16 groups benefit from The Harcourts Foundation

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16 groups benefit from The Harcourts Foundation’s latest funding

18 October 2010:

Sixteen charitable organisations from around New Zealand benefited in the last round of funding from The Harcourts Foundation, a charity set up by the Harcourts real estate group to provide support that helps, grows and enriches our communities.

The recipients – one in Auckland, one in the Rodney District, three in the Waikato, six in Greater Wellington, one in New Plymouth, three in Canterbury and one in Otago - were recently awarded grants totalling more than $18,500 having each made successful applications to The Harcourts Foundation in New Zealand earlier this year.

These grants together with a number made in Australia recently and a $50,000 donation to the New Zealand Red Cross Earthquake Appeal in September takes the amount donated since the Foundation was established in mid-2008 to more than $480,000 to a total of 110 charities in New Zealand and Australia.

As Harcourts New Zealand CEO Hayden Duncan explains, to date more than $750,000 has been raised for The Harcourts Foundation through the voluntary donations and fundraising efforts of Harcourts team members on both sides of the Tasman, with additional support coming from some of the group’s business partners and clients.

“As a result it means The Harcourts Foundation can support a variety of deserving charitable organisations doing valuable work in the community, including the 16 worthy recipients supported in our latest funding round.”

Mr Duncan notes that 100% of money raised for The Harcourts Foundation is donated and aside from a small portion set aside to support major emergency relief efforts the money raised for the Foundation in a particular region goes back into that area.
The latest recipients of grants from The Harcourts Foundation in New Zealand were:
• Special Olympics Hibiscus Coast - $1000 for equipment for their equestrian programme;
• West Auckland Parents Centre - $1560 towards cost of running educational Moving and Munching courses for parents and babies aged four to eight months;
• MS Waikato Trust - $2500 towards key operational costs;
• Parentline Charitable Trust - $2500 towards cost of establishing a joint venture focused on providing support to traumatised migrant and refugee children;
• Rototuna Primary School Parent Teachers Association - $1782.38 for data projectors to use in teaching;
• Shine NZ Trust Board - $500 towards costs of a community earthbuilding project;
• Paremata Playcentre - $500 for educational toys;
• Stroke Foundation Central Region Inc - $500 towards cost of Stroke Survivors annual convention;
• Wellington Rape Crisis - $1000 towards cost of creating new promotional and information resources;
• Wellington Hospitals and Health Foundation - $500 towards cost of an eppendorf microcentrifuges machine (for use in testing for genetic disorders);
• Post & Ante Natal Distress Support Group (Wellington) Inc - $500 towards cost of a conference on Post Natal Depression;
• YMCA New Plymouth - $1000 for new books and educational toys for the YMCA’s childcare centre;
• Rangiora Toy Library - $799 for a large outdoor toy to facilitate physical development and imaginative play;
• The Multiple Sclerosis & Parkinsons Society of Canterbury Inc - $494 for producing business cards for staff;
• St Albans Residents Association Inc - $2500 towards key operational costs;
• CCS Disability Action - $1000 to repair or replace parts on a lifting hoist.

The successful applicants from the latest quarterly round, which closed on 30 September, will be announced later this year.

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