Featured Donations 2024-2025

InZone Education Trust, Auckland

The InZone Education Foundation is immensely grateful for the ongoing support of the Hugo Charitable Trust, whose significant funding enables 10 students to access life-changing educational opportunities.

Southern Lakes Sanctuary, Queenstown

Bob’s Cove is home to many native species such as the yellow-crowned parakeet and South Island tomtit. It has the closest intact native beech forest to Queenstown, but this special area and its fauna is seriously threatened by introduced mammals such as possums, rats and stoats.

Mobility Dogs, Queenstown

Mobility Dogs is incredibly grateful to the Hugo Charitable Trust for their generous $50,000 grant to raise and train a future Mobility Dog puppy—aptly named, Hugo. It takes over $50,000 to raise and train a Mobility Dog, and the Trust’s incredible support will ensure that Hugo has the best possible start in life.

St Bernadette’s School, Dunedin

We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks to Hugo Charitable Trust for their generous donation, which has enabled us to purchase a van for our school. This van will greatly enhance our students’ ability to participate in school trips, camps, sporting events, swimming lessons, and more, providing them with valuable learning experiences beyond the classroom.

Altus Resource Trust

In March we shipped power wheelchairs for two adults with spinal cord injuries in Samoa plus another for spare parts. One of these wheelchairs went to Joe who had a power chair that was broken, not worth repairing and worn, so needed replacing.

Hugo Tunnel, Queenstown Trails Trust

More than a century has passed since plans were conceived to construct a tunnel to divert the Shotover River for gold mining. Now, sixty years after the completed tunnel was abandoned as unfit for purpose, the historic tunnel at Big Beach, will finally be used, thanks to a generous donation of $735,000 from the Hugo Charitable Trust.