“Take back Thorp Bush” was a youth-led initiative of the Motueka Youth Council, which started about 10 years ago.
The project aimed to minimise antisocial behaviour and make the park safer for everyone.
Since then, young people have organised community events in the Bush and initiated various upgrades.
In 2016, they worked with us on the upgrade of the entrance area, followed by a project to repaint the playground equipment, then over the past several years they organised rubbish clean-ups.
Their latest project was aimed at minimising the littering in the bush, so to make the rubbish bins more visible, they decided to develop bright designs that would attract people’s attention.
Two Youth Councillors, Zoe Nuttall and Phoebe Elsom, designed the graphics which were approved by the Motueka Community Board, and late last month the bins were wrapped.
