Mother of All Cleanups River Cleanup
This year was another great Mother of all Clean Ups. It was hosted by Richmond Community Garden and Riverlution, and We are Richmond and other volunteers cleaned up our local Avon and surrounding river.
Afterwards, all of the organisations volunteering for the Christchurch-wide Mother of All Clean Ups came to Riverlution Cafe for the after party hosted by Avon-Ōtākaro Network Conservation Volunteers NZ Cassels Brewing Co and other organisations with guest Celeste Donovan – Councillor for Coastal!! Healthy Rivers NZ
WE ARE RICHMOND
Petrie Park BBQ and Consultation 2025
We hosted a BBQ for Petrie Park and an open consultation for the planting plan.
Te Oraka Community Pools Co-Hosted Cleanup 1
Volunteers from different Shirley, Richmond and Dallington had a first cleanup session at Te Oraka Community Pools
Walking Weedathon 4
A multi-area walking Weedathon around the streets of Richmond!
Avon Otakaro’s amazing spread
The after-party
The after-party
Celeste Donovan
Richmond Community Garden Riverlution Director Morgane and Donna from Conservation Volunteers NZ
Volunteer Patrick on the BBQ
Biking: a great way to get to the cleanup
The after-party
So many bags collected
Finding all sorts
River Cleanup
Found Care Bear
Morgane doing the pre-cleanup talk
The whole crew
Darryl from Healthy Rivers NZ
Jane from Richmond Community Garden accounts
Some of the bottles collected
Red Zone Find
Cleaning in the middle of the Red Zone
Chance to spend father son time together
River Cleanup
