EVOLVE
SHAPING ROTORUA'S FUTURE
WHAT IS EVOLVE ROTORUA?
We are a new advocacy group whose aim is to champion progressive social and economic projects and policies for an inclusive and sustainable Rotorua.
We hope to bring people together, to act as a focal point and as a connector for stakeholders who are involved in projects and plans that are designed to better Rotorua. We want to help showcase
policies and ideas that will improve our town, and to facilitate engagement and discussion on the future of Rotorua.
We will work with individuals, voluntary and professional groups, to address social and economic issues of importance to the future of Rotorua.

What will Evolve Rotorua be working on?
There are a range of projects that we’re initially interested in
supporting, and we’re always open to hearing more ideas about plans that will help Shape Rotorua’s Future.
For example, we are looking at how best we can support initiatives like: the lakefront development; the creation of a sports hub in Rotorua; the work being done on sustainable food hubs such as through Kai Rotorua; efforts to address the housing needs of our community including unaffordability and homelessness; the use of our forests and Redwoods and supporting sustainable local use of the natural resources on our doorstep; promoting Rotorua as a technology hub; amongst other ideas.
WHAT WE’RE CHAMPIONING
Eat Streat 2.0
Evolve Rotorua is calling for the development of “Eat Streat 2.0”, urging Council and local businesses to trial an expansion of Eat Streat this summer. We believe there is now a strong case to build on the success of Eat Streat and transform Tutanekai Street, between...
Better night-time environments to enhance safety
At Evolve Rotorua we’ve been interested in this recent report from the New Zealand Initiative, which shines a light on untapped opportunities for our city. The New Zealand Initiative report; ‘Living after Midnight: For a better night-time environment’ says “New...
Lakefront development tenders for world-class commercial partners
Improving civics spaces is a core component of what the Council needs to be doing. Having good civic spaces helps bring our community together, provides us with space to meet, play and relax. It also helps create a sense of understanding for each other and civic...
Rotorua Youth Village
Sir Howard Morrison Performing Arts Centre
Rotorua Museum
Lakefront Development
The beautiful Rotorua lakefront needs redevelopment and revitalisation and Evolve Rotorua is pleased that the local Council has been able to secure significant investment in this project from central government via a $20 million grant from the Provincial Growth Fund....
Housing policies
Recently Rotorua achieved a world-first by becoming the location for the first indigenous-led program addressing chronic homelessness, with the opening of the Rotorua branch of the Housing First program. This is just one...
Food Hub
The organisation Kai Rotorua is leading an initiative to establish a Food Hub in Rotorua. The proposal is that a Living Building is built as a focal point for promoting and educating people around food sustainability and indigenous food providence. It would also house...
Digital and Tech Hub
May is Tech Week in Rotorua and Evolve Rotorua is proud to support and promote the range of activities taking place as part of this initiative. Tech Week is a time to highlight and showcase the wealth of activity happening in Rotorua in the digital and tech sphere....
Looking to the future
We support building stronger communities, holistically, ensuring
inclusivity across the board, in order to make Rotorua better.
We believe that in order to contribute to Shaping Rotorua’s Future
we need to develop and support positive progressive plans and
policies that take into account the needs of all of our community
members.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA
JOIN AS A MEMBER
Become a member of our motivated group.
SOMETHING WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT?
Do you have a project, idea or an item of policy we could support? We want to see Rotorua moving forward, and we want to tautoko anything that helps shape this future. If you think your submission is something we can add weight to, please fill in the form and we will be in touch: