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Going Solar
Wanaka Preschool embarked on an excited project last year with the bold decision to purchase and installed a new solar energy system to replace the Preschools 25-year-old radiant heaters.
Read moreRegional Sports Grants Announced
Otago Community Trust approved over $960,000 to Otago regional sporting bodies at its recent board meeting held in Balclutha last Tuesday.
Read moreDemand for Funding Remains High as Trust approves over $3.4M
Trust announces one of the largest funding rounds of recent times.
Read moreAdventure of a Lifetime
Otago Community Trust is passionate about assisting our Otago youth. Youth Health and Wellbeing is one of our three key strategic priority areas, and in 2018 the Trust was pleased to provide a $10,430 grant to the Spirit of Adventure Trust allowing up to 10 Otago youth the opportunity to have an adventure of a lifetime.
Read moreNew Grants Portal Open
We are pleased to advise that our new Grants Portal is now open. Thunderbirds Are Go Otago!
Read moreGrant secured for Roys Peak communication facility
$66,500 grant secured for Roys Peak communication facility
Read moreResearch base at Long Point a step closer with $50,000 grant
The Otago Community Trust was pleased to award a $50,000 grant to the Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust in November last year, to help establish a yellow-eyed penguin field research base at Long Point in the Catlins. The yellow-eyed penguin or hoiho is a penguin native to New Zealand. However, this native species is the world's most endangered penguin. Some researchers fear that the hoiho could be marching towards extinction by 2060.
Read moreLife Education - Learning with Harold the Giraffe
Life Education is a charity that educates and empowers children to make healthy choices so they can live full and healthy lives. Our Communications & Marketing Coordinator was luckily enough to have a sneak peek into the Coastal Otago Life Education mobile classroom last month during its visit to Maori Hill School in Dunedin and viewed first hand their amazing new 3G screen in their mobile classroom.
Read moreWharekai Re-development - Te Runanga o Moeraki
The Otago Community Trust was pleased to provide a $50,000 donation to Te Runanga o Moeraki in November of last year. Kaihautu Mary-Anne Tipa sent these wonderful photos in recently of the finished facilities.
Read more$125,000 for First Church Spire Restoration
The First Church has received a funding boost of $125,000 from the Otago Community Trust. The donation will assist with the major restoration project currently being undertaken on the church spire. First Church announced last week that it would start a public appeal to fund the $600,000 refurbishment of the towering 56.4m spire after much more restoration work was found to be required due to the Church’s Category 1 Heritage New Zealand classification.
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