PIPS

About

PiPS is a registered charity based in the Mt Maunganui/Pāpāmoa Beach area of Aotearoa New Zealand, formed to help support the garden programmes of our member schools. Our catchment area has grown over the years and currently runs from Paengaroa in the east, northwest along the coastline as far as Waihi Beach, taking in eight primary (years 1-6) and one intermediate (years 7-8) schools. PiPS employs garden facilitators who work across our member schools, assisting them in running their school gardens and other environmentally-based, student focussed projects within the school, gardening to organic principles and with respect for tikanga Māori. PiPS also partners with various community-based groups to run projects which give tamariki a wider appreciation of the importance of our local environment in their everyday lives.