Help us to continue to provide our Service
Sponsorship & Funding
The Thumbs Up Charitable Trust provides a unique service that allows our people to live full and fulfilling through community connection.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide the level of care and community involvement our programme delivers on government funding alone.
To help us to plug the gap, we are dependent on grants, sponsorship and donations to ensure we can maintain the quality service we are known for.
If what we do resonates with you and you would like to get involved with supporting us, please get in touch with our Board Chair.
Acknowledgments
We are extremely grateful to the following organisations and individuals that have supported Thumbs UP Charitable Trust throughout the years. Without you we would not be able to provide the Service to our people.
Our Major Sponsors & Funders
Grants & Donations FY2026
- Community Matters – COGS Hutt Valley: $3,000 towards CPI Training for all our staff
- Community Matters – Lottery Grants Fund: $20,000 for insurance expenses
- Hutt City Council – Mouri Ora Fund: $9,641 towards operational expenses
- Hutt Mana Charitable Trust: $3,000 towards CPI Training for all our staff
- The Lion Foundation: $3,000 towards operational expenses
- IHC Hutt Valley: Donation of $913 worth of outdoor area equipment
- Aotearoa Gaming Trust: $5,000 towards cleaning expenses
- New Zealand Community Trust: $7,985 towards an outdoor sunshade
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $1,022 towards Art & Drama supplies
- Pub Charity Limited: $1,197 for 3 months Music Therapy expenses
- Pelorus Trust: $40,000 towards a new wheelchair van
- Givealittle donations: $208
- Hutt Intermediate School: $430 donation from their mufti day
- Michelle: $240 donation
Grants & Donations FY2025
- Thomas George Macarthy Trust: $5,000 towards cleaning costs
- Hutt City Council – Mouri Ora Fund: $9,642 towards operating expenses
- Pub Charity Limited: $2,530 for 3 months of Music Therapy
- IHC Hutt Valley: $1,400 worth of Photography equipment
- Hutt City Council – Business Support Safety Fund: $2,500 towards installation of security cameras
- Rehabilitation Welfare Trust: $1,000 towards our inclusive dance program
- Hutt City Council – Community Climate Action Fund: $2,353 for implementation of sustainability initiatives and the development of a community garden
- Givealittle donations: $190
- Hutt International Boys School Beanz Cafe: $75.37 donation
- Tony Stallinger: $1,000 donation
Grants & Donations FY2024
- Aotearoa Gaming Trust: $1,000 towards electricity costs
- Pub Charity Limited: $1,500 for new tramping equipment
- IHC Hutt Valley: $1,144.06 for tramping equipment
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $1,064.40 for community music
- New Zealand Community Trust: $705.01 for first aid certification for 3 staff members
- Hutt City Council – Petone Community Engagement Fund: $1,000 for a new printer and shredder
Grants & Donations FY2023
- Pelorus Trust: $40,000 for a new van
- Thomas George Macarthy Trust: $10,000 towards Music Therapy
- Hutt City Council – Petone Engagement Fund: $1,250 towards a beach access Mobi-chair
- Pub Charity Limited: $2,609 contribution towards the beach access Mobi-chair
- Community Matters – Lottery Community Grants Fund: $23,588 for a new roof on Thumbs Up building
- Upper Hutt City Council – Community Grants Fund: $3,000 towards cleaning costs
- Hutt City Council – Mouri Ora Fund: $4,809 towards our inclusive communications programme
- NZDSN – Training and Workforce Development Fund: $3,913 for a CPI Instructor course
- McLean Family: IT equipment
- ANZ Staff Foundation Fund: $23,337 for heat pumps in the hall
- Community Matters – COGS Hutt Valley: $1,041 for Inclusive Communications Programme
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $1,908 for Drama: Pick-A-Path
- Hutt Mana Charitable Trust: $4,000 for cleaning costs
- Rehabilitation Welfare Trust: $1,000 for Inclusive Dance Programme
Grants & Donations FY2022
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $629 towards art supplies
- Sprig & Fern: $646 donation from charity quiz night
- McLean Family: $1,749 for laptop for Manager
Grants & Donations FY2019 & 2020
- Winton and Margaret Bear Charitable Trust: $2,500 towards Music Therapy
