Who Are the QIKT Community?

The Quarantine Island / Kamau Taurua Community are the caring, passionate kaitiaki (guardians) of this very special island. The Island lies within the takiwa of Te Runaka ō Otakou and their mana whenua is recognised. Please contact us if you are interested in becoming a community member.

Our charity employs the resident Keeper, who lives on the Island, looking after visitors and managing everything for us. QIKT Community members share similar values about social justice, caring for people and the natural environment, and protecting the Island’s heritage. We find spending time on the Island, and caring for the island deeply satisfying and rejuvenating. Encouraging and modelling a sustainable, caring and cooperative society is important to us. The Island Community members live in different parts of Dunedin, and even further away (Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Otatara), with busy lives, juggling other commitments, wearing multiple hats. Some make it to the Island most months for our Island welcome day, others once or twice a year and some not at all these days.

We are delighted people continue to be drawn to the Island, to help with projects, to talk, to dream, to have fun, and to take a break from modern life. Please feel free to visit the Island on our Welcome Days to get to know us and the Island. If you have a passion for social justice, ecology and the environment, the building of sustainable communities, finding sanctuary in nature, or finding peace within, you will find a place for you here.

Governance and Management Group

The governance and management group for the Community is the Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua Community Council. The charity own the buildings and we build on the work and vision of many people who have gone before us. We changed our name in 2015, but the former name ‘St Martin Island Community Inc’, from 1958, lives on in the ‘St Martin Lodge’.

Current Council Members

Leonard Guy, Adrienne Dearnley (Treasurer), Claire Hagglund (Secretary), Beryl Maultby, Jim Fyfe, Ross Lewis, Paul Clements (Chair), Cristina Barriga.

Charity Registration Number: CC31277

Name: Quarantine Island/Kamau Taurua Community Incorporated

Our Rules (updated 2020)

Our Community Agreement (2019)

Our Statement of Management Intent (replaced by Community Agreement after 2019)