AGM Information and Committee Member Nominations

Interested in standing for the governing board of Pest Free Kaipātiki?

Call for nominations for election to the Committee of

Pest Free Kaipātiki Restoration Society are now open!

The Committee is the governing body of PFK and carries ultimate responsibility for its activities; serving as a Committee Member or Officer is an important role.

There are some significant and exciting projects underway for this coming year for PFK and this is an opportunity to be part of the team providing strategic oversight to PFK, as it continues to work towards delivering our vision of a Kaipātiki where community and the natural environment flourish.

Committee Members will be elected at the PFK AGM on Tuesday 21 October 2025 (refer below for AGM information).

Key information:

• For more information on what is involved, click here.

• For the nomination form, click here.

• Interested but need more information? Feel free to contact us with any questions you have.

Please note - nominations must be received before 5pm on Monday the 13th of October 2025.

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Annual General Meeting of Pest Free Kaipātiki Restoration Society (Inc.)

We are drawing closer to that time of year again, when we hold our PFK Annual General Meeting. So, mark it in your calendar now - 7pm on Tuesday 21 October - all members and supporters of PFK are welcome and we are looking forward to celebrating what we have achieved together over this past year!

The details of this event are as follows:

Date: Tuesday 21 October 2025

Time: 7pm

Venue: Puāwai, 3 Ross Avenue, Glenfield, Auckland

Format: The formal proceedings will be followed by a guest speaker and then social time and light refreshments.

RSVP: For catering purposes, please let us know if you will be attending by emailing us at team@pfk.org.nz.

We hope you can join us!

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All members, volunteers and supporters of PFK are welcome at this event, however, only members of the Society have voting rights (to have voting rights at this meeting you must be either a PFK Lifetime Member or a fully paid PFK Society Member and have applied and paid for membership on or before 14 October 2025). For more information on membership please visit our Become a PFK Member page. To check if you have a current membership, please email us.

Meeting documents (to be read prior to the meeting)

(Please note - we will update this page as more information is available)

Meeting Agenda

Minutes from the 2024 AGM

Performance Report

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Meet Our Guest Speaker

Dion Pou, Pest Free Kaipātiki

PFK’s very own Senior Restoration Advisor, Dion Pou will be speaking on the elusive banded rail, or moho pererū and an exciting project happening in Kaipātiki this year thanks to funding from the Kaipātiki Local Board.

The banded rail is a native species with restricted distribution that has been recorded from a number of areas around the Kaipātiki coastline. They are habitat specialists being found in intertidal environments wherever manawa/mangroves and saltmarsh are present. These habitats are themselves linked to wider landscape and climate processes that are particularly relevant for the Kaipātiki area.

The banded rail is a beautiful bird, but uncommon, highly secretive, and rarely seen. Because of this it has a mystique and interest-value that makes it a perfect flagship species to draw attention to the environmental opportunities, and challenges, within Kaipātiki.

This is a project PFK have wanted to embark on for some time and, thanks to the support of the Kaipātiki Local Board, it can finally become a reality this year. The project will survey and better understand the status of banded rail in the Kaipātiki area and follow up with targeted pest control and community engagement based on the findings of that work.

Come along and hear Dion share information both on the ecology of the banded rail alongside the plans for this exciting local ecological project.