BLAKE Inspire 2023

In 2023 we will be running our biggest year of BLAKE Inspire programmes yet! In April, July, August and September we will bring together 140 young environmental leaders from all over New Zealand for a week of adventure-based, experiential learning and leadership development in the Waikato and Auckland.

Students will spend the week learning about topical environmental issues facing our country with a focus on climate change/Huringa āhurangi, Marine/Moana, Biodiversity/Rerenga rauropi and Freshwater/Wai Māori.

Assisted by environmental and business leaders,  scientists and experts in the field, students developed their own individual action plans to implement in their schools and communities.

It was a great week with so much variety of learning yet everything is also so interconnected and relevant to each other. Being around like minded peers also gives me more hope about the future of our nation..”

– BLAKE Inspire 2023 delegate. 

Meet our April 2023 delegates

Amber Cayley

Sacred Heart Girls’ College

TARANAKI

Calla Rix

Tawa College

WELLINGTON

Charlotte Cinque

Samuel Marsden Collegiate

WELLINGTON

Charlotte MacKenzie

Rotoruna Senior High School

WAIKATO

Charlotte Patrick

Marlborough Girls’ College

MARLBOROUGH

 

Ella Sage

Westland High School

WEST COAST

 

Ella Threlfall

Otago Girls’ High School

OTAGO

Georgia Latu

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Ōtepoti

OTAGO

Isla Sweetman

Takapuna Grammar School

AUCKLAND

Izzy Ross-Harding

Wairarapa College

WELLINGTON

Jacob Kite

Green Bay High School

AUCKLAND

Jake Corney

Tauranga Boys’ College

TAURANGA

Jaluka Clarke

Springbank School

NORTHLAND

Josh Brierley

Rotorua Boys’ High School

BAY OF PLENTY

Kaita Hummel-Jibiki

Tawa College

WELLINGTON

Katherine Babington

St Margaret’s College

CANTERBURY

Lochie Ellison

Hillmorton High School

CANTERBURY

Magdalene Herlihy

Sacred Heart Girls’ College

TARANAKI

Michael Fleet

John Paul College

BAY OF PLENTY

Morgan Ellwood

Whangarei Girls’ High School

NORTHLAND

Nate Wilbourne

Garin College

NELSON

Naumai Amohanga

Hato Paora College

MANAWATU

Niamh Gray

Lincoln High School

CANTERBURY

Nina Menegatti Zink

Fiordland College

SOUTHLAND

Prisha Patel

Botany Downs Secondary College

AUCKLAND

Radha Patel

Western Springs College

AUCKLAND

Rebecca Moioli

Napier Girls’ High School

NAPIER

Ryan Williams

South Otago High School

OTAGO

Stevie Manunui

Tauhara College

WAIKATO

Summer Dykzeul

Tauhara College

WAIKATO

 

Sylvie Hall

St Mary’s College

AUCKLAND

Tarn Hoyle

Ruapehu College

MANAWATU

Tay Ririnui

Mount Maunganui College

BAY OF PLENTY

Te Aturangi Peters

Te Kura Kaupapa Māori o Horouta Wānanga

GISBORNE

Tim Gillies-Smith

St Peter’s College

WAIKATO