In total, the DCC’s Grants Subcommittee has allocated $441,135.76 in grants following the March application round.
Biodiversity
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Jon Fergus | Contribution toward contractor costs for site preparation for 12,000 trees and contribution toward tree guards, mats and fertiliser tablets. | $4,000.00 |
Springwater Ag Ltd. (Ray Parker) | Contribution toward contractor costs for the establishment of a pest control network in a regenerating wetland area and 12 months initial trap checking and maintenance. | $2,000.00 |
Danielle Nicolson | Contribution toward plant purchase and plant protective equipment for the revegetation of Tomahawk lagoon boarder as a buffer to connect larger coastal broadleaf/podocarp areas. | $3,500.00 |
Paula Cross | Purchase 400 trees and plant guards. | $2,752.00 |
Dunedin City Baptist Church (Malcolm Cowan) | Contribution toward plant purchase for riparian planting along Stevenson's Creek. | $1,088.19 |
Matt Thompson (Monowai Ecological) | Contribution toward fencing contractor costs (7 ha bush area). | $5,000.00 |
Rebecca Guest | Purchase 1400 plants. | $2,500.00 |
Jed Tweedie | Contribution toward fencing costs around wetland/seepage area. | $2,000.00 |
Ryan Fitzgerald | Plant and planting materials purchase for native revegetation project (434 plants). | $2,500.00 |
Saint Clair Golf Club | Contribution toward 2000 plants. | $4,000.00 |
Zac Noone | Contribution toward trapping hardware, bait, and contractor costs for establishment of trapping network. | $4,500.00 |
Racheal Gibb | Contribution toward contractor costs: sycamore control, purchase 200 podocarps, 200 plant guards, planting labour. | $3,177.00 |
David Smith | Contribution toward trapping hardware, bait, and contractor costs for establishment of trapping network. | $4,500.00 |
Lee Paterson | Contribution toward trapping hardware, bait, and contractor costs for establishment of trapping network. | $5,000.00 |
Birgetta McLean | Contribution toward fencing contractor costs for the erection of stock proof fence. | $2,982.90 |
Otago Peninsula Trust (Alex Funnell) | Contribution toward contractor costs for the removal of Darwin's Barberry in an area of indigenous vegetation. | $3,500.00 |
Brent Nicholson | Contribution toward contractor costs for tree removal, plant purchase and herbicide for site preparation. | $2,000.00 |
| Total | $62,133.59 |
Community Events
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Badminton New Zealand | To assist with venue hire and shuttles (shuttlecocks) for the event. | $1,000.00 |
Broad Bay Community Centre Inc | To assist with event and operational costs, printing, venue hire, bus and boat hire and advertising and promotion. | $3,500.00 |
Dunedin Folk Club (New Edinburgh Folk Club Inc) | To assist with costs towards venue and marquee hire. | $6,400.00 |
Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust | To assist with production, marketing, and administration expenses. | $7,900.00 |
Dunedin Tamil Society | To assist with venue hire, production, and decorations. | $4,500.00 |
Dunedin Town Hall Organ Trust | To assist with the cost of press advertising. | $850.00 |
Dunedin Ōtepoti Vegan Society (DOVeS) | To assist with koha for performers and speakers, marketing, venue hire and production costs. | $800.00 |
East Otago Musical Theatre Incorporated | To cover the shortfall of the expenditure to produce our annual show less projected income. | $4,000.00 |
Evening Books | To assist with artist fees, the materials supplied, technical and events support, marketing costs, and venue hire. | $4,050.00 |
Music Education Otago | To assist with venue hire, production, and APRA licence fees. | $1,000.00 |
New Zealand Choral Federation Otago Branch | To help with production costs. | $1,200.00 |
Otago Miniature Tacticians Society | To assist with marketing and trailer hire. | $741.41 |
Otago Water Polo Club | To assist with pool hire costs. | $1,000.00 |
Southern Heritage Trust | To assist with Coordinator wages, marketing and venue hire. | $5,000.00 |
Zonta Club of Metropolitan Dunedin | To assist with production, security, and marketing. | $2,008.59 |
| Total | $43,950.00 |
Community Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Aspire Kids Tamariki Matana | To fund staff salaries. | $5,000.00 |
Autism New Zealand Inc | Operational Expenses for the running of Otago Branch which includes salary for Outreach Coordinator. | $2,500.00 |
Catholic Social Services | The funding would be used for operational costs to help pay staff who provide Relationship Counselling. | $3,000.00 |
CCS Disability Action Otago Inc | Salary cost of service coordinator roles. | $3,000.00 |
Deaf Aotearoa Holdings Limited | Assistance with Dunedin office lease costs. | $3,000.00 |