- Rehabilitation Welfare Trust: $1,000 towards the Hawke’s Bay Camp
- Hutt City Council -Creative Communities Scheme: $1,800 towards Naturally Creative You (2018)
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $3,500 towards Good Will Triumph Film (2019)
- ANZ Staff Foundation: $7,000 towards Inclusive Communication
- Infinity Foundation: $5,000 towards roof repairs
- IHC Hutt Valley Association: $2,000 towards the Hawke’s Bay Camp
- Thomas George Macarthy Trust: $7,500 towards Music Therapy
- Hutt Mana Charitable Trust: $9,000 towards Music Therapy and Community Music
- Wellington Community Trust: $8,000 towards Communication and Literacy Intervention
Grants & Donations FY2018
- Frozen Funds: $1,730 to enable our participation in the Community Ukulele Band in Moera
- Thomas George Macarthy Trust: $7,500 towards Music Therapy and community music sessions
- Hutt City Council – Community Engagement Fund: $616 for our Step by Step Switches
- Infinity Foundation: $3,000 towards the painting of the outside of the hall
- Hutt City Council – Community Engagement Fund: $1,800 for our Naturally Creative You programme
- Winston and Margaret Bear Charitable Trust: $2,500 towards music therapy
- Rehabilitation Welfare Trust: $1,000 towards the Hawkes Bay Summer Camp in January/February 2019
- ANZ Staff Foundation: $9,959 towards inclusive communication therapy
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $1,460 enabling us to participate in a Song Leading programme
- Hutt City Council – Community Engagement Fund: $1,100 I-pads (mini)
- Hutt City Council – General Grants: $4,000
Grants & Donations FY2017
- Hutt Mana Charitable Trust: $4,800 towards our overnight Stay in the Wellington Zoo in October 2016
- NZ Inclusive: $635 towards our Advanced Autism Course
- Upper Hutt City Council – Creative Community: $1,395 towards our Inclusive Story-Teller
- Petone Lions Club: $500 towards a new projector for our literacy sessions
- Winton and Margaret Bear Charitable Trust: $5,000 towards our Music Therapist
- Hutt City Council: $8,000 towards our operating expenses
- Infinity Foundation: $5,616 towards our Inclusive Communication Programme
- Upper Hutt City Council: $1,000 towards our Program Support Coordinator
- Frozen Funds: $3,000 towards setting up our Micro-Enterprise a Self Sustainable Art Gallery for our artists
- Pelorus Trust: $72,850 for a wheelchair van so we can go out and about in the community.
- Hutt City Council: $2,150 towards our Heartbeat to Heartbeat community music project
- Thomas George Macarthy Trust: $7,500 towards the Music Therapy
- Infinity Foundation and Wellington Community Trust: for $30,000 towards our Outward Bound course.
- Infinity Foundation: $4,197.60 towards our Inclusive Communication Programme
- IHC Parent Branch Lower Hutt: $2,300 towards Outward Bound
Grants & Donations FY2015
- Rehabilitation Welfare Trust: $2,000 towards our Ski Trip in the end of August
- Hutt Mana Charitable Trust: $5,217 towards our Ski Trip
- Petone Working Men’s Club: $13,400 towards our Sport and Recreational Equipment and Programme including the Ski Trip
- Infinity Foundation: $8,041.52 towards our Inclusive Communication Therapist
- In memory of Naureen Colgate, we received over $1500 towards special activities at Thumbs Up
- Pelorus Trust: $165,000 towards an extension and improvement of the building
- Hutt City Council – Creative Communities Scheme: $2,400 towards our Singing with Soul Connection
- Upper Hutt City Council: $1,200 towards our Inclusive Story-Teller
- Winton and Margaret Bear Charitable Trust: $5,000 towards the Music Therapist
- Hutt City Council: $5,000 towards our operating expenses
- Upper Hutt City Council: $1,000 towards the Program Support Coordinator
- Infinity Foundation: $9,700 towards painting of our Hall
- Penrose Trust: $3,000 towards general expenses
- Thomas George Macarthy Trust: $7,500 towards our Music Therapist
- Inclusive NZ: $2,899 for staff training and development
- Jo Martin $1,000 in memory of Barney one of our founding members who passed away last year, we used the money to buy 2 mini-iPads for communitcation
- Infinity Foundation: $6768 to continue our communication therapy with Shannon Hennig
- The Petone Senior Citizens: $400 to reward our Staff for their hard work and hereby funded our Staff Christmas Party
