PAPA PĀNUI • NOTICEBOARD SUPPORTER SPOTLIGHT
Stephanie Pietromonaco is a Wellington-based consultant with AskRIGHT, which recently became a corporate supporter of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga. What is AskRIGHT? We’re a fundraising consulting firm, so we do customised fundraising proposals and contracts for clients, covering everything from strategy, campaign planning and implementation, to coaching, grant-application writing and research. We’ve also recently
launched our GrantsWIZ database, which amalgamates all the information on more than 3500 funders we’ve discovered during our research on different projects over the years. How do you see your support of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga also supporting the wider heritage community? All of us as consultants have worked on projects for heritage sites, and through that we’ve learnt more about the landscape and gained a better understanding of what it means to have a heritage building and
all the rules around applying for funding. Now that we've built up experience in this area, we thought it would be good to stay connected to all the work that’s going on in the sector. I live in Wellington and many of my colleagues are in Christchurch, and the need we’re seeing for earthquake strengthening is quite staggering. We’ve seen some really special places that seem quite threatened, and as the funding is limited it is really important to find other heritage supporters and make those connections.
What are some heritage places that are special to you? I first worked in my role as a consultant on my parish church, the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Sacred Heart, here in Wellington. That’s what got me into this work, and where we first found our community when we arrived in Wellington from the US. Also, when I first came here in 2012 on a working holiday and was travelling around, one of the places I visited was Rewa’s Village in Kerikeri. I was really excited to read in Heritage New Zealand magazine [Winter 2020] about the cool restoration that’s happening there and how that’s going to be a living heritage site. And in terms of the heritage projects that I and my colleagues have worked on, one in particular recently won a Canterbury Heritage Award: the Sacred Heart Basilica in Timaru. We were able to meet the fundraising goal for the restoration of that Category 1 heritage site, so that win was pretty exciting. Please contact Brendon Veale (below) if you would like to become a corporate supporter.
Brendon Veale Manager Asset Funding 0800 HERITAGE (0800 437482) bveale@heritage.org.nz
Letter to the editor Please congratulate Averil Norman on her happy and praiseworthy response to the psychic nudge [‘A place in the heart’, Winter 2021]. The minute I saw your photo spread of the front of the house, I fell in love with it. Through Averil’s and Warwick’s loving care, New Zealand now has one more colonial treasure to admire and enjoy. Pamella Laird
4 Kōanga • Spring 2021
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