Sunrise Grants 2022

Here’s a list of groups who have received grants in the last financial year to March 2022:

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Gisborne Tairāwhiti
  • Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast
  • Deaf Aotearoa Holdings Ltd
  • Citizens Advice Bureau Gisborne
  • Eastland Rescue Helicopter
  • Eastwoodhill Arboretum
  • E Tu Elgin
  • Gisborne Bowling Club
  • Gisborne International Music Competition
  • Gisborne Riding for Disabled
  • Historic Places Tairāwhiti
  • Hospice Tairāwhiti
  • Matapuna Training Centre
  • Midway Surf Lifesaving Club
  • Multiple Sclerosis GEC
  • Oasis Mens Shelter
  • Outward Bound Tairāwhiti
  • Poverty Bay Kayaking Club
  • Poverty Bay Polo Club
  • SPCA – Gisborne Tairāwhiti
  • Road Safety Education NZ
  • Stroke Tairāwhiti
  • Sunshine Service Inc
  • Swim for Life Tairāwhiti
  • Tairāwhiti Beneficiary Advocacy Trust
  • Tairāwhiti Museum
  • Te Hahi Gisborne Tairāwhiti
  • The Gisborne Bandroom
  • Tolaga Surf Life Saving Club
  • Victim Support Tairāwhiti
  • Waikanae Surf Lifesaving Club
  • Wainui Surf Lifesaving Club
  • Waipaoa Station Farm Cadet Training Trust
  • Whanau Awhina Plunket (Royal NZ Plunket)

 

Grants funded by the income from named endowment funds:

Bob & Aileen Harris fund

  • Eastland Rescue Helicopter
  • Gisborne Bowling Club
  • Stroke Tairāwhiti
  • Waipaoa Station Farm Cadet Training Trust 

Gavin McFarlane fund

  • Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast
  • Hospice Tairāwhiti

Rosemary Johnson fund

  • Hospice Tairāwhiti 

Jackie and Ross McDonald fund

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Gisborne Tairāwhiti 

Les McGreevy fund

  • Sunshine Service Inc
  • Swim for Life Tairāwhiti
  • Whanau Awhina Plunket (Royal NZ Plunket)

Margie & Bill Thorpe fund

  • Eastwoodhill Arboretum
  • Hospice Tairāwhiti

 

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