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Auckland Choral Foundation

On Auckland Choral’s 150th anniversary in 2005 the Auckland Choral Foundation was established as a registered charitable trust to help support and advance the choir’s work nationwide.

How we make a difference

Scholarships and grants

Supporting emerging young soloists and young choristers.

Internships

Providing training for the next generation of music leaders.

New commissions

Encouraging innovation and extending the boundaries of choral music.

Education and advocacy

Promoting choral music throughout New Zealand.

Why make a gift?

The Auckland Choral Foundation was created to support Auckland Choral and to ensure the choir continues to flourish well into the future.

  • The Foundation is a registered charitable trust, governed by an independent Board of Trustees.

  • Funds are carefully invested so that only earnings are distributed, protecting the value of the endowment.

  • This ensures the endowment fund continues to grow indefinitely, providing secure, long-term support.

  • Distributions are made strategically to support scholarships, internships, commissions, and the advancement of choral performance.

BEQUESTS

A gift in your Will to our charity will keep generations singing into the future. Please click below to download our bequest information booklet:

For further information about any of these options please contact us:

  • Email: foundation@aucklandchoral.com
  • Phone: +64 027 4945363 Warwick Mitchell, Chair of Auckland Choral Foundation
  • Write to: Auckland Choral Foundation, PO Box 7228, Wellesley Street, Auckland

DONATIONS

Donations can be made in the following ways:

Electronic Payments:

One-off donations and regular automatic payments are greatly appreciated and can be easily set up through your online banking:

Auckland Choral Foundation account number:
02-0208-0009426-00

Please email your name and address to foundation@aucklandchoral.com

*Please note, donations are tax deductible and tax receipts will be issued after 31 March, or as requested.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY

The Auckland Choral Foundation gratefully acknowledges our contributors and donors:

Founding Members ($25,000+)
  • Peter & Noela Gibbons
  • John Stevenson 
HALLELUJAH ($10,000+)
  • Dame Jenny Gibbs
  • Sylvia Rosevear
  • Lesley Salkeld
  • Wallace Arts Trust
  • R & H Waters
ELATION ($5,000 +) 
  • David & Genevieve Becroft Foundation
  • Don Currey
  • John & Judy Robertson
  • P Wilson & G McGechan
PRAISE ($1,000+)
  • Athena Trust
  • A M Tretter Trust
  • DD & VR Bamfield
  • Nigel & Ming High
  • E Johnston & A Buchanan
  • Christine Keller-Smith
  • Traude Leibbrand
  • Bruce & Sandy McLean
  • Warwick & Catherine Mitchell
  • Lucy Powell
  • A & C Robertson
  • Selwyn Robinson Foundation
  • Sewell Family
  • Michael J Taylor
  • Kerrin M Vautier (CMG) & Noel Vautier
  • Ziera & Kennerley
  • Anonymous (4)

GLORY 
     (Realised Legacies)

  • Estate of Peter Gibbons
  • Estate of Margaret R Barkle
  • Estate of Jenny Vincent
  • Estate of Ken Cornish
  • Estate of Alison Miller


     (Notified Legacies) 

  • Anna Bassett
  • Ross Blair
  • Sarah Cox
  • David Hamilton
  • Christine Keller-Smith
  • Jean McNee
  • Warwick & Catherine Mitchell
  • Beverley Rogers
  • Sylvia K Rosevear
  • Lesley Salkeld
  • Joslyn Squire
  • Anonymous (2)

We sincerely thank all these and our other donors whose contributions add up to a significant amount over time, no matter how small.

Thank you for your generosity

We also thank our monthly automatic payment donors whose contributions add up to a significant figure over time, no matter how small each month.

OUR PEOPLE

Our people are you, the generous donors, and the Foundation Board trustees.

The Foundation Board of Trustees

Warwick Mitchell

(Chair)

Warwick Mitchell

Warwick brings over fifty years involvement in choral singing and over twenty years in management of choral organisations including Royal Christchurch Musical Society, Christchurch City Choir and over the last 32 years with Auckland Choral.  He continues as a current singing member for over 30 years and past Management Committee member for 19 years of which he was chair for nine years. He is also an Auckland Choral Foundation Trustee for over 12 years having held the position of chair for over 6 years. Warwick was also a trustee for Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand, the governance organisation for Voices New Zealand, National Youth Choir and Secondary Students Choir for 11 years.

Warwick’s business background included 35 years as a senior executive with the Freightways Group specialising in sales and marketing for Post Haste Limited.

Warwick joined the Foundation Board in 2014 with the intent of sharing his extensive experience in choral governance, marketing and fund raising.

Marion Hammond

 (Trustee)

Marion Hammond

Marion has been a member of Auckland Choral since 2008 and has recently become both a trustee and the Treasurer of the Foundation. She is responsible for all the financial transactions undertaken by the Foundation and prepares the year end accounts and reporting requirements required by the Charities Services. She also works closely with the Auckland Foundation with whom we have a partnership and together are working hard to fund choral singing in Auckland and New Zealand.
Professionally working as an accountant for a property management firm Marion also utilises her skills as Treasurer for the Auckland Dragon Boat Association, a role she has held for over nine years. Her background also includes volunteering for Amateur Theatre Companies in production and management roles which have furthered her knowledge of voluntary organisations. 

Rachel Farrell

(Trustee)

Rachel Farrell

Rachel Farrell has been a singing member of Auckland Choral since 2007. Hailing from a background of arts administration and orchestral management, Rachel swiftly joined Auckland Choral’s Management Committee of which she was member for several years including roles on the Social Committee and Convenor of the Music Committee.  

Professionally Rachel was for several years General Manager at the Raukatauri Music Therapy Trust. A role which combines her arts background, love of music and a desire to help others, it has brought skills in fundraising and grants, which she hopes she can be put to good use as a Trustee of Auckland Choral Foundation.

Maria Millar

(Trustee)

Maria Millar

Maria has sung in choirs for most of her life, including in New Zealand with the Bach Choir and Orpheus Choirs in Wellington and overseas in Australia with the Sydney Gay & Lesbian Choir and with the Wimbledon Choral Society in the UK. Maria has been a singing member of the Auckland Choral Society since 2015, and served on the choir’s management committee for four years first as music committee convenor and then as Deputy Chair. She joined the Auckland Choral Foundation as a trustee in 2023. 

Maria has volunteered for a range of not for profit organisations in the past, including for her local Scout group as an administrator, MusicHelps, a music charity, Prostate Cancer Foundation NZ, and as a baker for Good Bitches Baking. These experiences have given her an excellent understanding of how charitable organisations operate, and the challenges that they face.

In her professional life, Maria worked internationally in marketing and research for 25 years, before changing careers in 2018 to become a counsellor. 

Ross Blair

 (Trustee)

Ross Blair

Olive Leddy

(ex officio)

Olive Leddy

Olive joined Auckland Choral 19 years ago when she returned from England where she had sung with the Waynflete Singers in Winchester. Around the same time she was asked to chair the Auckland Committee of the New Zealand Choral Federation at a time when there were no office or staff, requiring the committee to run all events. Olive chaired the committee for over 10 years.

Olive had been asked to join the choir’s Management Committee soon after joining Auckland Choral but had no time to commit. Seven years ago, she was approached again and having recently retired and no longer fully involved with NZCF was able to accept. From May 2025 Olive has chaired the Management Committee of the choir. Becoming a Trustee of the Foundation offers a broader horizon of the place the choir holds both historically and in the present amongst the choral community in Auckland and accords a greater involvement in the future development of the choir.

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