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Green Pavlova wouldn't exist without our fantastic sponsors and partners. Find out more about them below.
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- Organizer
Recreation Aotearoa
We are the voice of Recreation in Aotearoa, representing all professionals in the industry. We empower our members to deliver the quality Recreation experiences, places and facilities, that fuel a more active, healthy and connected NZ.
www.nzrecreation.org.nz/@company
- Premier Sponsor
Syngenta
Syngenta Turf & Landscape has more than 20 years’ experience in developing solutions specifically for turf and landscape businesses. Syngenta is the preferred partner for protecting valuable turf and garden beds – regardless of species, season or situation. Our well-established, comprehensive product portfolio covers a wide market from golf courses and sports fields to council parks and garden beds.
www.syngentaturf.com.au@company
- Sustainability Sponsor
Green By Nature
Green is genuinely in our nature. We are here to improve people’s lives by designing, building, and caring for remarkable green spaces and natural environments that enable us to do more of the things we love. Our vision of bringing people and communities together through the best parks, fields, sport facilities and other significant outdoor spaces is made possible with our combined strengths across Australia and New Zealand. We are set to redefine industry standards, offering increased capabilities and innovative solutions to customers, all while maintaining the highest quality service for our communities and environments.
greenbynature.co.nz/@company
- Premier Trade - Coffee Cart Sponsor
Playground People
Proudly supporting Recreation Aotearoa for over 15 years, Playground People is a family business and New Zealand's leading playground and outdoor fitness equipment manufacturer with decades of experience. We specialise in creating high quality, innovative and robust playground and recreation spaces that deliver exceptional play value. On top of our own manufacturing capabilities, we also have exclusive distributorship for the world’s best playground brands. We combine these to deliver truly world-class, award-winning playgrounds to schools and communities all over New Zealand.
www.playgrounds.co.nz/@company
- Keep Cup Sponsor
Citycare Property
Citycare Property is New Zealand owned and delivers world class services to social infrastructure across Aotearoa, New Zealand. We enhance the wellbeing of our communities as we build, maintain and renew the places and the spaces that make our communities great to work and live in.
citycareproperty.co.nz/@company
- Welcome Drinks Sponsor
Xyst
We exist to support local government and other agencies with sustainable planning and management of parks, open spaces and public facilities to create better towns and cities for people to live and play. As Aotearoa’s largest parks and recreation consultancy we have the capacity, knowledge and experience to solve problems and deliver innovative solutions. We have worked alongside Recreation Aotearoa and its predecessors for over 20 years to deliver award-winning industry projects such as the national framework for park categorisation, open space maintenance specifications and Yardstick – the international benchmarking and survey tool for local government.
xyst.co.nz/@company
- Pre-Dinner Drinks SponsorFPC & Watershed bring expertise as one of the leading suppliers and manufacturers of the equipment for the aquatic & recreation sectors. You might be surprised at what we can do for you and your community by using our skills & experience with your vision
FPC / Watershed
FPC and Watershed working together for you, and with you, to plan, build and manage your assets so you get more out of them.
www.watershednz.co.nz/about-us/@company
Watershed is a privately owned company, with offices in Auckland, Tauranga, Palmerston North & Christchurch. Since 2006 Watershed has excelled in providing advice, support and services to the aquatics, recreation, and education sectors across New Zealand. We are now proud national partners of Recreation Aotearoa, an organisation we have been members of since we started.
Boasting a diverse portfolio of over 200 client sites nationwide, the nature of the work Watershed undertakes varies depending on the needs of the client. Our work includes providing feasibility studies, reviews of staff and processes, staff training, problem diagnosis and solutions, project management, asset management planning, LTP authoring, and overall facility evaluations.
In 2021 Watershed acquired FPC bringing together over 40 years of expertise as one of the leading suppliers and manufacturers of the equipment for the aquatic and recreation sectors with a particular interest and strength in the design and construction of splash pads and interactive waterplay features.
Watershed and FPC can deliver world class outdoor aquatic play spaces, amongst other things, from inception through to opening day and beyond.
You might be surprised at what we can do for you and your community by combining our skills and experience with your vision.
- Stationery Sponsor
Easy Big Trees
Easy Big Trees is a 4th generation family business. Since 1918 they’ve been planting, nursing and growing trees and shrubs in New Zealand. That’s more than a few hot summers and harsh winters, and today their nursery extends over 60 acres of Southland soil, where they have over 120,000 trees & shrubs ready to be delivered to any corner of New Zealand.
easybigtrees.co.nz/@company
Easy Big Trees offer a specialty growing service, providing customers with certainty for tree & shrub availability and will grow non-stock plants to order. Their offering includes the Harrisons Heritage Collection, an exclusive selection of advanced specimen trees up to 20+ years old, which can be carefully transported to anywhere in New Zealand and planted for an instant storied aesthetic.
They work closely with landscape architects, developers and governing bodies, and their trees can be found and enjoyed in many parks, recreation areas, city plantings and private residences, all over New Zealand.
- Keynote Speaker Sponsor - Duncan MacDougallWednesday 29 May - Rakaia Room - 12.30pm
Green By Nature
Green is genuinely in our nature. We are here to improve people’s lives by designing, building, and caring for remarkable green spaces and natural environments that enable us to do more of the things we love. Our vision of bringing people and communities together through the best parks, fields, sport facilities and other significant outdoor spaces is made possible with our combined strengths across Australia and New Zealand. We are set to redefine industry standards, offering increased capabilities and innovative solutions to customers, all while maintaining the highest quality service for our communities and environments.
greenbynature.co.nz/@company
- National Partners
