The funding is part of a wider allocation of $317,662.20 to 91 individuals and community groups for the March quarter, confirmed at a recent meeting of the DCC’s Grants Subcommittee.
Biodiversity
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Junichi Hayashishita | Contribution toward plant purchase for restoration of retired farmland contiguous with remnant podocarp forest | $4,997.10 |
| George Murray | Contribution toward plant purchase for wetland restoration | $2,082.50 |
| Ben Ponne (Matai Hill Trust) | Contribution toward contractor costs associated with site preparation and planting (including the costs of plant purchase and plant consumables) for ongoing restoration of QEII covenant | $5,000.00 |
| Ryan Fitzgerald | Contribution toward plant purchase for restoration of coastal forest block | $4,992.02 |
| Bernice Chapman | Contribution toward contractor costs associated with site preparation and planting (including plant purchase) for restoration of block in upper Tomahawk Lagoon catchment | $4,950.00 |
| David Malloch | Purchase herbicide for woody weed control around the periphery of a 200 ha QEII covenant | $2,550.00 |
| Luke Campbell | Contribution toward plants, plant consumables, traps, and herbicide for the restoration of block adjacent to Orokonui Ecosanctuary | $4,995.38 |
| Claire Reid | Contribution toward plants and plant consumables for restoration of harvested exotic plantation section | $5,000.00 |
| Puawanaga Limited (Moira Crossman) | Contribution toward tools and fencing equipment required to fence 91 ha QEII covenant | $4,636.88 |
| Alec Barker | Contribution toward plant purchase for indigenous bush restoration | $5,000.00 |
| Total | $44,203.88 | |
Community Events
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Dunedin Folk Club | To assist with the costs of marquee hire | $6,525.31 |
| Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust | To assist with marketing and administration | $5,788.00 |
| Dunedin Indian Association | To assist with venue hire, lighting, and production costs | $6,506.00 |
| Dunedin Town Hall Organ Trust | To assist with advertising of concert | $977.50 |
| Evening Books | To assist with speaker fees | $2,500.00 |
| Fire In Ice Outrigger Canoe Club | To assist with venue hire, safety, and support boat fees | $1,722.00 |
| Indian Students Association | To assist with sound, and lighting | $1,780.00 |
| New Zealand Red Cross Incorporated | To assist with hire of Araiteuru Marae | $402.50 |
| Ōtepoti Hip-Hop Hustle | To assist with lighting and visuals | $4,400.00 |
| Samoan Advisory Council Dunedin - Fono Faufautua i Otago | To assist with venue hire, and equipment hire | $1,700.00 |
| The Little Miracles Trust (formally The Neonatal Trust) | To assist with venue, hire and children's entertainers | $500.00 |
| Waitati Music Festival Inc Soc | To assist with costs of staging and sound | $6,000.00 |
| Zumba with Alanna and Chontel | To assist with hall hire, sound and lighting | $723.03 |
| Total | $39,524.34 | |
Community Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Aphasia New Zealand (AphasiaNZ) Charitable Trust | To help fund salary for Community Aphasia Advisor | $2,500.00 |
| Autism New Zealand Inc | To help fund operational expenses includes salary for Outreach Coordinator | $2,500.00 |
| Caversham Baptist Church | To fund wages for the food bank coordinator | $5,000.00 |
| Caversham Toy Library Inc | To help fund wages, rent and resources for the toy library | $3,091.02 |
| CCS Disability Action Otago Inc | To help fund the salary cost of Service Coordinator roles | $2,500.00 |
| Disabled Persons Assembly (Dunedin Region) | To help fund running forums for disabled people and the wider community of Ōtepoti | $5,000.00 |
| Dunedin Chinese Language & Cultural Trust | To help fund venue hire and wages | $3,500.00 |
| Dunedin Community Mediation | To help fund part‐time manager's wages and room hire costs | $4,000.00 |
| Dunedin Parents Centre | To help fund cost of running eight parent education events | $1,966.00 |
| Dunedin Tracks Network Trust | To help fund Wages for staff and Xero accounting software subscription | $3,000.00 |
| English Language Partners Dunedin | To help fund rental costs for our community class venues in South Dunedin | $4,045.98 |
| Epilepsy New Zealand | To help fund salary for an educator | $2,500.00 |
| Good Bitches Trust | To help fund core operating programme | $2,500.00 |
| Grey Power Otago Inc | To help fund the design and development of a website | $1,000.00 |
| Life Education Trust Heartland Otago/Southland | To help fund salary costs for the Otago educator | $2,500.00 |
| Otago Asthma Society Inc | To help fund staff salaries | $2,500.00 |
| Otago Blind Indoor Bowls Club Inc | To help fund the cost of venue hire | $700.00 |
| Ōtākou Māori Women’s Welfare League | To help fund venue hire, resource costs and volunteer related expenses | $2,000.00 |
| Pioneer Opportunities Resources Trust | To help fund wages for Hall Co-ordinator | $4,000.00 |
| Pregnancy Help Inc Dunedin Branch | To help fund wages for the drop-in centre | $5,000.00 |
| Presbyterian Support Otago Inc | To help fund the cost of wages for social workers | $2,500.00 |
| Royal New Zealand Plunket Trust | To help fund wages for two staff members | $2,500.00 |
