Ready to channel your love for this place into something good? We’re here to help.

We’re proud as punch of this incredible place we get to call home and there’s nothing more we love than sharing it with the world. But we also know that sharing it comes with a responsibility: a responsibility to nurture our environment, to protect our precious ecosystems, and to give back more than we take so that the generations who come after us can enjoy it and experience it the way we have.

Scroll on for three key ways and three key reasons to get behind Love Wānaka – right here and now – and support our journey to a thriving future.

Tour guide checks pest trap in alpine environment

Four ways to get behind Love Wānaka:

Ready to level up your commitment to local environmental action? Sign up to donate 1% of your business’ proceeds as a Love Wānaka Impact Partner, maximising the impact of your giving on the environment and your business.

Here’s How it Works:

  • Impact Partners donate 1% of their proceeds (or a total of $10,000 or more) to Love Wānaka each year.
  • These funds are pooled for collective impact, before being on-allocated to registered charitable entities in our rohe (region) via our Annual Impact Grants.
  • 20% of everything we raise is invested in a local endowment fund. This fund will grow over time, enabling long-term, substantial funding opportunities to support this mahi (work) long into the future.
  • You pay annually or in automated monthly installments (and yes, your donations are eligible for charitable tax benefit!).

Partner Perks:

  • Our Impact Partners are first on the list for Love Wānaka’s annual events and volunteer opportunities; are recognised in our Annual Impact reports and key marketing channels; receive custom supporter assets; and get special voting rights in our Annual Grants rounds.
  • Be one of Love Wānaka’s first Impact Partners and be known from here on out as a member of the Love Wānaka Founding 50, solidifying your reputation as a business who goes above and beyond for our environment.

Show your love with a charitable donation as and when you can, or keep it going with a donation per ticket, activity or experience sold. Every dollar goes back to protecting and regenerating the environment that gives us so much. 

By supporting Love Wānaka, you’re supporting the network of organisations on the ground who lead local climate, conservation and biodiversity action in a tangible and meaningful way.

Click here to donate now or reach out to talk through ongoing partnership opportunities.

All business donations over $5NZD are eligible for charitable tax benefit.

Suggest a voluntary donation at the point of sale or point of booking, make the first move and include a donation in the fixed price of your offering, or collect funds in lieu of tips or booking bonuses.

It’s a powerful way to communicate your values and invites your guests to do their bit, too.

Support Love Wānaka by introducing it to your people. Display posters and donation cards in store or use your online presence to connect your customers with opportunities to donate, lend a hand, or invest in our future.

We have a suite of print and digital assets available for you to use – find them on our Business Page or contact us for custom orders.

Mother and child planting a native seedling together

Three reasons to get behind Love Wānaka:

We invite you to consolidate your business giving and do so in a way that adds value to your business and the audience you reach. It’s the telling of a new story about how to visit Wānaka, and will help to share your businesses’ commitment to place with your audience and your community.

Love Wānaka supporters will feature in our end-of-year and annual impact reports, and you’ll be promoted across our channels as a business that’s out there, doing good.

Love Wānaka funds hands-on environmental action exclusively within our region, so you know your support goes directly back to protecting the place you love.

We pool our funds for collective impact, so no matter how big or small your donation is, we have the capacity to drive impact, at scale.

20% of all funds raised are invested in a local endowment fund, enabling long-term, substantial funding opportunities. So, whilst we’re driving action right here and now, we’re also creating benefit for the generations to come.

Volunteers at a planting day

Download our PDF Toolkit  for more information, or reach out to Ash, our Community Fund Coordinator, for a coffee and kōrero (chat). We’re here to help.