Community Foundation Newsletters 2010

ISSUE NO.
1
JANUARY
2010

WORKING TO MAKE HAWKE’S BAY A BETTER PLACE

COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
HAWKE’S BAY
“A little generosity goes a long way”

A fund in your own name

You are able right now to make a difference in Hawke’s Bay by creating an endowment fund in your family name. Your generosity will stay in Hawke’s Bay, and will be used for the purposes you choose. We will do the work. We will maintain your capital and we’ll distribute the income according to your wishes – every year, for ever.

A TAX BENEFIT

Gifting during a lifetime provides donors with attractive tax benefits. Benefactors can claim a donation tax credit to the value of a third of the donations made, or up to a third of their income for the tax year, whichever is the lesser.

A little generosity goes a long way

The Community Foundation HB is making a difference.

$164,629.25 has been distributed in the past 18 months.

Action Year 2010

Honours: Eye surgeon sees in new year with order of merit

Action Year 2010 began wonderfully on January 1 … with an announcement of the elevation of Napier eye surgeon David Sabiston to the Order of Merit.

As a board member of the Community Foundation Hawke’s Bay, David Sabiston continues to play a solid role in making Hawke’s Bay a better place to live.

The honour is recognition of his years of community work and public service. That work continues into 2010 with his support, for instance, of the Hawke’s Bay Astronomy Society. In addition to operations at the Holt Planetarium, this society is completing an observatory in the Glengarry Rd. Once operational, Pukerangi will host three telescopes and, eventually, an astrograph for photography.

David is also a player and patron of the Bluff Hill Bowling Club. He is a past president of the Rotary Club of Napier. He was involved with the Napier Park Racing Club and Hawke’s Bay Racing Incorporated. Between times during 53 years as a Napier resident David has written a history of the New Zealand Contact Lens Society, has frequently travelled to Cambodia as a volunteer ophthalmologist and has raised funds for an international programme called Restoration of Sight for Survival. He was appointed ophthalmologist for the Olympic Games in 2000.

All of which tends to overshadow a wealth of unreported effort in the community. David is one of the first Hawke’s Bay residents to support the ambition of the community foundation.

He has committed himself in his will to an endowment intended to make Hawke’s Bay a better place long after he has gone.

If every couple in Hawke’s Bay was to make a similar pledge no matter the size, the accumulated value to the community would [be] millions of dollars a year. Resolve now to make your pledge in 2010.

*Ask for your options pack. It illustrates choices available.

Janice Gilmour
administrator

Janice is delighted that more than $1-million has been committed to the future good of Hawke’s Bay by members of our community. They have specified that they will leave some money to the foundation in their wills.

Resolve now to join the trend. This is the year to make HB better.

Phone Janice at 06 870 4648 to hear more about The Community Foundation HB.

*PS: Trustee Cedric Knowles is a popular speaker, especially good for lawyer and accountancy groups.

Digital archive’s a winner
Our plan to establish a $1-million regional digital archive at historic Stoneycroft on the Expressway is involving meetings every week this month with out-of-town experts as detail is prepared on the world-class specialist equipment.

Tsunami relief, a quick response.
An approach to the foundation after last year’s tsunami enabled help with relief efforts in Samoa. We were the vehicle by which people could donate funds to workers coming to Hawke’s Bay for the picking season. $20,000 came in from many sources.

Become a friend.
By becoming a Friend of the Foundation, your $100 donation helps to keep the foundation running. In return you will receive regular updates on what we are doing to make the region a better place. You’ll also receive invitations to events.

Look to tomorrow
One of the biggest considerations of having a charitable trust, either a family or community trust, is succession planning. Who will administer it when you or your trustees are unable to? The Community Foundation can help. We will do the work. The funds are used as specified by the original trustees and the money will stay in Hawke’s Bay.

More yet at Pekapeka
Plans are under way to extend the walking track, develop a viewing platform, and put a bridge over the railway line at the 95-hectare Pekapeka wetland near Pakipaki. The foundation contributed $50,000 toward public access to the wetland, the car park area and walkways. There’s more to be done this year, including clearing debris with a specially-imported dredge. Chairman Peter Dunkerley is happy to talk about the returning wildlife – and how you can contribute. (That’s Peter left above with board member James Morgan and regional council chairman Alan Dick.)

COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
HAWKE’S BAY
“A little generosity goes a long way”

Charities Commission Registration CC28009

[email protected]
www. thefoundation.co.nz

P.O. Box 2025
Stortford Lodge, Hastings 4153
06 870 4648 ph

ISSUE NO.
2
MARCH
2010

HAWKE’S BAY IS BECOMING A BETTER PLACE

COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
HAWKE’S BAY
“A little generosity goes a long way”

A fund in your own name

Make a difference in Hawke’s Bay right now by creating an endowment fund in your family name.

The money will stay in Hawke’s Bay, and will be used for the purposes you choose.

We will do the work.

Phone Janice Gilmour at 870 4648

A little generosity goes a long way

Trustee visits
Our trustees have been giving presentations to service groups, professional offices and local authorities. Please contact Janice if you would like a speaker for your group.

10 years from now

Ten years from now, the drive towards Hastings and Napier will be through an environment much as illustrated above.

The route is through Pekapeka, a 97-hectare remnant of natural wetland, alongside State Highway 2. This is a natural historical and cultural feature at the entry to the Heretaunga Plains and it is being expertly rejuvenated under the guidance of Steven Cave of the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council.

Landscape architect Shannon Bray illustrates here how the wetland will look once additional open water has been created by Mark Belami who owns a specialist excavator. He will create 40,000 square metres of open water through a series of pond areas.

The work at the wetland is being supported by The Community Foundation.

There are already signs that up to 30 or 40 of rarer species have returned, including the bittern, which has become so rare it is classified an endangered species.

Observation platforms will allow visitors to view the wildlife without being intrusive.

Stortford Lodge Rotary has given $2000 for planting totara, cabbage trees and one or two kahikatea in the car park late this month, and to install irrigation.

Quotes have been received for a safety fence next to the railway line so people can walk across a boardwalk to plantings near the railway – and plans are being prepared for a bridge over the railway, to a fortified pa on the east side.

Much more is planned at Pekapeka provided the cash can be found. One major possibility is a purchase of land adjoining the wetland and that will make a walkway possible from Havelock North along the Karamu Stream to Pekapeka.

It is about making Hawke’s Bay a better place. Contact chairman Peter Dunkerley, or Janice Gilmour at the office.

* Ask for our options pack or sponsor a project of your own. Do something in Action Year 2010

This is Action Year 2010

Resolve now to join the trend.

A little generosity goes a long way

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Watch the papers, the HB digital archive is coming

We’ve started a wave with this one. People are wanting to know more. That’s good because there are, in shoe boxes throughout Hawkes’s Bay, items of memorabilia, references to the life, times and styles of the people who contributed to the heritage of this province, and those who continue to do so.

People are wondering what should happen to this valuable history. Parts of it can be found in every house and factory from Wairoa to Porangahau. Yet never previously has a project like this been proposed – of collating these treasures digitally, annotating them simultaneously.

The Stoneycroft project brings together knowledge, thoughts and experiences of companies, private individuals, institutions across the province. The technology makes it a searchable record. The end result will be a modern encyclopedia of everything Hawke’s Bay.

Buzzmakers

Bay Buzz Digest has identified 100 people in Hawke’s Bay who have made a difference in our community. Among the list is our own James Morgan (left) for his contribution to the theatre, his role on the Hastings-Guilin Sister City board, formation of the Flaxmere Licensing Trust, his work with the Community Foundation HB and the campaign to establish the Hawke’s Bay Digital Archive.

Another Buzzmaker is Mark von Dadelszen (right), the community foundation’s honorary solicitor.

Achievements

Our trustees are not only working to make Hawke’s Bay a better place through the community foundation, they are active in other areas of giving. Di Petersen has been appointed by the Lottery Grants Board to the Hawke’s Bay Community Distribution Committee.

They like his style

Trustee Cedric Knowles is a popular speaker, especially good for lawyer and accountancy groups.

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The Community Foundation (HB)
PO Box 2025,

Stortford Lodge

HASTINGS 4153
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COMMUNITY
FOUNDATION
HAWKE’S BAY
“A little generosity goes a long way”

Charities Commission Registration CC28009

[email protected]
www. thefoundation.co.nz

P. O. Box 2025
Stortford Lodge, Hastings 4153
06 870 4648 ph