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17/02/2023

📢 Event postponed: Bioblitz at Muriwai o Whata in Selwyn 📢.

🌧️ Due to the recent weather events and resulting health and safety concerns, we have postponed this event scheduled for Saturday. A new date is to be advised.

🐟 The event will be a chance to explore the culturally significant area and help find and identify as many species as possible.

If you have any questions, please email [email protected] or check out ecan.govt.nz/bioblitz.

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The Hororata Community Trust has made the difficult decision to cancel the 11th Hororata Highland Games planned for the 6th of November 2021.

“The Hororata Highland Games is a significant outdoor event attracting around 10,000 people annually, and can only operate in alert level 1.

It is not a decision we take lightly, but our community has been through a lot recently with floods, wind and snow, and given the current uncertainty with COVID alert levels we have needed to make a firm decision now to cancel the Games. The Trust, first and foremost, is here for the wellbeing of our community and in uncertain times we need to give certainty," explained Chair Richard Lang.

“We were lucky to be able to run the Games in 2020, however this year is different. This year our community has had many other challenges, Delta is a very different proposition, and as people come from all over New Zealand for our festival the whole country would need to be at level 1 for the Trust to feel confident that it was safe to run the Games. We know that people will be disappointed but we hope they will understand and support our community with this decision.”

All tickets that have been sold through Eventfinda will be offered full refunds. Ticket holders will also have the option to donate their purchase to the Hororata Community Trust and in return will be offered a 50% discount off tickets to the next Hororata Highland Games. Any donations will go towards the work the Trust does to support its rural community. Competitors and stallholders will also be refunded.

“The support of our sponsors and patrons has again been steadfast. We thank them for being willing to support our community to hold the Games but equally for their support with the decision to cancel.

The most important thing to the Trust is our community. Together we have faced many challenges and through them all by focusing on our people we have remained a strong and resilient community. The Trust is committed to the Hororata Highland Games and looks forward to bringing this festival back in 2022,” concluded Richard.

Ticketholders please check your inbox for an email from Eventfinda.
Stallholders and competitors have been emailed from [email protected]