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New Zealand Communities Growth Trust

Massey University research.

The New Zealand Communities Growth Trust (NZCGT) offers a number of grants and scholarships to benefit a range of charitable objects as stated in the Court order, which fall under the following four categories...

At this time, the preference for providing assistance under the Therapeutic and Counselling, Education, and Relief of Poverty categories is towards former residents of the Centrepoint Community and their children. Applications by persons who are not former residents of the Centrepoint Community or their children may also be considered.

Detailed Eligibility Criteria

The Trustee has discretion to benefit a range of charitable objects including those outlined below...

Therapeutic and Counselling

  • To support the establishment of refuges for members of the wider community in need of spiritual, psychological or emotional assistance.
  • To support a professional counselling service and conduct seminars and workshops for people with psychological, emotional or social conflicts.
  • To support a professional counselling and support service for adults and children who have been the victims of sexual, physical and emotional abuse including institutional and cult abuse.
  • To make available qualified professional support as an adjunct to the above therapeutic and counselling objects. Such counselling and services to comply with the protocols and monitoring approved by appropriate professional bodies.

Education

  • To provide scholarships or grants to enable selected participants to increase their knowledge or experience consistent with the objects of the Trust, including scholarships or grants for research on the establishment and operation of spiritual communities and/or cults.
  • To support the provision of educational opportunities for the development of work and life skills consistent with the purposes of the Trust.

Public Benefit

To benefit the New Zealand community in general, by promoting...

  • A standard of living which enhances and sustains a quality of life that is not exploitive of the environment or people and that is permanent, healthy and sustainable for future generations.
  • The concept of communal living where material and human resources are shared and made available to others.
  • To support the establishment of a community or communities in New Zealand and to provide ongoing support for any such community or communities. Any such community or communities must conduct themselves on precepts of cooperation and respect of their members and to prohibit the exploitation, abuse and/or damage to the self esteem of their members and act entirely within the laws of New Zealand.

Relief of Poverty

  • To provide support and financial assistance and the relief of poverty of persons who have been disadvantaged by cults and/or spiritual communities and in particular past residents of the Centrepoint community in Albany and their children.

How to apply

Applications for assistance are considered at the middle and end of each month, as follows...

For...

please print and complete this form...

counselling assistance 

Counselling grant application form (DOC 43KB)

scholarship assistance 

Scholarship grant application form (DOC 76KB)
Note that scholarships applications close on 10 February each year.

all other assistance

General grant application form (DOC 64KB)

New Zealand Communities Trust Annual Report and Accounts to 30 June 2010 (PDF 1,234KB).

If you have any queries regarding the New Zealand Communities Growth Trust please call Kim Peacock on 09 985 6824.

New Zealand Communities Trust Website.

Alternatively, get in touch online, or call us on 0800 371 471.

Any correspondence regarding the Trust should be sent to:

Kim Peacock
Public Trust Charitable Services
Private Bag 17-906
Greenlane
Auckland

History

Public Trust is the trustee of the NZCGT. The Trust was established in 2000 by the High Court and was a reformation of the former Centrepoint Community Trust.

Court order that created the Trust (PDF 548KB)

The NZCGT is registered with the Charities Commission, registration number CC27632. 

Massey Research

In May 2010 Massey University psychologists released a report on the the outcomes for children who grew up in the Centrepoint community, which existed in Albany between 1977 and 2000.