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April 19: Entries Close
The Youth Outdoor Short Film Competition is all about getting outdoors, having fun, and sharing your journey. Whether you’re hiking, biking, kayaking, or just exploring your favourite local spot, we want to see it through your eyes. The goal is to inspire others to get outside, connect with nature, and see the world through your lens.
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Measuring our Impact – what do we know?
For many years Whenua Iti Outdoors has been held in high regard by the people who participate in our programmes or maybe their families and others in the community who for some reason come across our work. We have heard many tales of how “my son turned a corner doing a WIO programme” or “WIO […]
To the Scared Abseiler – a message from your tutor!
If you come on a Whenua Iti Outdoors programmes you will find yourself facing all sorts of challenges and each person on the same programme faces a different set of challenges – some physical, some mental, some emotional – sometimes all 3! One of our tutors, Kathryn, has written a letter to everyone facing a […]
It’s a WRAP
Looking back, looking forward…. 2018 was a big year in the WIO story in so many different ways. We delivered 10,201 participant days of activities – we’re pretty sure that’s our first year over the 10,000 mark with 3,433 individuals on our various programmes. 3,139 credits were achieved by secondary students towards their NCEA and […]
Who’s Learning from Who? An Instructor’s Perspective
I’m sure you’ve all heard us wax lyrical about all the wonderful things the students have learned in their programmes – but what if you flick that round and look at that from a different perspective? Our super woman instructor, Joni Tomsett, shows us it’s not all one way traffic on the learning front! The […]
WIO in the Shadows……
Earlier this year two of our Whenua Iti staff (Pip Rees and Kieran McKay) spent 6 and 12 days underground on an expedition to try to extend the known length of the 76km long Bulmer Cavern, NZs longest cave. Kieran made a 36 minute movie about this expedition entitled ‘Once Again Beneath the Mountains’ It […]
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