Otago Community Trust, August 2013 Donations
Everything
from musical theatre to trees for schools featured in this month’s community
donations from the Otago Community Trust.
The Otago Community Trust donated $359,400 to 30 organisations spread
through Otago in August.
Its
biggest donation was $150,000 to the Otago Festival of
the Arts Trust to help fund the October 2014 festival. The Community Trust was one of the festival founders,
and its director Nicholas McBryde said the funding it continues to provide is
crucial. “Without their on-going
support, the festival wouldn’t exist, so it’s not something we take for
granted,” he said.
The festival celebrates all the performing
arts, including theatre, dance, opera and music, and always brings
international performers to Dunedin. Mr
McBryde promised the next event would continue to celebrate the excellent and
the extraordinary, and bring the world to our corner of the globe, with some
international acts already confirmed.
The Community Trust is helping Otago
schools to reduce the amount of paper going into landfills, and increasing the
amount of trees in the region. Last
month it gave $3000 to Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability
Trust towards a programme that provides bins for schools to recycle cardboard
and paper, helps the pupils to monitor their work, then rewards their efforts
by donating a native tree to the school for each two cubic metres of recycling.
Over 4000 schools and pre-schools are
taking part in this programme nationwide, with 156 in Dunedin now
involved. The charitable trust aims to
involve young people in minimising waste and helping the environment.
The Community Trust also continued to
support training for not-for profit organisations, donating $40,000 to the Otago
Chamber of Commerce for training programmes for the coming year.
The Trust donated $40,000 to Special
Olympics New Zealand to assist with volunteers costs associated with the
Special Olympic National Games, being held in Dunedin from November 27 - 30 2013. The games are the largest regular sports
event for people with intellectual disabilities in New Zealand, attracting more
than 1200 athletes from around the country who compete in 10 Olympic-style
sports.
It has also helped Musical Theatre Dunedin
Inc with a $35,000 donation towards the cost of staging the production “Hairspray,”
a Broadway musical about a girl dreaming of performing in a in 1960s TV dance
show.
Otago Community Trust donations, August 2013
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Alexandra
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Central Otago Maths Problem Solving Challenge
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500
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Central Otago District Council
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1,500
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Historic Clyde Incorporated
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2,500
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The Terrace School
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6,000
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Balclutha
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Kaitangata Black Gold Community Inc
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2,500
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Owaka Golf Club
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4,500
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Cromwell
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Tek Rush
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500
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Dunedin
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Dunedin Gymnastic Academy-Rhythmic Group
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400
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Tainui School
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1,000
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Dunedin Clay Target Club Inc
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1,500
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Otago Mental Health Support Trust
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2,000
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Operation New Direction Trust
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2,000
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Kings High School
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3,000
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Otago Fish & Game Council
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3,000
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Dunedin District Land SAR Committee
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4,000
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The Otago Early Childhood & Schools Maori &
Pacific Island Festival Trust
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5,000
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Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust
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5,000
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Dance Aoteoroa NZ Ltd
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5,000
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Carers Soc (Otago)
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8,000
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Otago Life Education Trust
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12,600
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Musical Theatre Dunedin Inc
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35,000
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Otago Festival of the Arts Trust
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150,000
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Mosgiel
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Arthur Burns Preschool
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300
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East Taieri School
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1,500
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Oamaru
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North Otago Scout Zone Jamboree Committee
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3,600
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Oamaru Operatic & Musical Society Inc
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14,000
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Otago
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Otago Chamber of Commerce
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40,000
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Other
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Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability
Trust
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3,000
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Special Olympics New Zealand
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40,000
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Roxburgh
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Teviot Valley Community Christian Trust
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1,500
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