THE TINDALL F O U N D AT I O N ANNUAL REPORT NOVEMBER 2001

Hand in Hand
with Inspirational New Zealanders
The Tindall Foundation - Annual Report 2001
LETTER FROM STEPHEN TINDALL
Dear Fellow New Zealanders
Thank you for taking the time to read about
the lives and work of some of the inspirational
New Zealanders highlighted in this year’s Annual
Report. Margaret and I have great pleasure,
along with fellow Trustees and Staff, of backing
the often unheralded hard work and commitment
of terrific people who are changing New Zealand
for the better. The stories within this report
highlight the good work being done by some of
PC2100 Ram
New Zealand’s Social Entrepreneurs. Perhaps
you’ll find that some of their passions match
your own and that their work deserves not only
your admiration but your support as well.
These are just a handful of the many fantastic,
energetic New Zealanders who are becoming
known as “Social Entrepreneurs”. For me the
word “entrepreneur” means someone with drive
and ideas, a person with the potential and
passion to create something new where there
was nothing before - someone with a knack for
making a lot out of very little. These Social
Entrepreneurs are doing just that; creating a
better New Zealand by combining inventive
ideas with energy and resources. Very often,
fresh approaches to development and community
work can be traced back to inspired self-starters,
who understand instinctively the who, why,
what and how of community work. They sweat
blood to make an idea happen. You can’t buy
that sort of enthusiasm - you can only try and
support it when you find it.
Social
1 Entrepreneurs
One of the speakers at the Knowledge Wave The goals of Social Entrepreneurs sometimes Our deepest thanks must go to these Social
Conference held in Auckland during August seem almost irrational by definition; they dream Entrepreneurs and the hundreds like them
described the difference between invention and of a better world but have to operate in an throughout New Zealand who are striving daily
innovation as invention being a new idea and environment that places seemingly to create the kind of world we want to live in.
innovation taking that new idea and turning insurmountable obstacles in their way. Any A New Zealand in which all of us live inventive,
it into a marketable product. Lots of inventions
fail because they can’t attract the technical,
financial and marketing support they need to
succeed in the marketplace.
At The Tindall Foundation we try to help
Social Entrepreneurs create social innovations
– initiatives for positive social change that are
sustainable. Foremost by making monetary
donations to their initiatives and organisations
– just the cost of running a small organisation
can be overwhelming and funders are notorious
for not providing this key support. But of equal
importance is the role we can play in networking
Social Entrepreneurs to other organisations for
resources and collaboration. In addition, we
try to be useful as a sounding board for their
ideas, providing direction and occasionally a
critical analysis, always mindful however, that
ours is not the only valid viewpoint.
Environment Families
Entrepreneurs can be exhausting to others
who lead a more ordered life. They can have a normal person would put such ideas in the “too productive and generous lives, raising our
thousand new ideas a day; they can be dogmatic hard” basket and call it a day. But they don’t. children to do the same in an environment
about achieving their vision. But they get things These Social Entrepreneurs dream their work that sustains us.
done. Results happen. You have to take the and work their dreams. We have the delight of
rough with the smooth. . sharing their dreams and supporting their work.
 Historical Overview
Stephen and Margaret Tindall established
The Tindall Foundation in 1995 with the primary
aim of helping New Zealanders to reach their
full potential. Then, as now, the guiding
philosophy behind the work of the Foundation
is to help ordinary Kiwis help others and
themselves, on a hand up not a hand out basis.
Stephen and Margaret ceded 23 % of their
private shareholding in The Warehouse Limited
to establish the Foundation. Income from
dividends on the Foundation’s shareholding
provides its operating budget and has enabled
it to donate more than $27 million to a broad
spectrum of worthy causes across New Zealand
since establishment.
“We wanted to share what we had with
others. Over the years, it has
been both touching and
rewarding to see people develop,
watch the programmes we
support expand and blossom
and see the difference the
Foundation has made in the lives
of so many people. We get an
incredible amount of joy from
giving to others and this is one
of the privileges of being in our
position. We get so much more
pleasure from giving than we do
from receiving.”
“Families in this country need
all the help they can get. We
have five children and we
understand how tough
parenthood can be at times. The
Foundation aims to strengthen
families, to encourage them and
to help those in crisis. We want
to take pressure off families so they can get on
with life without added stress – that way, parents
can focus on nurturing and raising their children
in a positive way.”
Margaret Tindall.
The Tindall Foundation primarily funds Third organisations. Typically, these are areas where
Sector organisations traditionally known as our contributions can leverage much larger
“charities”, “non-profits” or “community outcomes in co-operation with a range of
groups.” Passionate, committed people resource providers, including Government. Great
invariably run Third Sector organisations but care is taken to avoid unnecessary duplication
often rudimentary delivery systems combined of effort whilst building on the endeavours of
with uncertain or precarious finances can stifle all stakeholders.
their effectiveness. Most are faced with the
constant challenge of delivering outcomes while
struggling to make ends meet. As a result the
Foundation prefers projects and initiatives that
also attract “generosity” from other New
Zealanders – the giving and sharing of
resources, whether it be volunteer time, in-kind
or monetary assistance.
The Foundation provides support in areas
where Government initiatives are less effective
than the efforts of community-based
The Tindall Foundation Donations
1995 to 2001
1995/96 $2,756,117
Margaret and Stephen Tindall
1996/97 $2,648,439
1997/98 $2,985,373 The Tindall Foundation keeps staffing levels
and administration costs to a minimum so the
1998/99 $6,510,866
bulk of its available resources can be distributed
to those who need it most. The Trustees give
1999/00 $6,964,131
freely of their time and expertise and play an
2000/01 $5,735,665
important role in ensuring fairness and
objectivity in the allocation of the Foundation’s
resources.
2
Families
OPENING MINDS – OPENING DOORS THE PARTNERSHIP WAY
“The Company was pleasantly surprised by
the outcome,” says Clare Thompson of SONY
New Zealand Corporate Communications,
referring to the results of a new partnership
between the Company and Auckland’s Long
Positive Parenting
Bay College. Sixth Form students were briefed
by the Company and asked to develop a market
survey that would reveal how their peers felt
about SONY, its products and Website as well
as buying merchandise over the Internet. Once
complete, the students presented their findings
to SONY’s CEO and management team.
“It was a win-win situation for all parties.
We can use the information they gathered as a
marketing tool and in return, the students were
able to follow through the market
research process from briefing stage
Partnerships Between
3 Business & Education
to presentation of results. We could see their
confidence grow as the project developed.”
The College became interested in the
partnership concept through an earlier experience
with Murray’s Bay Childcare Centre. When the
Centre’s playground was in need of a revamp,
fourteen Year 12 students from Long Bay College
were set the task of coming up with a design
for the play area. Designing a specialised
playground facility is no mean feat by anyone’s
standards and it’s even more impressive when
a team of seventeen-year-olds front the project.
“The partnership was a perfect fit,” says the
College’s Head of Technology, Paul Bordeaux.
Environmental design is one of four subjects
covered in the Design Technology syllabus
and the play area project was an
In s p i r a ti o n a l N e w Z e a l a n d e r s
opportunity for us to put a real-life design brief Specific projects emerge once business and
into practise.” “I thought it would be an easy schools learn about each other’s needs and
project, but I was wrong,” admitted one of the resources. Once students are familiar with a
students, Ben Boss. “The play area was on a project, a team is formed to plan and co-ordinate
slope so we had to think about things like activities that fit in with the school’s Curriculum
drainage. We also had to listen carefully to the and help the business.
Client’s requirements and include that in our Elizabeth has been passionate about the
work, which is not as easy as just doing your potential for school/business/community
own thing.” synergy for most of her working life. An
These partnerships were set up through Educator by training, she is convinced that
Partners New Zealand, a Trust that facilitates all kids can learn, given the right motivation
the formation of partnerships between schools, and an enabling environment. “I was forever
other education institutions and business. asking the business community to assist
“Relationships are
based on mutual
benefit,” says Partners
New Zealand National
Facilitator Elizabeth
Deuchrass, the brains
behind the working
processes used by
the Trust. “Business
and schools have
resources that can
benefit each other.
Schools have an opp-
ortunity to enhance
their Curriculum and students learn by valuable the kids. Many business people told me
real-life experience; business is able to positively they loved helping the schools, but were looking
influence the future work force and the end for a quid pro quo or incentive in return for
result is the completion of important tasks that their involvement.”
benefit the community.”
 FAMILIES $3,430,198

