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The Charitable Trust has one ballot entry from Ngāti Rangitihi entrants to the Tarawera Ultramarathon up for grabs! Please complete an entry form by 5pm – Friday 13 December 2024.The entry form is here: https://forms.office.com/r/EYj8D9tb8g The Tarawera Ultra Marathon will be held on 15-16 February 2025. The complimentary entry will be drawn by ballot. The complimentary entry covers participation in the T102 -100km distance. To be eligible, you must: • be registered with Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi • be at least 18 years old • meet the entry criteria of the Tarawera Ultramarathon The successful application will be notified and the results published on our website and Facebook page. For more info about the event, visit https://tarawera.utmb.world/races/t-102

Tēnā koutou, We can now release the results of our 2024 Trustee Elections after voting closed on 18 November 2024. We are pleased to confirm that the elected Trustees for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust for 2024 are as follows: Congratulations to those who have been elected! We look forward to working with all Trustees to keep driving the social, cultural, environmental and economic growth of Ngāti Rangitihi and provide opportunities for generations to come. Thank you to all the members who voted in the Trustee Elections for 2024 - you have helped to shape the future for Ngāti Rangitihi by taking part in this important process.                              Ngā manaakitanga, Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust

Tēnā koutou, Voting in the Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust 2024 Trustee Elections has now closed, as at 5pm, Monday 18 November. Thank you to all who took part in this important process.  What happens now?  Electionz.com , as the independent Returning Officer, will count all the postal and online votes. We hope to be in a position to announce the results next week.  Stay tuned for the results announcement - we'll be sharing the results on our website, Facebook, and via pānui. Ngā manaakitanga, Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust

Voting is open for candidates standing in the 2024 Trustee Elections for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust. Voting  closes  at  5pm  on  Monday 18 November 2024. Please vote, whānau. It's critical that we have as many of you voting as possible. So, if you haven’t voted yet, make sure you do so before voting closes on Monday 18 November. How do I vote?  The 2024 Trustee Elections is taking place via postal and internet voting. The link to vote is here: https://ivote.electionz.com/e/TMONR24 You will need your voting details to vote - these have been emailed to you by Electionz.com , the Independent Returning Officer (if you have an email address registered with Te Mana). You'll need to enter your PIN and Password exactly as they appear on your voting paper. Voting packs have also been posted to registered adult members (for those who don't have email addresses registered with Te Mana). Whānau, make sure you vote. This is an opportunity for whānau to help shape the future for Ngāti Rangitihi, and have a voice on our Trust Board. We encourage you to take part in this important process. Who are the nominated candidates? The Trustee candidates standing in the 2024 Trustee Elections are: Leith Comer Cathy Dewes Tiipene Perenara Marr Toma Mason Pouroto Ngaropo Taichi Playle Graham Pryor Lynne Moewai Pryor Tracey Raureti Pretty Ross Check out the candidate profiles here . Check your emails for emails from Electionz.com : The voting process is being run by Electionz.com  as the Independent Returning Officer  (not The Trust) so your voting details which have been sent to you by post and/or email will come from Electionz directly. Please ensure you check your spam/junk email folders if you haven’t received any emails from Electionz.com  in your usual inbox. If you are registered with The Trust but have not received your voting details yet from Electionz.com , please call Electionz on 0800 398 683. Note, reminder to vote email pānui are also being sent to you by  Electionz.com , if you have your email address registered with Te Mana. This is not spam.  Make sure you're registered: Registrations for this election are being accepted up to the close of voting. If you or your whānau are 18 years and over and whakapapa to Ngāti Rangitihi, but are not yet registered with us, we encourage you to do so now.

