Empowered Learning Trust 2024 Runners Up of Tier 4 Reporting Awards
The awards, organised by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), recognise best practice among registered charities in adopting financial reporting standards which give greater transparency and consistency among charities.
The winners
Tier 1 & 2
Winner’s award sponsored by BDO: Stardome Observatory
Stardome’s history began in 1948 when the Auckland Astronomical Society began fundraising for a public observatory in Auckland. By 1956 they had significant funds, including a substantial bequest from Mrs Edith Winstone Blackwell for the purchase of a telescope for public use. The Society formed the Auckland Observatory and Planetarium Trust Board to build on these funds and provide for the construction and management of a new observatory.
Stardome and its team have been sharing a love of space from its premises in Auckland’s One Tree Hill Domain since 1967 and has operated as a place of exploration, research and sharing of knowledge ever since.
Highly commended, sponsored by PKF: Aktive
Aktive’s vision is for Auckland to become the world’s most active city. The organisation encourages, enables and inspires Aucklanders to lead more active lives through play, sport and active recreation.
Tier 3
Winner’s award, sponsored by Baker Tilly Staples Rodway: Garden to Table
Garden to Table’s kaupapa is to empower tamariki to grow, harvest, prepare and share great food. Their programme is highly practical and child-centric, supporting students to learn to work together. The theme of “kids doing everything” is a key component of the sessions; skills are not watered down for tamariki and they learn to operate in the kitchen and garden as they would at home, with careful observation and guidance. They teach children to nurture, share, and manaaki guests, whilst building awareness of individual and collective responsibility to manaaki te taiao – care for our environment. Supporting children’s health and wellbeing is central and celebrating the preparing and sharing of great food fosters community connectedness.
Highly commended sponsored by PKF: Bellyful
Everything we do is filled with aroha; “Kia manawa reka i te aroha” – to satisfy through aroha.
Bellyful nourishes and connects communities by cooking and delivering meals to whānau with babies or young children, who need support. Bellyful supports unique community relationships where they connect recipient whānau, volunteers, referrers, local businesses, funders, and supporters. They work together to grow a sense of community and are a truly community-based charity.
Tier 4
Winner’s award, sponsored by William Buck: Kiwi Christmas Books
In late 2019, Sonya Wilson had a simple idea: buy some books to donate to kids at Christmas, and get her mates to buy some too. That idea became Kiwi Christmas Books, a charity scheme that took off almost of its own accord, resulting in the donation of more than 1600 brand-new books to families in need that Christmas.
From these small beginnings in Auckland, Kiwi Christmas Books has grown into a nationwide charity, collecting thousands of brand-new books each year from kind, book-loving Kiwi donors. It has now donated more than 40,000 books to children and families from Kaitaia to Bluff and everywhere in between. For many children it is their first ever book; for some, it is their first ever Christmas present.
Highly commended, sponsored by PKF: Empowered Learning Trust
Empowered Learning Trust delivers screening programs that identify individual student barriers to learning and offers a range of interventions that assist them to reach their optimum potential.