going is seeing the results in action - the programmes already run from The Warehouse Funding Managers

Elizabeth Deuchrass – Partners New Zealand Trust
That is how the idea to develop the
partnership process came about. “Eight years
ago, I developed the first draft process document
outlining a way in which schools and business
could benefit from each other and now, after
participation; smiles on kids’ faces; teachers stores,” explains Area Manager, Alex Grant. “We Catholic Bishop’s Conference $350,000
Anglican Care Network $150,000
empowered by the growth of their charges and plan to further involve store employees in local
Salvation Army $150,000
the fruits of their labour actually being used in school activity. Store teams will assist with
Presbyterian Support Services $150,000
the commercial world. All of that and the support fundraising, offer career advice and so forth; United Way $500,000
and understanding of my loving family.”
students are provided with an opportunity to COMPASS Community Foundation $130,000
Elizabeth believes she is good at what she work with people from The Warehouse stores Penny~Wise Trust $140,000
does because she has the right temperament, and develop their retail skills.”
Child Protection Studies $ 30,000
skills and conviction to be involved in this type Drug Abuse Prevention Alliance $150,000
Deuchrass emphasises the importance of Workers’ Education Assoc $ 60,000
of work. “Networking is a key element, as is a
business and schools working together. “Today’s Pacific Foundation $250,000
commitment to Community, a desire to make a
children are tomorrow’s employees and
difference, a certain amount of stamina and a
consumers. It is imperative for kids to understand Major Projects
belief that everyone is entitled to an opportunity
Parenting with Confidence $575,000
to learn.” the relevance of what they learn and to be able
Project K $100,000
Nearly two hundred business/education to apply their skills in real-life situations, before
Partners New Zealand $ 20,000
partnerships have been facilitated by Partners they leave school. Partners New Zealand can
New Zealand since inception. Participants pay make this happen. Other Initiatives $675,198

