Grants allocated in September 2024

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In September 2024, the Dunedin City Council (DCC) allocated a total of $465,405.71 in grants from the following grant funds (see below).

The allocations include both DCC-funded grants, Creative Communities Scheme and Waste Minimisation grants (administered by the DCC on behalf of Creative New Zealand and the Ministry for the Environment respectively).

Biodiversity

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Springwater Ag Ltd. (Ray Parker)	Contribution toward contractor costs - plant purchase, planting, site maintenance, trap checks for area of wetland adjacent to Sinclair Wetland	$3,700.00
Dunedin City Baptist Church (Malcolm Cowan)	Contribution toward plants and plant consumables for the enhancement of Stevenson’s Creek riparian margin	$1,300.00
Yellow Eyed Penguin Trust	Contribute to nursery supplies required to facilitate the establishment of 5,000 ecologically appropriate plants for eventual planting within YEPT owned coastal reserves	$4,000.00
Ohad Dar	Purchase trees and shrubs for the revegetation of Saddle Hill site	$3,200.00
Tracey Hooper	Contribute to fencing costs to exclude stock and protect vegetation enhancement work on riparian margin. Purchase plants and plant consumables for enhancement work within fenced area	$4,000.00
Otago Golf Club	Purchase of ecologically appropriate plant species	$3,050.00
Melissa Cheah	Contribute toward plants and fencing contractor costs for protection of planting area from stock	$3,500.00
Rhys Millar	Contribute to plant purchase	$4,000.00
Nicola McGrouther	Purchase ecologically appropriate plants for the restoration of dunes	$4,000.71
Phillip Cunningham	Contribute to the revegetation of exotic grassland and scrub on the Peninsula	$2,700.00
Thomas Hayward	Contribution toward fencing around new urban QEII covenant	$4,000.00
Judith Ferguson and Kevin Hayward	Contribution toward fencing around new urban QEII covenant	$4.000.00
Total		$41,450.71

Community Events

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Aotearoa NZ Folk Alliance	To assist with venue hire and technical support	$1,500.00
Brighton Gala Experience	To assist with cost of Traffic Management Plan	$1,500.00
Cycling Otago	To assist with the costs of marketing and traffic management	$2,000.00
Dance Ōtepoti	To assist with overall event and marketing costs	$2,975.00
Diving Ōtākou	To assist with cost of photographer, coaches’ uniforms, venue hire, and administration	$2,000.00
Dunedin Christmas Charitable Trust	To assist with overall costs of event	$2,500.00
Dunedin Concerto Charitable Trust	To assist with marketing campaign and engaging the Dunedin Youth Orchestra	$2,000.00
Dunedin Grass Kart Club Inc	To assist with toilet hire, management, venue hire and safety fencing	$2,000.00
Dunedin Ice Skating Club	To assist with venue hire and technical (sound and lighting)	$2,000.00
Dunedin Multicultural Council Inc	To assist with Event Coordinator and Administrator salary, and overall operational costs	$1,300.00
Dunedin Poultry, Pigeon& Cage Bird Club	To assist with the cost of venue hire	$1,360.00
Dunedin Sri Lankan Society	To assist with overall costs of event	$1,800.00
Dunedin Super League	To assist with venue hire and facilities, paying officials, cost of cricket balls, stumps, and team accommodation	$880.00
Dunedin Tamil Society	To assist with venue hire and technical costs (sound)	$700.00
Dunedin Theatre Reviewers Collective	To assist with venue hire, technical expenses, event management, printing, and koha/gifts for VIPs	$670.00
East Otago Musical Theatre Incorporated	To assist with overall costs of event	$2,675.00
Middlemarch Ploughing Association	To assist with hire and setup of marquees	$2,000.00
Mountain Bike Otago	To assist with first aid expenses	$3,892.00
Otago and Southland Chinese Association	To assist with venue hire	$2,840.00
Piping and Dancing Association of NZ Inc Otago Centre	To assist with venue hire	$2,000.00
The Green Island Competitions Society Incorporated	To assist with venue hire	$1,500.00
Vintage Car Club of New Zealand Inc, Otago Branch Inc	To assist with overall costs of event, primarily, sound system and traffic management	$1,513.00
Total		$41,605.00

