In total, the DCC’s Grants Subcommittee has allocated $448,876.01 in grants following the September application round.
Biodiversity
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Ray Parker | Contribution toward contractor costs - plant purchase, planting, site maintenance, trap checks for area of wetland adjacent to Sinclair Wetland. | $3,041.00 |
| Charlotte Hughes | Contribution toward plant purchase for revegetation of riparian strip in Middlemarch. | $2,305.27 |
| George Bysouth | Contribution toward purchasing 833 plants to infill QEII covenant on the Peninsula. | $5,000.00 |
| Alister Young | Contribution toward plant purchase, timber to construct bait stations, planting stakes, and herbicide for weed control for ongoing forest restoration work. | $1,968.95 |
| Tomahawk-Smaills Beach Care Trust | Contribution toward plant protective equipment and fertiliser for the revegetation of back dunes at Ocean Grove. | $2,534.69 |
| Darcy Pine | Revegetation a of wetland on property to connect indigenous vegetation already present on the site. | $3,445.25 |
| Sam Eckhoff | Contribution toward plants for ongoing restoration. | $998.75 |
| Brighton Trapping Group | Contribution toward traps for private landowners around Brighton area. | $4,451.98 |
| Janice Lord | Contribution toward contractor costs and plant purchase for the control of pest plants within QEII covenant and infill planting under controlled specimens. | $3,104.50 |
| Dave Angelson | Contribution toward plant purchase and contractor costs for the revegetation of area adjacent to mature indigenous plantings. | $5,000.00 |
| NZ Landcare Trust | Purchase plants for the revegetation of riparian margin and wetland area in Mosgiel. | $3,104.50 |
| Katelin Wilson | Share of contractor costs; gorse removal, bomeria control (two rounds), supplementary planting of 100 ecologically appropriate coastal forest species. | $4,982.50 |
| Fiona Jakobs | Share of contractor costs to fence ASBV. | $5,000.00 |
| Saint Clair Golf Club | Shared contractor costs for the preparation, plant purchase, planting, and ongoing maintenance of coastal forest revegetation project. | $3,040.01 |
| Total | $47,977.40 |
Community Events
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Brighton Gala | To assist with costs of TMP. | $1,950.00 |
| Disc Golf Dunedin | To assist with venue hire, tear drop signs, Teepad signage, trophies, and New Zealand Disc Golf Levey. | $2,000.00 |
| Dunedin Archery Club Inc. | To assist with cost of target faces, score flip-boards, gazebos, printing, stationery, paint, and assist with cost of new timing lights for the Masters Games | $1,587.60 |
| Dunedin Sri Lankan Society | To assist with one of the main annual events. | $2,150.00 |
| Dunedin Super League | To assist with venue hire for the event, pre-event activities, players accommodation, match balls, cost of officials, publicity, software, and decorations. | $1,000.00 |
| Dunedin Theatre Reviewers Collective | To assist with overall event delivery; venue hire, technical expenses, event management, printing, and koha/gifts for VIPs. | $1,710.00 |
| Dunedin Young Farmers Club | To assist with expenses including venue hire and overnight security of the grounds. | $2,800.00 |
| East Otago Musical Theatre Incorporated | To assist with overall costs of producing community musical theatre show. | $3,850.00 |
| Green Island Vocal Competition Society | To assist with venue hire. | $1,500.00 |
| Otago Softball Association | To assist with venue hire, officials’ accommodation, portaloos, fencing, gazebo, printing and live streaming. | $1,400.00 |
| Otago Ultimate Incorporated | To assist with overall event costs. | $2,016.00 |
| Pickleball Dunedin | To assist with court hire and pickleball balls. | $790.00 |
| Piping and Dancing Association of NZ Inc Otago Centre | To assist with venue hire. | $5,000.00 |
| Swing Riot | To assist with equipment hire, venue hire, and marketing costs. | $3,000.00 |
| Tennis Otago Incorporated | To assist with venue hire and tennis balls. | $1,000.00 |
| The Auckland Diving Community Trust | To assist with venue hire, event scoring system and technical operation, sound system purchase, marketing and coordination costs. | $1,551.40 |
| Vintage Car Club | To assist with costs involved in closing the Octagon for the event. | $3,500.00 |
| World Powerlifting New Zealand | To assist with hire of equipment, public liability insurance, marketing, and promotion. | $550.00 |
| Total | $37,355.00 |
Community Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Alzheimers Otago | To help fund overheads and wages of the Community Educators in Dunedin City. | $2,000.00 |