Passionate about the potential for school,business and community synergy

many rewrites and plenty of “field testing”, a
six stage process has evolved which is the model
used by Partners New Zealand today. What was
only a theory has now proven to be a successful,
practical tool.”
Elizabeth works and travels tirelessly
promoting Partners New Zealand in order to
generate new opportunities, facilitate existing
projects and train new staff. “My friends and
nothing to take part in the programme; the
Trust receives a small amount of Government
funding and relies heavily on outside sources
for monetary support for its activities. “Currently
we have nine areas operating; six of these
now have their own local coordinators”,
says Elizabeth.
In addition to The Tindall Foundation
funding, substantial support is also coming
The Tindall Foundation supported Partners
New Zealand Trust (North Shore) with a donation
of $20,000 in 2000. The Trustees have recently
approved $50,000 for the National office with
the intention of continuing the support for a
further two years.
For more information contact:
Partners New Zealand Trust Families - 59%

colleagues have nicknamed me the “bag lady” separately from The Warehouse Limited. P.O. Box 13404, Armagh St Christchurch
because I spend so much of my time living out “The involvement with Partners New Ph: 03 357 1034 Fax: 03 357 1035
of suitcases,” jokes Elizabeth. “What keeps me Zealand is in keeping with community Email: elizd@es.co.nz

Insp i rati o nal New Ze a l a n d e r s 4

Families
EVENING UP THE ODDS

“It’s not easy being a parent. It requires, children grow and learn and how families in 1990, which I co-founded with Gordon and equity. As the Prime Minister said recently,
for a start, the capacity to earn sufficiently; the function. She later served on the executive of Dryden, who is well-known as a broadcaster ‘HIPPY evens up the odds.’”
ability to plan ahead; an understanding of what the IHC in Auckland where she worked with and businessman. Gordon has since gone on
children need; the skills to guide them without others to improve services and opportunities to do other things.”
oppressing them; Lesley told the recent
that old-fashioned Knowledge Wave Conference,
notion of self- that the cognitive capacity of
sacrifice – putting a population is to the
their interests Knowledge Economy what
ahead of your own the silicon chip is to the
– all of which information industry. It’s
constitutes a huge largely determined in infancy
commitment. And and early childhood yet most
what about love? of the early childhood
Love is at the Lesley Max - Pacific Foundation
education sector appears
foundation of it all uncomfortable with the focus The HIPPY programme offers parents
– yet, at the risk of on the cognitive dimension. something precious – an opportunity to help
arguing with The But mechanisms do exist to their children learn and a structure to ensure
Beatles – love isn’t deliver enthusiastic young they spend time with them each day. For
all you need!” learners and engaged parents children, HIPPY promises the joy of learning,
These are the from the lowest social- discovering new things, exciting activities,
HIPPY Graduation
words of author, economic areas to the school hearing stories – all in the company of the
Social Entrepreneur, educationalist and for people with intellectual disabilities. gates. One such mechanism is HIPPY, an person who is dearest to them. And perhaps
children’s rights advocate Lesley Max, “My son Jamie had his early schooling in acronym for Home Instruction Programme for most importantly, HIPPY offers a really good
Executive Director of the Pacific Foundation the Glen Innes area of Auckland, where there Pre-School and Year One Youngsters. start in school. This year, 18 HIPPY Co-ordinators
for Health, Education and Parent Support. were many children leading very difficult lives, “I had been looking for ways to break the and 70 paraprofessional tutors are assisting
Lesley speaks with the conviction of often very different lives from those led by poverty trap and all that poverty means for some 1200 families throughout New Zealand
someone who knows from personal experience children in neighbouring suburbs,” she recalls. families. Research shows that education is the to reach their potential.
the difficulties involved in dealing with children “I started writing about these matters for Metro best road out of poverty but it must start in “There are times of huge personal
with learning disabilities. After the birth of her magazine and then went on to write “Children: early childhood and parents must be closely satisfaction, none more so than when I attend
second son, who has a learning disability, Endangered Species?” which in turn, led to involved. HIPPY, which is home-based, offers a HIPPY Graduation. I love to watch the
she became very involved with how the formation of the Pacific Foundation that closeness. It’s also an agent of opportunity children, parents, grandparents, teachers and

Love isn’t all

5 you need Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s

Enjoying a holiday programme
community members celebrating two years of
learning, loving, understanding and success,”
says Lesley. “The thing I try to suppress
at such times is the frustration of not being
able to bring this same joy to thousands
more families.”
The rate of child abuse and neglect in New
Zealand sets us apart from most other developed
countries. Lesley believes the most effective
“I cannot bear between parents and their children from birth the Pacific Foundation to widen its scope into
cruelty,” says Lesley. so that it provides a resilient foundation for life. other areas that enhance family functioning
“The more vulnerable “I care deeply about kindness, the joys of and child well-being – areas where more
the person, the more learning and discovery; about families that thinking and development work needs to be
unbearable it is that nurture their children and communities that are done, and where people’s efforts need to be
they should be safe and offer opportunities. I care
subjected to cruelty. deeply about New Zealand and want to
Babies and children see a society within it, which reflects
are utterly vulnerable the beauty that lies around us in such
and many of them abundance,” says Lesley. “ I feel very
are subjected to strongly that we can create good societies
unspeakable cruelty. by fostering our capacity for empathy,
For every child who problem solving, seeking the truth and
is battered to death objective reality while valuing also the
there are thousands subjective and the spiritual.”
more who survive - many go on to become “When I think it’s all too hard, I
parents and, sadly, repeat the terrible cycle of remind myself of the wise words uttered
abuse and neglect.” Study support
two thousand years ago by Rabbi Tarfon,
Lesley believes it is possible to break the who said: ‘It is not incumbent upon you to maximised by association with others working
cycle of abuse. A possible strategy includes complete the task, but neither are you free to for the same ends. A new programme entitled
using the education system to ensure that no desist from it.” MATES – Mentoring and Tutoring Education
one leaves school unacquainted with child “We’re facing a national challenge, but we Scheme – announced in August 2001, will begin
development, child needs and an appreciation can meet it if we face it in unity. Let’s just do trials in Auckland secondary schools next year
of some of the realities of parenthood and it!” she concludes. and is an example of this expansion.

