Community

As part of their long term funding strategies, a growing number of local community organisations and charities have established Named Funds with Geyser.  These Special-interest Funds  are available to receive donations and gifts of all sizes, including bequests and endowments.

You can make a donation here to any of these Special-interest Funds, simply select the Fund name from the drop down menu and make your donation.

Bay of Plenty & Waikato Rural Support Fund
Support services provided by the Bay of Plenty Rural Support Trust and the Waikato Rural Support Trust will benefit from the Rural Support Fund established in 2019. Farming can be stressful and the Rural Support Trusts are here to help. They are farming people who understand the challenges of rural life. They know from experience that weather, finances, relationships and work pressures can all mount up.  Their support is free and confidential.

Big Brothers Big Sisters – Tuakana Teina Rotorua Fund
Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) is a children’s mentoring programme focused on creating brighter futures for Rotorua children through long term, meaningful relationships with a positive adult role model/ tuakana. BBBS’s kaupapa is all about using these relationships to build, strengthen and promote positive relationships between children, youth, adults, whanau, the local community and iwi. Adults (tuakana) volunteer one hour a week for a year to spend quality time with their Little Brother or Little Sister (teina) doing activities they both enjoy.

Dementia Lakes Fund
Dementia Lakes Charitable Trust established this Fund in 2018. People living with dementia are some of the most vulnerable in our community, and it’s important they get the services and support they need. Dementia Lakes provides individualised support for anyone adapting after a dementia diagnosis.

Equisucceed NZ Fund (formerly Rotorua Riding for Disabled Fund)
Rotorua and Districts NZ Riding for the Disabled established their Fund in 2016. Once the Fund reaches its investment target (currently $50,000), the annual income from the Fund will be used in a number of ways, including for the benefit of riders to assist them reach their potential and to keep the horses fit and healthy.

Laurie Durand Ohi Rangatahi Fund
Well-known, highly respected and long-time youth advocate, Laurie Durand tragically lost his life in March 2022. With the support of Rotorua Trust and Te Waiariki Purea Trust, Laurie’s wife, Barbara Maclennan and whanau established this Fund to honour his memory. Distributions from the Fund will support kaupapa based youth work practice and practitioners, primarily in the Rotorua District community.

Life Education Trust Rotorua Fund
Life Education Trust Rotorua established the Life Education Trust Rotorua Fund in 2010. Life Education reaches all new entrants and students up to Year 8 in schools in the Rotorua District. The children are taught about the body, healthy eating and in the later years, what happens to the body if the wrong substances are put into it.

Parksyde Fund
In 2021, the Older Persons Community Centre Trust established this Fund to benefit Parksyde, the Community Centre for people aged 55+. The first of its kind to be established in New Zealand, Parksyde provides weekly activities and catering for the social, recreational, health and educational needs of older people in the Rotorua District.

Ross Bohm Fund
Disabled sportspeople in the Rotorua and Taupo District communities benefit from this Fund which Barbara Bohm established to honour the memory of her late husband, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Ross Bohm, who passed away in 2011.

Rotary Rotorua Hospice Fund
In 2012, the five Rotary Clubs in Rotorua jointly established the Rotary Rotorua Hospice Fund to benefit Rotorua Community Hospice. Local Rotarians wanted to provide a long-term commitment to supporting Hospice in Rotorua, not achievable by the individual Clubs.

Rotorua First Responders’ Fund
Established by Geyser Trustees in 2024, funding from the Rotorua First Responders’ Fund will be directed at charitable purposes and projects which support and strengthen First Responders in the Rotorua District community.

Rotorua SPCA Fund
The Rotorua Branch of the Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals established their Fund in 2012. The Society’s goal is to become self-sufficient and have enough money invested to provide an income for the long term future of Rotorua SPCA.

Rotorua Women’s Club Fund
In 2020, the Rotorua Women’s Club established this Fund to benefit women and women’s groups in the Rotorua District community.

St Chad’s Trust Rotorua Fund
St Chad’s Trust Rotorua Fund was established in 2015. The annual income from the Fund is used in a number of ways, including for the benefit of St Chad’s clients to assist them to participate more fully in and become independent members of the local community.

St Faith’s Church Ohinemutu Fund
St Faith’s Church Vestry Committee established this Fund in 2015. The annual income from the Fund is used for the general running of the Church, including maintaining the historic, intricately decorated, timber building, which is loved and admired by local people and visitors from around the world.

Te Atawhai Aroha Fund
Te Atawhai Aroha Compassionate Communities Rotorua Trust is a not-for-profit group of volunteers working together to build whanau and community preparedness for death, loss and grief. The Trust established this Fund in 2023 as a long-term funding strategy to help enable family led, affordable, eco-friendly funeral / tangihanga.

Tongariro Memorial Fund
The Tongariro Memorial Fund is a living legacy to four national park rangers: William Cooper, Keith Blumhardt, Derek White, Marie Williams, and pilot Douglas McKenzie who died in the helicopter crash in the park in December 1982. The Fund was transferred to Geyser in 2015. The annual income is made available to Project Tongariro every year for investment in one of four key areas of focus: biodiversity, education, history or recreation, and enable continued development of projects and programmes in and around Tongariro National Park, World Heritage Area and in the wider Taupo region.

Taupō Budget Advisory Service Fund
Taupō Budget Advisory Service provides free and confidential budgeting advice for individuals and families in the Taupo and Turangi District communities.  In 2022, Taupō Budget Advisory Service established their fund with Geyser as part of their long-term funding strategy for a stronger and more sustainable future.

Taupō First Responders’ Fund
Charitable purposes and projects which support and strengthen First Responders in the Taupō District community will benefit from the Taupō First Responders’ Fund established by Geyser Trustees in 2024.

Taupō School of Music Fund
In 2022, The Taupō School of Music established their fund with Geyser as part of a long-term strategy. Established in 1989, Taupō School of Music offers quality small group music lessons that are affordable and accessible to primary and intermediate aged children living in Taupō. Taupō School of Music tutors are experienced, well qualified tutors who inspire all students to play to the best of their ability.

You can make a donation here to any of these Special-interest Funds, simply select the Fund name from the drop down menu and make your donation.