How can you help?
Most importantly, please help spread the word by sharing our communications, and talking to people. We’ll need to draw on support from many different sources, and even the smallest donations can add up quickly. Contributions from the community also have a cumulative effect, as demonstrating that the community is behind our project helps to persuade funders that our project is worth investing in!
Recognising your contribution
We are keen to recognise significant contributions from individuals, families, and local businesses, and to connect you to the club. This will also be something that you and/or your whānau will be able to find, and visit at the club for many years to come.
Once the project has been successfully completed, we’ll install plaques on the stainless steel balustrade around the decking of the club.
We have a number of different options for different levels of contribution:
$250 – will be recognised with the donor’s name, in a space approximately 100mm x 35mm, as one of many on a larger plaque.
$500 – will be recognised with the donor’s name, or inscription of choice, in a space approximately 200mm x 35mm, as one of many on a larger plaque.
$1000 – will be recognised with the donor’s name, or inscription of choice, on an individual plaque 250mm x 90mm (one-third width)
$2000 – will be recognised with the donor’s name, or inscription of choice, on an individual plaque 450mm x 90mm (half width)
$5000 – will be recognised with the donor’s name, or inscription of choice, on an individual plaque 1000mm x 90mm (full width)
You may also wish to make a donation, but not have a plaque, or have a plaque that represents a lesser value. If this is the case, please note it on the form below.
Donate directly to the club account.
We have a specific project account into which we are accepting donations:
Nelson Yacht Club Inc. Project Account – 03-1709-0010163-00
Please complete the Google Form below and we can arrange a donation receipt for tax purposes. This gives 33.3% tax credit on donations over $5. So, for example, if you were thinking of donating $500, it would give you $166.65 back off your tax bill. Or, you could always just up your donation to $665 😉
In the event that full funding is not achieved, and the project does not go ahead at this time, we’d like you to choose between three options:
- NYC holds the funds until such time as the project goes ahead, up to a period of 5 years, after which it defaults to option 2
- Use the funds towards other maintenance and repairs of the club buildings
- Have the funds returned to you.
Donate to our Givealittle Page
Alternatively you can give to our Givealittle Page
Please note, donations to the Givealittle Page will not be recognised with a plaque. If you wish to have your donation recognised with a plaque, please complete the Google Form and donate directly to the club’s project account.
Come along to an event!
Over the course of the next 12 months, we’ll be aiming to host a few different fun events – watch this space! Some of the ideas are quite exciting!
- Club party & silent disco!
- Fundraising Dinner with guest speakers
- NYC Open Mic night – we know there are plenty of incredibly talented musicians out there in the membership.
- Movie nights.
- If you have an idea for an event and would like to help bring it to life – please get in touch.
Non-members are very welcome, but will need to be signed in by a member 🙂
Sailors of 41° South
Support the seismic strengthening project by buying this awesome social history of sailing Nelson, by Tracy Neal!
They are $30 and available for purchase in person at the club, by arrangement via email, or on Trademe here: https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace/books/non-fiction/history/new-zealand/listing/4573834750
Description
A chronology of events and people, bound by a common thread, that captures the essence of sailing in Nelson, New Zealand. The stories span the century and a half since the founding of the original Nelson Yacht Club on the 25th March 1857, through to the modern club’s ‘150th’ celebrations in 2007.
In acknowledging that the Nelson Yacht Club can trace its origins further than any yacht club in the country, it is important to note that for more than 40 years this club operated and achieved many national successes as the Aurora Sailing Club. There are many people alive today who remember it as such.
The book is richly illustrated with photos and artwork throughout. It is firstly a book about social history, and secondly about leisure yachting and the history of a club. The breaks in continuity, driven by local feuds and global politics, wars, economic depression and social shifts, have given this book some of its best stories, in its celebration of 150 years of sailing in Nelson.