CELEBRATING 15 YEARS OF

Fifteen years ago, the world was a different place to what it is today. Aside from the obvious technological advancements, it was a world where community groups and charities would have to fight to keep their doors open and with only themselves to rely on for fundraising.

Then in 2008, after asking our Harcourts team if there was a better way to invest in the communities where we work, live and play, their overwhelming response led to some brainstorming with Irene Green and The Harcourts Foundation was launched internationally.

Driven by Harcourts International Executive Director, Mike Green, both then and now, the promise of the foundation remains unchanged; to provide support that helps grow and enrich our communities. Mike says, “The Harcourts

New Zealand

Over the past 15 years, the Harcourts team throughout New Zealand has invested in and forged a deep understanding of the communities it serves. Through a combination of giving grants, donating to crisis’ developing national scale partnerships, the Harcourts Foundation has gone from strength to strength and now has the highest number of Harcourts office’s contributing than ever before.

Foundation is the embodiment of what it means to be part of Harcourts.”

With 100% of the funds raised going straight to the charities who need it most, we’ve been able to provide grants to support local community groups and charities throughout Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Fiji. We’re incredibly proud of the work the Harcourts Foundation and its many supporters are doing to help to change lives and make dreams come true.

Over the years, Harcourts Foundation has raised in excess of an astonishing $7.8m with 1157 charities, community groups and crisis funds having benefitted from the Harcourts network generosity.

Quarterly grants are distributed to community and sporting groups as well as other not-for-profit organisations who need a helping hand. Driving the relationships with local Harcourts offices and enriching their local community, everyone involved with the grant rounds is hugely supportive of how the Harcourts Foundation makes a tangible difference on their doorstep.

Having partnered with the Halberg Disability Sport Foundation and Plunket New Zealand in previous years, now in 2023 it is the Hospice NZ Grants Programme and Gumboot Friday initiatives who the network currently supports.

In response to crisis, in January 2017 off the back of the devastating November 2016 earthquakes, Harcourts Foundation gave $62,600 directly to the people of Kaikoura Coast to ease the stress surrounding the expensive time of sending their children back to school and in March 2019, a donation was made in response to the shocking shootings in two Christchurch mosques. The shootings, which killed 50 people at the Al Noor Mosque and Linwood Islamic Centre sent shockwaves around the world and has left the people of New Zealand and further afield in a state of shock.

KEY PROJECTS (PAST)

• Halberg Disability Sport Foundation

• Plunket New Zealand

• Kaikoura Earthquakes

• Christchurch Mosque Attacks

KEY PROJECTS

• Royal Childrens Hospital

• Red Cross Black Saturday Bushfire Appeal

• Walk a Mile initiative for White Ribbon

• National Partnership with Orange Sky Laundry

• Harcourts Foundation Kokoda Challenge for Beyond Blue

• Red Cross Flood Appeal

Australia

Since 2008, Harcourts Australia has built a long and enthusiastic legacy of supporting thousands of community initiatives to benefit tens of thousands of our neighbours. Whether it is an office, business owner, sales consultant or personal assistant, members of Harcourts all over Australia are donating to the Harcourts Foundation. Examples range from one of the very first Foundation grants to Royal Childrens Hospital, to the 2009 Red Cross Black Saturday Bushfire Appeal, through the 2011 Melbourne to Gold Coast Charity Challenge for Cystic Fibrosis, to the 2012 Harcourts Foundation Kokoda Challenge for Beyond Blue.

2013 saw our first Walk a Mile initiative for White Ribbon, and in 2018, Harcourts National Partnership with Orange Sky Laundry. The list goes on, grants for big organisations, small, communities and individuals.

South Africa

Launched in 2011, the South African arm of the Harcourts Foundation is already making a significant difference helping communities right across South Africa.

Astonishingly, 100% of Harcourts South Africa sales offices donate to the Foundation with the sale of each and every property, and other Harcourts team members are contributing through salary sacrifice and through specially organised events. Supporting groups such as The New Jerusalem Children’s Home, The Character Charity, Jumping Kids Prosthetics and Give A Child A Family, the impact of the work the foundation does is felt in multiple levels of the community.

From helping organisations pack school lunches for disadvantaged kids in South Australia to the over $40,000 donation to Red Cross recently providing immediate financial relief to those affected by the disastrous flooding in QLD and NSW, the Harcourts Foundation is the embodiment of Harcourts values. Now, as in 2008, all Harcourts members remain committed to helping their neighbours and making a difference.

Fiji

Team Harcourts in Fiji enjoy an intimate relationship with the charities the Harcourts Foundation supports locally. For example, the Treasure House Christian Children’s Home in Nadi have developed a meaningful relationship with the team and expect and enjoy visits to their home. Thank you to each and every one of you who has contributed through the years, most notably the franchises who have contributed since our inception in 2008. We are so immensely proud of what we have achieved and excited as we join together to embark on the next 15 years!

KEY PROJECTS (PRESENT)

• Gumboot Friday

• Hospice Grants Programme