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Property Development Company Raised $10,000 For Local School

Property Development Company battles thunder and lightning to raise $10,000 for local Glen Innes Schools

On Friday 20th May the team from Creating Communities Limited (CCL) traversed the famous 78 kilometre Hillary Trail in the Waitakere Ranges, in less than 24 hours. Participants started at the Arataki Visitor Centre on Scenic Drive at 4pm on Friday and tramped through the night to finish at Muriwai Beach on Saturday afternoon.

The Hillary Trail is a spectacular but challenging multi-day tramping trip through native forest and along the wild coast of the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park. Completing the distance in 24 hours is a significant challenge, in this case it was compounded by the team setting off in the face of 24 hours of thunder and lightning, as a major winter storm broke on Auckland’s West Coast.

In undertaking this challenge the CCL team raised through sponsorship $10,000 for Glen Innes Primary School, and St Pius Catholic School, schools that neighbour the area in which Creating Communities currently has 139 homes under construction. Adult Literacy Aotearoa was also a recipient of funding. The CCL team were generously sponsored by their friends, families and many of the consultants and contractors who are part of the CCL project delivery team.

Murdoch Dryden, Executive Director Creating Communities Limited, says: “CCL is at the forefront of New Zealand’s largest urban regeneration project and this event was about challenging ourselves, but also about reciprocating the support we’ve received from the Glen Innes Community.”

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