Otago Community Trust, June 2015 Donations
20 Jul 2015
Sport development in Otago is benefitting from an Otago Community Trust investment of over $900,000 this year.
The Otago Community Trust donated $1,093,150 to community organisations in June. Of that,
$907,250 was invested in 29 Otago sporting organisations.
Otago Community Trust Chief Executive Barbara Bridger said the Trust’s regional sport funding is predominantly used to help fund regional coaching programmes, which assists with development across many different sports.
“This funding is a cornerstone for sporting development; we’re pleased to be ensuring on-going generations of players get the support they need, from grassroots through to elite,” she said.
Central Otago Hockey Executive Officer Sandra Stuart said it would be very difficult to run sporting competitions in rural areas without Otago Community Trust support. The Trust’s $6600 donation helps to co-ordinate games for the 720 Central Otago hockey players, from five-year-old beginners to senior men’s and women’s rep teams, who currently compete at the Cromwell Hockey Turf.
“It would be very hard to rely solely on volunteers to organise competition, in what is one of the most geographically-challenged sporting regions of New Zealand; some people travel up to two hours in trying winter conditions to compete,” she said.
Significant donations in this year’s regional sporting fund include $49,500 to Basketball Otago for regional development programmes, and $66,000 to Football South, $60,500 to the Otago Cricket Association, and $55,000 to the Otago Rugby Football Union for regional coaching.
The Otago Community Trust also continues to support capability building and sports training programmes run by Sport Otago, Sport Clutha and Sport Central. A $30,000 donation to the Otago Academy of Sport helps run a regional development academy.
This year Otago Community Trust sporting investment is also being used to help the Otago Table Tennis Association host a 12-strong Sister City delegation from Shanghai. They are involved in a week of training & development workshops for local and regional junior players and coaches.
The Otago Community Trust is assisting Dunedin to host the 2016 International Festival of Historic Motoring, donating $40,000 towards the event. Up to 1000 historic vehicles are expected to attend the festival, which will be headquartered at Dunedin’s Edgar Centre on Portsmouth Drive but will also include outlying towns.
The Otago Community Trust this month donated $4500 to assist with the cost of presenting the inaugural Dunedin Jazz and Cabaret Festival, from October 16 to 22 this year. The festival will include workshops, master classes and a variety of concerts celebrating jazz and cabaret, with a distinct Dunedin flavour that plans to make use of heritage buildings including the iconic Playhouse Theatre.
The programme will offer jazz styles from original and contemporary, through to experimental, interpretations of the classics, and cabaret-inspired music presentations. There will also be collaborations with Dunedin poets, dancers, sound and performance artists, actors and comedians. https://www.facebook.com/dunedinjazzfest
The Otago Community Trust is also supporting a heritage project in the Teviot Valley this month. It donated $7,000 towards preserving the rail water tower on the east side of the Clutha River just out of Roxburgh, thought to be the only one left in Otago.
Teviot Valley Society Secretary/treasurer Mike Paterson said the water tower, used to service steam trains, is the last remaining relic of the old railway line that closed in the 1960s, and has local historic significance.
Recognising the pressure Dunedin and Mosgiel foodbanks experienced following the recent major floods, the Otago Community Trust supported four foodbanks this month, totalling $20,000.
It also supported Ronald Macdonald House in Auckland, donating $3500 towards upgrading the kitchen at the Auckland Domain Ronald McDonald facility. A total of 87 families from the lower South Island used the facility for 1101 bed nights in 2014.
Otago Community Trust regional sporting fund donations, June 2015
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Alexandra |
Central Otago Hockey Assn |
$6,600 |
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Central Otago Softball Assn |
$8,250 |
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Balclutha |
Sport Clutha |
$22,000 |
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Cromwell |
Sport Central |
$22,000 |
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Dunedin |
Otago Synchronised Swimming Club |
$4,400 |
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Otago Yachting Assn Inc |
$7,500 |
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Sport Otago - Fundamental Skills |
$8,250 |
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Dunedin Ice Skating Club Inc |
$11,000 |
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Otago Badminton Assn Inc |
$16,500 |
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Otago Rugby League Inc |
$16,500 |
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Otago Softball Assn Inc |
$16,500 |
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Otago Hockey Assn (1990) Inc |
$22,000 |
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Otago Hockey Association - Development |
$22,000 |
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Sport Otago - Club Development |
$25,000 |
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Mountainbiking Otago Inc |
$25,000 |
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Sport Otago Director |
$27,500 |
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Otago Rowing Assn Inc |
$27,500 |
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Otago Touch Assn Inc |
$27,500 |
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Squash Otago Inc |
$27,500 |
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Otago Academy of Sport |
$30,000 |
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Otago Cricket Assn Inc |
$60,500 |
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Football South |
$66,000 |
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Oamaru |
North Otago Rugby Football Union Inc |
$22,000 |
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Sport Waitaki |
$22,000 |
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Otago |
GymSports NZ - Southern Region |
$5,500 |
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Surf Life Saving New Zealand Inc |
$16,500 |
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Otago Secondary Schools Sports Assn |
$25,000 |
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Sport Otago - Coachforce Athletics |
$27,500 |
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Sport Otago - Coachforce Golf |
$27,500 |
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Basketball Otago Inc |
$49,500 |
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Otago Rugby Football Union Inc |
$55,000 |
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Netball South Zone Inc |
$110,000 |
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Ranfurly |
NZ Curling Assn Inc |
$8,250 |
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Wanaka |
Snow Sports NZ Inc |
$38,500 |
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Otago Community Trust general donations, June 2015
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Alexandra |
Alexandra Musical Society |
$8,500 |
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Dunedin |
Kaikorai Metropolitan Brass Inc |
$800 |
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Otago Potters Group Incorporated |
$1,000 |
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University of Otago - Dept of Music |
$1,500 |
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Dunedin Tap Dancing Society |
$2,500 |
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Storylines Childrens Literature Charitable Trust of NZ |
$3,500 |
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Dunedin Jazz Cabaret & Performing Arts Trust |
$4,500 |
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WOW! Productions Trust |
$15,000 |
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Dunedin Senior Chinese Assn |
$1,900 |
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Amputee Society of Otago & Southland Inc |
$500 |
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Otago Diabetes Research Trust |
$3,000 |
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Otago Table Tennis Assn Inc |
$2,900 |
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Presbyterian Support Otago |
$5,000 |
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Salvation Army Dunedin City Corp |
$5,000 |
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Green Island School |
$6,000 |
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Otago Bridge Club |
$5,000 |
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Queens High Preschool |
$6,000 |
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University of Otago - Business School |
$10,000 |
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Yellow-Eyed Penguin Trust |
$1,300 |
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Mosgiel |
Taieri Christian Care Trust |
$5,000 |
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West Taieri Rugby Football Club |
$1,000 |
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Oamaru |
Oamaru Tap Dancing Assn |
$1,000 |
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Otago |
Otago Outdoor Education Camp Trust |
$20,000 |
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Catholic Social Services |
$5,000 |
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Volunteering Otago Trust |
$7,000 |
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International Festival of Historic Motoring |
$40,000 |
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RMH Auckland Trust |
$3,500 |
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Other |
Environmental Education for Resource Sustainability Trust |
$3,500 |
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Roxburgh |
Teviot Valley 2007 Soc Inc |
$7,000 |
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Waik/Palm |
East Otago Social Bridge Club |
$500 |
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Wanaka |
Queenstown Lakes District Council - Summerdaze Festival |
$5,000 |
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Hawea Kindergarten |
$3,500 |