Youthline Central North Island Incorporated
To cover the professional external supervision for client and practitioner safety as per the counsellor, social or youth worker professional bodies they are registered under to practice
Costs of the above professional supervisor costs
This allowed us to provide youth counselling, Mentoring and Mental Health wellbeing programs and services in a safe and effective way by our specialist youth Counsellors and youth workers getting the ongoing professional oversite, professional supervision
The ongoing professional oversite/external supervision by their professional bodies by suitably qualified supervision proponents that they received regular fortnightly and or monthly professional supervision from their appropriately trained supervisors in their individual professions ensured appropriate safety and oversight of their work with at risk youth; this ensured the safety of their clients and the counsellor or youth worker themselves,
This continued professional upskilling/supervision allowed us to safely work and encourage young people to take control of their own futures and their outcomes allowing them to become active participating members of their community and society.
Complex Chronic Illness Support Incorporated
CCI Support Health & Wellness Facilitator provides specialist emotional and practical support to up to 178 x vulnerable Wellington based members who have complex chronic illnesses such as ME/CFS, Fibromyalgia, Long COVID etc.
The grant of $3,000 was used towards the salary of our Wellington based Health & Wellness Facilitator Luisa Power during March 2024 to April 2024.
Our members experience a range of disability, Symptom severity ranges from ‘mild’ (just able to manage work but at the expense of other areas of life), to ‘very severe’ (bed-bound, tube-fed, paralysed, without speech). Even symptoms which are classed as mild can involve the loss of at least 50% of normal function. Having the support of a specialist Health & Wellness Facilitator who provides understanding and validation without judgement is a welcome relief for our members when support from the medical sector is limited.
A huge thank you to the trustees for their ongoing generous support. It means so much to our organisation and to our members that you understand and care and stand with us.
Regenpreneur Ltd
The Regenerative Changemaker Community Site, funded by the John Ilott Charitable Trust, was launched to promote regenerative farming practices in New Zealand. Over the past year, we have developed a series of free masterclasses, interviews, and blog pages, creating a rich resource for community members.
This online hub serves as a platform for farmers to share experiences, gain insights from experts, and engage with peers interested in sustainable agriculture. The initiative aims to empower individuals to adopt regenerative practices, enhance environmental stewardship, and foster community resilience by providing these resources.
The $3,000 funding from the John Ilott Charitable Trust was allocated to the following key activities in support of the Regenerative Changemaker Community Site:
Website Development: A portion of the funds was used to create and enhance the community site, ensuring it is user-friendly and accessible for all participants.
Content Creation: The funding supported the development of free masterclasses, interviews, and blog pages. This included costs associated with writing, editing, and producing high-quality educational content tailored for the community.
Expert Engagement: Funds were used to reach out to industry experts, facilitating their contributions to the site through interviews and blog posts, which enrich the knowledge base available to community members.
Promotion and Outreach: The funding helped promote the community site through social media and other channels, attracting participants and increasing awareness of available resources.
Ongoing Resource Development: The remaining funds were allocated to create additional educational materials and updates to keep the content fresh and relevant for community members.
The John Ilott Charitable Trust grant has greatly improved our ability to promote regenerative farming practices and connect with the community. With this funding, we set up the Regenerative Changemaker Community Site, a central place for sharing important resources and ideas. We created free masterclasses, interviews, and blog pages that make accessing valuable information easier, especially for those struggling financially or living in remote areas. This initiative has helped build a supportive community among farmers, encouraging them to work together and share their experiences.
The funding was key to achieving our project goals. It allowed us to cover the costs of developing the community site, making it user-friendly. We also used the grant to produce quality content, including engaging masterclasses and expert interviews, which improved the overall learning experience. Our outreach efforts, supported by the grant, successfully attracted participants, helping us create a network of people dedicated to regenerative agriculture. This early success has set us up to seek more funding and partnerships in the future, ensuring we can continue providing valuable resources for our organisation and the communities we serve.
EVolocity Charitable Trust t/a EVolocity
Towards our EVolocity Wellington Regional Programme.
The grant was used towards the EVolocity regional co-ordinator contractor salary for Wellington during March 2024 to May 2024.
