A community food forest provides an abundance of food for residents and those that wish to visit to gather – fruits, vegetables, herbs and medicinal plants by way of a layered permaculture companion planting system.

Imagine wandering through a flourishing forest where almost every plant is edible and all plants serve a purpose.

The Waimakariri District Council is going to lease 1.5acres of land to the Kaiapoi Food Forest Trust to develop a food forest.

A food forest functions as a healthy closed-loop ecosystem, with each organism playing a role. Each element of the system supports the whole. The many relationships happening in an ecosystem are imitated in a food forest which:
• builds soil and accumulates nutrients
• self-fertilizes, self-mulches, self-regulates
• produces  food, fiber, medicine, materials, fodder and more
• Sequesters Carbon, offsetting climate change
• provides habitat for all living organisms
• supports pollinators and beneficial insects
• protects and enhances biodiversity

We want volunteers...if you would like to help please give us a call... or visit during our volunteer days which is most Wednesdays from 4pm till around 6pm

We provide:
Personalised goal driven training sessions
A brand new purpose built private studio
New modern fitness equipment
No overcrowding or waiting for equipment
Indoor and/or outdoor Training
Fully qualified REPs registered trainer
Affordable customized training packages

Energised Personal Training guarantees they can offer the right training to meet your needs; whether it be weight loss/toning, form and technique, boxing/kick boxing, posture alignment/reshaping, nutritional and diet guidance, muscle strength/mass or aerobic endurance/recovery.

Kaiapoi Theatre Company bring professional level acting to the community for a reasonable price.

We aim to provide 2 shows a year of which one will be a play and the other a variety show.

Kaiapoi Riverside Bowling Club.

Hi, I’m Debs Taylor-Hayhurst the facilitator of the Elite6 Waimakariri group, which has been running since June 2013.

Day: Every Thursday
Time: 7:30am – 8:30am (Arrive 7.20am to order a drink and/or breakfast)

Elite6 Waimakariri is an exciting, innovative group which brings local business people together once a week for a networking meeting where ideas are shared, referrals encouraged and people are supported to grow their businesses.

Each week we have guest speakers and/or group discussions which encourage you to think ‘outside the box’ in order to promote and improve your business.

Through the regular networking meetings you will build confidence in public speaking, develop and generate business as well as increase your network of contacts.

Our goal is to bring together hard-working, positive professionals who want to build up the local business community in Waimakariri.

If this sounds like you then come along and check it out!

Look forward to seeing you soon.

Kaiapoi Junior Basketball Club runs teams in term 1 and term 4 each year.

We cater for years 1-8, boys and girls.

The Kaiapoi Brass Band has a very proud history going back 130 years.

We practise each Tuesday night from 7.30 -9.30, at our Bandrooms 9 Stone Street, Kaiapoi. Before a contest we may have extra practices, usually on a Sunday afternoon. We have a wide range of skill levels, as you would expect in a D grade band.

We need players in all sections, but especially cornets, trombones, and base trombone.

If you think you might like to join us, ring one of the band officers, or just come along to a practice and get the feel of the band. We have some instruments we can lend you, so don’t rush out and buy your own. We can also help you with advice on this.

Waka iti Playgroup is a community group held every Tuesday morning from 9.30am to 11.30am during school school terms. $1 entry for children 1yr and over. BYO children's morning tea.Adults morning tea provided.
Every week activities are set up so you can enjoy spending time with your little one(s) painting, building, drawing, creating, reading or having some good conversation with other parents, carers.

Our tennis club has 6 plexipave courts with lights and we cater for both senior and junior players. We run competition tennis through North Canterbury tennis in summer as well as social tennis all year round.