Business Donations
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Every donation, big or small, helps this beautiful region thrive long into the future. Fill in the form below to donate now or scroll on for further information.
Please refer to the payment details below, then email accounts@queenstown-wanaka.nz to receive your charitable tax receipt.
You can pay via credit card using the form above, or make your donation via bank transfer - Bank account details:
Love Queenstown Community Fund
12-3195-0011829-51
Ref: Donor number (per your partnership agreement, if you have one)
Please include the following details: Your name, organisation name, donor number (per your partnership agreement, if you have one), the payment date and payment amount, and whether it is a direct or a pass-through donation.
Business donors can claim for their direct business donations. Please retain your charitable tax receipt for proof of donation. You will be provided with an automated receipt upon payment if you have donated via the form above, or within 28 days of payment for all donations made via bank transfer. All indirect or “pass-through” donations (that is, donations you have collected and are donating on behalf of your customers or others) are not eligible for charitable tax credit in your organisation’s name. Please make all pass-through donations via bank transfer and state in your email that this is a pass-through donation. All donations are non-refundable.
*Individual donors can claim 33.33 cents for every dollar donated. Companies are also eligible for tax deductions, providing the claim does not exceed their total annual net income. A tax deduction reduces the amount of taxable income. Please see your tax advisor for personalised information.
Each year, we allocate funds to local organisations who operate in the climate, conservation, and biodiversity space, whether that’s through native revegetation efforts, biodiversity protection, pest eradication, waterway monitoring and more. Funding is available to charitable organisations and initiatives on a contestable basis, with annual grant rounds open each year.
Funding decisions are made by an independent distribution committee, with input and advice from the 45South Community Foundation. Click here to find out about our grant criteria and application process. We have a focus on strategic and collaborative giving so we can support the wider network of projects and initiatives needed to deliver impactful and long-term benefit. And the best bit? Every dollar is spent exclusively within this region, so you know you’re making a difference to the place you love.
Love Queenstown is a non-profit initiative managed by Destination Southern Lakes – a collaboration between Destination Queenstown and Lake Wānaka Tourism. Love Queenstown and Love Wānaka (our partner initiative over the hill) are delivered in partnership with the 45South Foundation (formerly Wakatipu Community Foundation) – a donor driven charitable trust that supports localised philanthropy right here in our region.
Love Queenstown funds climate, conservation and biodiversity action exclusively within the Queenstown-Lakes region (bordered by the Cardrona Saddle in the North and Kingston in the South, and including the towns of Glenorchy, Arrowtown and Gibbston). Love Queenstown supports the organisations who are championing this work right here and now, as well as the innovators and the change-markers who are striving to meet the future needs of our region.
Each year, Love Queenstown allocates funds to local organisations and initiatives who are working to benefit Queenstown’s environment, and support our region’s shift to a low carbon, regenerative future.
This is about funding an entire ecosystem to support our region’s regenerative, carbon-zero future and putting it in the hands of our local organisations and change-makers. We’re blessed with an array of local organisations who are out there doing the hard work and leading climate, conservation, and biodiversity work right here in Queenstown. We’re all about supporting their mission and the unique, localised solutions to the challenges – and opportunities – tourism brings to our region
Each year we allocate funds to local organisations who operate in the climate, conservation, and biodiversity space. Every dollar raised is spent exclusively within this region, so you know you’re making a difference to the place you love. Funding is available to charitable organisations and initiatives on a contestable basis, with annual grant rounds open each year. The first round of funding will open on 4 April 2024.
There are a number of ways your business or organisation can get behind Love Queenstown, from sharing the initiative with your customers, to raising or donating funds. Check out the for businesses page here for more detail.
20% of all funds raised are invested in an endowment fund, enabling long-term, substantial funding opportunities that will benefit this place for generations to come. Funds are invested with support from the Wakatipu Charity Foundation.
Love Queenstown is all about supporting a unique, localised solution to the challenges – and opportunities – high-volume visitation brings to our region by bringing together our visitors and our industry. Funds raised are pooled for collective impact, so no matter how big or small your donation is, it has the capacity to protect this place in a meaningful way. 20% of all funds raised will also be allocated to an endowment fund, ensuring Love Queenstown creates impact now, and into the future.
