The Kororareka/Russell Community Wharf Kaitiaki Trust is a charitable organization formed to contribute to reconstruction, repair, maintenance, addition to, and any other alteration to the Russell Wharf.

The Trust is here to be a vehicle for community engagement in relation to the Russell Wharf and its stakeholders and to raise and provide funding to assist in these projects.

The Trust’s purpose is to take any such action as the Trustees consider appropriate to protect and/or enhance the long-term economic, cultural and social value of the Wharf to the Community, their manuhiri and persons in the Far North District generally.