Living Springs is a place that inspires, refreshes and allows people to gather and experience life together away from the city. Built in the 1970’s, Living Springs has hosted and organised holiday camps, school camps, community and church camps, youth camps, corporate events, weddings and many more events for over four decades.There has been a considerable momentum shift in recent years with the Allandale Stream Restoration programme beginning in 2011 and then enlarging to include the ‘Plant a Hundred Totaras’ initiative and “Predator Free Allandale” concept in 2013/14. Out of this base in 2014 began to emerge the idea of a Living Springs Eco – Sanctuary.