South Island

The Christchurch Singletrack Club has been developing MTB trails in and around Christchurch for the past 20 plus years. The Ground Effect Slush Fund recently donated $2200 to fund a second e-barrow to make trail maintenance a lot more efficient at the Crocodile XC Mtb Park.

The Ground Effect Slush Fund puts its name to a couple of the 13 prescribed trail routes at the Wairoa Gorge MTB Park, and donates $1000 cash annually to help the Nelson Mtb Club maintain and continuously improve the Wairoa Gorge trails.

Richard Goldsbury has tireless energy and enthusiasm for creating and maintaining trails around Canterbury. The Slush Fund has added a new hedge trimmer to the tool box for winter Port Hills trail maintenance.

The Alternative Vollie Collective are a bunch of Christchurch locals working hard to help keep the trails of Victoria Park and the Christchurch Adventure Park running smooth. The Slush Fund has dished our $2000 cash for a bunch of tools and a chainsaw to help keen the AVC volunteers’ keen.

Spring 2023 rolled around and the Taylors Mistake Bach Association mustered up the Ground Effect crew and mates to sort out the drainage on Taylors Escape. The pictures tell the story.

Founded in 2013 World Off-road Riding Department is a youth mountain bike charity based in Wellington and Wānaka, Aotearoa providing amazing life changing term programmes and holiday camps for kids age 7-17 years old.

The Kawatiri Nature Environment and Communities Trust (KNECT) and the Buller Cycling Club are establishing a spectrum of trails throughout the 1000 acre native bush clad hills of Gentle Annie, a special spot just north of Westport on the South Islands' West Coast.

The construction of the 12 km Lake Brunner Scenic Trail is now over the half way mark. The track is making its way through pristine native forest on the western shore of the lake. Coastwide Films Ltd has put together a neat wee film on the project.

The Marlborough Mtb Club manages an extensive network of trails and in 2023 requested some 'loose change' from the Slush Fund to cover the short fall on their purchase of a 1.7t digger. The digger was put to work immediately, readying the trails at Homebrook and Wither Hills for the club to host the 2023 Skoda National School Mtb Champs.

Back in 2020 the Golden Bay Mtb Club began an ambitious project connecting Takaka Hill Saddle with Upper Takaka. They have been hard at work this year inching their way down the hill building the grade three descending track which will form part of the Pikikirunga Trail. The Slush Fund donated another $2000 to fund more digger time.

Bike Wānaka with the help of a bunch of volunteers are transforming the current Lismore Bike Park into an epic facility for the whole of the Wānaka two-wheeled community to enjoy.

In late 2021 OneFortyOne NZ generously allowed community access to their Kainui Nth Forest to build mtb trails. A small crew of dedicated volunteers in collaboration with the MTB Trails Trust have been busy creating tracks for all abilities, and Kainui Bike Park was officially opened in December 2022.