On Saturday 21st November, a cocktail fundraiser will be held to support the establishment of the Mahurangi Coastal Trail.

The Mahurangi Coastal Trail is a community, Ngāti Manuhiri, Auckland Council, and New Zealand Walking Access Commission partnership project that will ultimately extend from Mangawhai to Waiwera. It will link 1,000 contiguous coastal hectares of Auckland regional parkland and form the first non-urban section northward on Te Araroa, the national walkway.

This cocktail fundraiser with Distinguished Professor Sir Peter Gluckman, New Zealand’s inaugural chief science adviser to a New Zealand prime minister, is to get the pivotal Te Muri Estuary boardwalk and footbridge shovel ready.

Hosted by Tu Ngutu Villa, which includes the Mahurangi Coast Trail in its Mahurangi Harbour and Hauraki Gulf panorama, attendees will forever be part of the creation of a greater Mahurangi Coast trail network, rivaling the best in Aotearoa and globally.

The November 21st fundraiser will be a significant milestone in realising what is likely to be a 60-kilometre coast trail.

The Mahurangi Coastal Trail concept emerged in 1986. Thirty-four years on, the cocktail fundraiser is specifically to get the low-key, mostly mangrove-screened, Te Muri crossing boardwalk and bridge shovel ready. The design and resource consent preparation is already well underway, with the Coastal Trail Trust working closely with Auckland Council and Ngāti Manuhiri. 

Tickets $80.00 each at mahurangi.org.nz/coast-trail