Tāhunanui Beach Clean-Up

Rain date: Sunday 20 September 2026

‘Do the Right Thing’ — rally your friends and whānau to help make a collective difference in your neighbourhood!

Building on the success of last year’s event — where over 200 amazing volunteers helped collect around 500 kg of rubbish from Tāhunanui Beach and surrounds — we’re once again inviting the local community and businesses to join us for another big clean-up. But this time, we’re aiming for 1000 kgs! This event is part of Clean Up Week 2026, New Zealand’s largest annual movement against litter.

Clean Up Week shines a light on how much litter ends up in our environment and brings communities together to tackle the issue head-on. This year, Keep New Zealand Beautiful Clean Up Week incorporates World Clean Up Day on 19th September – a global civic movement that unites individuals, governments, and organisations to address waste. Our event also falls during the 2026 Climate Action Festival, hosted by Nelson Tasman Climate Forum.

Together, we’ll be cleaning up:

• Tāhunanui Beach
• The inlet
• The Back Beach
• Surrounding areas

After the clean-up, stick around for a thank-you BBQ and the chance to win spot prizes as a token of our appreciation.

What to Bring & Wear

• Sturdy shoes
• Long-sleeve shirts and trousers
• Sun hat
• Drinking water

We also encourage you to bring:

• Reusable/gardening gloves
• Jute/firewood/reusable bags or buckets for collecting rubbish

We’ll provide gloves and bags if needed, along with litter pick-up tools, sunblock, and bug spray.

Registration

All volunteers must register on arrival for Health & Safety reasons — it only takes a minute!
Look for our gazebo with the ‘Registration’ sign behind the Beach Café on Main Tāhunanui Beach.

We’d love to see you there — bring your friends, whānau, students, or colleagues. The more hands, the better!

For updates, possible postponement date and to RSVP, visit our Facebook event here.