Challenge Vertigo Ventures Down Puhoi River

8 March 2013

Challenge Vertigo Ventures Down Puhoi River

WHEN: Saturday 9 March
WHERE: From Wenderholm Regional Park (by the boat ramp) to Puhoi Village
TIME: 2.30pm for 3pm ‘launch’
WHO: Len Ward, Board Chair & Student’s from Gifted Kids Waikowhai

Len Ward, Gifted Kids Board Chair, has met his first fundraising target and will kayak down Puhoi River with students from Gifted Kids Waikowhai class.

Len and the students will travel from Wenderholm Regional Park to Puhoi Village by Kayak this Saturday at 3pm. The trip is sponsored by a generous anonymous donor.

“It’s been fantastic the support that we are getting and I am thrilled that we have made the first target and we are now well on our way to meeting the next target” Mr Ward says.

The trip starts at Wenderholm Regional Park (by the boat ramp) and then makes its way down the Puhoi River where they will land at Puhoi Village. The trip takes approximately 2 hours.

The kayak trip is part of a fundraising venture undertaken by Mr Ward with the support of Gifted Kids.

Challenge Vertigo: Len’s Launch for Extraordinary Minds is a fundraising and awareness raising campaign to support gifted education in New Zealand. You can find out more about the challenge here: www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/LensLaunch

Gifted Kids was founded in 2000 to meet the educational and social needs of gifted children in New Zealand. Gifted Kids delivers services in Northern Wairoa, Auckland, Rotorua, Masterton, Hutt Valley, Wellington, Dunedin, and Invercargill.

For more information about Gifted Kids please visit our website www.giftedkids.co.nz.

Directions to Wenderholm Regional Park:
Follow northern Motorway (SH1) to Orewa Exit No:394
Follow Grand Drive/Westhoe Road Link Road to SH17
Take free left turn at SH17 intersection Traffic Lights drive north
At 3.5kms just after Waiwera River Bridge turn left into Wenderholm Regional Park.

Landing Spot at Puhoi River:
Turn left out of Wenderholm Park entrance drive for 7kms Below tunnels SH17 merges to SH1.
Continue 1km on SH1 turn left at Puhoi Historic Village turn-off.
Drive 1km into Village we are on right opposite Historic Church.

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