Make a Difference
Estuary Arts Centre is a vibrant community hub, run by a small but passionate staff and heavily reliant on supportive volunteers, all dedicated to supporting local and regional artists. Through exhibitions, workshops, and classes, we provide a space where creativity thrives, making art accessible to all.
We are a charitable organisation and your support, whether through donations or by attending our fundraising events, helps us sustain and grow the centre, ensuring it remains a place of inspiration for future generations.
There are many ways you can support:
Make a donation
Thousands of volunteer their time to help us keep the centre thriving, supporting the nearly 6,000 visitors through the door every month, the 7,0000 active students in our arts classes and around 48 exhibitions on an annual basis. But we cannot do this with volunteers alone.
Funding is needed to ensure we offer well maintained equipment and supplies, that the building is maintained to a safe and functional standard and that we can retain our passionate staff.
Your donation will go where it is most needed and all donations over $5 are tax deductible.
Please consider becoming a regular donor, with a monthly contribution to ensure the future of the centre.
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What your donation could buy:
Corporate Sponsorship
Estuary Arts Centre couldn’t do what we do without the generous support of our donors and sponsors.
We have a number of engaging and compelling sponsorship benefits and would love to expand our sponsorship family. When you join Estuary Art Centre’s sponsorship whānau (family), you can take great pride that you’re making a tangible difference to keep a critical community Centre thriving.
Becoming a sponsor provides the following benefits:
- Alignment with a trusted brand.
- Exposure to more than 82,000 visitors to the Centre, 7,000 active students and a database of 4000 engaged members.
- A regular supply of photos and videos
- Meaningful volunteer activities for your staff.
- Engaging marketing activation.
- Regular updates on the mahi being done by Estuary Arts Centre.
- Visibility on our website and social media.
To find out more about becoming a sponsor, please fill out the form and tell us how youmight like to get involved. We have a number of opportunities for corporate sponsorship andwould be happy to tailor a package to suit.
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Become a patron
This is your opportunity to utilise your profile and connections to make a real tangible difference to Estuary Arts Centre.
We are developing a Patrons Circle and would welcome enquiries.
By becoming a Patron of the Estuary Art Centre, you will be joining a dynamic group of like-minded individuals committed to supporting arts education and creative pursuits on the Hibiscus Coast. As a Patron, you will not only be supporting the delivery of arts education programmes in the community, but also your own experience of contemporary art.
As part of the Patron’s Circle, contributions will comprise a tax-deductible donation and membership fee to separate your donation from the benefits you receive, following IRD guidelines. Donate before 31 March and enjoy a tax rebate for that financial year.
Leave a Gift in Will
Just 1% of your estate can ensure the future success of Estuary Arts Centre.
Why leave a gift to EAC?
Estuary Arts Centre is a charity. We provide valuable services to the community and are heavily reliant on donations and funding grants to operate, which subjects us to further planning constraints of annual application cycles.
Your gift will ensure continuity in the programmes we can offer to adults, children, people with disabilities and at-risk and youth in our community.
What is the best type of gift to leave?
Wills are very personal documents.
There are many ways to include EAC in your Will. The best types of gifts (also known as a bequest) to leave in your Will are a residual gift or a percentage of your Estate.
A Residual Gift comes from what is left in your estate after you have taken care of your loved ones. You can give the whole of the residual, or a percentage of it, to a person or charity, like EAC.
A Percentage of your Estate is often regarded as the most flexible and effective way to give. You don’t need to adjust the value of your gift over time to account for inflation or any changes to your total assets. A small percentage – 10%, 5% or even 1% – can make a big difference to the future.
A Pecuniary Gift is a specific sum of money.
Leaving a gift to EAC in your Will is easy. We recommend you seek professional legal advice when drafting your Will, but to support EAC and to ensure the wording in your Will accurately describes your intentions, we suggest including the following wording:
I __________ give (Your full name)
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___% of my estate OR
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the rest and residue of my estate OR
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the sum of $__ (fixed amount)
to Estuary Arts Centre for its general purposes and I declare that the receipt of the appointed officer of the Society shall full and sufficient discharge for the said legacy and my trustees will not be bound to see to the application of it.
I further declare that if at the date of my death or the date of distribution of my estate, any charity named in my Will does not exist or has amalgamated with another charity or has changed its name, such legacy or residuary gift shall not fail but my trustees shall pay it to the charitable organisation which they consider most nearly fulfils the objects I intend to benefit.
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