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10/10/2026

Over the past six years, the Kapiti Coast community has helped to raise over $70,000 for Mary Potter Hospice by buying the Kapiti Sunsets Calendar.

For a variety of reasons, I started preparing the calendar later than usual this year, but I thought I could still produce one at short notice. I just managed to attract enough photo entries, and thank you to those who submitted pictures. However, when I tried to confirm that the sponsors were still in a position to continue their generous help towards the print costs, it became apparent that for a variety of reasons, some were no longer in a position to help this year. It proved to be too late to secure enough new sponsors at short notice to make the calendar viable.

I have therefore, reluctantly, made the decision not to produce a calendar this year. I will make a decision early in the New Year as to whether I try to resurrect it for 2028.

Thank you to all our sponsors over the years, the sales outlets, and you, the people of the Kapiti Community, who have bought the calendar by the thousands, in support of Mary Potter Hospice.

Thank you all.

15/06/2026

Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2026 - sold to raise funds for Mary Potter Hospice
This year the Kāpiti Coast Community raised $10,450 for MPH, bringing our six year total to $71,600.
A big "Thank you!" to everyone who supported this local community project.

30/08/2025

There is still time to enter your Kāpiti sunset photo for a chance to be in the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2026. This is a community project to raise funds for Mary Potter Hospice and together, as a community, we have raised more than $61,000 over the past 5 years. There has been a surprisingly low entry this year (thank you to those who have entered) but I urge all you photographers out there to submit your best sunset photos into the competition. Without photo entries there will be no competition!

I have extended the closing date by three days so you can get your photos in.

E-mail your sunset photos (max of 3) to:
[email protected]

The original competition announcement can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/murrayshortnz/posts/pfbid02UVenTNWYKEqbWsHeH9Mb28APHVxwS9AzJjeUikfppcRksASNeB2voSTyU5iRfkDql

and the T&Cs can be seen here:
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=122101549298978681&set=a.122101549958978681

18/08/2025

Do you want to see your Kāpiti sunset photo in the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2026?

The competition to get your photo in the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2026, to be sold to raise funds for Mary Potter Hospice, is now open.
Unfortunately, due to personal circumstances, I am late starting the competition this year and so to speed things up I have simplified the submission procedure. Entries should be emailed to me at: [email protected] and eligible entries will be posted on the voting page by me when the competition date passes. If for any reason your entry or entries are not acceptable (e.g. not sufficiently large enough to print at A4 or not landscape format) I will notify you so that you can resubmit if necessary (but this year I will not be providing an editing service). The main conditions for this competition are:
Closing Date: 11.59pm Sunday 31 August 2025
Entries must be your own photo(s) - no 3rd party entries
The format must be landscape (i.e. wider than it is high) and large enough to print at A4 (approximately 3500 pixels wide by 2500 pixels high) – if your photo was taken on a camera or phone rated 8.5 MP (or larger), it should be large enough.
Entries must be at or about sunset
Entries must include Kāpiti Island and/or Kāpiti Coast
A maximum of 3 entries per person
To enter the competition, please e-mail your entries to: [email protected].
The “voting” page will be an “open” page
Please read the full terms and conditions (T&Cs)

See T&Cs here: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=122101549298978681&set=a.122101549958978681

24/10/2024

08/10/2024

Preview of Kāpiti Sunsets 2025

Preview of the Kāpiti Sunsets 2025 Calendar

06/10/2024

Friday night, prepping dinner, I thought, "That light looks quite good, maybe I should pop down to the beach!"

Quite a good call I think!

Kāpiti sunset from Paraparaumu Beach - 4 October 2024

29/09/2024

The Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2025, to be sold to raise funds for Mary Potter Hospice, now has a full allocation of sponsors and all of the print costs are now covered.

Thanks to the generosity of:
Page Sponsor: On Time Aircon, who install, service and repair heat pumps and AC units for both residential and commercial customers;
and
Cover Sponsor: Madame Gandalf's Green Dragon, a virtual tavern hosted by local content creator, Madame Gandalf.

Now 100% of all calendar sales will go to Mary Potter Hospice.

25/09/2024

So that 100% of sales income can go to Mary Potter Hospice, Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2025 needs sponsors! There is one page left to sponsor and ideally we need a new Major Sponsor.

If your business would like to join our group of generous local sponsors please get in touch.

A big "THANK YOU" to our returning sponsors and also to our new sponsors. Without you Kāpiti Sunsets Calendars (for Mary Potter Hospice) wouldn't happen!

20/09/2024

Here are the winners of the Kāpiti Sunsets Calendar 2025 vote. If your photo appears here, congratulations, and I'll be contacting you within the next few days to confirm details for publication.
Thank you to everyone for taking the time to enter and to all of those who voted. Commiserations to those who didn't quite make it this time. There were a lot of really good images that didn't quite get the number of votes required to make the cut.
N.B. This is not the running order for the calendar.