Wellington Community Trust has partnered with a number of Trusts and Foundations, Social Service Providers Aotearoa and a number of social services to produce an important report that seeks to quantify the funding gap community services face through the Governments contributory funding model. The report, produced by MartinJenkins, reveals the funding gap to be $630m… Read more »
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Farewell To Mark
A big thank you to Mark Cassidy for all his contributions to the Wellington community in his role as CE of the Wellington Community Trust... Read more »
And the Community Awards winners are …
This year's Community Awards culminated in a ceremony held at Te Marae where the regional winners were announced... Read more »
Celebrating our 2015/16 year
On 6 July over 100 people gathered at the Circus Hub in Newtown to celebrate the successes of the past year and hear about Wellington Community Trust's (WCT) future plans... Read more »
A new Chair to lead Wellington Community Trust
Jan Dowland, who has led Wellington Community Trust (WCT) since 2012 is handing over to fellow trustee, Gerardine Clifford-Lidstone... Read more »
Youth charity making our roads safer
Students Against Dangerous Driving (SADD) had a record attendance from students in the Wellington region at their 2016 conference... Read more »
Sport is the winner with environmental project
Project LiteFoot’s work to help sports clubs around the country to reduce their energy use and waste has won them a national award... Read more »
Water safety programme helps local schools
The Kiwi Swim Safe School helps teachers and their students with swimming, water safety, survival and beach safety skills. Sarah Gibbison, the Wellington-based Education Advisor for Swimming NZ recently visited Makara Model School to see how they were getting on... Read more »
1,000 children experience Gallipoli
With funding from Wellington Community Trust, school students from all around the Wellington region are getting to see the Gallipoli exhibition at Te Papa... Read more »
Volunteering – a virtuous circle
Volunteer Wellington recently received funding for their 2016 programme ‘Our diverse community: coming together through volunteering’. Charlie Devenish, their Funding Advisor told us how this successful programme works... Read more »