Otago Community Trust, August 2013 Donations
22 Sep 2013
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 |
Central Otago Maths Problem Solving Challenge |
500 |
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Central Otago District Council |
1,500 |
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Historic Clyde Incorporated |
2,500 |
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The Terrace School |
6,000 |
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Balclutha |
Kaitangata Black Gold Community Inc |
2,500 |
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Owaka Golf Club |
4,500 |
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Cromwell |
Tek Rush |
500 |
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Dunedin |
Dunedin Gymnastic Academy-Rhythmic Group |
400 |
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Tainui School |
1,000 |
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Dunedin Clay Target Club Inc |
1,500 |
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Otago Mental Health Support Trust |
2,000 |
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Operation New Direction Trust |
2,000 |
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Kings High School |
3,000 |
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Otago Fish & Game Council |
3,000 |
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Dunedin District Land SAR Committee |
4,000 |
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The Otago Early Childhood & Schools Maori & Pacific Island Festival Trust |
5,000 |
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Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust |
5,000 |
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Dance Aoteoroa NZ Ltd |
5,000 |
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Carers Soc (Otago) |
8,000 |
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Otago Life Education Trust |
12,600 |
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Musical Theatre Dunedin Inc |
35,000 |
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Otago Festival of the Arts Trust |
150,000 |
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Mosgiel |
Arthur Burns Preschool |
300 |
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East Taieri School |
1,500 |
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Oamaru |
North Otago Scout Zone Jamboree Committee |
3,600 |
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Oamaru Operatic & Musical Society Inc |
14,000 |
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Otago |
Otago Chamber of Commerce |
40,000 |
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Other |
Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability Trust |
3,000 |
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Special Olympics New Zealand |
40,000 |
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Roxburgh |
Teviot Valley Community Christian Trust |
1,500 |