Education is the best road out of poverty

antidote to this intolerable state of affairs is to
work towards a situation where children are
born to two parents, who are committed to them
for life and are ready for the responsibilities
of parenthood.
relationships. Young women, in particular, need
to receive clear messages about the lifelong
consequences of becoming mothers too soon,
unsupported and unready for the task. She
believes it is critical to foster the attachment
The Pacific Foundation was designated a For more information contact:
Funding Manager for The Tindall Foundation The Pacific Foundation for Health, Education
in 1997, a role which has enabled it to channel and Parent Support
funding into HIPPY Programmes around New P.O. Box 28346 Remuera, Auckland
Zealand. The strong partnership has enabled Ph: 09 377 5384 Fax: 09 377 3553
Email: lesley.max@xtra.co.nz

Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s 6
Employment
MAKING HOPE POSSIBLE EMPLOYMENT $533,750

Vibrant communities are based on livelihood. on local jobs; but others have been much exciting new jobs we are now creating are not Funding Managers

Livelihood underpins our ability to create slower such as the changing nature of work in going to be enough to replace those being Inventors Trust $ 75,000

lost in areas hard- Methodist Employment $ 30,000

and sustain our communities but when it our culture and in our
disappears, the cohesion of our way of life starts personal lives”. hit by technological
Major Projects
to crumble and very quickly, we start to see the The sum of these innovation and a
Employment Scholarship Programme $ 37,500
emergence of all the social problems that come changes has forced us to globalised marketplace.
First Foundation Project $ 20,000
packaged with poverty. These range from perceive, understand and So where are all the
Knowledge Wave Conference $100,000
crime to overcrowding in housing and are interpret our world new jobs going to come NZ Centre for Innovation $ 37,500
symptomatic of the exclusion that follows the differently and the effect of from? What can we do Jobs Research Trust $ 30,000
loss of livelihood. these changes is clearly in order to attain what
“Our communities have been experiencing having an impact on all the Mayor’s Taskforce Other Initiatives $203,750

dramatic and fundamental changes to employ-
ment over the past twenty years,” says vivian
Hutchinson of the Jobs Research Trust. “Some
of the changes have been swift, like the impact
of new technology and the effect of globalisation
Creative use of recycled materials
layers of our communities.
“The paradigm shift we are
facing is systemic,” says
vivian Hutchinson - Jobs Research Trust
vivian, “and we are not going to solve our
employment challenges if we simplistically focus
all our attention on how we
can better manage the poor
and the unemployed.”
In the New Economy,
economic growth does not
necessarily yeild the same
numbers of jobs that growing
economies produced 35
years ago. Ours is the first
generation to face the fact
that the “cheapest” worker
anywhere in the global
economy, will not be cheap
enough to compete with new
technologies coming on stream
to replace them. All the
describes as its goal
of “zero waste”
of New Zealanders?
“New business opportunities will not be the
only drivers of future employment,” says vivian.
“The jobs of the future will also come from us
valuing different things. They will come from
acts of community and cultural leadership that
Employment - 9%
have the capacity to make choices for a common
good. These jobs will not come from acts of
economics or business development as we know
it, but rather from acts of governance. We need the earth better. Both sectors are very rich in
to apply longer-term thinking to the critical terms of job potential. These sectors will be
issues facing our communities and regain our driven by governance choices that communities
capacity to talk to each other about the long- make through their economic, cultural and
term trends affecting work and income.” political leaders.”
“The job-rich areas of the future will emerge If we value business and economic
from two main sectors,” says vivian. “The first development, we have to invest in the sort of
contains jobs that come from choosing to look infrastructure that will have a tangible spin-
after one another better and the second contains off in local jobs. This has to involve stakeholders
those jobs that come from choosing to look after and interest groups from business and the

7 Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s
 pragmatic. “These are the people who can make
hope possible in face of uncertainty and despair”,
asserts Hutchinson. “Fostering Social
Entrepreneurs will be critical to developing
sustainable solutions to the challenges of the
21st Century.”
vivian is a Social Entrepreneur and
community activist who has pioneered
community-based action for jobs in New Zealand,
especially in establishing programmes for the
training, support and education of unemployed
people. He is also an accomplished writer and
sought-after speaker on employment and
livelihood issues, here and abroad. He is Editor
of The Jobs Letter, co-founder of the Jobs
Research Trust and Community Advisor to the
New Zealand Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs. Creating community employment