We’re more than three quarters through 2024, and there’s been a lot happening within The Trust.   We’re keeping Ngāti Rangitihi moving forward and advancing our strategic objectives since Settlement through key workstreams, grouped under four pou – Taiao, Hapori ,  Ahurea, and Ohaoha . We’re keen to share some updates and highlights with you in this pānui as part of our continued efforts to keep our registered members up to date with our kaupapa. TAIAO UPDATE There are many projects are happening at The Trust in the Taiao space, and our Taiao team has expanded to five team members to manage the expanding workload, under the leadership of our Pou Taiao/Environmental Lead Frances Teinakore-Curtis, and supported by Trustees Leith Comer and Tiipene Marr. We’re grateful to the team for their ongoing work in this space. We want to give special mention here to the work happening on the restoration of Tarawera Awa, through the Tarawera Awa Restoration Strategy Group (TARSG), where we’re proactively engaging with affected parties, including the Matatā Residents Association, the Kawerau Mills, and Federated Farmers. The group is made up of representatives from Ngāti Rangitihi, Tūwharetoa ki Kawerau, Ngāti Awa, and Makino, and the local and regional councils (including Bay of Plenty Regional Council, Whakatāne District Council, Kawerau District Council, and Rotorua Lakes Council). There is also a project team headed by Frances. TARSG aspirations include: to re-channel and reconnect the ancestral path of the Tarawera Awa back through Te Awa o te Atua and out to sea at Mihimarino to work together to protect the Tarawera Awa by dealing with all contamination and discharges into its waters to regenerate the life sustaining properties of the Tarawera Awa and Te Awa o te Atua so that it can return to the food basket it once was.   To achieve our aspirations, we're currently:   Conducting feasibility and options analysis to understand the viability of reconnection and re-channelling Carrying out a risk mitigation programme of technical work to document current and potential risks to water quality (including stormwater and wastewater management) in Edgecumbe, Matatā, Lake Tarawera, Rotoitipaku, and Rotomā bund. Rolling out a Mātauranga Māori Monitoring programme Mapping Mahinga kai/cultural sites Increased monitoring of key sites Exploring opportunities that enable economic development in Matatā (i.e. destination and eco-tourism) Continuously improving our engagement and reporting Supporting tamariki/rangatahi/kura taiao restoration projects/programmes Initiating ecological enhancement and planting programmes Improving accessibility to Tarawera Awa ki te Awa o te Atua to facilitate and enhance cultural, community, and recreational activities. You can read our full Tarawera Awa Aspirations Document, which details our goals in this space here . Other current Taiao projects include: Resource consents Cultural health monitoring eDNA testing Aquawatch water monitoring tool – measures pH, conductivity, turbidity, water temp, dissolved oxygen Mai i Nga Kuri a Wharei ki Tihirau Fisheries Forum Matatā Wastewater project Edgecumbe, Whakatāne Wastewater project Pest Plant Control  Te Waiu o Tarawera  Wallaby eradication Stocktake of environmental data. We’ve also been vocal about the risk of contaminated sludge in Rotoitipaku pouring into Tarawera Awa, with Ngāti Rangitihi supporting the Tūwharetoa action to restore Rotoitipaku. You can watch an interview with Trust Chairman, Leith Comer, on this topic here . HAPORI UPDATE Our Pou Hapori/Social Lead, Darcy Stoneham, supported by our Kaiawhina Hapori & Taiao/Admin - Environmental & Social Administrator, Miria Nicholls, and Trustees Toma Mason and Tracey Raureti, have been doing some amazing work as part of this pou’s role to advocate, facilitate, review, and leverage our relationships with service providers to ensure socio-economic gaps are identified. We’ve seen some fantastic engagement with our registered members and local community through wānanga series like Te Parekawakawa o Hinenui te Pō and Ngāti Rangitihi Hauora, initiatives like the motoribike basic handling licensing programme and kōeke programme, and our Matariki celebrations. On 27 September, we saw more than 80 people gather at Rangitihi Marae for the re-scheduled signing of a Relationship Accord between The Trust and Te Puna Ora o Mataatua (TPOOM) . This Accord sets out the agreement in principle for The Trust and TPOOM to collaborate in developing and undertaking activities that will mutually benefit both institutions, to advance in particular the mutual health, medical, social, educational, training, and employment goals of the communities we serve. We’ve also streamlined our Charitable Trust grant application process, including updating our Community, Kaumātua, and Sports Grant forms, and moving our Tertiary Education Grant application process to an online format (to be formally launched when the next Tertiary Education Grant round opens in January 2025). You can find out more about our grants here . AHUREA UPDATE We’ve also seen a significant amount of work go into supporting our Pou Ahurea. It’s been great to see our iwi members regsiter for and actively engage in cultural events like Te Kōtahi o Te Awa o Te Atua, Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori activities, and our Te Reo Māori classes. Led by our Pou Ahurea/Cultural Lead, Waitangi Clarke, and supported by Trusty Cathy Dewes, initiatives like these are critical to ensuring Hau Kāinga connection with the Pā, and in doing so encouraging comfort and confidence to engage with the Pā, and as Ngāti Rangitihi. OHAOHA UPDATE The Trading Trust keeps a strong portfolio in an ever-changing financial world. We’re lucky to have the expertise of Graham Pryor, Te Kapunga Dewes, Merepeka Raukawa-Tait, Ian Dickson, and our Kaikaute/Pou Ohaoha Accountant Jeananne Ward looking after our pūtea. You can read more about our commercial interests here . And, if you haven’t been to Waimangu Vocanic Valley yet, we encourage you to check it out. Registered Iwi members can visit Waimangu Volcanic Valley for free. Register for your free visit here . 2024 TRUSTEE ELECTIONS It is really encouraging to see that, after just a week of voting opening for our 2024 Trustee Elections, we already have a voter return of more than 5%.  It's critical that we have as many of you voting as possible. So, if you haven’t voted yet, make sure you do so before voting closes on Monday 18 November. Note: The voting process is being run by Electionz.com as the Independent Returning Officer (not The Trust) so your voting details which have been sent to you by post and/or email will come from Electionz directly. Please ensure you check your spam/junk email folders if you are registered with The Trust but have not received your voting details yet, or call Electionz on 0800 398 683. This is your opportunity to have a say in the representation on our Trust Board, and we strongly encourage you to take part in this important process. You can find out more about the Trustee Elections process here . LET'S KEEP MOVING FORWARD WITH UNITY There is lots more planned for the coming year, and it's been great to have the Trust supported by a dedicated team in the tari, led by our Kaiwhakahaere Matua/Operations Manager, Alana Hunter. Alana, who was appointed to the new role early this year, after more than a decade working for the Trust, is responsible for overseeing all administrative, financial, and operational activities of the Trust, including managing staff, developing and implementing policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with relevant regulations. She works closely with our Board of Trustees to achieve the Trusts strategic objectives, and is supported by Tia Warbrick as mentor. We look forward to continuing to engage with our registered iwi members and achieving our goals together. It’s also been really great to see, over the past year, more Ngāti Rangitihi rangatahi get involved with the kaupapa of the Trust, and we hope to see this continue over the years. If you or your whānau are 18 years and over and whakapapa to Ngāti Rangitihi, but are not yet registered with us, you can do so easily here . He pātai? Whānau, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us if you have any pātai! You can contact us via any of the following ways: Freephone : 0800 AKATEA or 0800 252 832 Office landline:  07 222 5130 Email:   kaiawhina@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Website:  www.ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz   Pou contacts: Pou Taiao:  taiao@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Pou Hapori:  darcy@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Pou Ahurea:   ahurea@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Pou Ohaoha:  accounting@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Or pop into our office for a kōrero: 35 Heale Street, Matatā