| Arai Te Uru Kokiri Training Centre Charitable Trust | To help fund Noho marae, Programme Marketing, Volunteer Kaiāwhina Training Costs. | $5,000.00 |
| Aroha Ki Te Tamariki Trust | To help fund delivery and coordination of peer support groups. | $3,800.00 |
| Brain Injury Otago | To help fund wages for Liaison Officers. | $2,000.00 |
| Diabetes New Zealand | To help fund costs related to operating, facilitating, and managing the Podiatry Clinic, and salary for the Office Manager. | $2,000.00 |
| Disability Information Service T/A Livingwell Disability Resource Centre | To help fund wages for the Information Specialist. | $2,500.00 |
| Dunedin Community Transport Trust | To help fund wages for a part time Coordinator. | $3,800.00 |
| Dunedin Curtain Bank Trust | To help fund wages for the Manager. | $4,750.00 |
| Dunedin Group Riding for the Disabled Assn Inc | To help fund wages of the Therapeutic Head Coach. | $3,800.00 |
| Dunedin Korean Language & Culture Society | To help fund costs towards conducting language and culture programme including training for volunteers. | $5,000.00 |
| Dunedin Pakistan Society | To help fund costs related to the facilitator, overhead costs, venue hire and supplies. | $4,050.00 |
| Hearing Support Otago | To help fund staff wages. | $2,000.00 |
| Heart Kids New Zealand Inc | To help fund personnel costs, support resources, events, and general operating costs. | $2,000.00 |
| Just Atelier Trust t/a Stitch Kitchen | To continue Community Sewing Bees Programme. | $4,448.00 |
| Life Education Trust Coastal Otago | To help fund wages for a Specialist Educator. | $2,000.00 |
| Male Survivors Otago | To help fund rent for temporary accommodation for homeless men. | $4,500.00 |
| Mosgiel Memorial RSA | To help fund employing a part time Office Administrator. | $ 3,000.00 |
| Neighbours Day Aotearoa | To help fund operating costs. | $2,500.00 |
| OneCoast Inc | To help fund wages for two part time staff. | $3,800.00 |
| Otago Multiple Sclerosis Society Inc | To help fund Community Connector’s salary. | $2,000.00 |
| Parent to Parent Otago | To help fund towards the delivery of Parent-to-Parent Otago's Outreach programme in Dunedin. | $3,000.00 |
| Parkinson's New Zealand Charitable Trust | To help fund wages of the Otago Parkinson's Community Educator. | $2,000.00 |
| People First New Zealand Inc | To help fund local assistants’ wages, venue hire, volunteer expenses, Easy Read Accessible Resources and administrative costs. | $2,000.00 |
| Port Chalmers Swim Club Inc | To fund wages for an Advanced Swimmers’ Instructor. | $1,000.00 |
| Saddle Hill Foundation Trust | To help fund salaries and operational costs for Community Youth Programmes. | $4,750.00 |
| Seniornet Dunedin | To help fund purchasing promotional material, advertising space and to fund a launch event. | $1,952.00 |
| St Kilda Surf Life Saving | To help fund replacement of industrial roller garage doors. | $2,000.00 |
| Te Hou Ora Whānau Services Ltd | To help fund wages for the Operations Manager. | $4,750.00 |
| The Work Opportunities Trust | To help with wages of Employment Specialist. | $4,000.00 |
| Waitaki Community Gardens Trust | To help fund Event Organiser’s wages and marketing coordinator fees. | $3,800.00 |
| WEKA Wellness Empathy Kindness Aotearoa | To help fund resources, venue hire, peer worker payment, advertising, and education. | $4,750.00 |
| Total | $97,950.00 |
Creative Communities
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Andrea Bosshard | To support artist costs and contribute to venue hire for a series of harakeke weaving workshops in Middlemarch. | $3,000.00 |
| Dance Therapy NZ | Personnel fees, equipment and materials, venue hire and promotion for Dance 4 Us Dunedin. | $3,500.00 |
| Dunedin Street Art | Artist fees and materials for Cumberland Street overbridge mural. | $4,100.00 |
| Dunedin Workers’ Educational Association | Subsidise workshop fees by funding costs for materials and tutors for Dunedin WEA arts-based classes. | $5,558.60 |
| East Otago Musical Theatre Inc | Support costs of a 5-night run of “Little Shop of Horrors” production in Waikouaiti. | $6,000.00 |
| Emma Lange | To support remuneration for artists, technical support, and venue hire for the theatre piece “An Almighty Yes”. | $5,477.00 |
| Lesa Hepburn | To support the costs of creative paper-making workshop preparation, promotion, administration, and delivery. | $1,674.00 |
