In the 2025/26 financial year Sunrise awarded grants worth $785,397 to a wide range of local groups and organisations through our Annual Funding Round and more.
This takes the total amount distributed since Sunrise's inception in 2014, to approximately $3 million.
Here is a full list of grant recipients:
ANNUAL FUNDING ROUND GRANTS
Including grants from the General Fund and Special Interest Funds
Alzheimer’s Gisborne
Barnardos NZ
Campion College
Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast
Comet Swimming Club
Deaf Aotearoa NZ
E Tū Elgin
Eastwoodhill Arboretum
Gisborne Centre Stage
Gisborne Competitions Society
Gisborne Dressage Group
Gisborne Gymnastics Club
Gisborne Riding for the Disabled
Gisborne Rowing Club
Gisborne Unity Theatre Inc
Hackfalls Arboretum
Hato Hone St John Tairāwhiti
Kahutia Bowling Club
Matai Medical Research Institute
Mates of Tairāwhiti
Midway Surf Lifesaving Club
Outward Bound Tairāwhiti
Patu Tahi Boxing Club
St Mary’s Catholic School
Stella Maris Early Childhood Centre
Stroke Aotearoa NZ– Tairāwhiti
Sunshine Service Inc
Tairāwhiti Environment Centre
Tairāwhiti Multicultural Council
Te Kura-a-Wao Charitable Trust
Tourism Eastland Legacy
The Sunrise Foundation (Operating Expenses)
Turanga Strong Weightlifting
Uawa Surf Lifesaving Club
Waikanae Surf Lifesaving Club
Waikohu Health
Wainui Surf Lifesaving Club
Waka Ora Health Shuttles
Wesley Methodist Church
Younited (EITSA)
NAMED FUND GRANTS
Anonymous Named Funds – Central Baptist Church; Matapuna Training Trust; RNZSPCA; Stroke Aotearoa New Zealand; SuperGrans Tairāwhiti
Bob & Aileen Harris – Alzheimer’s Gisborne; Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast; Eastland Helicopter Rescue Trust; Gisborne Bowling Club; Gisborne Volunteer Coastguard; Te Wharau School
Bill & Margie Thorpe – Eastwoodhill Arboretum; Hospice Tairāwhiti
Charles Wilkinson Musical Trust – Forte Fingers
Dame Bronwen & Dr Peter Holdsworth – Gisborne Civic Band
Gavin McFarlane – Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast; Hospice Tairāwhiti
Les McGreevy – Heritage Tairāwhiti Inc; Tairāwhiti Community Voice; Tairāwhiti Environment Centre; Tapuwae Trails Trust
Rosemary Johnson – Hospice Tairāwhiti
Ross & Jackie McDonald – Te Kura-a-Wao Charitable Trust
Steve Crosby – One student at each Gisborne Boys’ High School and Gisborne Girls’ High School
THE TINDALL FOUNDATION
Citizens Advice Bureau
Gisborne Neighbourhood Support
Gisborne Volunteer Centre
Gizzy Kai Rescue
Manaaki Tāngata (Victim Support)
Mangapapa Church
SafeMan SafeFamily Charitable Trust
Te Ora Hou Te Tairāwhiti Trust
Mangapaere Marae
Te Horo Marae
Whaiora Services
PASS THROUGH GRANTS
Alzheimer’s Gisborne
Cancer Society Gisborne East Coast
Esme & Tom Tombleson Charitable Trust
Hato Hone St John Tairāwhiti
Outward Bound Tairāwhiti
Sunshine Service Inc
SuperGrans Tairāwhiti
Tauawhi Men’s Centre
Te Whare tu Whanau (Women’s Refuge)
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