There is limited funding specific to the Wellington region. Your trustee's generosity has meant that the 8 x Wellington schools/groups with 21 teams have received support from our regional co-ordinator Annabelle Batchelor as they designed/built their electric vehicles (karts or bikes). During the year our young participants have learnt many new skills including mechanical and electrical engineering, CAD design, Arduino programming, welding , project management etc.
Wellington/Manawatu schools/groups participating in 2024:
Fergusson Intermediate School
Homeschool Wairarapa
Mana College
Otaki College
Upper Hutt College
Wairarapa Homeschool
Wellington College
Heretaunga College
We are gearing up for our 6 regional finals events around New Zealand throughout October. Our Wellington regional finals event is at Kartsport Manawatu on 28th October 2024.
NZ Improvisation Trust
This Grant was offered to support an advanced training program to grow the next generation of lighting and sound operators for the improvised theatre community, to address a skills shortage.
The Grant was spent on development and teaching time for the workshop presenter, kohas for teaching assistants, venue hire, and administration time to handle logistics.
As a result of this programme, we have a higher number of community members trained in some aspect of tech operation, and one of the participants will be teching a show as part of this year’s New Zealand Improv Festival, which is a fantastic outcome. We have a suite of resources that we will be making available for free to companies nation-wide later in the year.
This grant allowed us to offer the workshops for free. Without the grants we would have either needed to charge workshop participants for the workshop, at around $115 per person, vastly limiting the number and type of people able to participate in the workshops, or ask the workshop presenter and support staff to volunteer their time or work for significantly below market rates.
Kapiti Women's Health Collective Inc
Wages for creche workers.
Wages for creche workers and coordination and support costs.
This grant enabled us to offer the creche to support women attending our course programme. We were able to provide 15.75 hours of creche over 10 sessions, enabling caregivers to attend courses offered at the Centre.
Creche usage has been down in the last year, but we continue to provide this service in order to make our courses available to as wide a range of women as possible.
Crescendo Trust of Aotearoa
The purpose of this grant was for funds towards Crescendo's Music Mentor costs. We are delighted you have chosen to support Crescendo Trust of Aotearoa and our work with disadvantaged young people throughout Tāmaki Makaurau. We are sincerely grateful for your support of our work providing high-quality mentoring programmes for our rangatahi to help them achieve their
goals, and transition into further education, training and employment.
This grant was allocated towards the salary of Crescendo's Music Mentor - Paki Dunn, and Youth Pathways Coordinator - Calla Knudson.
With your support, we are helping to shape the future of rangatahi like Jahvahn who completed Crescendo’s One Voice programme in May 2024, working with Paki Dunn as his mentor.
Javahn describes himself as “a big white boy with face tattoos from Massey West Auckland. (Who)
Had the typical Once Were Warriors upbringing, pretty much self explanatory”.
Javahn has been working with Crescendo’s mentors and says they have inspired him by embracing who is and exposing him to new environments, including the audio facilities at Crescendo. Before coming to Crescendo Javahn said he experienced challenges including,
domestic violence, Gang violence, (involvement with) Oranga tamariki, drugs & alcohol abuse, suicide, and crime. He is now on a journey to be a voice to those who are experiencing similar challenges. As a young father, Javahn wants to provide a road-map his boys, and other whanau can follow.
He credits Crescendo for providing a safe space for him to engage in his talents and passions, and an opportunity to expand his horizons.
The following outcomes were achieved for our rangatahi. We measure these using an evaluation survey and interviews at the end of the programme.
Youth have improved confidence and collaboration skills
85% of students said they gained teamwork and collaboration skills
Youth have improved wellbeing and knowledge of mental health and wellbeing practices
91% of students said they feel comfortable and confident using my new wellbeing skills
57% of students said they had gained self-expression and self-awareness skills
43% said they had gained skills in self-care and wellbeing.
Youth have improved technical skills and knowledge in music or music production.
94% of the participants reported they had learned new skills during the programme this included music production, audio engineering and creating lyrics and composing songs.
Youth know career pathways and options available to pursue a career in music.