Community Grants

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Anglican Family Care	To help fund wages of Caregiver Liaison Social Worker role	$1,000.00
Bellyful New Zealand NZ	As a contribution to their programme supporting young children and whānau	$1,500.00
Cancer Society, Otago & Southland Division	Contribution toward delivery of cancer related programmes including salaries	$1,000.00
Catholic Social Services	Community Whānau Social Work Support wages	$1,000.00
Connecting Otago Charitable Trust	Contributions toward Running costs and Coordinator salary	$1,500.00
Deaf Aotearoa Holdings Ltd (Otago Branch)	Contribution to Operational Costs	$1,500.00
Diabetes New Zealand	To help fund wages and operational costs for Diabetes New Zealand Otago office	$1,000.00
Disability Information Service Inc t/a Livingwell Disability Resource Centre	Contribution to wages	$2,500.00
Drug Injecting Services in Canterbury Trust	Contribution to Salary	$3,500.00
Dunedin Budget Advisory Service	Support with paying our rent at Dunedin Community House (Room 1.5 plus carpark)	$3,500.00
Dunedin Community Transport Trust	Contribution towards the wages of the part time coordinator	$3,500.00
Dunedin Curtain Bank Trust	To help fund staff wages in particular for the Manager	$4,500.00
Dunedin Group Riding for the Disabled Association Incorporated	Contribution to wages of the Therapeutic head Coach	$2,500.00
E.F.K.S Youth Group	Contribution towards youth-event costs	$4,000.00
Hearing Support Otago	To help fund staff wages for the Administrator and Hearing Educator/Fieldworker	$3,000.00
Heart Kids New Zealand Incorporated	Essential operating and service delivery costs for the Otago region	$1,000.00
Hold On To Your Friends Incorporated	Purchase of catering supplies, H&S equipment (gloves & safety glasses), and advertising of clean up events	$2,000.00
Ignite Consultants	Contribution to Operational costs for presentations & training	$1,500.00
Kiwi Family Trust	Contribution for the purchase of wool for the Dunedin Area	$1,500.00
Life Education Trust Coastal Otago	To help with Wages for our specialist educator	$1,500.00
Mosgiel Memorial RSA Incorporated	To help fund wages/salary for the part-time Administrator	$2,500.00
Neighbours Day Aotearoa Charitable Trust	Contributions to Operating costs for the Community Connector	$2,000.00
New Zealand Riding for the Disabled, Waikouaiti Group Incorporated	Contribution to the Horse Manager role	$3,000.00
OneCoast Incorporated	To help with a bridging payment for two part time facilitators	$2,500.00
Opoho Playcentre	Cover costs of operations & wages of Opoho Playcentre	$1,000.00
Otago Multiple Sclerosis Society Inc	Contribution toward Field Officer Salary	$1,500.00
Parkinson's New Zealand Charitable Trust	Contribution towards the salary of the Parkinson's Education	$1,500.00
Probus Club of Mosgiel	Contribution toward Operating Expenses	$1,000.00
Quarantine Island/kamau Taurua Community Incorporated	Contribution towards Keeper's Salary	$2,500.00
Rape Crisis (Dunedin) Inc T/A Ōtepoti Communities Against Sexual Abuse (ŌCASA)	Contribution towards funding for clients to cover medical costs	$4,000.00
Refugee Support Group - Otago	Community gardening workshops for former refugees and migrants	$4,000.00
Saddle Hill Foundation Trust	To contribute towards the Community Workers’ salaries for three youth programmes and community events	$3,500.00
Senior-Link	To help with wages for our two part-time staff	$3,500.00
South Dunedin Hall Trust	Contribution towards replacing the hall's chairs -200	$1,000.00
Stopping Violence Dunedin Inc	Contribution towards costs associated with their Neurodivergent Women's Support Group	$3,000.00
Taieri Christian Care	Contribution toward Operational Expenses	$2,000.00
Taieri Fit and Fun Group	Contribution towards rental costs	$2,500.00
The Brain Injury Association (Otago) Inc	Contribution toward Liaison Officers	$1,000.00
The Rothesay News Inc.	Printing The Rothesay News with Front and Back page with colour	$2,500.00
The Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Incorporated - Dunedin Branch	Contribution toward Customer Service and Office Admin role	$1,500.00
The Work Opportunities Trust	Contribution towards staff members wages	$3,500.00
WEKA Wellness Empathy Kindness Aotearoa	To help with the cost of resources, venue hire, peer worker payment and operational costs	$3,000.00
YSAR Trust	Contribution towards delivering their search and rescue programme focussed on youth	$3,450.00
Total		$98,950.00

Creative Communities

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Baroque Music Community and Educational Trust of New Zealand	To support artist and production manager fees, venue hire and promotion	$1,000.00
Christine Keller	To contribute to administrative costs and facilitator fees	$4,000.00
Dunedin Concerto Competition Charitable Trust	Contribution to videography, technician fees, and equipment hire	$2,000.00
Dunedin Midwinter Celebrations	To support payments for lantern artists, performers, and other creative practitioners	$2,200.00
Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival Trust	Support of marketing and promotion and administrative costs	$3,000.00
Dunedin Youth Orchestra	Contribution to conductor and orchestral costs, artist fees, venue hire and marketing	$2,500.00
East Otago Musical Theatre Incorporated	Production costs for staging a five-night run of MAMMA MIA!	$4,000.00
Josiah Morgan	To contribute to artist fees	$1,500.00
Middlemarch Harakeke Weaving Group	Venue hire, travel, materials, manaakitaka	$2,500.00
Naga Harshietha Dhandapani	Support for tutor fee and workshop materials, promotion, venue hire	$1,000.00
Otakou Māori Womens Welfare League	To contribute to artist fees, venue hire, marketing, transport, and materials	$2,000.00
Pacific Trust Otago	To support the development and presentation of performances and creative activities by nine cultural groups	$8,500.00
Penina o le Moana - Siva Samoa	To support tutor koha, venue hire, and the promotion of Fiafia night	$1,500.00
RASA Dance Dunedin	Stage extension and contribution to marketing costs	$2,000.00
Refugee Support Group	Instructor, coordinator, and production manager fees, and venue hire	$3,000.00
Siau-Jiun Lim	Artist and administrative costs, venue hire, materials, exhibition manaakitaka	$4,500.00
South Dunedin Street Festival	To provide a small amount of remuneration for approximately 40 festival performance acts	$3,000.00
Yellow Eye Ltd	To support artist fees	$1,000.00
Total		$49,200.00

