FOR MORE INFORMATION AND TO SIGN YOU OR YOUR TEAM UP FOR THE 2025 COASTAL CLEAN UP PROJECT PLEASE FILL IN THE FORM BELOW
Join us in a community conservation project to look after a valuable resource we’re all passionate about.
We are proud to bring back the Coastal Clean Up Project in 2025. This follows a huge success at the second Tauranga Clean Up project in 2023, when Our Backyard Trust, Stoney Creek, Tauranga Sport Fishing Club and an army of volunteers and other local businesses, all combined forces to be involved in our first-ever Tauranga Harbour & Ocean Clean Up Project. With the goal of cleaning up our own backyard and removing loads of harmful rubbish from our marina, ocean and harbour ecosystem, the purpose of the project was to protect our waterways and marine life and to further encourage other people and businesses to support the initiative and the on-going protection of our valuable natural resources. Over the last couple of Coastal Clean Up project events in 2022 and 2023, we are proud to say that we removed over 11.8 TONNES OF RUBBISH from the area, including abandoned vehicles, that was leaching into the Harbour Waterways.
This year’s project will be funded by donations from key sponsors, local businesses and families, as well as the generous funding generated from the Calcutta Jackpot at the 2025 Stoney Creek One Base Fishing Tournament in March. With the support of so many local businesses and our proud local communities, we will continue to make the project an annual event and will continue to do our bit to protect our own backyard and provide a healthy and thriving marine environment for all those things we are passionate about, for future generations to come.
We are looking to be once again based down at Sulphur Point near the Tauranga Sport Fishing Club, the event is scheduled for the day of the 17th of May and we are looking to build teams of volunteers and supporters for the project who will be part of dedicated Clean Up Squads that will work across the beaches, Harbour, Boat Ramps and Carparks across the general Tauranga Harbour area.
We hope that the 2025 Coastal Clean Up Project is bigger and better and we look forward to seeing you all there.
To be involved and register your interest, please complete the form above and sign up to our Facebook group HERE.
Brent & Juanita McConnell
Founders, Our Backyard Trust
CHECK OUT SOME OF OUR HIGHLIGHTS FROM PREVIOUS YEARS
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To keep on top of communication leading up to, during and post the event, please can we get you to join:
Our Backyard Trust Facebook Page – To stay up to date with everything OBT including future events.
OBT Coastal Clean Up Facebook Group – Best point of contact and information relating to this specific clean up event.
OBT Coastal Clean Up Event Page – To help us manage the total numbers attending.