Got a business idea? We’ll help you get started!
Don’t know where to begin with getting stuck in with a business idea? Join the inspiring Settlement Start Up programme! You’ll get a year’s worth of 1 on 1 support and advice, access to mentors and experts, regular workshops, networking and community events, plus a 12 month co-working space membership at The Settlement. Join the […]
Continue readingHomecoming for Shane Cotton
A major exhibition of new work opens at The Dowse, 17 July.
Continue readingInnovative Young Minds 2021
Innovative Young Mind’s (IYM) residential programme is taking place this week and once again the local Lower Hutt community has rallied to make the programme a success. Founded in 2017 by Hutt City Council and Hutt City Rotary, the one-week residential programme offers young women in Year 11 and 12 from high schools in the […]
Continue readingBreaking the Bronze Ceiling: Celebrating women sculptors at The Dowse
From bronze and ceramics to duct tape and wool, this new exhibition at The Dowse celebrates five decades of female sculptural practice in Aotearoa. Breaking The Bronze Ceiling – the assumption that sculpture is a predominantly masculine domain – opening 10 July 2021.
Continue readingCouncil charges ahead to a carbon zero future
Hutt City Council has today secured co-funding from the Government’s Low Emission Vehicles Contestable Fund to install 20 charging stations for electric vehicles across eight locations in Lower Hutt.
Continue readingWho’s putting out the right bins? An explainer of the blue and yellow recycling weeks.
It’s easy to find out what bins to put out using our web app at www.toogoodtowaste.nz, but why do some people in one part of the city put out blue crates when other people are doing yellow bins?
Continue reading2021 Sweet As Hutt’s Hot Chocolate Challenge™ is back with a bang!
Candy floss, Russian fudge, Filipino-style coconut macaroons, peppermint and bubble gum are just some of the delicious flavours on offer for a limited time when the “Sweet As” Hutt’s Hot Chocolate Challenge™ gets underway in July.
Continue readingShout out to our volunteers who help make Lower Hutt beautiful
This Volunteering Week we are recognising our volunteers who help Lower Hutt’s public spaces to thrive.
Continue readingScience and Tech – inspiring the next generation
Inspiring future generations to take up science and technology is a team of volunteers from across Lower Hutt taking resources to schools across the Hutt Valley. Week in and week out for the past six years this team have worked to make the Hutt Science school programme happen. Their role is pivotal to the ongoing […]
Continue readingHutt City Council is proud to recognise the incredible dedication of Lower Hutt volunteers in National Volunteer Week
Benita Robinson, Lower Hutt Debt Centre Manager was “humbled and surprised” to learn she was receiving the Queen’s Service Medal for services to the community in this year’s Queen’s Birthday Honours. This week is National Volunteer Week, which has the theme “Recognise, Connect, Reimagine”, and Mrs Robinson is among the many selfless volunteers who […]
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