Ōtūkaikino catchment in collaboration with partners.

Ōtukaikino Catchment Community Trust

Aims to foster a spirit of community in St Albans and play a part in the development of a vibrant and healthy community brought about by the involvement and empowerment of residents.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

Healthy Rivers NZ leads Avon-Ōtākaro clean ups; removing tonnes of rubbish, tracking pollution sources, and sharing data, contributing to river health restoration and inspiring community action for cleaner waterways.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

Empowering young people to respond to the climate crisis through learning, collaboration, and action. The Campus provides a space to understand climate change and develop solutions for a liveable planet.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Education

CVNZ works nationwide to restore nature and connect communities. Christchurch's waterways are supported through riparian planting, estuary clean-ups, and conservation partnerships, helping people and nature thrive together.

Christchurch-wide Community Trust

NZ's trusted Three Waters maintenance provider sharing expertise to protect rivers and streams and working with communities to sustain waterways as vital ecosystems and sources of local pride.

Christchurch-wide Business

A multidisciplinary consultancy delivering land development and Three Waters projects, ensuring waterways are valued for wildlife, heritage, and recreation, and working to protect and enhance them across our communities.

Christchurch-wide Business

Volunteers work with Council to restore native forest and improve stream health in Mt Pleasant - Redcliffs. Projects include planting, pest control, water quality improvement, and creating spaces for conservation, education, and recreation.

Ihutai-Estuary and Coastal Catchment Community Trust

Drinkable Rivers reject a ‘norm’ where rivers are polluted. They link water advocates, share data, empower locals, and aim to make the Ōtākaro-Avon River not just swimmable, but of drinkable-like quality.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

Working with schools and partners to grow native plants and restore wetlands and riparian areas along the Ōtākaro-Avon River, build biodiversity, and empower young people to care for nature and adapt to climate change.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

The Trust is creating a predator-free sanctuary in the Ōtākaro-Avon Red Zone, building on Travis Wetland’s legacy, with a vision for a thriving hub of native wildlife within a connected network of biodiverse habitats.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

The Regional Council manages natural resources, flood protection, public transport, and more across Waitaha, and works with Papatipu Rūnanga, agencies, and communities to protect water, land, and air for a sustainable future. 

Christchurch-wide Agency

A proud Kiwi company with 50 years’ commitment to protecting NZ’s waterways and communities. Championing sustainability through innovation and active community support, from replanting days to scholarships and partnerships nationwide.

Christchurch-wide Business

Working to protect and enhance ecosystems on land, water, and sea. By connecting people with nature and heritage, DOC empowers action to safeguard species and places, including freshwater fish, so people and the environment thrive together.

Christchurch-wide Agency

Founded in 2002, the Trust is the voice for estuary ecology. It advocates for improvements, leads restoration projects, educates the public, and networks to protect and restore habitat for all life in and around the estuary.

Ihutai-Estuary and Coastal Catchment Community Trust

Since 2011, AvON has championed a community-led vision for the Ōtākaro-Avon River Corridor by driving restoration, planting, clean ups, and partnerships to restore river health and connect people with this unique landscape.

Ōtākaro-Avon Catchment Community Trust

Formed in 2025, it drives sustainable innovation across agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, and land use - improving water quality, efficient water use, and ecosystem health through research and partnerships.

Christchurch-wide Business

A non-profit organisation working with landowners, agencies, and the community to protect indigenous biodiversity and promote sustainable land management, inspiring people to care for and restore their environment.

Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula Catchment Community Trust

Located beside one of the last wetland remnants in Beckenham Park, once an important area for mahinga kai, the school are proud waterways kaitiaki fostering care for people and the environment.

Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Education

The Sustainability Council at Cashmere High School works to restore Waimokihi Stream through planting, clean ups, and habitat creation. As kaitiaki, they aim to boost biodiversity and water quality, with a vision of thriving wildlife like tuna (eels).

Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Education

Cashmere Stream Care Group monitors water clarity, with 4,000 measurements since 2010, and leads restoration and advocacy to protect and enhance the stream and its catchment, working with councils and landowners to improve management.

Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Community Trust

Council prioritises improving the health of our urban waterways in Ōtautahi using a multi-value approach - ecology, drainage, culture, heritage, landscape, and recreation - and is the coordinating body of the Community Waterways Partnership.  

Christchurch-wide Agency

Christchurch Envirohub provides support and services to the community working in the environmental sector. They operate school programme Te Tuna Tāone, and with the CWP’s support, the mobile and educational Stormwater Superhero trailer.

Christchurch-wide Community Trust

A community group restoring the ecological health of the Ōpāwaho Heathcote River by advocating for the awa, connecting catchment communities, and collaborating on regeneration projects so people can take pride in, care for, and enjoy the river.

Ōpāwaho-Heathcote Catchment Business

Aiming to restore Whakaraupō-Lyttelton Harbour to a healthy, interconnected environment with local support through restoration, planting, clean ups, education, and community groups.

Te Pātaka o Rākaihautū-Banks Peninsula Catchment Agency

By combining science and community engagement to improve freshwater, estuary, and coastal ecosystems, EOS delivers monitoring tools, education programmes, and technical advice to help Cantabrians protect and restore their local waterways.

Christchurch-wide Business

Since 2002, Sea Cleaners have educated and coordinated volunteers to remove over 20 million litres of waste from the marine environment, including the Avon-Heathcote Ihutai Estuary.

Ihutai-Estuary and Coastal Catchment Community Trust

Urban eel action learning programme teaching school students about urban stream life through the taonga species, longfin eel. Over the school year, students take action to improve waterways so tuna can survive and thrive.

Christchurch-wide Education