The Tindall Foundation Annual Report 2012 | Calendar 2013

Annual Report 2012 2013 Calendar

Cover photos (clockwise from top left): Helping kiwis back to the wild, Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum (Todd Hamilton); Aorangi Marae near Feilding, Maori Maps (Krzysztof Pfeiffer); Volunteers recycling food, Kaibosh (Mark Coote); Maori midwifery training, Counties Manukau District Health Board (Sean Shadbolt); Installation by Wayne Youle, GapFiller (Trent Hiles); Roundabout Meadowood members, Know Your Neighbours (Sean Shadbolt)

Annual Report 2012 - 2013 Calendar Acknowledgements Design and production:

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David Baird www.davidbaird.co.nz Mark Coote www.markcoote.com Rhys Palmer www.waikatophotography.co.nz Huub Segers www.segers-photography.com Sean Shadbolt www.seanshadbolt.co.nz and photographers from featured organisations.

Opinions expressed in articles appearing in The Tindall Foundation Annual Report 2012 - 2013 Calendar are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Trustees, management or employees of the Foundation.

Š 2012 The Tindall Foundation

This document is printed on recycled paper using vegetable-based inks

Message from the Founders Kia ora koutou. Greetings to all.

Trust Work and Life Awards. This is a fantastic outcome for the Health Board and the students who

The 2011/12 year has seen a myriad of colourful

are currently involved.

and varied initiatives led by hard-working, forwardthinking organisations across New Zealand.

Lifewise ran another very successful Neighbours Day. Their evaluation showed that 93% of participants who

As always, we like to share these stories to raise

took part in a community activity reported increased

awareness of the projects that are bubbling away

feelings of safety and security, and a reduction in crime

within our communities. We are supporting

rates occurred. Knowing your neighbours is a simple

organisations with small to large donations and have

way of bettering your families and your community.

tried to fit a mix of these into this Annual Report.

We believe that the work of the organisations we The year has seen many achievements. Counties

support will continue to flourish and help people who

Manukau DHB’s Health Science Academies won the

need support in our communities. We hope you enjoy

Supreme Award and the Tomorrow’s Workforce Award

seeing and reading some of their stories.

in the 2012 ANZ New Zealand and EEO

Founders – The Tindall Foundation

A young kiwi after release at Whangarei Heads (Todd Hamilton)

Message from the Foundation Manager Tena koutou katoa. Greetings.

Others featured include Maori Maps, Kaibosh and Whangarei Heads Landcare Trust. Maori Maps is

This year, staff and trustees at The Tindall Foundation

a project that has volunteers visiting each and every

have been delighted to support so many interesting

marae across Aotearoa to build a website library

and innovative organisations that stretch across our

of information, photos and contacts. Wellington’s

programme areas.

2012 Supreme Community Award winner, Kaibosh redistributed over 33,000 kg of fresh food that would

2012 saw the first anniversary of the February

have otherwise gone to waste. Whangarei Heads

Canterbury earthquake, as well as the launch of the

Landcare Trust has helped the kiwi population on the

Christchurch City Blueprint Plan. Although it is positive

Whangarei Heads grow to 400 adults from a mere

to have this long-term plan in place, the rebuild of

80 a decade ago.

Christchurch, including people’s homes, is slow and will continue to challenge Cantabrians for years to come.

From the diverse range of projects The Tindall Foundation supported this year, we feel honoured to

This year’s Annual Report features Gap Filler Trust and

share this small selection with you. Have a great 2013.

CanCERN, two Christchurch organisations that have made distinctive contributions in the aftermath of the

Nga mihi

earthquakes.

Manager – The Tindall Foundation

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The Drake family at home (Sean Shadbolt)

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A practical session in the Clinical Training and Education Centre at Middlemore Hospital

Counties Manukau has a high proportion of Maori (17%) and Pacific peoples (22%) and its population will grow by 25% by 2020. That brings increasing demands on health services at a time when there is a global shortage of medical professionals and a significant under-representation of Maori (only 6%) and Pacific Islanders (8%) in clinical staff groups.

Helped by a $2.25 million donation from The Tindall Foundation for the 2010–2013 period, the Counties Manukau District Health Board has set out to address the issue. Health Science Academies in two Manukau secondary schools, tertiary scholarships for 25 Maori and Pacific Health Science students annually, and a midwifery course that aims to graduate 15 Maori midwives are part of this innovative approach.

According to Christine Hanley, Workforce Consultant at the Health Board, the academies enlisted 55 Year 11 students in 2011, with over 80% achieving NCEA Level 1 by the end of the first term in 2012. “Health outcomes improve when the health workforce reflects the community it serves,” Hanley said.