Voting is now open for candidates standing in the 2024 Trustee Elections for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust. Voting  closes  at  5pm  on  Monday 18 November 2024. How do I vote?  The 2024 Trustee Elections is taking place via postal and internet voting. The link to vote is here: https://ivote.electionz.com/e/TMONR24 You will need your voting details to vote - these will be emailed to you by Electionz.com , the Independent Returning Officer, over the coming days (if you have an email address registered with us). You'll need to enter your PIN and Password exactly as they appear on your voting paper Voting packs are also being posted to registered adult members as of today, Wednesday 16 October 2024, so you should receive these in the coming week (for those who don't have email addresses registered with us). Whānau, make sure you vote. This is an opportunity for whānau to help shape the future for Ngāti Rangitihi, and have a voice on our Trust Board. We encourage you to take part in this important process. Note, reminder email pānui will also be sent to you by   Electionz.com over the coming weeks, if you have your email address registered with Te Mana. This is not spam – these emails will contain important information on how to nominate someone. Please check your junk mail if you haven’t received any emails from Electionz.com  in your usual inbox. If you are 18 years and over and have an email address registered with Te Mana, you should be receiving these emails.   Who are the nominated candidates? The Trustee candidates standing in the 2024 Trustee Elections are: Leith Comer Cathy Dewes Tiipene Perenara Marr Toma Mason Pouroto Ngaropo Taichi Playle Graham Pryor Lynne Moewai Pryor Tracey Raureti Pretty Ross Come along to our Meet the candidates' hui When: 5pm, Friday 18 October Where: Rangitihi Marae, Matatā Come and meet the candidates standing and ask your pātai. The hui will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Attendees and viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions to the nominees, with all Q&A will be published on our Facebook page the following week.  Make sure you're registered: Registrations for this election will be accepted up to the close of voting. If you or your whānau are 18 years and over and whakapapa to Ngāti Rangitihi, but are not yet registered with us, we encourage you to do so now.

