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Forsyth Barr in the Community April 2021 Forsyth Barr in the Community Forsyth Barr’s Role Forsyth Barr is a proudly Recognising this urgent community need, we focused our annual ‘Charity Brokerage Day’ and New Zealand and staff-owned made donations to The Foodbank Project and business. We started life in KiwiHarvest totalling $200,000. Dunedin in 1936, and now On the following pages you will find a summary of the many community initiatives have 23 offices across and organisations we have supported and New Zealand employing descriptions of four of our key community partnerships from 2020. We are proud of our around 450 people. involvement with every one. Given this, we believe we have both an Yours sincerely opportunity and a responsibility. Through our office network, we have an opportunity to contribute in meaningful ways to the communities we serve. You’ll find us supporting schools, clubs and community organisations right across the country. We David Kirk MBE embrace this opportunity to help the places that Chairman matter to us thrive. We also have a responsibility. Thanks to the support of our clients, and the hard work of our people, we are a successful business. And that comes with a responsibility to contribute Neil Paviour-Smith in significant and impactful ways. You’ll find Managing Director a number of examples showcased within this document. But we would like to highlight one that was particularly important to us in 2020. In April 2020 New Zealand experienced the full force of the global pandemic that had reached our shores. As everyone adapted to life in isolation, it was clear that while the impact was widespread it was not being evenly felt – there were some New Zealanders who had been seriously impacted, had lost their jobs or income, and were struggling. Page 1 Forsyth Barr in the Community Community Support Altrusa Queenstown Lions Club of Charity Golf Akaroa & Bays Tournament Lions Club of Mana Ashburton Art Gallery Charitable Trust Forsyth Barr Stadium The Foodbank Project and KiwiHarvest AUT Young Lions Club of Enterprise Scheme Oxford & Districts Big Wheel Trust Live Ocean (Rotary) Marlborough Golf Club Bluff Hill Bowling Club Manawatu Golf Club Cambridge Mangawhai Autumn Festival Beach School Cambridge Business Medbury School Chamber Parents’ Association Canterbury Brain Mount Maunganui Arts Festival Dunedin Hawke’s Bay Wine Auction Collective Golf Club Canterbury Caledonian Mount Maunganui Society’s Pipe Band NZ Sports Club Central Bowling Multiple Sclerosis & Club Cambridge Parkinson’s Canterbury Chamber Music North Canterbury Otago Medical Institute of Finance Professionals New Zealand Sport & Recreation Research Foundation New Zealand (INFINZ) Charteris Bay Golf Club Trust Children’s Christmas North East Foundation Valley School City Choir of Dunedin NZCETA Clearwater Golf Club Omanu Golf Club Culinary Cambridge One Tree Point Daffodil Day Bowling Club Otago Boys’ Diabetes New Zealand New Zealand Young Enterprise/ RIDE New Zealand’s High School Duffy Books in Homes Business Hall of Fame Cycling Festival Otago Business Dunedin Symphony Awards Orchestra Otago University - Eagles Golfing Society Commerce Student East Coast Bays Association Rotary Club of Southern Cochlear The Otago Golf Club Bridge Club Dunedin Implant Programme Pack the Bus Timaru Tennis Club Special Children’s Egmont A & P Wellington Rotary Club of University of Otago Association Invercargill North Christmas Parties Paraparaumu Beach Waikato Chamber Rotary Club of Kapiti St Andrew’s College Forsyth Barr Hawke’s Bowling Club of Commerce Bay Sport Awards Rotary Club of Karori: St Hilda’s Collegiate Paraparaumu Waikanae Greater East Tamaki Forsyth Barr Business Croquet Club Takapuna Bowling Club Business Association Breakfast Programme Bowling Club Paritutu Bowling Club Waipu Rugby & Greenacres Golf Club Rotary Club of Tamahere Model Pukenui Trust Paraparaumu Country School Squash Club Halberg Foundation Kiwi Release of Royal New Zealand Wanaka Festival Hastings Golf Club Forsyth the Kiwi Tasman Rugby Union Air Force Association of Colour Hautapu Sports Queenstown Golf Club Taupo Bridge Club Showbiz Queenstown Wellington Arts (NZ Tauranga Chamber Hawera Golf Club Rangi Ruru Art Show, Music Up Girls’ School Sir John Kirwan of Commerce Hutt Valley Sports Foundation Parliamentary Close, The Orpheus Awards Raumati Bowling Club Choir of Wellington) Sophia Crestani Election Candidates IPWEA Conference Ronald McDonald Memorial Forum 2020 Whakapiki I te Kavanagh College House Scholarship Fund Te Anau Bowling Club putea - Raising Maori Investment Limehills Servicemen’s Rotary Browns Bay South Canterbury The Kensington Memorial Rotary Club of Business Excellence Bowling Club Conference Bowling Club Avonhead Awards Whangarei Zonta Ashburton Page 2 Examples of our Community Support 1. The Foodbank Project and KiwiHarvest 2. Forsyth Barr Hawke’s Bay Sports Awards 3. Southern Cochlear Implant Programme 4. RIDE New Zealand’s Cycling Festival Page 3 Forsyth Barr in the Community The Foodbank Project and KiwiHarvest Winter is always the busiest PARTNERSHIP SNAPSHOT: THE