For the second year running our local branch of Craigs Investment Partners (Craigs) has donated the money they would usually have spent on Christmas gifts for their clients to The Sunrise Foundation.
Craigs have been long-time supporters of community foundations across New Zealand, and are a key sponsor for the national body Community Foundations NZ.
Adam Lynch, Craigs Investment Adviser, says “we wanted to do something closer to home and so for Christmas 2018 we decided that in lieu of sending out Christmas gifts and cards to our clients, we would donate that money to Sunrise instead.”
“We particularly wanted to support our local community and Sunrises’s endowment model, with all funds invested in perpetuity, resonated with us. The feedback from our clients has been overwhelmingly positive.”
Last year Craigs head office implemented Christmas Giving across all of their branches in New Zealand. Adam says “we are pleased that all Craigs branches now participate in Christmas Giving through their local community foundations. We like the concept of acting locally, and Sunrise is the perfect vehicle to do that, it’s a good thing to be part of.”
Adam and his team have decided they would like their Christmas 2019 donation to go through Sunrise to the Eastland Rescue Helicopter.