Inventivness at work - Terrasaw™ portable power
trencher
community as well as local and regional
authorities and national Government.
Collaboration, leadership and co-operation are
required in order to translate this vision
into reality, but we particularly need to
harness the creative energies of society’s
“Social Entrepreneurs”.
The Social Entrepreneur looks at the need to
value different things and helps find ways to
pay for it. Such people are great alliance builders
and work out how new ways of doing things
can become politically saleable and economically
His other accomplishments include helping
establish the Community Employment
Development Unit (later to become the
Community Employment Group) within the
Department of Labour and working with the
national network of Local Employment
Co-ordination Committees. vivian was also a
founder of the Taranaki Work Trust, based
in New Plymouth and pioneered the first
Skills of Enterprise business courses aimed
at unemployed people. His Website at
www.jobsletter.org.nz, was the 1999 premier
Internet award winner at the New Zealand
Peace Media Awards.
In common with many community
Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s
development practitioners and business people,
vivian shares the view that New Zealand could
become the first sustainable country on earth.
Just as this country was considered a “social
laboratory” for the world at the time of the rise
of the Welfare State, it is conceivable that we
might become a “social and environmental
laboratory” as the global economy starts to
explore the new practicalities of what is described
by author Paul Hawken as “Natural Capitalism.”
The key to moulding New Zealand’s collective
future will be the acceptance that social equity
should not be defined by the social structures
that were the product of the 19th Century. We
all have an important role to play in rethinking
how our employment problems are defined and
how longer-term solutions can be envisioned
says vivian.
The Tindall Foundation has provided
donations to the Jobs Research Trust since 2000.
The Trustees recently approved a further
contribution of $30,000 which will be used to
support vivian in his work as a Social
Entrepreneur as well as a further $500,000 to
promote youth employment in collaboration
with the Mayor’s Taskforce for Jobs.
For more information contact:
Jobs Research Trust,
P.O. Box 428, New Plymouth.
Ph: 06 753 4434 Fax: 06 753 4430
Website: www.jobsletter.org.nz
8
Environment
FROM THE PAST FOR THE FUTURE
In New Zealand, the name Kay Baxter is
synonymous with the preservation and
propagation of heritage seeds, plants and organic
food products. At Koanga Gardens, she presides
over New Zealand’s largest collection of heirloom
seeds, plants and vegetables and the country’s
first Organic Garden Centre.
It seems as if Kay was destined to become
a gardener. She has fond childhood memories
of her Grandmother’s Marton garden, of the
family’s vegetable patch and of her own early
attempts at growing food. Later in life, out of
concern for the health of her young family, Kay
grew food organically and later, her love affair
with nature led to the establishment of
Koanga (a Mäori word meaning
Saving the Seeds
9 Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s
“new beginning” or “spring time”)
Gardens at Maungaturoto,
Northland.
Kay was naive when she started
out. She had a limited
understanding of the field but in
the process of learning about soil
and sustainable systems, she
quickly realised that there were
serious deficiencies in the way in
which food was being produced
commercially. Reduced nutritional
value and taste sacrifice were just
two aspects that concerned her, to
say nothing of the valuable
diversity and variety that was being
selectively discarded through genetic
manipulation. In 1980, a United Nations Food
and Agriculture Organisation (UNFAO) study
of the worldwide loss of vegetable varieties
estimated that of those available in 1920, only
10% were left and that the remainder were
disappearing at a rate of 3% per annum. The
rate of loss has continued so that today, we
may at best have only 7% of what existed in
1920. This alarming statistic comes as no
surprise to Kay who has spent the last 20 years
of her life promoting the importance of
maintaining plant varieties within the larger
framework of sustainable agriculture.
When Kay moved to Northland, she
wanted to plant fruit trees to supply
family needs, but she already knew that
commercially available varieties would not do
well in Northland as they were more suited to
Southern climates and soils. Thus, she began
searching for trees naturalised in the Northland
bioregion and her quest quickly unearthed a
treasure house of adapted varieties. When word
of what Kay was doing started to spread, people
asked whether she would supply them with
plant material and so began Koanga Nursery.
As time went by, more and more examples came
forward and the range of varieties grew.
Along the way, Kay discovered that New
Kay Baxter - Koanga Gardens Trust
Zealand, like many other countries, was almost
entirely dependent on commercial vegetable
seed from Northern Hemisphere sources. She
realised how compromised our food security is
and so began the development of Koanga’s seed
collection, initially found amongst local garden
clubs and then increasingly from like-minded
growers from all over New Zealand. With the
expanding collection came heightened
understanding of the breadth of issues involved
in particular, the irretrievable loss of genetic
diversity of our food plants. Once again, people
asked Kay to supply these seeds for their own
gardens and so the production of seeds for sale
was begun. The Heritage Plant and Seed
Collections, along with a record of their history
and culture, have now expanded to 1000
cultivars/varieties and more are being added
all the time.
In 1998, a Charitable Trust was established
and a subscribing membership was offered to
the Public as a way to subsidise the non-
commercial activities of Koanga Gardens. In an
attempt to reduce dependence on membership
subscriptions, the Trust decided to diversify its
activities and an Organic Garden Centre was
opened early in 2001. The Organic Garden
Centre has provided a direct outlet for the Public
to buy heritage seeds and fruit trees, allowed
for a wider range of products to be sold and has
raised the public profile of the organisation.
Continued on following page
 DOING MORE WITH LESS

