Colville Junction Team
Trustees:

Bronwyn Blair (Chair)
Bronwyn joined the Trust in 2013, bringing a range of experience from within the education, and voluntary sectors. Bronwyn has a strong commitment to community led development and to the sustainability and wellbeing of Northern Coromandel Peninsula communities.

Janet Palmer
Janet has a long history in Colville and has been a CJ trustee since 2012. Janet has a strong commitment to families, and is a past Colville School! Trustee. Janet also has 25+ years in early childhood education.

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Frederick Church
Frederick joined CJ as a trustee in July 2016. Frederick brings a range of skills and knowledge including budgeting, IT, computing skills, campground management and a career in film and tele.
Staff:
Larisa Webb (CJ Manager)

Larisa Webb joined CJ in April 2018. Larisa grew up in the area but left for high school and university.  Larisa has a Masters in Anthropology and a background in policy and advisory roles for government and charities in Aotearoa and Australia.
email: [email protected]
phone: 021 258 8037
Nicole McCauley (Financial Administrator)

Nicole, who is originally from Germany, has lived in Colville for the last 25 years. She loves the NZ forest and spends a lot of her time and energy growing and protecting it. She has a long history of financial administration for various Colville organisations and this is her second stint in that role at CJ.
email: finance@colvillejunction.co.nz
Nathan McCauley (Pest Manager & Youth Worker)
Nathan has contracted to Colville Harbour Care since late 2017. During this time, he has installed a total of 357 rodent traps around Colville Bay. After an initial surge of trapping he now services traps on a monthly basis. Also, he conducts bi-annual monitoring checks to gauge changes to rodent and invertebrate numbers.
Nathan has also been a Youth Worker since 2010 with the Colville Youth Group. His role is to support the Youth Group Coordinator in providing after school activities and to help build resilience and self-confidence in our children and youth.
​email: [email protected]
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Cass Connor (Moehau Ki Te Moana Coordinator and Community Worker)
Cass is originally from Melbourne and now raises her two children in the area. She used to work in the drug and alcohol research field. Cass works for Colville Junction as a Community Worker and as the Moehau ki te Moana coordinator role along with Vanessa Edelsten. 
email: [email protected] ​
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Vanessa Edelsten (Moehau ki te Moana Coordinator)
Vanessa is an experienced Ecologist with over 15 years experience working in both New Zealand and Australia. As Project Coordinator, alongside Cass Connor, her role is to oversee the ecological components of the project, as well as supporting the kaupapa of our iwi partners, supporting landowners with riparian protection, and co-managing budgets and reporting to our funders. 
email: [email protected] ​
Brooke Dennehy Lakin​ ( Panui Editor)
We are excited that to have Brooke in charge of the  local newsletter, the Pānui. The purpose of this newsletter will remain the same: keep the communication going and let all of you know what’s happening around our beautiful community. 
She is honored to be the editor for the Pānui. Alongside music, writing, and reading, she has always held great interest. She grew up in Hawkes Bay, where she worked as a librarian for a time before moving to Wellington. In Wellington, she completed four years of study in Cultural Anthropology. Having lived in Coromandel for six years now, she finds the richness of nature and the kindness of the locals make it an easy transition to calling it home. She feels very grateful to be here and in the role she is in. 
email: [email protected]
​Sassy Acorn ( Nursery Manager)
Sassy Acorn has recently joined the Colville Junction team in the role of CHC Nursery Manager. Sassy moved to the north of Colville in 2008 and has loved getting to know the environment and community in this beautiful part of the world. Hoping to follow in the footsteps of the work Beth put into setting the CHC Nursery up, she hopes to continue growing strong native plants to support the ongoing restoration projects in the area.
email: [email protected] ​
Anne Mountjoy (Manager’s Assistant )
As the Colville Junction Manager’s Assistant, Anne is focused on supporting delivery of services and programs in the Northern Coromandel.  Anne, originally from Metz in France, is an experienced building engineer trained around sustainability and HVAC systems.
email: [email protected] 
Maria Dove (Youth Coordinator )
​Maria joined CJ in 2021 as Youth Development Coordinator.  Maria comes with a background in youth work and teaching.  Her role is to oversee the Youth Mentoring Programme in the area and provide activities and development opportunities for young people.
Email: [email protected]
Phone: 0210634828
Briar van Dort (Creative Pop Up coordinator)
Briar van Dort is a talented harakeke (flax) weaver and artist. She creates with natural mixed mediums in the northern Coromandel, New Zealand.
Briar says, “I love creating with natural materials. There is always something new to discover. Simple projects bring a meditative feeling and complex projects continually challenge and expand my learning."
She coordinate the Creative Pop-up in Colville. The Creative Pop-up is for our communities to come together, create and enjoy the arts.​
Email: [email protected] 
Phone: 022 402 9681



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​Riyah Snow (CHC Nursery development manager )
Riyah has recently moved to the coromandel and joined us at CHC Nursery as development
manager. Riyah trained and worked at the Eden Project Cornwall for many years where she
gained a wealth of knowledge and experience working in horticulture and conservation. She
hopes to get to know the local community, environment and native plant species to support
the wonderful restoration and riparian planting projects run by Colville Harbour Care.
Email: [email protected]
Steve Carson and Ella ( Art Festival Coordinators)
Steve and Ella are the Colville Art festival coordinators. They have been organising this major Colville event for the last 10 years.