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In Wellington City, community volunteers are involved in restoring a large expanse of hillside, valley, stream and parkland that encompasses Trelissick Park and Ngaio Gorge to create a beautiful wilderness area. Groups involved in this restoration include the Highland Park Progressive Association, Ngaio Crofton Downs Residents’ Association, Royal Forest and Bird Protection Society, Wellington Botanical Society and the Wadestown Residents’ Association.
Wellington City Council provides support with pest control, supply of native plants, track and bridge work, erecting signage and information boards and stream bank strengthening. The Greater Wellington Regional Council provides support with pest control.
The activities undertaken by the Trelissick Park Group (TPG) work towards the group's Five Year Plan (August 2021 update). They include:
The group is also working on a project to improve signage in the park. A project team has been formed. The team will consult with key people and work closely with the Wellington City Council to design the new signs. We aim to complete the project by October 2026. Thanks to Frances Lee and the Transpower Community Care Fund for funding this project.
Scheduled working bees are a key means of implementing the group's five year plan. Tasks include:
The main planting period is July–September each year.
Please report any problems such as trees fallen across tracks, rubbish dumping, slips, vandalism and noxious weeds to Wellington City Council at Report a problem or to 04 499 4444.
Please report pollution in streams to the Greater Wellington Pollution Hotline 0800 496 734.
There are 2 regular working bees each month. One on the first Sunday of the month, and one on the Wednesday ten days later. These working bees start at 1:30pm and finish about 3:30pm.
Additional working bees may be scheduled at various times.
The next working bees are:
Dates for the rest of 2025 are:
See the Maps & Tracks page for entrance locations.
If the weather is wet the working bee will be transferred to the same day the following week. Please wear good footwear and bring general gardening tools with you such as gloves, loppers, grubbers, shears, pruning saws...hand tools only please.
Email the Trelissick Park Group for more information on place and confirmation of dates, and to get on the working bee mailing list. The email address is trelissickgroup@gmail.com
This scheme encourages people to adopt their own spot in the park to look after, at any time convenient to them, rather than working in with the working bee schedule.
If you are interested, email the Trelissick Park Group at trelissickgroup@gmail.com. The group will talk with you about the size and location of the spot.
See also Adopt-a-Spot locations (2015 update) (PDF) for locations of some historic, but typical, Adopt-a-Spots. Hover your cursor over spots for more detailed information (may be browser dependent).
Adopt-a-spot tasks
If you decide to adopt a spot, the coordinator will brief you and visit the spot with you to talk about it. You will then be free to establish your own work schedule and pace for a variety of satisfying tasks.
Weedbusters at work in Trelissick Park. From left: Olaf John, Carolyn Theiler, Frances Lee, Marilyn Hester, Peter Reimann, Dorothy Douglass. Photo by Barry Durrant.
Award nominations
Awards received
2021 Absolutely Positively Wellingtonian Award "for Peter Reimann for his ongoing work leading the Trelissick Park Group".
Trelissick Park Group
Page last updated: 12 May 2025