Crombie Scholarship Recipients Named
Juggling senior school commitments whilst holding down several part-time jobs has paid off for two ambitious Napier students, awarded the coveted Diana and Colin Crombie Scholarship for tertiary studies. Year 13 Napier Girls High School student Lexie Crawford and Napier Boys High School’s Noah Smith have been selected from a competitive group of 45 applicants, […]
Horsepower Proves a Potent Pull for Students
Hawke’s Bay’s inaugural Polo Programme aimed at students is enjoying its biggest year yet of enrolments with founder Richard Kettle setting his sights on expanding it out to more schools around the region. Since saddling up the Birchleigh Polo Programme in 2009, the course has introduced more than 80 youths to the sport of polo, […]
Outward Bound bounds ahead in Hawke’s Bay
New Zealand’s leading outdoor education provider has teamed up with Hawke’s Bay Foundation to help unlock more young local students’ true potential. The exciting new Outward Bound Fund has been set up in partnership with Hawke’s Bay Foundation and following a recent launch evening in Napier, has already grown to $24,000. The income raised from […]
Foundation Funding Proving a Lifeline to Local Charities
The coffers of hard working Hawke’s Bay charities are receiving a welcome boost today with the injection of pivotal funding from Hawke’s Bay Foundation. Following this year’s funding round where 78 charities applied for financial assistance through Hawke’s Bay Foundation, 53 were approved and today received a collective total of over $177,000. Hawke’s Bay Foundation […]
Walk Of Wonders
Hawke’s Bay’s trailblazing light and art festival Walk Of Wonders has proven breaking new artistic ground does pay off – doubling its ticket numbers in two years and launching its makers in an exciting new creative direction. In just its second year, Walk Of Wonders took audiences on a captivating journey of augmented reality, animation, […]
Former Karamu High Student Gifts New Fund
A former Karamu High School student has gifted a sizeable donation to the school that’s set to benefit Karamu’s schooling community for many years to come. The donor, who wishes to remain anonymous, has been donating regularly to the school but wanting to make a more permanent gift felt compelled to set up their own […]
Hawke’s Bay Foundation receives donated electric car
Hawke’s Bay Foundation will hit the streets with its first donated sponsored electric vehicle. The Mitsubishi Outlander – a plug-in hybrid vehicle – was donated to the foundation by Bay European and signwritten by Sign Central. Chairman Giles Pearson says as the foundation funds local environmental projects and charities every year, it is a steer […]
NIGHT OF US RAISES $50,000 FOR HAWKE’S BAY FOUNDATION
A sold-out Night Of Us event and some competitive bidding saw three spectacular painted methuselah wine bottles achieve more than $50,000 at auction, for the Hawke’s Bay Foundation. The bottles claimed centrestage, combining premium wine from New Zealand’s best winemakers with the work of three prestigious New Zealand artists: Dick Frizzell, Martin Poppelwell and Freeman […]
Walk Of Wonders 2021 Shining Light on Mental Health
New Zealand’s most exciting emerging light and fire festival Walk Of Wonders is set to help inject new life and vital funds into the Hawke’s Bay Foundation. The creative directors behind Walk Of Wonders Ant van Dorsten and Henry Gordon are on a mission to raise awareness and funding for the Hawke’s Bay Foundation and […]
Giving for Good Gives Back to Community
After a century in business, a Napier based real estate company is repaying the community who have supported them with a ‘Giving for Good’ fund to help champion local Hawke’s Bay charities. Cox Partners Estate Agents established the ‘Giving for Good’ initiative twelve months ago after observing that many charities’ fundraising efforts were being disrupted […]
