Trust Outcomes

Community Trust South is committed to delivering real impact across our communities. But how is this impact measured? And how can we tell the stories of the collective success?  It’s all in the outcomes.

Embracing its strategic aspiration – a thriving south Murihiku manawa tōnui – the Trust is taking a fresh new approach to sharing the outcomes of the funding it distributes.

Community Trust South Chief Executive Jackie Flutey said this new approach included identifying the outcomes that the Trust hoped to see because of its investment.

“A very small tweak to our funding application form will simplify the application process for applicants and make it easier for them to share the outcome of their contribution,” she said.

The Trust’s strategic aspiration has three strategic pou (priorities): Strong foundations, People and Places, and Sustainability and Climate. There are several priority areas that sit under these pou which now all have an associated outcome – or in the case of some priorities more than one.

Recognised as a consequence of an action, the Trust’s outcomes can generally be framed as an increase or decrease in the specific priority.

It is these outcomes that will provide the foundation for success across the Trust’s strategic pou and contribute to lasting-impact for communities across the South.

You can learn more about the Trust’s new priority outcomes here.

If you are wanting to apply for funding and are unsure how your project or initiative will connect to our new outcomes, then make a time to speak with our Grants Manager Dianne Williams by calling 0800 500185 or email info@communitytrustsouth.nz