$600,000+ for environment groups  

News Release
12/5/10

ASB Community Trust has this month approved more than $632,000 worth of grants for environmental projects in Auckland and Northland.


The community trust’s monthly board meeting approved grants including $79,799 to the Puketi Forest Trust to help with pest control in 15,000 hectares of Northland kauri forest. Meanwhile, the Motuihe Trust was awarded $74,000 to help with its work to restore Motuihe Island, in the Hauraki Gulf.

ASB Community Trust CEO Jennifer Gill said the work of both groups was seen as being strongly aligned to the Trust’s strategic objective for the environment sector and priority areas for funding.

Under ASBCT’s pilot cultivation fund, the Hauraki Gulf Charitable Trust was granted $60,000.
The cultivation fund helps umbrella organisations to support local volunteer organisations who would be otherwise ineligible to apply to the Trust for funding as they do not have audited accounts.

The grant to Hauraki Gulf Charitable Trust will allow volunteer work to continue on a number of environmental projects on Waiheke Island, including the replanting of native trees on the McKenzie Reserve, restoration of a wetland at Waiheke School and restoration of the Te Toki Reserve on Waiheke’s Ostend causeway.

Other environment grants announced include:

  • $30,000 for the Windy Hill and Rosalie Bay Catchment Trust’s forest restoration work on Great Barrier Island;
  • $12,350 for Friends of Te Atawhai Whenua Trust for its work protecting the Waiheke Island reserve;
  • $50,000 to help with Shakespeare Open Sanctuary’s pest-proof fence project in Whangaparaoa;
  • $50,180 for the Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust’s education programmes;
  • $32,400 to help Weedfree Waitakere with its restoration and weed eradication work in West Auckland;
  • $27,695 for Pointways Pony Club’s fencing of native trees and wetland at its Manurewa base;
  • $30,000 to the Guardians of the Bay of Islands for the Project Island Song restoration project;
  • $10,000 for Hua Rakau Trust ki Omamari’s work protecting land and marine habitats at Omamari, near Dargaville;
  • $30,000 for Friends of Rangikapiti Reserve Society for weed control in the Far North, Mangonui, Rangikapiti Reserve;
  • $11,710 for Whangarei Quarry Gardens Trust’s for native bush restoration work at Whangarei Quarry Garden;
  • $28,700 for the Waste Resource Trust’s to improve the sustainability of community organisations on Waiheke Island;
  • $20,000 for Worldwide Fund for Nature’s for an environmental education programme to protect the Maui’s Dolphin population.

“The Trust supports projects and organisations that protect and enhance the environment in which we live,” says ASB Community Trust CEO Jennifer Gill. “Funding details are on our website and we encourage any organisations that fit our eligibility criteria to apply.”