Project Parore

What a Community Group Fund is

A Community Group Fund with The Acorn Foundation offers local organisations the chance to build sustainable, long-term financial resilience. Instead of relying solely on year-to-year grants or one-off fundraising events, contributions go into a dedicated fund that stays invested.

The annual earnings from this investment become a steady income stream for the organisation, letting them plan ahead, invest in staff or infrastructure, and respond effectively to the needs of their community.

By supporting a Community Group Fund, you’re choosing a legacy-building approach: your gift helps the charity now and into the future.

About Project Parore

Project Parore is a community-driven environmental charity operating across the eight catchments of the northern Tauranga Harbour region.  With its vision of a thriving hills-to-sea landscape, Project Parore works alongside landowners, residents and partners to improve soil health, restore freshwater habitats, enhance native biodiversity and protect the coastal and estuarine environment. 

Their efforts include helping farmers adopt good land-management practices, retirement and re-planting of sensitive waterways, pest-control programmes, and community citizen-science monitoring of streams and estuaries. 

By supporting this Fund, donors are helping to make tangible differences: healthier waterways, more native wildlife, stronger ecosystems — and a cleaner, greener future for the region.