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… 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 »