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Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington student receives 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award
Singer, actor, dancer, and writer Lizzie Bysouth is this year’s recipient from Victoria University of Wellington. Lizzie is a remarkably multi-talented performer, with an abiding passion for the world…
NZ School of Dance student selected as one of the 2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipients
Dancer and educator Aylish Marshall is this year’s recipient from the New Zealand School of Dance.
2024 Emerging Practitioner Award recipient at the University of Otago
Viola performer, composer, and musicologist Grace Shaw is this year’s recipient from the University of Otago.
Will-fully Supporting Women’s Welfare
Noeline’s giving has created an invested community interest. She encourages those who haven’t updated their wills to consider leaving gifts to support the areas they care most about.
Acorn Foundation Inaugurates New Memorial Grove
The grove has been established to honour the legacy of donors to the foundation who have passed on and has begun with the planting of six young native saplings: three Kahikatea and three Pūriri trees.
Te Puke advocates who want to see the town thrive
We are sure that the names Michael and Ann Jones will be familiar to the people of Te Puke, as you may have seen and heard Michael as the town’s crier over the last 30 years.
We're Hiring!
A exciting new role has been created with the Western Bay of Plenty’s local community foundation to allow the work you do to provide impact for generations to come!
2024 Jann Medlicott Acorn Fiction Prize
Internationally acclaimed writer Emily Perkins MNZM has won the $65,000 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction for her novel Lioness at the 2024 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards.
The University of Waikato selects the 2023 FAME Trust winner
Congratulations Taylor Wallbank on winning the FAME 2023 Emerging Practitioner Award!