Dunedin Community Care Trust | Contribution towards wages for Employment Facilitator. | $4,550.00 |
Dunedin Community Mediation | Contribution towards Manager wages and association operating costs. | $4,500.00 |
Dunedin Parents Centre | Funding towards running costs of 9 parent education courses. | $1,740.00 |
Dunedin Tracks Network Trust | Employing an Information and Relationships Manager. | $4,550.00 |
English Language Partners Dunedin | Help with rental costs for community class venues. | $3,000.00 |
Epilepsy Association of NZ Inc | 6 weeks salary support for epilepsy educator based in Dunedin. | $3,055.00 |
Good Bitches Trust | To cover costs of boxes, flyers, personal notes, admin expenses. | $3,000.00 |
Islington Early Childhood Centre Inc | To help with costs of the playground upgrade. | $2,000.00 |
Kiwi Family Trust | To help purchase wool and sundries in Dunedin. | $4,500.00 |
Life Education Trust Heartland Otago Southland | Contribution towards Educators salary. | $3,000.00 |
Life Matters Suicide Prevention Trust | Contribution towards the salary of the Administrators/Peer Supporters. | $4,550.00 |
Lupe Faalele a Samoa i Otago Inc Socity | To cover costs of project management, administration and technical support. | $5,000.00 |
Our Food Network Dunedin (OFN) Inc | Contribution towards the Project Coordinator. | $4,550.00 |
Otago Asthma Society Inc | Contribution towards exercise class facilitators. | $3,000.00 |
Pioneer Opportunities Resources Trust | Contribution towards Hall Coordinators wages. | $4,500.00 |
Pregnancy Help Inc Dunedin Branch | Contribution towards Dunedin Branch Manager salary. | $3,000.00 |
Presbyterian Support Otago | Contribution to support a Buddy Coordinator in Dunedin. | $3,000.00 |
Punga Croquet Club | To help with the costs of replacing the clubhouse roof. | $2,000.00 |
Roslyn Wakari AFC | Contribution towards the Football Development Directors wages. | $2,500.00 |
Royal New Zealand Plunket Trust | Contribution towards, wages, operations costs. | $3,000.00 |
Southern Youth Development (Formerly The Malcam Charitable Trust) | Contribution towards wages for the youth workers. | $4,550.00 |
SuperGrans Dunedin Charitable Trust | Contribution towards the managers wages. | $4,550.00 |
The Nest Collective NZ Charitable Trust | Contribution towards rent and to support packs. | $3,320.95 |
The Straight Up Trust | Contribution towards staff. | $4,550.00 |
Turning Point Counselling Service, East Taieri Church | Funding to enable subsidised services for counselling (full or part amount) and who do not qualify for any other service or funding. | $4,550.00 |
Youthline Otago Ltd | Contribution towards staff wages. | $4,550.00 |
| Total | $111,565.95 |
Creative Communities
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Ana Teofilo | Artist and administration fees, materials, promotion, and venue hire. | $4,016.91 |
Cancer Society of New Zealand, Otago and Southland Division | Facilitator fees, materials and administration costs. | $818.48 |
Christopher John Wilson | To support artist remuneration. | $1,000.00 |
Dance Therapy NZ | Personnel fees, venue hire and promotion. | $2,560.00 |
dance.happy.doom.crew | Venue and equipment hire, manaakitanga, artist and sound engineer fees. | $1,750.00 |
Dunedin Folk Club | Contribute to costs of sound and lighting production. | $2,000.00 |
East Otago Musical Theatre Incorporated | Support costs of a 4-night run of “WOz” production. | $4,000.00 |
Metonymic Trust | To contribute to artist fees, venue hire, and equipment hire. | $3,000.00 |
Music Education Otago | To contribute to the accompanists' fees for the concert. | $1,100.00 |
Nathaniel Otley | Contribution to venue hire and technician, artist fees, instrument hire and promotion of school workshops and a public performance of new works. | $1,500.00 |
NZ Society of Authors Ōtepoti Dunedin | Contribution to artist fees and partial administrative costs for an event on National Poetry Day. | $1,500.00 |
OurSight | Contribution towards venue hire, materials and advertising. | $2,500.00 |
People Feelin' Beats | To help with venue and facilitator costs of after school dance classes. | $1,900.00 |
Rasa Dance Dunedin | To contribute to the costs of bringing in two nationally recognised hip hop dance teachers to run low-cost workshops for rangatahi. | $2,500.00 |
Riley Aitken | To support artist fees and costs of production and promotion. | $3,000.00 |
Script-to-Screen Te Tari Tuhi Kupu A Whakaahua | Contribution to speaker fees and personnel costs. | $1,500.00 |
Sean Norling | Contribution to personnel costs, materials and distribution. | $3,043.61 |
Studio 2 and Margaret Freeman Gallery | To help cover the costs of materials, venue hire, and volunteers for ten community art workshops. | $2,800.00 |