We are pleased to confirm the Trustee candidates standing in the 2024 Trustee Elections for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust. Nominated candidates: Leith Comer Cathy Dewes Tiipene Perenara Marr Toma Mason Pouroto Ngaropo Taichi Playle Graham Pryor Lynne Moewai Pryor Tracey Raureti Pretty Ross Election voting dates - what you need to know: As the number of valid nominations received exceeds the number of vacancies available, an election is required to determine those Trustees. Seven Trustees are required to be elected.  Voting  opens  on  Wednesday 16 October 2024 . Voting  closes  at  5pm  on  Monday 18 November 2024. Electionz.com is running this process, as the Independent Returning Officer. The 2024 Trustee Elections will be carried out by postal and internet voting. Voting packs will be mailed to registered adult members on Wednesday 16 October 2024. Registrations for this election will be accepted up to the close of voting. This is an opportunity for whānau to help shape the future for Ngāti Rangitihi, and have a voice on our Trust Board. We encourage you to take part in this important process.   Email pānui are also being sent to you by   Electionz.com , if you have your email address registered with Te Mana. This is not spam – these emails will contain important information on how to nominate someone. Please check your junk mail if you haven’t received any emails from Electionz.com  in your usual inbox. If you are 18 years and over and have an email address registered with Te Mana, you should be receiving these emails.   'Meet the candidates' hui: When: 5pm, Friday 18 October Where: Rangitihi Marae, Matatā We encourage you to come along to this hui to meet the candidates standing in these Trustee Elections and ask questions. The hui will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page. Attendees and viewers will have the opportunity to ask questions to the nominees, and all Q&A will be published on our Facebook page the following week.  Make sure you're registered: If you or your whānau are 18 years and over and whakapapa to Ngāti Rangitihi, but are not yet registered with us, we encourage you to do so now.

Kia ora whānau - posting here regarding an important kaupapa. We strongly encourage you to support Kereama Wright who is standing as a nominated candidate in the Trustee Elections for Te Arawa Lakes Trust. Although Ngāti Rangitihi has mana whenua over four lakes, we haven’t had representation on Te Arawa Lakes Trust for more than a decade! So, it’s great to see a member of our Iwi stand up and put his name forward for this important kaupapa. To be eligible to vote, you need to be registered with Te Arawa Lakes Trust. Voting will be held in November 2024 and nine Trustees will be selected – three from each of these Tūpuna Rohe: Te Kawatapuārangi, Te Ure o Uenukukōpako, and Tūhourangi Rohe. Kereama is standing as a candidate in the Tūhourangi Rohe. If you are registered with Te Arawa Lakes Trust, and you have not yet received your voting papers, check that your contact details with Te Arawa Lakes Trust are up to date. Call Te Arawa Lakes Trust on 0508 TEARAWA (832 729) or email registration@tearawa.iwi.nz . Special votes: If you haven't registered yet, you have up until Thursday 28 November 2024 to register in order to vote in the Te Arawa Lakes Trust Trustee Elections. In this case, you will be sent special voting documents which require you to give more details and sign a declaration. Check out a video from Kereama here about this kaupapa: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/m1nNLxPCVVseW8wr/ Find out more about Te Arawa Lakes Trust Trustee Elections here: https://tearawa.io/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/TALT-NoticeofDay-2024-WebVersion-2.pdf Mauri ora!

