What is RECAP?

The Society for the Resilience and Engagement of the Community of Ashhurst and Pohangina, Incorporated

RECAP is a not-for-profit society for people from Ashhurst and the Pohangina Valley who want to build a stronger sense of community, care for the living environment and the local ecology, and develop new skills and connections that can help make this region sustainable, resilient, and self-reliant.

See Ashhurst dot org to learn more about Ashhurst and the Pohangina Valley.

Our mission:

• To promote the sustainability, diversity, and resilience of the Greater Ashhurst and Pohangina Region.
• In the spirit of this general mission, the Society will engage exclusively in activities that fit within the umbrella of the charitable purposes stated below.

Our purposes:

RECAP will:

• Advance education in permaculture;
• Advance education that enhances the community's disaster preparedness and ability to respond non-violently to sudden change;
• Run projects within the Greater Ashhurst and the Pohangina Valley Region that enhance the community's resilience in ways that are practical manifestations of the knowledge and values advanced through the educational purposes set out above.

Pecuniary gain is not a purpose of the Society.

For more detail on our purposes, see the complete Rules of the Society (pdf)
For detail on recent activities, see our Chairperson's Annual Report (pdf) (May 2012).

Contact us

Email: info@recap.org.nz
Post: 25 Worcester St.
Ashhurst 4810

Executive:

Sharon Stevens
Chairperson

Harvey Jones
Deputy Chairperson

Doug Wilson
Secretary

Wendy Brock
Treasurer

Llyvonne Barber
Executive member

Toni O'Brien
Executive member

Anne Redgrave
Executive member

Key Operational Roles:

Anne Regrave
Garden Exchange Project Coordinator

Harvey Jones
Olsson Orchard Project Coordinator

Phil Stevens
Liaison to Living Economies Educational Trust

Sharon Stevens
Administration, LOAVES Working Group Chair, Education Coordinator

Become a RECAP member

If you send us your email address, you will receive notice of any RECAP events, such as conservation planting days and our upcoming LOAVES launch. All members receive notice of our Annual General Meeting and any Special General Meetings. Anyone sixteen or older who lives in Ashhurst (including the entire Ashhurst School catchment area) or the Pohangina Valley may join. There are zero membership fees now and in the foreseeable future.

RECAP was constituted as a not-for-profit incorporated society in July 2010. We are in the process of applying for charitable status.