Recreate NZ

30/11/2025

What a fantastic weekend we had at Kairakau Beach! This was our first multiday, overnight offering for young people based in Hawke's Bay, made possible with support from IHC New Zealand. We partnered with Recreate NZ - Wellington for this weekend, with great moments for socialising and getting to know other peers.

We ventured to the National Aquarium of New Zealand, Te Mata Peak, Bay Blue - Delicious HB Grown Berries Real Fruit Ice Cream, and a visit to Maraetotara waterfall!

Thank you to all our fabulous participants for making this a very special weekend away!

27/11/2025

First Fridays means party night at Recreate NZ! We love hosting a themed Urban night on the first Friday of every month (unless it clashes with our Holiday Programme time). For Halloween, we survived visits from Dracula, Elvis, a mad scientist, a cowgirl, witches and more!

26/11/2025

Lake Taupō always brings out the smiles, with so much on offer! We loved our time on the Waikato river near Huka falls, and our visit to the Prawn park!

Thank you to all our incredible participants, you made this trip one to remember!

25/11/2025

Our over 30s crew enjoyed going north earlier this month, visiting Goat Island and Matakana.

The Goat Island Marine Discovery Centre was an engaging and interactive place to learn about sealife, and Matakana is always such a beautiful town with a great market place.

23/11/2025

The lads recently took on the Wero Climb challenge, conquering great heights in the process!

We are so proud of all our participants during this day out, and we look forward to offering more of these adventurous opportunities over summer, including our interregional Youth Camp in January 2026!

21/11/2025

Happy Friday! We end the working week with a few quotes, showing what Recreate means to this group of parents in our community.

We are so thankful to journey with over 500 young people and their families on such a regular basis, and we wish you all a nice weekend wherever you are.

From the team at Recreate NZ!

19/11/2025

Although the sun is in full force, we still created our very own winter wonderland in SNOWPLANET! With all our warm clothing on, we sled down the slope for fun in the snow.

We love keeping it active and fun for our junior aged participants, and we look forward to Rotorua Adventure with this awesome crew in February!

19/11/2025

This week we are in booking request processing mode, and we aim to send out booking confirmation emails very soon! We love to see the enthusiasm for our summer programmes, with so much to look forward to.

In other news, we are updating our cancellation policy to address the challenges of late cancellations. This comes into affect for programmes commencing from 1st January 2026, you can read all about it by clicking the link below.

See you at Recreate NZ soon!

1.A 20% cancellation fee to be charged for cancellation within exactly 7 days and 24 hours before programme commencement.

17/11/2025

How good are these photos of our Whitianga Weekender! A massive thank you to Sea Cave Adventures for our trip on the water! Ash, the skipper, was so so amazing with the our group by immediately engaging with us and got to know us, he was just so great. We will be back.

We also sadly farwell Jin, who has been with us at Recreate NZ since 2012.

"Just a short note to thank you kindly for organising such fantastic Getaways for Jin and others," says Jin's Mother. "Through Recreate, he has developed lots of incredible life skills, made good friendships, created lots of wonderful memories, are able to enjoy variety of programmes and feel inclusiveness in society. Jin thoroughly enjoyed all the Getaways, and he is sad that he is not able to participate in future programmes as he is leaving New Zealand with his family. We thank all Recreate staff for being part of Jin's life journey, and we wish Recreate all the very best!"

We wish Jin and his family all the very best!

17/11/2025

We loved our time at Lake Ōkāreka near Rotorua a few weekends ago, with a trip to Waikite Valley Hotpools, a swim at Lake Tarawera, and a geothermal walk at Wai-o-tapu.

This Getaway was a great prelude to summer just around the corner, and we are looking forward to many more weekends away across the motu!

For our Term 1 / Summer booking round, our teams are now collating and processing all your requests, and we aim to send back booking confirmations either end of this week or into next week.

Thank you for all your interest in what we have on offer, and we thank you for your patience as we work through this round.

13/11/2025

We are thrilled to have the multi-year support from Sport New Zealand as part of their Disability Investment for 2025-2028. This fund has a focus on our organisational resilience, by strengthening our training of staff, our governance, policies and procedures. This funding also directly supports our ability to lead high quality programmes for our community.

We have just enjoyed seeing our national team in Auckland for team training last month, and we are excited about getting stuck into the mahi co-designed through Recreate NZ and Sport NZ.

11/11/2025

Calling over 30s, come along to Recreate NZ in Ellerslie in just over a weeks time on Friday 28th November! This is a free (or $5 koha) casual drop in, open to adults in our community with tea, coffee, cold drinks, and something to snack on. Bring a friend and come socialise! For more information please email moxie@recreate.org.nz