Our charitable trust status

Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu is the sole Trustee of the Ngāi Tahu Charitable Trust which in turn owns and operates Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation Ltd and its subsidiary companies and related trusts. The purpose of the Ngāi Tahu Holdings Corporation Ltd, and indeed all our commercial operations, is to grow the asset base and to create revenues to allow for increasing levels of distribution for charitable purposes to our whānau and communities on an intergenerational basis.

The Ngāi Tahu Charitable Trust values its charitable trust status and has an annual process where all expenditure and operations are assessed to ensure they are ‘charitable’ as defined by law. Ngāi Tahu Charitable Trust annual distributions are channelled into programs which include grants for tertiary education and scholarships, after school tuition, language revitalisation, environmental projects, marae projects, cultural projects and many, many more programmes that advance the wellbeing of Ngāi Tahu Whānui.

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