News and Events

Papua New Guinea Pidgin Language Week Celebration

Recently Mangere Bridge Library held a special event to celebrate the first Papua New Guinea (PNG) Pidgin Language week.  PNG is the most linguistically diverse country in the world and …

Cleaning Our Foreshore

Socks, shirts, bottles, cans, food wrappers, pizza boxes and, surprisingly, lots of lollipop sticks. Caring locals getting stuck in to clean up our foreshore…

Our 8th Repair Café 

Repairs, lambs, yummy treats and community spirit abounded at our 8th Repair Café…

Bee Supermarket at Ambury Farm Park?!

Our lovely local farm, Ambury Park was chosen by Woolworths as the best site for a pop-up supermarket for bees.  Throngs of people have been calling in…

Seedlings Swap Days brought to you by Friends of the Farm

Māngere Bridge Seedling & Seed Swap Day

A first for FoF, this event was a huge success. More than just a seedling swap, there was lots of activities and goodies for green fingered locals.

Making Community Connections

Thanks to the variety of local community events and workshops, many new connections are made. Here are only a few…

The Recycling Bug

The Recycling Bug is Generational

One Māngere Bridge family has caught the Recycling Bug and has already saved over 4000kg of metal from the landfill! This is their story…

Tonnes of eWaste Collected – Māngere Bridge eWaste Day 2024

Nearly five and a half tonnes of e-waste was collected on Sat 6 April at Friends of the Farm’s latest recycling initiative…