Sponsorship

Supporting our community

By sharing our time and resources with others, we help grow and nurture the community we are a part of.

Sponsorships range from financial or in-kind support for activities that deliver ongoing benefits through to specific support for projects, events and initiatives.

  

 We are excited to announce our 2024/25 water sport athletes who will be receiving a grant of $1000 to go towards the achievement of their goals. 

From left, Seven Mapu for Surf Life Saving, Jaxon Pardoe for Surfing, Sophie Petro for Surf Life Saving, Jacqueline Kennedy for Kayaking and Keri Mankelow-Ngatoro for Waka Ama

 

Water Sport athletes for 2024/25

Summer interns

Eastland Port is delighted to welcome three talented interns to its summer internship programme, offering them valuable work experience and the opportunity to develop practical skills in their chosen fields. Jess Steele is gaining experience in Human Resources, Olivia Gaddum is enhancing her knowledge in Communications, and Campbell McPherson is working in Asset Management. This programme is a great opportunity for these students from Tairāwhiti to apply their academic learning in a professional environment while contributing to the port's operations.

Supporting our people 

Whether it's supporting a staff member with a sports competition, or providing corporate sponsorship for a school event, we're proud to get behind our people.

Mulch donations

Each year we support a number of community planting days by donating mulch from our debarking plant. We deliver by the trailer load and is used around native trees and in gardens across the region.

Some projects we have donated to are the Waikanae Stream restoration, Kopuawhakapata Stream restoration, Tautua Village, Enviroschools and much more!  

Wharf Wheels

Whenever possible, we hold unique events so that people can experience the port in new and unusual ways.

We've held two Wharf Wheels events for the opening of the Wharfside Log Yard in 2019 and more recently for the Wharf 7 rebuild.

At the Wharf 7 Wharf Wheels we had over 1400 people attend the event and zoom around the new wharf on their bikes, scooters and roller skates. Watch this epic highlight video of the day.