Annual Report 2014/15
Celebrating 20 Years of Giving
Play the video above to hear Stephen and Margaret Tindall
talk about 20 years of The Tindall Foundation.
Welcome
Message from the Founders
Tēnā tātou katoa. Greetings to all.
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
Message from the Manager
Kia ora koutou.
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:
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
Key Statistics
Exceptional People
Meet the extraordinary people behind the five organisations that we honoured with special recognition awards in June during our twentieth-anniversary celebrations at Government House, Auckland. They are standout examples of Kiwi leaders who work tirelessly for the community and the environment.
Here they talk about what inspires and drives them, who has influenced them, and the challenges they have faced.
Samara Nicholas
Mountains to Sea Conservation Trust
"The Experiencing Marine Reserves programme gives kids and their parents the chance to see for themselves the vast beauty and magic of marine reserves. We provide the equipment and expertise, but it’s what they experience under the ocean that ignites their enthusiasm for marine biodiversity and transforms the way they think and feel about protecting marine habitats and ecosystems."
Brian Donnelly
New Zealand Housing Foundation
"When they get stable housing tenure people’s behaviours usually change and they start contributing more to their community and society as a whole. Realising some of their aspirations provides them with greater confidence and a level of independence for themselves and their children."
Margaret Jefferies
Project Lyttelton
"I feel great at the end of the day if I can see that I have made a difference for our community. This is usually in the form of a meaningful conversation that has opened up an opportunity, so that together we have created something that is worthwhile."
Bill Holland
Acorn Foundation
"I was frustrated for most of my life with the view that philanthropy was for the wealthy… I am pleased to see that in recent times attitudes have changed. There is a growing awareness that philanthropy is for everyone and you do not need to be rich to be generous."
Leanne Dawson & Sue Pattinson
SPACE NZ Trust
"What babies experience and feel, and the nurture they receive or don’t receive, shape the rest of their lives. If we can support and encourage parents, we can inspire change for a different life with better outcomes for babies, parents, families and communities."
Twentieth-Anniversary Event
Financial Information
2014/15
Total Donations Paid Out
by Programme Areas
Annual Donations History
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Governance
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Trustees
[L-R] Margaret Tindall, Robbie Tindall, Joan Withers, Stephen Tindall, Jennifer Casey
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.
The Tindall Foundation team
[L-R] Genevieve Northey, Dave Richards, Jennifer Reid, Elizabeth Tindall, John McCarthy,
Anne Tindall, Trevor Gray, Kate Tindall, Martina O'Driscoll
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.
Key Consultants/Advisers
Gordon Hosking, Bede Martin, Margot Nicholson, Bruce Russell, Bill King,
Glen Saunders, Alan Wilcox, Melanie Wilson, Glenn and Sharyn Cant
Financial Advisers
BDO
Auditors
RSM Hayes Audit
Legal Advisers
Chapman Tripp, Grove Darlow and Partners
Contact
For all general enquiries please contact The Tindall Foundation
Postal Address:
PO Box 33 181
Takapuna
Auckland 0740
New Zealand
Telephone:
Phone: (09) 488 0170
Fax: (09) 486 2365
Email:
admin.ttf@
Website:
Acknowledgments
Creative Direction:
Curative
Design and Production:
Jan van Vliet | Print Design
Curative | Web Design
Editorial Content and Production Management:
Elizabeth Tindall
Editors:
Oratia Media
Creative Contributors:
Jan van Vliet, Kaan Hiini, Jess Holdaway, Matt Leamy,
Joseph Kelly, Jonny Knopp, Darryl Torckler and photographers from featured organisations
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