time of year for food banks in FOODBANK PROJECT AND KIWIHARVEST New Zealand, but the impact These two organisations work to ensure of COVID-19 made 2020 the that vulnerable individuals and families across New Zealand have access to busiest year yet. nutritious food. There was increased demand for their services immediately the When the pandemic hit, many New Zealanders and COVID-19 pandemic hit in March 2020. New Zealand businesses recognised the urgent need and stepped up with donations of money, food Forsyth Barr donated $200,000 that enabled or time. Forsyth Barr was proud to be among them, them to ramp up services at this pivotal donating a combined $200,000 to two outstanding time, providing food security to people in organisations helping those most affected by the need across the country. crisis - The Foodbank Project and KiwiHarvest. foodbank.org.nz kiwiharvest.org.nz About the Foodbank Project The Foodbank Project is a not-for-profit online and within days we’d raised $700,000.” store that was launched by The Salvation Army, A huge number of New Zealanders live week- Lucid and Countdown in 2015 and makes it easy to-week and struggle to deal with unexpected for anyone to donate groceries, either by buying costs at the best of times and many of those who much-needed individual items or food packs. These were already in precarious financial situations lost are then delivered to 69 food bank hubs around the income due to COVID-19. But, as Salvation Army country and distributed to those in need. director of community ministries Jono Bell said, Over $1 million worth of food has been bought “By redirecting the money clients would normally and delivered since the scheme launched and spend on groceries, to target one-off costs or debt, it distributed 62,000 food parcels in 2019. The the project aimed to help vulnerable individuals and Salvation Army expected demand over winter to families get on top of their living costs.” grow by at least 60 per cent in 2020, with more About KiwiHarvest than 50,000 New Zealanders seeking its help. KiwiHarvest is a charity that works with food Food security is a major social issue and it was all businesses like supermarkets, wholesalers, cafes, exacerbated by COVID-19, with food banks saying restaurants, hotels and producers to rescue up to they saw many people asking for help for the first 150,000 kilograms of surplus food each month time. But, perversely, food waste is also a major otherwise destined for landfill (it is estimated environmental issue and KiwiHarvest aims to that 60 percent of food going to landfill is still fit address both problems simultaneously. for consumption). The Foodbank Project and COVID-19 It then distributes that food for free to more than In the days immediately following the onset of 242 charities and social service agencies. the COVID-19 crisis, Nick Mowbray, co-founder In February 2020, KiwiHarvest (which was of ZURU, connected with The Foodbank Project. founded by Deborah Manning in Dunedin in “We saw the scale of the potential problem and 2012) announced it had provided 10 million wanted to help. But to have real impact we needed meals since launching. It also cut the ribbon others to do likewise”, explained Nick. “Forsyth Barr on a new, much bigger national headquarters stepped up immediately. They set an example we in Auckland that is capable of collecting and Page 4 could then encourage other corporates to follow, distributing greater quantities of food. KiwiHarvest and COVID-19 “At Forsyth Barr, we speak proudly of being a While COVID-19 created more need in the New Zealand-owned business,” he continued. community, Deborah Manning explained that the “We were fortunate to be in a position to lockdown saw food donations decrease markedly, support two great organisations helping parts of with manufacturers, restaurants, cafes and hotels our communities that were struggling. And we that would have normally provided food closing encourage anyone who is in a position to do so to down, and a rush on the supermarkets leading to consider joining us in donating to The Foodbank empty shelves. Project or KiwiHarvest.” “When the virus hit, the demand for our services grew overnight. It was only through the generous support of Forsyth Barr and other supporters that we were able to continue to deliver for people who were in real need. We were very grateful that a long-established kiwi business like Forsyth Barr stepped up with a donation out of the blue to help us do our work.” “The impact of KiwiHarvest is very clear to see. For every $1 they receive in donations, they are able to rescue and deliver the equivalent of two meals. We were thrilled to be able to support that work”, said Forsyth Barr Managing Director, Neil Paviour-Smith. Page 5 Forsyth Barr in the Community Forsyth Barr Hawke’s Bay Sports Awards From the grassroots to the PARTNERSHIP SNAPSHOT: hallowed turf, from the HAWKE’S BAY SPORTS AWARDS sweating to the spectating, Sport Hawke’s Bay offers programmes and sport is a glue that binds services across the Hawke’s Bay region, encouraging participation and enabling New Zealand.
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