More than 80 people gathered at Rangitihi Marae on 27 September for the re-scheduled signing of a Relationship Accord between Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust (The Trust) and Te Puna Ora o Mataatua (TPOOM).   TPOOM are a non-profit charitable organisation based in Whakatāne that covers the whole of Mataatua/Eastern Bay of Plenty region and beyond, providing health, medical, social and employment services across the Bay of Plenty for its members.   Before the 27 September signing officially took place, the group acknowledged the passing of former Deputy Chair of TPOOM, Brian Simpson who sadly passed away on 19 July in the Wharenui, partway through the first attempt at the signing.   This Accord sets out the agreement in principle for The Trust and TPOOM to collaborate in developing and undertaking activities that will mutually benefit both institutions, to advance in particular the mutual health, medical, social, educational, training, and employment goals of the communities they serve.   Trust Chair Leith Comer says this is a really positive step in The Trust’s goals to empower Ngāti Rangitihi to flourish in perpetuity through our inherent self-determination.   “We look forward to collaborating with TPOOM to developing, enhance and promote positive benefits for each of our institutions and our respective communities, including exploring the joint development of programmes, services, and initiatives that will enable our people to thrive.” Caption: Trust Chair, Leith Comer and former Deputy Chair of TPOOM, Brian Simpson, who sadly passed away on 19 July in the Wharenui, partway through the first attempt at the signing.

Ngāti Rangitihi is supporting the Tūwharetoa action to restore Rotoitipaku. We are concerned with the risk of the contaminated sludge in Rotoitipaku pouring out into the Tarawera Awa. Watch the documentary by Mihingarangi Forbes – Mata Reports Episode 2: Toxic Legacy – A Fast Track to Failure?  – below to hear an interview with Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust Chairman, Leith Comer, on this topic. Leith was born and bred in Matatā, and his whānau worked at the Tasman Pulp and Paper Mill in Kawerau. Full documentary and article: Transcript below (Leith’s interview segment runs from the 30:32 to 33:15 timecode) “It really took the Ngāti Rangitihi Settlement and our negotiations with the Crown for me to really understand the destruction and the desperate situations that our people find themselves in as a result of the mill.  “There was a major number of people who loved at Matatā working at the mill. So the mill had a positive impact upon the little villages of Matatā, Murupara, Te Teko as their source of work,” says Leith. But, as noted in the interview, that contribution came at a cost to the surrounding iwi like Ngāti Rangitihi. Our Waitangi claim highlighted how the Crown’s actions had impacted our whenua and awa, including the Tarawera River. “It was the Tasman Pulp and Paper Enabling Act of 1954 which enabled the owners of the mill to put anything they wanted into the river, and they did,” says Leith. “We started to see the impact of that beautiful river being destroyed because on the one end when you see the water coming in from Lake Tarawera to the end where you see it going past the mill out to sea, what really bad impact the mill had on the quality and the mauri of the Tarawera Awa.” Leith isn’t just concerned about the environmental damage that has already occurred. He’s worried about future contamination if a bund, an embankment, between Rotoitipaku and the Tarawera River fails. “It’s a strip of land that holds back the sludge that’s in Rotoitipaku and all you need to do is to look down 10 kilometres down the river to Edgecumbe, when we saw what happened when the Edgecumbe earthquake took place – it destroyed parts of the bank of the Rangitaiki River and we had enormous flooding. “So it is a huge risk and we are very keen to make sure that whoever is responsible for causing that risk is called to account and made to restore that land so that the risk of pollution from Rotoitipaku into the Tarawera Awa is done away with.” Mihingarangi questions whether it is Tasman Pulp and Paper who should be held to account. “I think it probably goes back that far, but it certainly is Norske, who are at this stage departing,” says Leith.

