Waitakere Hockey Turf

🎉 Official Re‑Opening of the Waitakere Hockey Turf 🎉

On Saturday, we proudly celebrated the official re‑opening of the Waitakere Hockey Turf following the resurfacing project completed over summer! The day kicked off with a special ceremony and ribbon cutting to mark this exciting milestone. A huge thank you to our speakers who joined us for the occasion, David George (Waitakere Regional Hockey Turf Trust Chair), Philippa Durkin (Henderson High School Principal), Hamish Milne (Waitakere Hockey Club President) and Shane Henderson - Councillor for Waitākere.

Following the ceremony, we hosted the first official match on the new turf: an invitational game featuring Waitakere Regional Hockey Turf Trust vs. Waitakere Hockey Club. Some of the club’s top talent took on the turf trust board members, supported by invited players to round out the squad. The club team narrowly came away with the win, with the game ending in a 1-0 score. A fun, competitive way to break in the new surface, thank you to all that took part!

Finally, an enormous thank you to our project sponsors Auckland Council, New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT), and the Bobby Foundation. This upgrade simply would not have been possible without your generous backing.

📸 Check out some photos from the day below!

🌟 TURF RESURFACE COMPLETE! 🌟
We’re excited to kick off 2026 with a brand new playing surface at Waitakere Hockey!
The project was completed just before Christmas, and we can’t wait for our community to get back out there to test out the new surface.

🔍 The Specs 🔍
We’ve installed a 24mm Ecocept underlay, giving water far more room to drain before it reaches the surface. That means better drainage, fewer puddles, and far fewer rained‑off games, all while maintaining top‑level performance.

On top of that, we’ve now got a brand new WETT Pro surface from Tiger Turf — a world‑class, high‑performance hockey turf designed for excellent speed, consistency, and player experience.

♻️ Sustainability Spotlight ♻️
Our new Ecocept underlay not only performs well — it’s also great for the environment, being made from 90% recycled materials. A standard hockey turf underlay reuses approximately 5,000 used car tyres and eight million plastic bags!

We’re also proud that all of the previous underlay was repurposed, and nearly all of the old carpet was collected by members of the community and community groups for reuse. It’s awesome to see the old turf beginning a second life across the community. Feel free to share photos of how you’ve reused the old turf below! ⬇️

🙏 Some BIG thank yous 🙏

To our amazing volunteers:
Thank you to everyone who came out at the very start of this project and put in a massive couple of days getting the old turf up and rolled. We truly appreciate the time and energy you gave to help move this project forward.

Last but not least to our funders:
Without your support, this project simply wouldn’t have been possible!
• Auckland Council Sport and Recreation Facilities Fund
• New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT)
• Bobby Foundation

Here’s to a fantastic 2026 season on our new surface! 💚

🚨The Waitakere Regional Hockey Turf Trust are searching for two new board members🚨

👉 More info & application form: https://www.sporty.co.nz/waitakerehockeyturf/Waitakere-Hockey-Turf-Trust/join-our-board #

📅 Applications close 31 January 2026

🚧 Turf Resurfacing Update 🚧

The Waitakere Hockey turf resurfacing is officially underway! A huge THANK YOU to all the amazing volunteers who worked tirelessly in the heat over Monday and Tuesday to get all the turf rolled up ready to be taken away!

Want some turf for at home practice areas or DIY projects?
We have turf available for collection from the car park off Smythe Road:
✅ **Tonight:** 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM
✅ **Tomorrow:** 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Important details:
- No holds – first come, first served
- Bring strong helpers to load it into your car/ute/trailer (it’s heavy, especially now that it’s wet!)
‐ It is cut in all different sizes so bring a tape measure if you need any specific lengths/widths

➡️ Anything left after Friday will be offered to the wider community, so grab yours while you can!

🚨 Turf Resurfacing – Volunteers Needed! 🚨
You may have already heard... the Waitakere Hockey Turf is being resurfaced by the team at Tiger Turf! This is a huge moment for our hockey community, and we’re so excited to get it all under way this coming Monday.
To get things started, we’re looking for volunteers to help us roll up the old turf. It’s part of the uplift process and a great way to be involved in this exciting upgrade. While the work is physical, you don’t need to be a bodybuilder—just reasonably fit and ready to lend a hand!

📅 Volunteer Days:
Monday 17th November
Tuesday 18th November

🕘 Time:
9:00am to around 4:00pm each day

🍽️ Lunch will be provided for all volunteers
You’ll also get first pick of the old turf – perfect for an at home practice area, garages or sheds.

⚠️ Important: This is an active work site, so no small children are allowed on site during the uplift. Volunteers also need to be 16 years or older.

This is a fantastic opportunity to be part of something special and help shape the future of hockey in Waitakere. If you're keen to help out, please fill out the form below!

https://forms.gle/yE7QKbUHrAUgVYsn6

The countdown to a fresh new turf is on! 💪💚

Waitakere Hockey Turf Uplift Volunteering Please fill this form out to register your availability in helping with the Turf uplift process. Volunteers need to be: 16 years or older Be able to spend the day rolling turf up which can become physically demanding Be available from 9am to approximately 4pm Where possible we would like to have the...

Over the summer break we have been working hard to get new floodlights installed, this project was finally completed last week. The old lights have been swapped out with new LED's, these new lights are far better for the environment using less power and also much more reliable.

The Waitakere Regional Hockey Turf Trust would like to say a massive thank you to Grassroots Trust who provided us with the funding to allow this project to go ahead.

These new lights are going to future proof the facility and ensure we can provide a great venue for College Sport, Club games and trainings to go ahead.

Bring on the 2024 Season!

The pavilion build is coming along very nicely! Here a few little sneak peaks into the building itself.

Thanks to TTCF, Auckland Council and Henderson Highschool for their support of this massive project.

Keep an eye out as we release further information for our opening.

Calling all hockey players from year 7-10, here is your opportunity to get in some preseason work or simply continue the summer hockey fun in a different format with all your friends! Best part is that it is all FREE!!!!

Registrations can be made https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfO31b-2ymSyIwNT7rZjCX1SXxcANX-CYR6wOQUEBdMG_4vzg/viewform