Catchment Collectives and Community Groups

We provide end to end support for community groups

Free Offer: Strategy or Plan Assessment: Community Impact Assessment - Ends 31 May 2026

Would your community group benefit from an assessment? We are offering free advice through our 'Community Impact Assessment' (CIA). This enables a health heck and reports strengths and weaknesses of your strategy.

Step 1Contact us: Get in touch with Matt via phone or email. Alternatively click the contact us page. matt@eis.org.nz, 0277024378

Step 2We work through the Assessment (CIA): This step provides a robust benchmarking. It has a consistent approach to support learning, not judgement.

Step 3Dashboard Report: You'll see how your current plans stack up against the assessment tool, where you are performing and where you could improve

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Free Tools for Community Groups

From us to you. We want to share some of these easy to operate tools and solutions for community groups to help with their amazing work. These tools are free to download and use, and please read the terms each tool.

Plant Selection DST

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The plant selection tool enables users to align planting choices with desired outcomes. These range from economic return through to soil conservation and environmental improvement. Users can select from a range of habitat types to support better, site-specific decision making.

Sediment Reduction DST

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The Soil Loss decision support tool presents the effectiveness of a range of soil conservation and sediment reduction actions, based on peer reviewed research. It enables users to compare options and understand where different interventions will have the greatest impact.

Environmental Farm Practice DST

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The Good Management Practice decision support tool provides an evidence based approach to understanding which on-farm practices deliver the greatest impact across key water quality parameters.

End to End Support for Community Projects

EIS has extensive experience in supporting community groups. Our experience in facilitation, strategy, technical approaches, implementation and communication enable us to provide end to end services. This could be helping a group seek funding, planning projects, developing websites, providing technical support or helping with update with the community. We love the wholistic and challenging nature of working on community projects and would love to hear from you,

Community Group Strategies and Plans

Strong community projects create lasting impact. Good planning focuses actions towards meeting outcomes, strengthening local economies, improving the environment, and bringing people together around a shared purpose.

We support community groups, coordinators, and organisations to design and deliver practical, evidence-based projects that move from good ideas to funded, on-the-ground action. Our approach ensures projects are well-scoped, investable, and built on strong partnerships.

Our end-to-end process includes:

Supporting groups with funding applications
Skilled facilitation of group projects
Defining clear project objectives with the community and key stakeholders
Understanding the current context, needs, and opportunities
Identifying high-impact actions that deliver meaningful outcomes
Developing costed, delivery-ready project plans
Identifying and securing funding sources to support implementation
Building partnerships with councils, iwi, industry, and community organisations
Supporting implementation and tracking progress over time
Creating clear, engaging communications to maintain momentum and support

We focus on projects that are practical, fundable, and capable of delivering real change. We specialise in helping groups move through the whole system, confidently moving from planning to delivery.

Digital tools and websites for community groups

Creating practical digital tools and clear, engaging websites is one of the most effective ways to communicate complex information in a way that drives action.

We design and build tailored tools and websites that simplify complexity, improve access to information, and help communities, stakeholders, and funders engage with your work. Our solutions range from simple communication platforms through to fully integrated, data-driven tools and GIS-enabled systems.

Examples of what we deliver include:

Interactive maps and dashboards that bring data to life
Decision support tools
Environmental and catchment planning tools
Custom websites for community groups to share their story, plans, and progress

Our focus is on creating tools and digital platforms that are intuitive, practical, and widely used—supporting better decisions, stronger engagement, and long-term impact.