Annual Report 2014/15

We are very pleased to share with you our new-look Annual Report for 2014/15. We hope you like this interactive approach and enjoy watching the short film that features some highlights of this, our twentieth-anniversary year.

Our staff and Trustees take great care to ensure that The Tindall Foundation donations go to worthy organisations across the country. It is thrilling to see the enormous good that these groups do with our financial support. This year we funded 721 organisations across New Zealand, with $10.6 million in donations.

Over the past 20 years, we are proud to have supported more than 5000 organisations with over $135 million in donations. It is hard to believe that what started out in a tiny office in Takapuna, with one staff member and a steady flow of small funding requests, is today a thriving philanthropic foundation with a team of eight staff and a board of five Trustees.

To mark this special milestone, we were delighted to recognise five exceptional organisations for their outstanding and tireless work in the community and for our environment. It was a real highlight and privilege to have the Governor-General present the five organisations with awards to acknowledge this contribution at his home, Government House, in Auckland this June.

You can read the inspirational stories of these organisations below and see what drives and motivates them to give so much to the community. Their passion and care for people and the world around them are infectious.

We would sincerely like to thank everyone we have worked with over these 20 years for their efforts in making New Zealand a better place. We are indebted to our dedicated, hard-working staff and Trustees, past and present. None of this would have been possible without you.

Stephen and Margaret Tindall

Founders – The Tindall Foundation

Welcome to The Tindall Foundation’s very first digital annual report! It is exciting to be launching our new online format this year as we mark the milestone of turning 20. Many organisations in New Zealand and around the world have adopted digital reporting and we are joining them.

We hope you enjoy reading about the five organisations we have acknowledged with special recognition awards, and learn more about our team, the focus of the Foundation, and how we have donated funds in 2014/15.

2014/15 was an eventful year for us with many highlights and success stories along the way, such as:

• Two Youth Connection Jobfest 15 events in Auckland, which attracted over 3000 young people and 100 businesses
   
• The launch of the Sunrise and Eastern Bays Community Foundations, and the relaunch of The Northland Community Foundation; funds under management across the 14 Community Foundations now amount to over $50 million, with a further $150 million pledged
   
• The 59 groups linked through Reconnecting Northland’s Kiwi Coast programme are now actively managing over 78,000 hectares, from which they have removed over 36,000 pests
   
• The continued success of the community garden in Poutasi village on Upolu, Samoa, and the establishment of a second garden on the island of Savai’i
   
• The Foundation’s continued support for CanCERN’s work on behalf of the people of Christchurch, along with our partners Todd Foundation and Hugh Green Foundation

This list shows some of the variety of the Foundation’s ongoing work.

On the team front, sadly we said farewell to Evelyn Gauntlett after 17 years of invaluable work. We welcomed Genevieve Northey, formerly a grants advisor at Foundation North.

By adopting a digital approach this year, we hope to make our annual report and the successes of organisations we support accessible to a wide audience anywhere in the world. Please share it with others you feel would be interested or could benefit from reading it.

Nāku i runga i āku mihi ki a koe. Yours with thanks.

John McCarthy

Manager – The Tindall Foundation

We have five Trustees at The Tindall Foundation. Our Trustees are made up of the Foundation’s two founders, Stephen and Margaret Tindall, their son Robbie, and two Trustees independent of the family, Jennifer Casey and Joan Withers, both of whom have successful careers in the commercial sector and have a passion for families and communities.

Read more about the Trustees here

The Tindall Foundation is a private family foundation that gives to organisations and communities
throughout Aotearoa New Zealand by way of donations, training, capacity building and research,
and by partnering with others. We want to see communities grow and prosper so our children's children
will have the very best chance in life. As a family and as an organisation, we feel very fortunate to be in a
position that enables us to share with others.

Read more about our team here