Swaroopa Unni | Contribution to artist fees for the coordination and teaching of free Bharatanatyam workshops and public performance. | $3,000.00 |
Te Vaka Cook Islands of Dunedin Incorporated | To contribute to the tutor and assistant fees, and administrative costs of running traditional costume-making workshops. | $3,835.00 |
| Total | $47,324.00 |
DCC Arts Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Artsenta Creative Arts Trust | To remunerate the artists involved in wānaka at Artsenta. | $4,900.00 |
Chamber Music New Zealand | Contribute to the organising and operating costs of the Otago District Round of the Chamber Music contest. | $1,550.00 |
Dunedin Chinese Art/Instrument Association | To contribute to tutor and workshops costs, and venue hire. | $2,150.00 |
Dance Ōtepoti | To provide funding support for two community-based dance commissions. | $4,950.00 |
Dunedin Opera Company Incorporated | To support remuneration for movement director, accompanists, and musical director. | $5,000.00 |
Dunedin Workers' Educational Association Te Wāhi Ākoranga o Ōtepoti Inc | Subsidise workshop fees by funding costs for materials and tutors. | $4,637.22 |
iNDx | Funding to support the costs of venue hire and marketing for the exhibition. | $3,500.00 |
Lana Arun | Interview, editing and admin fees, publication costs and participant koha. | $2,022.00 |
National Flash Fiction Day Ōtepoti Dunedin | To contribute to the artists’ fees, venue hire, administrative costs of the National Flash Fiction Day events. | $4,000.00 |
Otago Dance Association | Contribution to lighting, sound, photography, and marketing costs. | $3,100.00 |
Otago Pioneer Women's Memorial Association Inc (Arati Kushwara) | To support the artists’ remuneration for their preparation and public performance of Titiksha. | $3,650.00 |
Puspawaran Gamelan | To contribute to artist fees and performance costs of the gamelan event. | $4,060.00 |
Stage South Charitable Trust (Rosella Hart) | Remuneration for programme producer and workshop coaches. | $5,000.00 |
The Octagon Ensemble Trust | To assist with the costs of artists’ fees. | $5,000.00 |
The Pantograph Punch | To provide remuneration for writers and to support editorial and marketing costs for the publication of 4-8 pieces of writing. | $5,000.00 |
Theatre New Zealand Inc | To assist with the costs of venue hire and technical support for the event. | $2,370.00 |
West Harbour Arts Charitable Trust | To contribute to the artist’s fee for the WHACT residency programme. | $2,000.00 |
| Total | $62,889.22 |
Professional Theatre Fund
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Angus Ltd trading as Sahara BreeZe productions Ltd | Support venue hire and production costs for a new adaptation of Chekhov’s play for 7 performances in November 2023. | $15,468.00 |
Happy You | To support script development and production phases of a new work that will premiere at Dunedin Fringe 2024 and has touring potential thereafter. | $19,981.75 |
Hic Sunt Dracones Productions (auspiced by Stage South Charitable Trust) | Support personnel costs for the development and performance of “Constellations” in the Beautiful Science Gallery at the Otago Museum for the Dunedin Arts Festival 2024. | $18,040.25 |
Stage South Charitable Trust (Glorious Ruins) | To support costs for the production and performance of “Swingers”, a mainstream New Zealand comedy play in August 2023. | $18,050.00 |
| Total | $71,540.00 |
Waste Minimisation Community Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
Com2Tech | To subsidise the set up and running of e-waste repair and reuse programme for the music community. | $4,844.39 |
Dunedin Midwinter Celebrations | To fund waste consultant assistance. | $5,000.00 |
Just Atelier Trust TA Stitch Kitchen | To subsidise participation costs for the ‘Mend & Make Awesome’ and ‘Upcycling Skills’ workshops. | $4,421.48 |
Logan Park High School | To fund ‘waste stations’ around the school. | $3,360.50 |
Mornington Toy and Games Library Incorporated | To subsidise waste minimisation initiatives. | $4,809.60 |
OneCoast Incorporated | To subsidise OneCoast’s increased presence in Waikouaiti. | $2,956.40 |
Otago Boys' High School Sustainability Group | To subsidise the cost of recycling bins around the school. | $3,273.15 |
Pregnancy Help Incorporated Dunedin Branch | To purchase reusable nappies for family / whanau support. | $5,000.00 |
Sew On Period Care | To fund information and participation workshops on reusable menstruation and incontinence products. | $3,097.41 |
The Valley Project | To assist with the cost of a weekend community waste minimisation education and material diversion event. | $4,970.07 |
| Total | $41,733.00 |