That view is endorsed by a student of Pacific Island descent in Tangaroa College’s academy. “Seeing our people in hospital gives you a reason to go into health,” she reflected. “I will be the first one in my family to finish school and have a professional career.”

For more information contact: Caroline Tichbon, Workforce Consultant Email: caroline.tichbon@countiesmanukau.health.nz Website: www.countieshealthjobs.co.nz

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“What do you do with an empty gap? Leave it as an awkward, defunct and non-usable space? No way!

Gap Filler is the silver lining to the Canterbury quakes.”

This comment from Christchurch journalism graduate, Adrien Taylor, sums up what Gap Filler is about: providing moments of colour and fun among the destruction in Christchurch.

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Since the first earthquake of September 2010, Gap Filler has made use of many empty spaces where buildings have been demolished. Examples range from temporary art installations to a bicycle-powered cinema, free public concerts at its Painted Piano project, and a Dance-O-Mat dance floor that has attracted more than 2,000 people to shake a leg.

Gap Filler works with community groups, artists, architects, landowners, students, and anyone who has ideas and time to offer. “People are heartened to see creative interventions on some of the many, many vacant sites in Christchurch,” said Director and Project Coordinator, Coralie Winn.

The Tindall Foundation funded Gap Filler as part of their $5 million commitment to Canterbury Earthquake recovery. This enabled the group, with its 4 staff and over 100 volunteers, to continue filling the gaps into 2013, delivering creative and practical projects that uplift the spirits of a resurgent city.

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Methodist social services agency, Lifewise, in partnership with Takapuna Methodist Church, launched Know Your Neighbours in 2008 to promote neighbour interaction in suburbs on Auckland’s North Shore.

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Rebecca Harrington, Community Development Leader for Lifewise, has led the drive for neighbours around the country to get together through activities that range from sharing a meal to street parties.

A donation from The Tindall Foundation enabled Know Your Neighbours to undertake an evaluation of its impact, and how it can be transferred to other areas.

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“The evaluation project helped approximately 40 residents, 20 stakeholders and ourselves to pause and reflect on all we’ve achieved and learnt,” Harrington commented.

“Sharing our experience is important because this helps build the knowledge base for how we can best make a positive difference in New Zealand.”

Participants in the Know Your Neighbours evaluation project are optimistic that the seed being planted now will blossom. “I feel that all of the kids that are growing up on this street will become great leaders and great ambassadors because of what we’re doing here,” said one respondent.

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For more information contact: Rebecca Harrington, Community Development Leader Email: RebeccaH@lifewise.org.nz Websites: www.neighboursday.org.nz, www.lifewise.org.nz

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Visiting ancestral marae from Waikato to Whanganui was an eye-opener for Rameka Tu’inukuafe, a University of Auckland architecture student. He had volunteered to be a navigator for the Maori Maps team – charting, photographing and documenting marae throughout Aotearoa.

“Even after researching extensively for the trip, on the road we found marae we didn’t know existed,” he reported. “It shows how difficult it could be for people of my generation to contact their home marae if their whanau had lost touch.”

Maori Maps is managed by Te Potiki National Trust, an Auckland-based charity for which an operational donation from The Tindall Foundation has been a lifeline.

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The www.maorimaps.com website provides a free interactive map for browsers to locate and learn about marae. It will deliver a full nationwide database by 2013, after the research team completes its visits to over 850 marae.

“The Trust aims to guide descendants and visitors to the marae gateways, and support them to engage appropriately with local custodians,” Tapsell said.

For more information contact: Peter Dowling, Kaihautu Email: pita@maorimaps.com Website: www.maorimaps.com

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Established by Paora Tapsell and Rereata Makiha, the Trust aims to reconnect the ‘potiki generation’ of young, urban Maori with their marae – many of which are suffering a loss of community as older generations pass on.

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Kaibosh Kaibosh is a pun on the Yiddish ‘kibosh’ (used in the sense of putting a stop to something) that incorporates ‘kai’, the Maori word for food. In other words, this Wellington-based organisation aims to put a stop to food waste.

“Our vision is a Wellington with zero food poverty and zero food waste,” stated Matt Dagger, Kaibosh General Manager This innovative programme works with food retailers, distributors and fresh markets A market stallholder fills Kaibosh collection crates across Wellington to rescue with donated produce surplus food (which would otherwise go to landfills), then redistributes it to agencies helping at-risk members of the community.