| Oscar Mitchell & Toa Makapelu | To support artist fees and venue hire for a collaborative painting exhibition with accompanying performances. | $1,750.00 |
| Sahara Pohatu-Trow | Personnel costs for actors, director, technical contractors of “The Politician’s Wife”. | $2,500.00 |
| Spectacle | Help cover cost of workshops, sound engineer fees, and marketing. | $2,250.40 |
| The Loom Room | Administration costs and facilitator fees for weaving classes. | $5,000.00 |
| The StarJam Charitable Trust | To support the tutor fees for movement and dance workshops for youth inactive or isolated by disability. | $3,500.00 |
| Wesley John Fourie | Venue hire, utility costs, promotion, materials, and artist fees for an exhibition project featuring Dunedin ceramicists. | $2,400.00 |
| Total | $46,710.00 |
DCC Arts Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Pat McKinlay | Contributions to artist costs and artist facilitators for workshops for Art+Science project. | $5,000.00 |
| Charlotte Parallel | To provide remuneration for the artists and technical staff involved in the production of the event “Singing to The Basalt”. | $4,508.55 |
| Blue Oyster Art Project Space | A stipend, travel costs, hospitality and research materials for a residency facilitated by Blue Oyster and the Caselberg Trust. | $4,800.00 |
| City Choir Dunedin | Production costs, such as soloist fees, travel, and accommodation costs for “Bach St John Passion”. | $5,000.00 |
| Dunedin Jazz Club | Venue hire, piano tuning, sound engineering, and poster printing. | $4,500.00 |
| New Lands | Venue hire for a 10 month exhibition and creative workshop series. | $5,000.00 |
| Spectacle | Artists’ and performers’ fees for “Spectacle presents: EXTEND”. | $4,391.45 |
| Andrea Bosshard | To support artist costs and contribute to venue hire for a series of harakeke weaving workshops. | $3,000.00 |
| Total | $36,200.00 |
Professional Theatre Fund
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| AXIOM | Personnel costs for actors, director, technical contractors. | $19,950.00 |
| Dunedin Summer Shakespeare | Personnel, production, administration, and marketing costs. | $20,000.00 |
| Improsaurus Incorporated | Wages for artistic and technical team, venue and equipment hire, media and promotion, workshop and training costs. | $12,700.00 |
| Noonan Creatives | Fees for a director, choreographer, performers, dramaturg, and lighting designer. | $20,000.00 |
| Theatreworks Ltd | Venue hire, cast and director fees, workshopping and development of taonga pūoro and sound design elements. | $19,990.00 |
| Total | $92,640.00 |
CNZ Festival Fund
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Festival of Dance | Personnel costs for actors, director, technical contractors. | $7,000.00 |
| Ōtepoti Zinefest | Personnel, production, administration, and marketing costs. | $7,043.61 |
| Dunedin Midwinter Carnival | Wages for artistic and technical team, venue and equipment hire, media and promotion, workshop and training costs. | $8,000.00 |
| Small Press Fest | Fees for a director, choreographer, performers, dramaturg, and lighting designer. | $7,000.00 |
| Total | $29,043.61 |
Waste Minimisation Community Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Able Charitable Trust t/a Able Minds | To purchase recycling bins and composting systems and provide education of use to staff and clients. | $5,000.00 |
| Dunedin Curtain Bank Trust | To subsidise the paid machinist position. | $5,000.00 |
| Mornington Playcentre | To subsidise the laundry project to eliminate the use of disposable paper hand towels. | $5,000.00 |
| Our Food Network | To subsidise the community harvest coordinator role. | $5,000.00 |
| South Dunedin Community Network Incorporated | To fund waste consultant assistance. | $5,000.00 |
| The Nest Collective | To subsidies operational costs and purchases. | $5,000.00 |
| Total | $30,000.00 |
Waste Minimisation Commercial Grants
| Grant Recipient | Purpose of Grant | Amount Allocated |
|---|---|---|
| Foodprint | Feasibility study and launch of Foodprint in Dunedin. | $15,000.00 |
| Garden to Market | To fund construction of composting system. | $7,000.00 |
| Light Bolt Limited | Materials and equipment for trialling improvements to local e-waste processing, including plastic components. | $15,000.00 |
| Mizen Automation | Extend volume of waste diverted by employing part-time assistance. | $15,000.00 |
| Sandymount Distillery | To purchase a dishwasher and associated set up costs. | $10,000.00 |
| Wild Dispensary | Purchase bottle steriliser to extend bottle return and re-use scheme. | $8,000.00 |
| Total | $70,000.00 |