85% of students said they feel confident about their future options and pathways available to them
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Christchurch
To build, strengthen and promote positive relationships between young people, adults, families and communities by enabling rewarding mentoring relationships.
The $2,000 was spent on sustaining one of our mentoring matches for a year. This covers a myriad of things that make a successful match, including:
• Regular monitoring and supervision of each match – mentor support, child welfare check-ins, whānau support, and risk management
• Resources for matches to use during mentoring sessions
• Regular programme feedback and evaluation
• Match events for fun, connection, and building community
• Ongoing volunteer training and appreciation
Which all leads to the smooth, safe, and sustainable management of our mentoring programme.
Our matawhānui/Mission is: Whakatū Tuakana whakakohe, Whakamana a Taiohi - Enable life-changing mentoring relationships to ignite the power and potential of Taiohi/Young People. This grant enabled us to continue supporting one of our mentoring matches, in a long-term, sustained relationship. The support they received from us enables them to lead happier, healthier, and more successful lives throughout their childhood and beyond.
Action Education inc
We were granted $ 4,000 for the project of the Spoken Word Activation Programmes. Thank you so much for supporting our mahi.
We spent the grant on salaries for our Youth Development Workers who facilitate our life changing programmes.
This grant enabled us to continue to deliver our programmes to young people within Auckland.
Action Education is Aotearoa’s leading Youth Development organisation who use Spoken Word poetry to facilitate life changing experiences. With a focus on equity underpinning our values and delivery, we work with over 11,000 young people annually. We use Spoken Word Poetry as an effective vehicle for our communities to address who they are, where they come from and the world around them. We have a range of annual programmes and have far reaching social media platforms. Through engagement in our programmes young people can develop their voice, connections, self-esteem and leadership skills, and rangatahi are given the tools for healthy and powerful self advocation and self- determination.
Please see attached our Annual Report which includes our team, and programmes, celebating the stories of our youth, as well as, a recent evaluation which speak to the impact of our programmes
Women's Network Whanganui
The Women’s Network delivers a Careers Assistance Project which provides charitable assistance to women re-entering the workforce, seeking a change in career or retraining. This includes: preparation of Curriculum Vitae; assistance writing covering letters; compilation of business profiles/plans; motivational careers advice and mapping; interview techniques; employment application assistance; and the provision of work wardrobe items [including clothing and personal care items for family members where needed].
The grant was utilised for programme and personnel expenses.
The grant enabled us to continue delivering this service free of charge to women in our community, assisting around 50 women, with approximately 20 of these being wāhine Māori. It also enabled us to partner with other organisations to assist them with providing support for some of their women clients.
UpsideDowns Education Trust
Funding from the John Ilott Charitable Trust helped UpsideDowns run our initiative, A Voice for Wellington’s Kids with Down Syndrome, over a 12 month period (ending 01/01/2025).
This project has so far allowed 38 children and young people in the Wellington area to access a one-on-one programme of individualised speech and language therapy with a qualified NZSTA therapist in school, at home, remotely, or in specialist clinics across the region.
This intervention is essential to empower these young people to learn to speak, read, write, and communicate in order to progress in mainstream education, connect with the community, access services to support mental and physical health, and lead safe, resilient, independent lives.
This grant was entirely spent on the cost of providing speech-language therapy sessions to Wellington’s children and young people with Down syndrome. The $2500 grant from John Ilott Charitable Trust was able to fund the majority of 44 therapy sessions, from 01/01/2024 to 28/03/2024. Project costs for the remainder of the project until 01/01/2025 will be covered by UpsideDowns fundraising activities and cash reserves.
The young people with Down syndrome from the Wellington area supported by this grant have continued their programme of indiviudalised speech and language therapy to develop their communication abilities.
Our pre-school members, like Sienna and Yohan, have been working on pre-literacy skills, learning Makaton sign language and using core boards to communicate ideas and needs to family, careers, and early educators. Our primary school aged members, Tobias and Nyah, have made strides in vocabulary growth and expressive speech, as well as important social learning like following routines and engaging peers in play. Intermediate aged members, such as Heidi and Eduard, are focussing on core literacy and mathematics as well as the core social skills that will help them transition to high school. Our older members, like Amber and Katjlyn, have been working hard on further developing the skills he will need to progress through high school and go on to further study, employment, and independent living.