Founded by Dr Robyn Langlands with her husband, George, in 2008, Kaibosh employs one full-time and three part-time staff, and relies on the support of over 40 volunteers to collect and deliver food.

In its most recent year of operations, the programme saved 33,000 kg of fresh food – equivalent to over 94,000 meals – from supportive local cafés, organic stores, bakeries and markets.

Kaibosh received a donation from The Tindall Foundation through its Regional Funding Manager, the Nikau Foundation, towards project costs, including hiring a part-time food rescue driver.

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The Wellington City Mission is among those to have benefited from Kaibosh’s help, and Food Bank Manager, Sharon Howlett, is fulsome in her praise: “The impact these extra food items have on the health and well-being of our clients is enormous.”

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Bethel House is a residential rehabilitation centre in Whakatane that provides a home to men who might not otherwise find one. Some face issues of long-term unemployment or prison, others battle low educational achievement or substance abuse.

Under the direction of Liberty Ministries Trust, Bethel House takes in up to ten men at a time, and works to enhance their physical, emotional, relational, intellectual and spiritual well-being.

“Our aim is to see men leave Bethel with the skills needed to avoid destructive patterns of behaviour – more aware of, and able to live out, their personal strengths,” said Bethel House Manager, Alan O’Neill.

Residents get to participate in a series of programmes, including a Stopping Violence Programme funded by The Tindall Foundation through its Regional Funding Manager, the Acorn Foundation.

The programme operates on a ten-weekly cycle, with the vision that those who have been through the initial sessions will continue and assist those coming into the programme for the next cycle.

Journaling helps participants to commit to the programme. In his journal, one 18 year-old wrote: “I know it’s my anger that keeps leading me back into the same trouble. I have to learn to control it in the way you have shown me.”

For more information contact: Judy Turner or Alan O’Neill, Managers Email: bethelh@xtra.co.nz

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Settling into a new country is a challenge. Auckland’s Northcote Baptist Church (NBC) is making it that bit easier for Asian parishioners through the Migrant Integration Programme, in which settled immigrants help more recent arrivals.

Through its Faith Funding Manager, Baptist Churches of New Zealand, The Tindall Foundation supported the programme at the NBC Community Trust.

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Initially offering courses like English for the Elderly, the Migrant Integration Programme has broadened thanks to contributions from volunteers – many of them younger migrants who enjoy connecting with an older generation.

Classes on Chinese calligraphy and language have proved popular with both Kiwis and migrants, allowing inter-cultural exchange. Another course helps migrant parents familiarise themselves with the New Zealand education system.

“The education of our children is an arduous task, especially in a different cultural environment,” observed Grace Li, mother of a two-year-old girl. Li and her husband attended NBC’s parenting course, and are now feeling more confident about raising children in New Zealand.

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The efforts of more than 20 volunteers have benefited over 140 participants, confirmed Northcote Baptist Church Pastor, Yongjun Dong: “The programme has helped Chinese migrants to settle, and improved mutual understanding between them and Kiwis within the local community.”

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For an inspiring story of how a grassroots organisation can spark a great idea for helping the community, there’s no going past this Hamiltonbased group.

“It started when my sister, a midwife at Waikato Hospital, asked me if I had some spare baby clothes to give to a lady who was returning home with nothing to dress her baby with,” recalled Sharon Dunn, Founder of Ignite Baby Clothing Library.

Sharon, a nurse and mother, Margaret Amos understood the need to help clothe newborn babies, especially where mothers were vulnerable or in families that don’t qualify for government support.

With funding from The Tindall Foundation through its Faith Funding Manager, the Adventist Development and Relief Agency (ADRA), Sharon has been able to purchase baby clothes and wool, plus shelves for storage.

Margaret Amos, a dedicated volunteer, has knitted the wool into hundreds of baby garments.

In 2011, its first year, Ignite provided 30 parcels of baby clothes. The following year that was up to 8 parcels a month – many to mothers with premature babies and twins. “No mother expects to have her child early and this can put a lot of strain on families, so it is great to have clothes for premature babies,” Dunn said.

Families come from all over the Waikato region. Once their babies have grown, they arrange to exchange them for the next size up – providing the mothers with social interaction at the same time.

For more information contact: Sharon Dunn, Founder Email: dunns1@ihug.co.nz

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In the aftermath of the September 2010 Christchurch Earthquake, many people faced complex challenges that called for an efficient way of sharing information.

In response, residents’ groups banded together to form CanCERN – the Canterbury Communities’ Earthquake Recovery Network. The February 2011 Christchurch Earthquake multiplied the need for such services.

