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October 2025
Helensville Heritage Festival 2025
2025 marks the 150 year anniversary of railways to historic Helensville. Celebrate this milestone at the Te Awaroa/ Helensville Heritage Festival, with steam train rides, twilight cemetery tours, antique markets, classic games and sports, and guided tours of our famous heritage buildings with access to Parakai hot springs. Te Awaroa and Helensville Railway Museums will both be open with lots of displays and information about the area including sports history, memorabilia, model trains and railwayana. Walk through town or get on the shuttle and see our beautifully restored heritage…
Find out more »U3A Monthly Meeting
Guests are very welcome. U3A is a unique organisation of retired and semi retired people who enjoy learning from each other and sharing their skills and expertise through meetings and interest groups. Members have a general meeting on the first Tuesday of the month and choose special interest groups to join. Groups at present include: Book Club, Food and Wine Appreciation, Mah Jong, Gardening, Critical Thinking, Shared Reading, NZ History, Out n About, Needle and Stiches and TED Talks.…
Find out more »Arts in The Ville 2025
10am – 4pm, Helensville’s ARTS in the VILLE is an annual festival and art trail, enjoy art demonstrations, exhibitions and displays, food carts, and fun activities for all ages. Experience a variety of art made by a huge range of local artists in different media, across multiple indoor and outdoor spaces. Purchase art directly from artists at open studios, collab groups and pop-ups. There will be a craft market, an emerging youth artists competition and a paper boat race. The map will be available for download at…
Find out more »November 2025
North West Country Business Awards 2025
Come out and celebrate your business achievements at the North West Country Business Awards gala dinner. We have 14 awards to give out on the night, as well as prizes for winners and attendees. Be entertained by the incredible comedian, Nick Rado as we celebrate all things local. Tickets are open to all finalists, friends, family and customers. Come along and cheer your favourite business on as they collect their awards. To Vote see here
Find out more »Helensville Lions Book Fair
This is an event that is rapidly becoming the “Go To” amongst book lovers and follows on from the success of the Autumn Book Fair in May where nearly $10,000 was raised. The Lions Club of Helensville, is once again holding their Christmas Book Fair on, Saturday 29, 9am to 4pm and Sunday 30 November 2025, 10am to 3pm of November, in the Helensville Showgrounds. As a point of difference from other book fairs all our books have been sorted before…
Find out more »Helensville Santa Parade
Come along and see the parade as we travel round the race track. We will have Santa in his grotto, the Helensville Lions Book Fair, bouncy castle and pony rides, Christmas Carols, Hibiscus Coast Pipe Band, Police, emergency services, and give aways. Not to mention ice cream, coffee, hot chips and hot dogs, Lions' sausage sizzle and donuts! Book Fair opens at 9am, parade starts at 12 noon.Stewart St gate opens at 10am for float dressing.Plenty of free parking at…
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