Inspiring Partners
Our partners not only fund our engine room, they are part of it! We have close working relationships with them all. We build events together, develop marketing programmes, design and print beautiful things and keep the office working. Our partners help us ensure that whomever we communicate with or entertain, have a wonderful experience. But most of all, our partners help us honour artists.
Major Supporter
The Arts Foundation is very gratful for a signficant grant from the Lion Foundation to assit with operational costs.

Award partners
Presenting Sponsor, New Generation Awards
Freemasons New Zealand provides five $25,000 donations for New Generation recipients every two years. They also fund the award ceremony. This extraordinary contribution provides significant support to artists in the early stages of their careers.
Business partners
Public Relations partner
We've got an important story to tell and we want to share it with everyone. ELEVEN\PR are helping us do just that and encouraging us to shout a little more loudly about our achievements. We are very grateful to be working with this highly respected PR agency and know that this relationship will help more people enjoy the arts with us.
Design partner
Our print and web designers, Origin make sure we look spectacular and are easy to understand. They also provide marketing and brand advice that is second to none.
When you have the finest artworks to reproduce on paper, you need the best printer. We've got them.
Trusts
We simply could not operate without the ongoing support of the Southern Trust.
Thanks also to The Lysaght-Watt Trust & the Ruby Nolan Charitable Trust
Supporting partners
Running a charitable trust is a complexbusiness. Strategic IT advice from Henrietta makes it a lot easier!
Without Multi-Media, we would not have been able to produce the 2009 Laureate Awards to such high standards
Keeping us in copiers and printers since 2003.