CanCERN works closely with the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority (CERA) and the Earthquake Commission (EQC) to help residents in affected areas understand official announcements and ensure two-way communication with decision makers.

“CanCERN gives a reasoned voice to issues, and continues to work and resolve the problems of rebuilding our town,” explained Barry Tutt of the Bexley Residents Association.

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change because of the zoning decisions that have affected where people are able to live,” said Brian Parker, CanCERN’s Communications Manager.

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The Tindall Foundation, as part of its $5 million commitment to Canterbury Earthquake recovery, partnered with the Todd Foundation and Hugh Green Foundation to support CanCERN.

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CanCERN also alerts the authorities to concerns about health, housing and other issues. Staff members give their time despite themselves living in areas badly hit by the earthquakes.

For more information contact: Brian Parker, Communications Manager Email: brian@cancern.org.nz Website: www.cancern.org.nz

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Equipping men to face the challenges of parenting is the vision of Good Fathers, a programme run in the Wellington region as part of Presbyterian Support Central’s Family Works social services.

Developed by Family Works senior counsellor, Rick Wildman, the programme aims to provide a space for fathers to explore their feelings and attitudes to their children, partners and families with the support of a peer group. It encourages men to become better role models by helping participants change anti-social behaviours that can lead to abuse or violence.

Paul Butler, who attended the Good Fathers programme in 2010, described the course as “not simply about improving relationships with our children, but also with our partners and our wider whanau and friends.”

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Good Fathers, which has recorded 85% completion rates at its sites in Upper Hutt and Featherston, extended its reach to Wainuiomata in 2012.

“Offering the course in a third town enables Family Works to reach more men who may benefit from the programme,” said Amanda Shrapnell, Fundraiser at Presbyterian Support Central in Wellington.

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A donation from The Tindall Foundation through its Faith Funding Manager, Presbyterian Support, enabled Good Fathers to be run in all three locations.

For more information contact: Amanda Shrapnell, Fundraiser, Presbyterian Support Central Email: Amanda.Shrapnell@psc.org.nz Website: https://central.familyworks.org.nz/good-fathers-course

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Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum has galvanised local farmers, landowners and conservationists towards a common goal: protecting native species and controlling invasive weeds and predators on the northern shores of Whangarei Harbour.

“We have large-scale farms, lifestyle blocks, DOC reserves and coastal settlements here, with a community that is passionate about caring for what’s in our backyard,” commented Helen Moodie, the group’s Secretary.

Landowners control weeds and, together with a contract trapper, maintain more than 300 traps throughout the peninsula, targeting stoats, ferrets, possums, rats and hedgehogs. This has helped kiwi chick survival rates increase from just 5% to an estimated 60%. Predator control, along with community awareness of the dangers posed by uncontrolled dogs, has seen the kiwi population on the Whangarei Heads grow from only 80 adults to approximately 400 over the past ten years.

Every season brings an influx of new predators, so ongoing control is crucial. The Tindall Foundation supported the Forum’s project costs through its Habitat Protection Funding Manager, WWF, and provided further organisational capacity building through NFP Works Ltd. For more information contact: Helen Moodie, Secretary, Whangarei Heads Landcare Forum Email: info@backyardkiwi.org.nz Website: www.backyardkiwi.org.nz

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“Having kiwi come back to our place is the best thing that has happened to us in years!” That was the enthusiastic response from one elderly couple to a resident-led movement to restore the biodiversity of a beautiful corner of Northland.

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The saying ‘My home is my castle’ is keenly felt by those striving to buy a house for their families. For some lowincome families, owning their own home would remain out of reach were it not for the help of the New Zealand Housing Foundation.

Since 2007, it has completed 125 homes for Housing Foundation households, and built or helped finance 154 more for other housing organisations.

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A social capital development loan from The Tindall Foundation, with support from other philanthropic groups and central government, empowered the Housing Foundation to help 32 households in Mangere to move from renting to becoming homeowners, and to plan 42 affordable housing units in Christchurch.

Homes are developed on the principles of placemaking – designing and building houses that are affordable, healthy to live in and meet the needs of the community and households. “Successful placemaking results in people feeling comfortable within their environment and connected to their neighbours,” said Operations Manager, Dominic Foote.

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This means that households will not only have an affordable home close to shops and employment in cities where affordable housing is in short supply, but can also contribute to healthy and stable communities.

As Gary and Arni Dela Rosa stated when entering their Mangere house: “It’s a dream come true. We now have our own home and a stake in our community.”

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For more information contact: Dominic Foote, Operations Manager Email: dominic.f@housingfoundation.co.nz Website: www.housingfoundation.co.nz

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