Our Community Groups
Become a Herald Island Resident and Ratepayers Association Member!
Joining the Herald Island Residents and Ratepayers Association gives you a voice and the opportunity to actively participate in crucial decisions that impact the community.
As a member, you have a platform to express your concerns, suggestions, and priorities regarding local issues. Keep up to date on the latest developments and vote on your preferences via the Herald Island RnR Members page on this website.
Your involvement helps shape the direction of community initiatives, policies, and projects. By joining forces with fellow residents, you collectively influence decision-making processes, ensuring that your perspectives are heard and considered by relevant authorities.
In essence, membership empowers you to contribute directly to the betterment of Herald Island and its residents.
If you’re interested in becoming a member, please send us your expression of interest by filling out this attached form:
Herald Island Boating Club
Today’s club has more than 100 members, including families. Our vessels range from fast modern powerboats to racing and cruising yachts. Herald Island is a wonderfully protected anchorage, and on an outgoing tide and favourable breeze it is a day’s sail to Aotea/Great Barrier Island, Kawau Island and the Coromandel. Waiheke Island is only half a day’s sail away. The club committee maintains an excellent relationship with the Auckland Harbourmaster and the Police Maritime Unit.
The club is proud to be part of the wonderful Herald Island community!
Contact: Mike Walker 021 165 2871
The club committee actively looks after both the club and community wharves, hosting club nights and helping new members to learn the joys of boating and boat ownership.
The club also publishes a regular newsletter, the Porthole, which includes club events and notices, the racing schedule, articles of nautical interest and stories of club member’s sailing adventures. Today the club has an active membership with vessels ranging from modern powerboats to light and heavy displacement keelers.
Herald Island Environmental Group
A group of volunteers who are ‘Bringing Back the Birds’ to Herald Island by caring for its environment. Join our reserves predator, weedbusting, nursery or bird counting teams; take part in an annual clean-up, planting day or weed it out weekend or just do all these things at home (traps and weed control advice provided, native plants for sale at our community nursery at 57 Ferry Parade).
View our Facebook Page to see what we get up to!
Herald Island
Garden Club
A SMALL FRIENDLY GROUP
We meet on the second Tuesday of each month
October - March (not January) evening garden visits
April - September meet at the Fire Station at 7.30pm to hear experts speak on a range of subjects then enjoy supper and a trading table
Occasional weekend garden visits
Annual membership fee $25
CONTACT:
Lee Barry ph. 0212151639
Library Group
Through concern of losing the Old Fire Station the idea of a community library was born. A group of locals banded together and started it up. This idea was well received by the community, books and offers of help kept rolling in. Sure enough within a month, their goal was achieved and we still reap the rewards today. We benefit so much from having a wonderful library in our midst. Run by ‘The Community for the Community!’.
Should you have any queries or offers of help please contact:
Etta Gillon 021 146 6691 or click the button to email us.
Library Information & Regular Events:
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Open 10am - midday Wednesdays and Saturdays and at 3.30pm to 5.30pm every 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month (excluding School Holidays).
We welcome new members and please feel free to pop in for a cuppa when we are open. Come and check out our wonderful selection of books, audio books and DVD’s donated ‘for our Community by the Community!’.
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Rhythm & Rhyme: On the Last Tuesday of the month (excluding School Holidays) the Herald Island Playgroup visits the Library, or we visit them in the Herald Island Hall for activities and enjoy rhythm and rhyme, music and reading. Different librarians help make the morning special for the children each month.
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Meets the First Saturday of the month. This wonderful group is run by Darell Anderson-Foster. The group has fun reading and reviewing the books. Then they have a good chat followed by home baking and a cuppa. This always goes down a treat! Contact: Darell Anderson-foster on email: heraldislandlibrary@gmail.com
We pride ourselves in the scope of book genres we have available. There is an awesome collection of non-ficton and local historic books, plus our vast collection of ‘Whitcoulls Top 100’ books. We also have audio books and a DVD collection. We are now collecting good quality, near new Jigsaw Puzzles and family Board Games.
Herald Island Playgroup
Tuesdays 9.30-11.30am
During school term weeks.
Community-led playgroup for babies through to pre-school aged children and their carers.
Sessions offer a range of open-ended play such as, soft play, books, play dough, puzzles, role-play, blocks, vehicles and crafts allowing little ones to develop both their gross and fine motor-skills.
* Please bring a piece of fruit for shared Kai.
$2 Session Donation ($1 for each additional Child)
Get in Touch: Anita Butler 020 4017 0001
Wednesday Craft Group
We have a passionate group of women who meet on a
Wednesday morning at the Fire Station Community Centre.
We meet for friendship, to share ideas and enjoy good company.
We each have our own projects, but often try new crafts as a group.
Crafts include:
We have created fairy houses and displayed them in the domain over the Christmas period for the last couple of years.
The group also helps man the Herald Island Fire Station Library most Wednesday mornings between 10am - 12noon. If we’re not at the Fire Station on a Wednesday, we’re out visiting somewhere interesting and having a cuppa.
If you’re keen to make some new friends, come and joins us!
toys
paper making
sewing
making hearts for Hospice
and much, much more
cane work
mosaics
card making
knitting
crochet
If you’re interested in coming along to our Craft Group, please reach out to:
Sue on 027 289 0349