DCC Arts Grants

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Blue Oyster	Artist stipend, research materials, travel, hospitality	$2,500.00
Chamber Music New Zealand Trust	Contest organiser and venue hire (for competition and Mai Te Uira concert)	$2,500.00
Dunedin Choral Society (performing as City Choir Dunedin)	To support the costs of hiring the Dunedin Symphony Orchestra for the City Choir’s Christmas concert, Joyeux Noël	$3,000.00
Dunedin Jazz Club	Venue hire & management, production, and assistance toward musician fees	$3,000.00
Dunedin Youth Orchestra	Sound tech and equipment hire	$3,500.00
GASP Dance Charitable Trust	To contribute to teaching, promotion, and administration costs for inclusive dance classes for under-18-year-olds	$3,000.00
Good Company Arts	To support artist fees for Taonga puoro and kanikani performers	$2,000.00
International Festival of Environment, Science and Technology	Project Administrative costs	$2,000.00
Jeremy Beck	Facilitator and admin fees, artist koha	$3,000.00
Middlemarch Harakeke Weaving Workshops	Contribution to artist fees	$2,950.00
Pooneh Torabian	Contribution to artist fees, admin costs, venue hire and materials	$3,500.00
Spectacle	Creative commissions / performance fees	$1,750.00
The Hills Radio Trust (OAR FM)	Participant koha, production, promotion	$3,500.00
Total		$36,200.00

Professional Theatre Fund Grants

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Afterburner (under auspice of Wow! Productions Trust)	To support personnel, production, and administrative costs for the performance of “The Anderson Localisation” at the Dunedin Arts Festival	$17,000.00
Birds of a Feather (under auspice of He Waka Eke Noa Charitable Trust)	To support performers and technicians’ remuneration	$17,200.00
Dunedin Summer Shakespeare (under auspice of Castle Charitable Trust)	To cover the personnel and production costs of Summer Shakespeare in the Park 2025	$18,000.00
Hic Sunt Dracones Productions (under auspice of Stage South Charitable Trust)	To support the personnel, production, and administrative costs of presenting “The Neurospice Girls” at the Dunedin Arts Festival	$18,000.00
Improsaurus Incorporated	To support venue hire, artist fees, facilitator fees, equipment hire, costumes and prop pieces, marketing, and photography of the shows	$10,000.00
Theatreworks Ltd	To support remuneration for performers, technicians, and lighting designer	$18,000.00
Total		$98,200.00

Waste Minimisation Community Grants

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Cargill Enterprises	To subsidise construction materials for a shelter station	$4,560.50
Dunedin Curtain Bank Trust	To subsidise the paid machinist position	$4,560.50
iD Dunedin Fashion Inc	To subsidise waste minimisation at the iD Dunedin Fashion Show 2025	$4,180.50
Our Food Network	To subsidise the community harvest coordinator role	$4,560.50
Pacific Otago Trust	To fund community waste minimisation workshops and waste minimisation training for Moana Nui Festival	$3,086.00
South Dunedin Community Network Incorporated	To subsidise wages for waste minimisation	$4,560.50
The Dunedin Community House	To fund physical materials for the Dunedin Community House Sustainability Programme	$1,312.00
Waitati Music Festival	To fund physical and promotional materials, and wages for waste minimisation	$3,179.50
Total		$29,800.00

Waste Minimisation Commercial Grants

Grant Recipient	Purpose of Grant	Amount Allocated
Augustines of Central t/a Augustines of Portobello	To fund physical materials, promotional materials, expert assistance	$7,500.00
Cook Brothers Construction	To help fund tools and collateral for expansion of programme	$7,500.00
Dunedin Craft Distillers	To help purchase larger mash straining equipment	$17,500.00
Mizen Automation	To help purchase test equipment for repaired industrial automation products	$21,000.00
Pedals Dunedin	To help purchase an additional cargo e-bike	$5,000.00
Spout Alternatives	To fund physical materials and promotional materials	$11,500.00
Total		$70,000.00

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