
NZ Community Trust
The New Zealand Community Trust (NZCT) is New Zealand's biggest funder of amateur sport. While sport remains the primary focus, NZCT also provides funds for charitable purposes such as rescue and life-saving services, education, health, the arts, cultural and community groups.
Funds come from operators throughout New Zealand who run NZCT gaming machines in their hotels, bars and clubs with a commitment to ensure money goes back into the communities from which it was raised. In 2005, NZCT made more than 5000 grants totalling nearly $35 million with netball receiving more than $1.3 million for everything from uniforms and umpires' whistles to the new national CoachForce programme.