American-born visionary, architect, inventor
and “world citizen”, Buckminster Fuller
(1895 – 1983), took liberties with the English
language when he talked about “doing well
by doing good”.
This philosophical approach to life and living
resonates very strongly with Norman Smith,
environmental champion, consultant and energy
efficiency guru.
According to Norman, the marker for his
work in building a sustainable energy future
had been laid across his trail twice, the first
being in the 1970’s when helping produce
the election manifesto for the Values
Party (now the Greens) and 20
Economic Renewal
years later when, after what he
through Energy Efficency
describes as “several moderately successful Since then, Norman has recorded an
careers,” he was made redundant from his impressive list of “firsts.” He was
job as Development Director of the Central instrumental in developing New Zealand’s
Institute of Technology (CIT). first course in Energy Management Training
“ I felt as if the Universe was nudging and successfully implemented a community-
me in a new direction,” says Norman. “ I wide “Economic Renewal through Energy
realized that it was time for me to find Efficiency” project in Thames after the
something I was passionate about, a field of closure of the Toyota assembly plant in the
endeavour where I could make a difference. late 1990’s. Other successes include co-
Given my varied employment record (from invention of the “Negawatt” eco hot water
journalism and corporate management to cylinder wrap and the development of a
farm labourer and single parent), energy package to help establish residential energy
efficiency seemed an unlikely choice, efficiency business units in small
but I had an intuitive sense that communities, the latter having created much
this was the direction in needed employment in centres such as
which I needed to go.” Continued on following page
Norman Smith

From the Past for the Future - continued
Nevertheless, the Trust is desperately in need of ongoing
support and is actively seeking assistance from a wide range of
grantmaking organisations, agencies and individuals. Funding
is actively being sought to support Koanga’s stewardship role,
maintain the collections, expand the gardens and orchards, fund
research and provide for the long-term viability of the Gardens.
Kay’s pioneering work has drawn praise from many quarters.
Recently, Graham Harris - Senior Lecturer at the Natural Resources
Centre at The Open Polytechnic described her work as having
made a major contribution to the conservation of biological
diversity. Brendan Hoare, Lecturer on Organics and Sustainable
Design at UNITEC and Convenor of the Organic Federation of
New Zealand, echoes this viewpoint, adding that Koanga Gardens
is a vital ingredient of sustainable development in our country.
Kay is confident that as more and more people become aware
of the importance of this endeavour, they will become “ambassadors”
for the Gardens and lend their financial and moral support. It is
also hoped that in time, Koanga Gardens will qualify for funding
assistance in terms of the Government’s Biodiversity Strategy. The
appeal for support is earnest and the need is great.
Kay’s involvement has affirmed her intuitive understanding of
the interrelationship and dependency of all living things. “This
work has changed my life in ways I could never have imagined”,
says Kay. “Although our primary role at Koanga is to save the
seeds, I know the work has touched the lives of thousands of people
in different ways. Many individuals and organisations have been
inspired and feel supported and encouraged by what we are doing.
These plants and seeds are a link with our past and form part of
our rich culture; we have a duty and a responsibility to do everything
we can to protect them for the benefit of future generations.”
The Tindall Foundation has supported Koanga Gardens since
1999. The Trustees recently approved a further contribution of
$25,000 which will be used to further the vitally important work
of the Koanga Gardens Trust.
For more information contact:
Koanga Gardens, RD 2 Maungaturoto.
Ph: 09 4312145 Fax: 09 431 2745
Website: www.koanga.org.nz

Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s 10
Environment
DOING MORE WITH LESS - continued Environment $1,240,085

Opotiki, Moerewa, Waitara and compiling facts and using a Funding Managers
Marton. An important outcome of processing logic we don’t Zero Waste New Zealand Trust $720,000

Norman’s work in Thames was the understand at the time. World Wide Fund For Nature $200,000

