Grants

The Community Budgeting Trust [Wairarapa] was started in 2003 by four people to give the people of the Wairarapa choices in whom they used for support with their finances.

Tora Bombora is a community art and music festival that showcases young talent throughout Aotearoa and brings people together to the Tora coastline to celebrate emerging musicians, artists and to support a growing trend of events that encourage community engagement, celebration and environmental harmony.

Everyone has 24 hours in a day – how they use that time is completely up to them.
Simple words from an impressive young man – Tahana Tippett, an inspiring Big Buddy within our village.

We aren’t about to let Covid -19 beat us says, Wairarapa Cancer Society Manager Jacinta Buchanan . The people we support and represent have coped with cancer this year and that is a crisis personal to them.

The Wairarapa Dragon Boat Club was founded in 2009 to encourage breast cancer survivors to participate in an international movement inspired by the research of Canadian sports medicine specialist Dr.Don McKenzie. He proved that hard repetitive physical exercise reduced or eliminated lymphedema.

Community support for a dedicated home for homeless in Masterton continues unabated, the latest a $97,000 grant from the Trust House Foundation.

Parkinson’s a life-changing and neuro-degenerative condition that can affect anyone at any age. It progressively damages parts of the brain over many years.