MEDIA RELEASE 16 groups benefit from The HarcourtsFoundation’s latest funding

18 October 2010:

Sixteencharitable organisations from around New Zealand benefitedin the last round of funding from The Harcourts Foundation,a charity set up by the Harcourts real estate group toprovide support that helps, grows and enriches ourcommunities.

The recipients – one in Auckland, one inthe Rodney District, three in the Waikato, six in GreaterWellington, one in New Plymouth, three in Canterbury and onein Otago – were recently awarded grants totalling more than$18,500 having each made successful applications to TheHarcourts Foundation in New Zealand earlier thisyear.

These grants together with a number made inAustralia recently and a $50,000 donation to the New ZealandRed Cross Earthquake Appeal in September takes the amountdonated since the Foundation was established in mid-2008 tomore than $480,000 to a total of 110 charities in NewZealand and Australia.

As Harcourts New Zealand CEOHayden Duncan explains, to date more than $750,000 has beenraised for The Harcourts Foundation through the voluntarydonations and fundraising efforts of Harcourts team memberson both sides of the Tasman, with additional support comingfrom some of the group’s business partners and clients.

“As a result it means The Harcourts Foundation cansupport a variety of deserving charitable organisationsdoing valuable work in the community, including the 16worthy recipients supported in our latest fundinground.”

Mr Duncan notes that 100% of money raisedfor The Harcourts Foundation is donated and aside from asmall portion set aside to support major emergency reliefefforts the money raised for the Foundation in a particularregion goes back into that area. The latest recipientsof grants from The Harcourts Foundation in New Zealandwere:•Special Olympics Hibiscus Coast – $1000 forequipment for their equestrian programme;•WestAuckland Parents Centre – $1560 towards cost of runningeducational Moving and Munching courses for parents andbabies aged four to eight months;•MS Waikato Trust -$2500 towards key operational costs;•ParentlineCharitable Trust – $2500 towards cost of establishing ajoint venture focused on providing support to traumatisedmigrant and refugee children;•Rototuna Primary SchoolParent Teachers Association – $1782.38 for data projectorsto use in teaching;•Shine NZ Trust Board – $500towards costs of a community earthbuilding project; •Paremata Playcentre – $500 for educationaltoys;•Stroke Foundation Central Region Inc – $500towards cost of Stroke Survivors annualconvention;•Wellington Rape Crisis – $1000 towardscost of creating new promotional and informationresources;•Wellington Hospitals and Health Foundation- $500 towards cost of an eppendorf microcentrifuges machine(for use in testing for genetic disorders);•Post &Ante Natal Distress Support Group (Wellington) Inc – $500towards cost of a conference on Post NatalDepression;•YMCA New Plymouth – $1000 for new booksand educational toys for the YMCA’s childcare centre;•Rangiora Toy Library – $799 for a large outdoor toyto facilitate physical development and imaginativeplay;•The Multiple Sclerosis & Parkinsons Society ofCanterbury Inc – $494 for producing business cards forstaff;•St Albans Residents Association Inc – $2500towards key operational costs; •CCS Disability Action- $1000 to repair or replace parts on a lifting hoist.

Thesuccessful applicants from the latest quarterly round, whichclosed on 30 September, will be announced later thisyear.