Events
Youth Film Competition
This summer, we’re inviting youth (24 and under) to get outside, explore the wild, and share your outdoor adventure! Create a 2-10min short film of your experience and enter our competition for your share of over $4,000 of prizes! The best films will be shown on the big screen in Motueka in June. Check out the details and start planning your epic summer journey!
Ngā Ara ki te Taiao: Wānanga 2025
We invite you to join the Whenua Iti Outdoors team in Te Tauihu for an inspiring 4-day journey of exploration, learning, and connection. This unique experience is designed to deepen our understanding of Te Āo Māori and enhance active and outdoor recreation practices through learning opportunities to deepen our understanding of and connection to Te Taiao.
Latest News
WIO WIT WIF ExpedNZ – confused? Let us explain!!
Here at WIO, finding the funding we need for our programmes certainly keeps us on our toes – we try to be as adaptable and creative as possible looking for opportunities wherever we can and also looking for ways to make what we do sustainable in the longer term. Currently we apply for grants and […]
Measuring our Impact – what do we know?
For many years Whenua Iti Outdoors has been held in high regard by the people who participate in our programmes or maybe their families and others in the community who for some reason come across our work. We have heard many tales of how “my son turned a corner doing a WIO programme” or “WIO […]
To the Scared Abseiler – a message from your tutor!
If you come on a Whenua Iti Outdoors programmes you will find yourself facing all sorts of challenges and each person on the same programme faces a different set of challenges – some physical, some mental, some emotional – sometimes all 3! One of our tutors, Kathryn, has written a letter to everyone facing a […]
It’s a WRAP
Looking back, looking forward…. 2018 was a big year in the WIO story in so many different ways. We delivered 10,201 participant days of activities – we’re pretty sure that’s our first year over the 10,000 mark with 3,433 individuals on our various programmes. 3,139 credits were achieved by secondary students towards their NCEA and […]
Who’s Learning from Who? An Instructor’s Perspective
I’m sure you’ve all heard us wax lyrical about all the wonderful things the students have learned in their programmes – but what if you flick that round and look at that from a different perspective? Our super woman instructor, Joni Tomsett, shows us it’s not all one way traffic on the learning front! The […]
WIO in the Shadows……
Earlier this year two of our Whenua Iti staff (Pip Rees and Kieran McKay) spent 6 and 12 days underground on an expedition to try to extend the known length of the 76km long Bulmer Cavern, NZs longest cave. Kieran made a 36 minute movie about this expedition entitled ‘Once Again Beneath the Mountains’ It […]
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