Therapists report back on the progress these children have made in detailed speech and language therapy (SLT) reports. These show the immense impact regular, age-appropriate speech and language therapy had for these children, including vocabulary augmentation, complex instruction learning, word recognition development, initiating games with peers, and learning Makaton signs, among other metrics.
UpsideDowns sees significant developmental improvement in the children we walk alongside, frequently exceeding expectations held by recent research. We receive wonderful feedback from our member families, delighted with the progress their children make and grateful for the crucial opportunity that would be out of reach without UpsideDowns’ assistance.
RespectEd Aotearoa
The purpose of the grant was to enhance the professional development and supervision framework at RespectEd Aotearoa. This framework ensures our team is equipped with the latest knowledge and skills in sexual harm prevention and provides ongoing support and accountability through supervision, both internal and external. The goal was to improve our effectiveness in delivering trauma-informed care, maintain ethical standards, and support the well-being to prevent burnout through vicarious trauma.
The grant was used to fund professional development, group and individual supervision sessions for our staff.
This included hiring expert trainers to deliver professional development to build our internal peer supervision capability and providing external supervision services for our staff.
The training and supervision provided through the grant led to several key outcomes:
Enhanced Expertise: The team’s skills and knowledge in trauma and violence-informed care and ethical practices were greatly improved, resulting in higher-quality support for the people that we engage with, including victim survivors of sexual violence.
Increased Emotional Well-being: Professional supervision, both internal and external, helped manage the emotional toll of the work, reducing burnout and compassion fatigue among staff.
Improved Accountability: Regular supervision sessions ensured adherence to ethical standards and provided a space to address and navigate challenges effectively.
Continuous Improvement: The ongoing professional development facilitated a culture of learning and adaptability, allowing the team to continuously refine their practices.
The grant provided the resources needed to implement these outcomes. It allowed us to engage with experts and invest in the professional growth of our team, which improved the quality of services we provide, and means our team is better equipped to hold the complexities of sexual harm prevention and support.
Wellington Riding for the Disabled
Funding towards our Office Manager
2 x pay slips for Office Manager. I have attached the payslips and the funding analysis. Please let me know if one has over-ridden the other.
Our Mission has always been to provide proven therapeutic horse riding programmes for people living with disabilities in the Greater Wellington region. The amazing grant we were granted has made sure we are able to continue to provide this valuable and crucial therapy for all types of disability and those people who have multiple disabilities. We have also been able to maintain aspects of our programmes that make them achievable to people such as accessibility and affordability. We have been able to assist both new and existing students on our programmes.
Respect
Parenting courses for men and women whose lives have been impacted by family violence.
The grant was used to deliver Toolbox parenting courses with a family violence lens at Respect during 2024. The courses were led by trained, experienced family violence practitioners who contextualised the course content for parents who are victims or perpetrators. The grant was spent on the Parenting Place license fees, food for the participants during the courses, parenting resources, course administration, and facilitator wages.
The purpose of these courses is to support parents to stop abuse & violence in their homes, and help them raise children to live flourishing, abuse-free lives. These courses teach parenting skills to people who may not have been parented well themselves as children and gives them strategies other than violence, to connect with and provide boundaries for their children.
The grant’s outcomes were enhanced skills, capabilities, and confidence of parents; improved mental health & social connections; and better lives for them and their children.
Without this grant from John Ilott Charitable Trust, we would not have been able to offer these courses for no cost and the participants would not have had access to the parenting support they received. We have received great feedback from the participants and wish to thank John Ilott Charitable Trust for the support.
Waikato Family Centre
Yearly nurse registrations and membership
5 nurse registrations and 1 yearly membership to NZ Nurses Organisation
This generous grant contributed to the Waikato Family Centre being able to continue to provide free services by registered nurses supporting families/whanau in the community and greater Waikato who are struggling with concerns they are having with their babies and under two year olds. Thank you for your support