In addition to rewarding beneficiaries, the Wi Pere Trust provides educational scholarships to whānau to develop future leaders for the next generation.
Ross Green is MD of Wairakei Pastoral Ltd, where a recent environmental initiative includes a partnership with local iwi to restore the ecological integrity of three streams on the huge Wairakei Estate property.
The Hugh Green Foundation continues to support a broad range of causes but is starting to direct its efforts more towards helping organisations become self-sufficient.
Guy Haddleton has long been active on the philanthropic front, supporting among other things the National Youth Theatre, NZ Opera School, and the NZ Outward Bound Trust.
Having previously held 100% of the business, the family patriarch has now divided its ownership.
Brendan and Jo Lindsay say: ‘Our opportunity is to try and put something back into the community, towards people who don’t have the opportunities we’ve got.’
Alan Gibbs and family's main focus is their 720ha Gibbs Farm bordering the Kaipara Harbour.
No stranger to philanthropy, Cliff Cook donated $5m to establish a chair of ‘ageing well’ at Auckland University in honour of his late mother Joyce, former chair of the Residential Care Assn.
The Masfen Foundation donated more than $1.8m to charities in the year to March 2022, slightly short of the $1.9m contributed the year prior.
The Farmer family are keen supporters of the arts, and Dean’s wife Chanelle is a former director of New Zealand Opera. She is also a current trustee of the Louise Perkins Foundation