Tawa Climate Adaptation Community Group

08/10/2026

📣 A new way to book our community centre spaces is coming!

On 1 November 2026, Wellington City Council community centre bookings will move to our online booking system Bookable, making it easier to:

✅ find community centres and spaces

✅ check availability
✅ submit and manage booking requests
✅ pay online

✅ view booking details, invoices and receipts.

👉 New booking requirement

From 1 November, if you need to book a space at one of our community centres, you’ll need a Bookable account to book the space online. If you manage multiple groups or organisations, you’ll need to create an account for each.

👉 What you can do now

While our Wellington City Council operated community centre spaces are not yet available to view or book in Bookable, you can create your account now so you’re ready to make bookings from 1 November – just visit bookable.wellington.govt.nz and create an individual or organisation account.

Do you have bookings taking place on or after 1 November? Please create your account now so we can link your booking to you when it moves into Bookable. We'll contact affected customers with information on how to access and manage their booking in the new system in the coming weeks.

Until 1 November, you can continue using your community centre’s current booking process. If you have any questions or need support, please contact the community centre you usually book through.

08/10/2026

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REPAIR CAFÉ IS BACK AT LINDEN!

This Saturday, 10 October 2026
10:00am – 1:00pm
Linden Community Centre

Got something broken, damaged or in need of a little care. Don’t throw it away just yet! Bring it along to our Repair Café and let’s see if we can give it a second life.

We have some amazing volunteers ready to help:

🧵 Sewing group – help with your clothing and sewing repairs
💻 Computer engineer – help with your laptop and computer issues
🔪 Steelman team – keen to sharpen your knives
🔧 General repairs – bring along those little things that need fixing
🚲 Bike repairs – help to get your bike back on the road

All services are FREE!

Come along, bring your broken things, share your skills, learn something new and have a chat with our wonderful volunteers.

Every item we repair means one less thing going to landfill.

And while you’re waiting, why not enjoy a cuppa at our café?

Bring it, fix it, learn it, reuse it!
We hope to see you there!

30/06/2026

There is growing sentiment that climate hazards need to taken into account in our planning, investment and decision making. The affects are being felt at the property level through events and insurance rises.

New Zealanders say everyone needs to take responsibility for reducing expected impacts.

22/06/2026

Here are Aotearoa New Zealand’s climate stripes 👋

Each of these stripes represents our average annual temperature, relative to the 1991-2020 average.

Continuing trend ... we’re in the red 🟥

Four of New Zealand’s five warmest years on record have clocked in since 2021. The ongoing warming trend observed here at home and globally is largely driven by human greenhouse gas emissions.

We’re sharing our stripes as part of the annual Show Your Stripes Day - a powerful way to communicate the reality of climate change as a simple visual supported by robust scientific data.

Our stripes are calculated from our ‘seven station’ series – a long-running temperature record pulled from measurement sites at seven locations ...

📍 Auckland, Masterton, Wellington, Hokitika, Nelson, Lincoln and Dunedin.

These seven locations make the cut because they provide broad geographical coverage and long records. They’ve been collecting measurements since 1909.

Links below for more on our 2025 climate, and to see the stripes from other locations around the world.

🔗 https://niwa.co.nz/climate-and-weather/annual/annual-climate-summary-2025
🔗 https://showyourstripes.info/



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04/06/2026

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04/06/2026

Free webinar on insurance in the face of climate change.

Average residential property insurance premiums in Aotearoa New Zealand have increased by over 900% since 2000, more than four times the rate of general price inflation. This webinar will draw upon a recent book by Foundation Honorary Senior Fellow Jonathan Boston (Insuring the Future: Reimagining H...

22/05/2026

⚠️ Burn off advisory ⚠️

Fire and Emergency New Zealand would like to advise there’ll be three controlled burn offs of forestry slash piles on Collins Ave over the next few days. The first burn will be lit around 8.30am Saturday 23 May.

Wellington is currently in an open fire season.

We are advised the burns will be closely supervised, and all appropriate safety precautions taken. Weather conditions and fire risk will be monitored throughout the activity.

There will be visible smoke from the fires. If you're property is impacted by smoke we recommend closing windows and doors.

If conditions become unsuitable, the burn will be extinguished or postponed.

We are notifying residents and the wider public to reduce unnecessary concern and minimise the number of 111 calls..

19/05/2026

The Wellington storm in April brought record amounts of rainfall and severe flooding, causing several landslides across the city ⛈️⛈️

So far, we've received almost 200 NHCover claims for damage to homes and properties in the Wellington region.

Of the claims received to date:
- 66% relate to landslide damage
- 34% relate to storm and flood damage.

These numbers are a reminder of how damaging landslides can be. And while we can't predict when they might happen, we can take important steps to be prepared – like understanding your properties risk, and what your insurance can and can't do.

Natural hazards insurance can help when landslides, storms, and floods, affect your home or land, but there are limits on both the area and the value of what we insure.

Recovery takes time – and we, working with your private insurer, are here to support New Zealand homeowners on that journey 🩵

Get familiar with your cover: https://www.naturalhazards.govt.nz/know-your-cover/

28/04/2026

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21/04/2026

Have you seen a landslide? Stay safe and support emergency response teams.

⚠ NZ Civil Defence is encouraging people to watch for warning signs like cracks in the ground, tilting trees or fences, sticking doors or windows, or small slips and falling debris, water flowing out of a slope, like a new spring.

⏩ If you see any of these signs please act quickly. Get out of the way. Evacuate the building you are in if you think it is in danger. Staying far from a landslide is your best protection. Remember, slopes can stay unstable even when the weather clears.

📸 If it’s safe to do so, you can really help our landslide response team by reporting what you see. Take a photo like this one and submit a Landslide Observation Report.

By doing this you help us track risks and keep communities safe 👇
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Please share this with your local community pages.

Stay alert. Stay safe. And only report from a safe distance.

For more information about the current status of local emergencies, weather, and roads make sure you are getting your updates from NZ Civil Defence, Wellington Region Emergency Management Office, MetService New Zealand, and NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi.

📸 Liardet St in Vogeltown, Wellington - 11.30am, April 20th 2026.