Funding

Over many years, the AWEA accumulated enough funds to purchase its own building at 131A Williamson Avenue in Grey Lynn.

When the government cut off all funding to WEAs, it was increasingly difficult to maintain a large enough programme of educational activities to warrant the work required to maintain an old villa.

Therefore, the building was sold and the AWEA charitable trust was established to manage the funds. The return on that investment is partly used to maintain its real value and partly to support community education activities consistent with the Trust's objectives (same as for the incorporated society).

The ten years during which we had no funding taught us the importance of having diversified income streams. We now have a mix of earned income, grants, and koha to support the work. These funds come from national, regional and local government, other educational institutions, other community groups, philanthropic organisations, and, occasionally,individuals and the private sector. Our charges are on a sliding scale, depending on ability to pay and on the degree to which the work is 'core business'.

This year we would particularly like to thank
* Cathy Pelly Maungaturoto and Pub Charities Trusts for donations which subsidised the cost of bringing facilitators from Brisbane for a Treaty educators' workshop
* the AWEA Trust for a grant contributing to the cost of overheads and a special project
* the Federation of WEAs for grants contributing to different aspects of our overheads and to the cost of providing free Treaty workshops for the general public