26 JULY

NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE

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The Trust donated $20,000 to Diving Otago. This is a small group of people that has taken the big step of employing a professional coach and has placed Otago at the front of diving in New Zealand. To raise money, Diving Otago sold barbecued sausages – 11,000 of them (together with 62 litres of tomato sauce and 160 kg of onions and I guess 11,000 slices of bread).

We think that it is good for The Community Trust to leverage the commitment of others so that their own efforts bring greater reward.

And I mention a thank you card. The card said “[we] have a feeling of achievement and pride that we have completed this project.” The point is that the group retained the pride in and the ownership of the project. The Trust may well have made the difference between whether the project happened or did not happen, but we did not dominate. That is the way we like it and indeed the way we must ensure that it remains.

The Trust regards economic development as important to the province and several initiatives are in progress. As an Otago-wide organisation, we have an Otago-wide perspective and during the year offered a particular regional economic development proposal. Although that was not in the end adopted, there are pleasing signs that the regional view is more widely shared.

During the year the Trust did away with set closing dates. Applications for funding can be made at any time and will normally be processed within two months. This was done to provide a better service to the community and it seems to be working.

The Role of Community Trusts

Overseas, academic analysis is placing increasing emphasis on the role of the “third sector” in society. The third sector is all activity that is not generated in either the private sector or the government sector – this includes your hobby, sport, cultural interest, religion. It includes non-government social delivery agencies. The idea is that all three sectors have to work well for society to be healthy, and it doesn’t help if one sector tries to do what is better done by another sector. This is a useful view for the Trust, because we are in the third sector ourselves, most of what we fund is also there, and we see this as good.

During the year there have been some brushfires to fight with government agencies and Wellington consultants who think they can “help” us spend our (actually, your) money better.

Trustees and Staff

Last year I overlooked thanking two retiring trustees, and the oversight must be fixed. Both Sir Robin Gray and Dr James Ng had been trustees since the inception of the Trust and had given immense value over the years. This year we lost four more: Ross Allen, Graeme Bell, Peter Gibson and Richard Walls had also given long and distinguished service. We have missed them in more ways than one.

At the same time it must be said that all replacement trustees have rapidly proved their worth. The Trust has been remarkably fortunate with the quality of trustees. I am most thankful to them all for their continued wisdom and good humour.

We have been very pleased with the way the trustee appointment process has worked over the last two years. We borrowed an idea from the Community Trust of Southland and advertised for registrations of interest, obtaining an overwhelming response. The Government has genuinely consulted, based on that process.

Again, I personally thank the staff of the Trust: chief executive Keith Ellwood, donations assessor Carol Melville, and our office staff Fay Jackson and Lynley Stevenson. All are quality people and wonderfully congenial to work with.

CLIVE MATTHEWSON, Chairperson.

14 June 2001.

Chair/Chairpersons Report to March 2001.

The Community Trust of Otago Directory for the Year Ended 31 March 2001

Trustees: Clive Matthewson (chairperson), Dunedin; Ross Allan, Middlemarch (retired November 2000); Hilary Allison, Dunedin (appointed November 2000); Nancy Bamford, Balclutha; Graeme Bell, Alexandra (retired November 2000); Duncan Butcher, Cromwell (appointed November 2000); John Farry, Dunedin; Peter Gibson, Dunedin (retired November 2000); Ele Ludemann, Oamaru; Richard McKnight, Dunedin; Alan McLay, Oamaru; Barbara Payton, Dunedin (appointed November 2000); Mark Ryan, Dunedin (appointed November 2000); David Shepherd, Dunedin; Gail Tipa Dunedin; Richard Walls, Dunedin (retired November 2000).

Chief Executive: Keith Ellwood.

Registered Office: Second Floor, Community Trust House, corner of Filleul Street and Moray Place, Dunedin.

Auditor: Taylor McLachlan, Dunedin.

Solicitor: Anderson Lloyd Caudwell, Dunedin.

Investment Advisors: Frank Russell Limited, Auckland.

Bankers: WestpacTrust, Dunedin.

Custodian: J. P. Morgan, Sydney.

The Community Trust of Otago Consolidated Statement of Financial Performance for the Year Ended 31 March 2001

This (deficit)/surplus has been allocated to:

| Uncommitted surplus | (1,441) | (792) |
| | (1,441) | (792) |