formation of the Thames Energy Great ideas emerge out of

Futures Trust which he co-founded
with Jeanette Fitzsimons. Since then,
the Trust has successfully expanded
its educational and energy efficiency
programmes and has attracted
support from a range of funding
agencies including The Tindall
Foundation.
Presently, Norman is involved Canterbury Enviromental Education Centre
in some exciting initiatives including
the replication of the Thames economic renewal
project in Huntly, working with venture capitalists
to develop a company specializing in energy
performance contracting and the establishment
of a New Zealand branch of the US-based Rocky
Mountain Institute - arguably the world’s leading
sustainable energy think tank.
“There are almost limitless ways to save
energy at much less than the cost of producing
it,” says Norman. “Buckminster Fuller talked
about doing more with less – I set out to find
ways to make energy efficiency happen, using
the dollar savings to fund the work and clipping
the ticket on the way through! It’s what I
call the “trim-tab” factor – leveraging small
units of effort to make big things happen
down the line. Energy efficiency makes money
and makes sense.”
But there is far more to it than that. There
are significant non-financial benefits of energy
efficiency such as reduced impact on the
environment and improved health for low-income
families living in warmer, drier dwellings and
job creation. In addition, energy efficiency results
in less money leaving the community, thus
allowing saved “energy dollars” to be spent
locally. “When energy providers realise they can
be more profitable by funding energy efficiency
rather than selling electrons, New Zealand will
really prosper. It’s a huge opportunity and it’s
going to happen!” asserts Norman.
“The key elements to success are
partnerships, leverage, time, timing and
mindset,” says Norman. “I also tend to operate
at the intuitive level. Intuition to me is nothing
airy-fairy. It is ideas produced by the mind
Major Projects
lateral thinking, putting the
Environmental Education $ 10,200
pieces of a puzzle together
in a different way, or
Other Initiatives $309,885
perhaps just identifying
the missing piece.”
It used to be accepted
that for someone to “win”
someone or somebody else
automatically had to lose
and that entrepreneurs were
invariably opportunistic and exploitative. The Environment - 22%
good news, it seems, is that there are limitless
“win-win-win” opportunities in the energy For more information contact:
sector with multiple benefits for the environment Thames Energy Futures Trust,
and society at large. 601 Sealey St, Thames
“ I think it was the inspirational speaker, Ph: 07 868 8345 Email: zwaan@xtra.co.nz
entrepreneur and marketing expert, James A. Norman Smith:
Ziegler, who said that if you meet enough 41 View Rd, Melrose, Wellington
people’s needs, you’ll always get your own met. Ph: 021 499 031 Fax: 04 387 2703
I think that’s how the Universe works.” Email: norman.smith@cit.ac.nz
concludes Norman.
The Tindall Foundation has supported one
of Norman’s major initiatives - the Thames
Energy Futures Trust. The Trustees recently
approved a further $150,000 on a 1:1 match
basis, payable over a three year period for
their ‘Economic Renewal through Energy
Efficiency’ project. Energy efficiency project in Thames

11 Insp i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s
Strengthening the Voluntary Sector
FINDING VALUE IN VALUES
Sometimes social change happens after a
walk and a talk on the beach! That’s how John
Stansfield remembers UNITEC’s Graduate
Diploma in Not-for-Profit Management getting
off the ground. Now, after six years, it operates
Helping people who want to make a difference
in six major centres around New Zealand as
well as in several countries in the Pacific region.
From a base of 21 participants at the inception
of the Programme, there are almost 400 students
studying this year, clear evidence of the necessity
for a dynamic programme that builds on
participants’ previous experience, integrating it
with theory and skills development.
The Programme started following a needs
analysis of community organisations. “It was
clear from the feedback we got, that the
management training needs of these
organisations were not being met,” recalls John.
“ At that time, there were no relevant sector-
specific programmes in place and those that
were on offer were inflexible from a scheduling
point of view or were simply unaffordable for
many prospective attendees.”
Everyone agreed that something needed to
be done but as is so often the case, no one
fronted up to pay for a sustainable solution,
particularly the costs of the tutors. It required
an entrepreneurial approach.
Meeting the needs
of the Voluntary Sector
Fortunately, UNITEC demonstrated a rare ability
to “venture invest” thus enabling the project
team to get it started. Additionally, John was
able (often through sheer force of personality
and the power of an idea) to persuade a talented
Tutors Refresher Day
core of New Zealand experts like Aly McNicol,
Garth Nowland-Foreman, Margy-Jean
Malcolm, Margot Nicholson and Lyndsay
Jeffs, to offer their services for a lot less than
they were worth. John’s own knowledge of the
Not-for-Profit environment stems from early
involvement in social, political and
In s p i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s
labour activism coupled with sound theoretical
knowledge of and practical involvement in the
Sector over almost three decades. His valuable
overseas experience in countries like Bangladesh
and Papua New Guinea as well as his in-depth
understanding of New Zealand’s socio-
political and socio-economic milieu,
identified him as the obvious choice to
oversee and grow the Programme.
This initiative is all about helping people
who want to make a difference. We
have crafted a Programme which has
excited and motivated a new generation
of community leaders. Support from
funders and community organisations
have worked to create “space” for the
professional development of exceptional
New Zealanders operating in the
Voluntary Sector. By improving the
management of the community sector
we improve the capacity of communities
to respond to those in need. To use the language
of business, the Sector has a single competitive
advantage - an ability to excite in people a
passion around shared values. Our management
must serve the values of our organisations,”
saya John.
Participants are predominantly working
Voluntary Sector $145,680
Funding Managers
UNITEC $40,000
Major Projects
Community Self Help $40,000
COMPASS Community Foundation $20,000
United Way $26,680
Other Initiatives $19,000
Voluntary Sector - 3%
professionals in organisations such as
community services, church welfare and
community development agencies. Access to
training and skills development programmes
for social development practitioners is an ongoing
challenge. Not-for-Profit organisations often
operate with minimal resources and many are
faced with the constant challenge of delivering
positive outcomes while struggling to make ends
meet on a day-to-day basis. In many instances,
training and skills development is,
understandably, way down on the needs list
and many such organisations focus on the urgent
Continued on following page
12
THE TINDALL FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT

GOVERNANCE FINDING VALUE IN VALUES - continued

TRUSTEES over the important. Improved management and and commitment to the Voluntary
John Avery
leadership is not only desirable but imperative Sector and the organisation’s agency
Keith Smith
Margaret Tindall if the Voluntary Sector is to operate at anything commitment to the course of study.
Stephen Tindall like its true potential. The demand for sector- In addition, there are work study
ADVISORY TRUSTEES relevant vocational training and skills “subsidy” opportunities for
Peter Menzies
development is enormous given that there are participants who have completed Year
Joan Withers
about 60,000 community based organisations One or who are otherwise ineligible
MANAGEMENT AND PERSONNEL
Tim McMains – Manager operating in New Zealand. for first year scholarships.
Evelyn Gauntlett – Administrator
Christine Peace – Administration Assistant
CONSULTANTS
Allen Miller
Ross Merrett Strengthening ties between Government and the
Teresa Schwellnus Voluntary Sector
FINANCIAL ADVISORS
BDO Spicers when they see funders like the Foundation
LEGAL ADVISORS supporting this initiative,” he says. “I have
Hesketh Henry attended many board meetings where raising
CONTACT DETAILS the issue of support for the Programme from
Postal Address:
major funders has been a deciding factor in
The Tindall Foundation
P.O. Box 33 181 Takapuna, Auckland those organisations committing to the
Ph: 09 488 0170 programme of study.”
Fax: 09 489 5327
Email: ttf@tindall.org.nz
The Tindall Foundation has supported the
Website: www.tindall.org.nz ‘Not-for-Profit Management’ Courses since 1998
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS providing total donations of $75,000 towards
Design & Production: I Cheesman student scholarships.
Communications Ltd Small group work engenders peer mentoring
Writers: Allen Miller, Sheena Hendon, Liz Taite For further information contact:
Photographs: Many thanks to all amateur and
professional photographers for their photographs-
The Tindall Foundation has appointed John believes the support of organisations UNITEC School of Community Studies,
they have captured things that can’t be expressed UNITEC as one of its Funding Managers. In like The Tindall Foundation has proved pivotal Private Bag 92025 Auckland
in words. terms of this arrangement, scholarship to the success of the Programme. “Many smaller Ph: 09 815 2945
Published: November 2001
applications are carefully assessed and awarded organisations that are perhaps uncertain as to Fax: 09 815 2905
Printed on recycled paper using environmentally
friendly ink that contains no mineral oils or resins by an allocation Committee, based on equity the legitimacy of setting aside valuable project Email: courses@unitec.ac.nz
and is produced exclusively from vegetable criteria such as the applicant’s proven ability funds for management training are assured Website: www.unitec.ac.nz
based products.

13 In s p i r a ti o n a l N e w Ze a l a n d e r s
The Tindall Foundation - Annual Report 2001
APPLICATION GUIDELINES THE TINDALL FOUNDATION - ASSETS AS AT JULY 31, 2001

The Foundation has adopted a Funding • Collaboration with other groups • Sports and leisure groups; sport sponsorship Liquid Assets $ 16,566,115
Manager Model, whereby Foundation resources • Good planning, evaluation, governance, • Evangelical work or promotion of religious The Warehouse Ltd Shares $ 371,410,032
are disbursed by well-managed, non-profit and financial management or political messages, doctrine or ideology Other Investments $ 3,729,289

agencies operating within the Programme Areas, • Private business proposals, venture capital Total Assets $ 391,705,436
• Adding value all over the community
acting on broad guidelines set by the • Good review by referees and investment
The Tindall Foundation Expenditure
Foundation for the allotment of funds. Funding • Staged projects • Organ transplants or related medical inter-
August 1, 2000 – July 31, 2001
Managers are autonomous in their decision- ventions; medical research and health services
• Well-motivated case for support
making, but are accountable to the Foundation • Youth award programmes
• Good track record Foundation Services Admin. $ 270,895
in making the fairest and most expeditious use • Art Galleries and Libraries Programme Development $ 141,138
• Differentiating quality
of Foundation money to achieve objectives. • Schools, Pre-schools, Donations $ 5,735,665
• Community support
Expressions of interest are considered in Kindergartens and Crèches Total Expenditure $ 6,147,698
• Encourage volunteerism
the four Programme Areas of: Families, • Applications for assistance made by or on
• Leverage other resources
Employment, Environment and Supporting the behalf of individuals
Voluntary Sector. These are redirected to the FORMALITIES • Statutory Bodies
appropriate Funding Managers for assessment The Foundation’s programme year-end The foregoing is not an exhaustive list of
and action. Exceptional cases and special is July 31st. exclusions. Again if in
projects falling outside normal assessment
Preliminary Assessment Forms are available doubt, prospective
criteria are appraised by Foundation personnel
on application and are used to determine if a applicants are invited to
and placed before the Trustees for consideration.
request can be referred to a Funding Manager contact the Foundation
Trustees do not respond to personal approaches.
in the Programme Area into which the in order to determine
CRITERIA application falls, or whether an Application eligibility for support.
Form will be processed by the Foundation itself.
The Foundation’s grant-making activity is
If unsure please do not hesitate to contact the
confined to the geographic boundaries of
staff at the Foundation at any time to discuss
New Zealand. It’s approach to funding is
your request.
based on the broad principles of Community
Development. EXCLUSIONS
These are some the of hallmarks we and our Appeals in respect of the following do not
Funding Managers look for when considering qualify for assistance:
a funding request: • Overseas Travel Tim McMains, Christine
• Capacity to deliver the project • Church and School buildings Peace, Evelyn Gauntlett

14
THE TINDALL F O U N D AT I O N ANNUAL REPORT NOVEMBER 2001

Mana Youth Glen Innes Community Tile Mosaic