| Sara Cohen School | To help fund provision of picnic tables for new sensory playground | $1,647.00 |
| Southern Youth Development | To help fund the cost of salaries and programme costs | $4,000.00 |
| St John South Island Region Trust Board | To help fund with operational costs for the Dunedin Health Shuttle for a period of six months | $4,000.00 |
| SuperGrans Dunedin Charitable Trust | To help fund wages for staff | $4,000.00 |
| The Sth Is (Te Waiounamu) Branch of the Muscular Dystrophy Assn of NZ Inc | To help fund wages and support group expenses in Dunedin | $2,500.00 |
| The Straight Up Trust/Rock Solid Youth Development Programme | To help fund salaries of youth worker | $5,000.00 |
| Turning Point Counselling Service | To help providing subsidised services for clients | $4,000.00 |
| Valley Community Workspace | To help fund operational costs | $4,000.00 |
| Youthline Otago | To help fund wages | $5,000.00 |
| Total | $98,950.00 | |
Creative Communities
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Alan Gray (Brighton Club Inc) | Admin costs, sound engineer and drum kit hire | $2,000.00 |
| Angelina Stanton | To cover tutor and facilitation costs for six poetry/wellness workshops | $2,235.00 |
| Cellists of Otago | Personnel / Production Costs | $2,000.00 |
| dance.happy.doom.crew | Wages, artist fees, venue hire, sound equipment hire, marketing and manaakitanga for artists | $2,050.00 |
| Dunedin Edinburgh Sister City Society | To contribute to remuneration for performers and presenters | $2,000.00 |
| Dunedin Folk Club | To contribute to remuneration for musicians and other performers | $4,000.00 |
| Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust | Towards the cost of contracting the Amped Co-Producers, guest tutors, guest artists and technicians to mentor the young people | $5,000.00 |
| Elizabeth Ann Breslin | Contractor / Artist fees + printing costs | $3,450.00 |
| Ellie Swann (AS Moose of Fire Productions) | Contribution to artists’ fees | $2,500.00 |
| Jasmin Dingemans | To contribute to remuneration for musicians | $2,000.00 |
| Kerekere Studios (Savannah Kerekere and Michael-Lydia Winiana) | Artist fees, venue hire, marketing and promotion and materials | $2,850.00 |
| Lily Warring | To contribute to tutor remuneration, promotion, and materials for drawing club | $2,840.35 |
| Music Heals (Tamariki Together) | Facilitator wages and manaakitanga | $5,000.40 |
| New Lands | Artist fees / rent | $3,266.70 |
| Te Hou Ora Whānau Services | Artist fees, materials, and contribution to manaakitanga | $1,800.00 |
| Waitati Music Festival Inc Soc | To support payments for musicians and performers | $5,000.00 |
| Zehavit Darlington | Artist fees / Workshop consumables | $2,217.53 |
| Total | $50,209.98 | |
DCC Arts Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Ana Teofilo (under auspice of Dunedin Fringe) | To support administrative costs, materials, and venue hire | $4,995.17 |
| Brighton Club Incorporated | Sound equipment hire | $4,000.00 |
| Cellists of Otago | Venue hire | $5,000.00 |
| Curiouser & Curiouser (Rosella Hart) | Wages - majority of which will be engaging specialist trainers and facilitators to deliver the identified needs of the beneficiaries | $4,994.00 |
| Dance Therapy NZ | Facilitator fees and venue hire | $3,770.83 |
| Dunedin Chinese Art/Instrument Association | To contribute to tutor and workshops costs, and venue hire | $2,000.00 |
| Dunedin Opera Company Incorporated | Wages for three professional singers, the two minor soloists and a pianist | $5,000.00 |
| Lara Macgregor (under auspice of He Waka Eke Noa Charitable Trust) | Lighting and sound hire | $5,000.00 |
| Manu Scripts (Māori & Pasifika Education Trust) | Support of book launch events / workshops | $5,000.00 |
| Music Education Otago | To contribute to the accompanists’ fees for the concert | $4,200.00 |
| National Flash Fiction Day Ōtepoti Dunedin | Wages, event costs, venue, food, and print/ distribution of the programme | $5,000.00 |
| NZ Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc) Otago Southland Branch | Wages for workshop tutors, artist and musician fees, MC for the event and a small fee for the organisers | $2,050.00 |
| Otago Dance Association | Lighting and sound hire, as well as advertising | $2,600.00 |
| South Dunedin Street Art Trail | To support a programme where school-age rangatahi can learn how to create street-art style artworks | $5,000.00 |
| West Harbour Arts Charitable Trust | Contribution to artist fees, marketing, and materials | $2,000.00 |
| Total | $60,610.00 | |
Waste Minimisation Community Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Dunedin Midwinter Celebrations | To subsidise waste minimisation at the 2024 Dunedin Midwinter Carnival event | $4,244.00 |
| New Zealand International Science Festival | To subsidise workshops that promote repurposing e-waste and educating the community on responsible e-waste management | $4,920.00 |
| Otago Farmers Market | To subsidise the running costs of the reusable cup programme at Otago Farmers Market | $5,000.00 |
| Pregnancy Help Incorporated Dunedin Branch | To purchase reusable nappies to provide for free to whānau in Dunedin. | $5,000.00 |
| The Gift Trust (Sew on Period Care) | To fund free information and sample kits on reusable menstruation and incontinence products to the community. | $5,000.00 |
| Total | $24,164.00 | |