The Zenergy Educational Trust

In June of 2005 the Zenergy team has set up the Zenergy Education Trust. The current trustees are Dr. Dale Hunter and Hamish Brown. The trust has charitable status.

The aims of the trust are:
- To promote the awareness of social and ecological issues.
- To undertake a programme of social and ecological education within the community.
- To produce educational resource material on social and ecological issues.
- To collect and maintain a specialist social ecology library and to make this information available to the Zenergy community and other communities.
- To support research in social ecology and group facilitation.
- To do anything else within New Zealand that will advance any of these aims.

Social ecology is the broader field within which facilitation fits. Social ecology is particularly about the interconnectedness of everything and this relates to our whole person approach of facilitation.

Our first initiative is to provide a Facilitation Training Scholarship Programme, so more people can participate in the skill development our training programme offers. We see a huge need to create openings for more people becoming actively involved and more effective in their role as agents of change.

It is our aim that the charitable trust will make the Zenergy training programme available to a wider group of people. The trust wants to support people from non-profit organisations, people working in community groups, people who are working at a flax roots level in New Zealand and in other parts of the world. This means that we now can accept donations to fund our scholarship programme.

You can contribute by cheque, made out to: Zenergy Education Trust, by credit card, or contact us to pay by direct debit. Your donation is tax deductible. A receipt will be sent out to you.

We also see a need to provide support for further research into the field of group facilitation and co-operative organisations. Please feel free to contact us if you know of a scheme or project which needs support. We also love to hear your ideas how to raise funds for the trust.

Credit Card Donations

2007 Trust Activities

The Trust with Dale Hunter jointly sponsored $3000 for Tara Pradhan, a Zenergy Diploma of Facilitation graduate and Manager at Auckland City Council, to participate in a Leadership New Zealand programme.

The Trust gave $19347 in facilitation training across 16 programmes this year. This allowed 27 people to participate in Zenergy's Facilitation training programmes.

Liam Forde donated his fee of $2000 for facilitating the Zenergy Team meeting to the Trust.

Adrienne Grant donated two of her art works form her New Zealand native plants series to the Trust for fundraising.