Elections for Trustees for Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust will be held this coming October. Nominations for candidates are open as of today Thursday 22 August , and will close at  5pm  on  Friday 13 September . Following this, voting for the confirmed candidates will take place from Wednesday 16 October.  Electionz.com  has been appointed to run this process, as the Independent Returning Officer. Over the coming week, registered members of Te Mana will start receiving their nomination letters from Electionz.com  by post, which contains information on where the nomination forms and candidate handbooks can be accessed.   Email pānui are also being sent to you by Electionz.com , if you have your email address registered with Te Mana. This is not spam – these emails will contain important information on how to nominate someone. Please check your junk mail  if you haven’t received any emails from Electionz.com  in your usual inbox. If you are 18 years and over and have an email address registered with Te Mana, you should be receiving these emails. This is an opportunity for whānau to help shape the future for Ngāti Rangitihi, and have a voice on our Trust Board. We encourage you to take part in this important process.  If you or your whānau are 18 years and over and whakapapa to Ngāti Rangitihi, but are not yet registered with us, we encourage you to do so now.

Read on to find out more about some key updates from the Trust, including navigating our new website, and the upcoming Trustee elections. New Te Mana website We’re thrilled to have launched our new website in August. The new website is more reflective of our Trust today, and also celebrates our journey to get to this point, including our settlement journey over the years. You'll be able to: Read all our latest pānui Register for upcoming wānanga Register to become a member  Apply for grants from our Charitable Trust Read about our history, who we are, what we do, access cultural resources and documents, including our Annual Reports, and more! Trustee Elections coming up Elections for Te Mana Trustees are coming up. Nomination forms will be sent out soon, with nominations opening on 22 August. Voting for nominated candidates will open on 16 October. If you are 18 years and over, and a registered member of Te Mana o Ngāti Rangitihi Trust, you are eligible to vote, and we encourage you to do so. Are your contact details up to date? It’s important that we have your correct contact details including email and postal address so that you receive your voting forms, and all the latest correspondence from the Trust. You can update your details by contacting our Iwi Engagement Clerk, Rita Costar: Email rita.costar@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz or phone 027 557 4455 .   Team update - new cultural monitors We're pleased to welcome Simon Costar and Destiny Wharewera-Mason to our tari, as our new Cultural Monitors responsible for monitoring and promoting our taonga, our natural resources. Nau mai, haere mai. We're looking forward to working with Simon and Destiny as they take on their new roles. Meet all our staff here . Upcoming events - don't miss out!   Te Reo Māori classes A reminder that our te reo Māori classes are still being held in Matatā on Wednesdays. Everyone is welcome – check out the event page on our website here for more details and to register. Or pop in to our office for a chat. Te Kotahi o Te Awa o Te Atua  Join us for three wānanga aimed at unifying and strengthening our cultural capacity. Find out more and register here .  Take part in our Pou survey Our strategy to keep Ngāti Rangitihi moving forward is structured around four pou: Ahurea Hapori Ohaoha Taiao You can read more about our pou here . We’d also love to hear your thoughts and ideas for these pou. We invite you to take part in our short survey. The survey will only take a few minutes to complete. Take part in our survey here . He pātai? Whānau, we’re looking forward to connecting with you more over the coming months, at our various events, and via regular pānui. We’d also love to hear from you anytime! You can contact us via any of the following ways: Freephone : 0800 AKATEA or 0800 252 832 Office landline:  07 222 5130 Email:   kaiawhina@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Website:  www.ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz   Pou contacts: Pou Ahurea:  ahurea@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Pou Hapori:  darcy@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Pou Taiao:  taiao@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Pou Ohaoha:  accounting@ngatirangitihi.iwi.nz Or pop into our office for a kōrero: 35 Heale Street, Matatā