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Hunt for Good

Nourishing Families and Communities

Hunt for Good is a not-for-profit initiative dedicated to sustainably managing New Zealand’s wild deer populations while nourishing families and communities in need. By working alongside experienced volunteer hunters, supportive landowners, and local businesses, we harvest...

Unleashing potential in young people

Youth Encounter – Living Life Wide Open

Youth Encounter is a transformational organisation dedicated to helping young people live life wide open—full of purpose, growth, and hope. Through fun, acceptance, genuine connection, and empowering support, they create a safe place of belonging where young lives can be s...

A game-changer

True Colours, Children's Health Trust

When Melissa and Richard McBride finally found True Colours Children’s Health Trust, they felt an enormous weight lifted. Their son Oliver was diagnosed with epilepsy at three and, Melissa says, finding True Colours was a game-changer.“After a couple of years of trying t...

A place of opportunity

Putaruru charity Transform Aotearoa would not exist if Ian Elliott, the late Trinity Lands chairman, had not connected with local prison officer of 30 years, Lamen Hohaia.Together, they launched Transform Aotearoa to help Putaruru families affected by imprisonment. The chari...

Serving the community

A new emergency vehicle started operation in Tīrau in August 2022, ready to serve the surrounding community with everything from fires to crashes to drownings.Brett Fleming, Trinity Lands’ GM Sustainability, says the emergency response vehicle is an essential addition to ...

Feeding hungry young minds

At 5am every school day, the first workers start arriving at The Daily Charitable Trust’s commercial kitchen in Te Puke.With hair nets, gloves, and aprons on, they set out decks of 16 pieces of bread, add butter, cheese, ham, lettuce, and another slice of bread, and then c...

Te Puke's state of the art ambulance

Te Puke is the home base for a brand new, state-of-the-art ambulance which will serve the ill and injured across the Western Bay of Plenty.Trinity Lands donated the $218,000 Mercedes Sprinter to St John at a ceremony in Te Puke on September 1, 2020. The vehicle is kitted out...

Restoring Pōkaiwhenua stream

Trinity Lands has helped set up a trust to support the environmental health of the Pōkaiwhenua Stream.The stream is a 56km long tributary of the Waikato River. It starts near Tokoroa and meets the Waikato River near Maungatautari. Keen cyclists will know the spot where the ...

Ian Elliott Memorial Scholarship 2020 Winner: Victoria Trayner

Ngāi Tahu dairy farmer Victoria Trayner is the inaugural recipient of the Ian Elliott Memorial Scholarship. A $7,500 grant from Trinity Lands, the “Farming for Good” company Ian led for many years, will pay Victoria’s fees to attend the Fonterra Governance Programme i...

Donation puts South Waikato Menzshed back on track following tool theft

Deflation has turned to motivation at the South Waikato Menzshed.

Weeks after thieves stole close to $4000 worth of brand-new tools from the Tokoroa branch of the charity before it could even officially open, the shed has received a $5000 donation from New Zealand agriculture and horticulture business Trinity Lands Limited to rep...