CHRISTCHURCH HERITAGE AWARDS CHARITABLE TRUST – ON PAUSE
The Christchurch Heritage Awards Charitable Trust celebrated its 10th anniversary in June 2021. Over this time the Trust, in conjunction with its family of sponsors and supporters, has witnessed outstanding success of this biennial event. Each event attracted a diverse and exciting range of entries from cabins to mansions, from small to large commercial and public buildings, from rural to urban structures and country houses and the best of the best new builds as heritage of the future. The events were occasions where networking of like-minded heritage advocates and professionals from around Canterbury came together in celebration of this important social event.
The Awards were initiated by myself in 2010 and have been run as a not for profit trust. Their success can be attributed to invaluable sponsorship from several key businesses and organisations over the past 12 years. As the awards are totally reliant on sponsorship it has been increasingly difficult to continue without it. Therefore, the decision has been made to pause the awards for the time being. We are deeply appreciative of the support our previous sponsors have shown and understand entirely that in some cases their time has come to stand aside for others to step up and show the support required to run future awards.
This means a long-term pause for the Canterbury Heritage Awards, as we, the trustees, take time to re-think and re-imagine the awards in a manner that enables a sustainable future and of recognising those who have contributed to the protection and future of historic heritage in Canterbury.
Expressions of interest to support a future event as a key sponsor are invited. Please call Geoff Bone (Event Convener) on 0274 858 185 if you wish to know more.
So, in the meantime, on behalf of the trustees, keep up the good work. You have all either individually or collectively been complicit in keeping our history alive, to be remembered and cherished.
With kind regards
Dame Anna Crighton
DNZM, QSO, JP, PhD(Otago)
September 2022
The Christchurch Heritage Awards Charitable Trust has been established to develop and deliver a quality and innovative programme of Heritage Awards. Funding for the Heritage Awards is being sourced from grants and the establishment of a complementary family of sponsors who will each have naming rights to an appropriate Award Category. The Trust will work collaboratively with existing heritage agencies and stakeholders and through its own marketing initiatives to ensure maximum exposure for the Awards, the Award finalists and recipients and the sponsors to the wider community.
BECK & CAUL has been appointed to provide event management services to the Trust and is proud to have been working alongside the Trust since 2010.
BECK & CAUL (formerly known as TDM Events and Tenth Dot Management), has been delivering events and providing marketing, design and advertising services since 2001. BECK & CAUL is a small, strategic design and event management agency with big project experience.
As Managing Director of BECK & CAUL, Geoff Bone has an extensive track record over the past 15 years of successful event delivery. Geoff’s personal portfolio includes events such as the Offshore Europe, Oceanology and an array of Euromoney conferences in London. While also owning and managing the agency side of the business, Geoff is also the Event Director for The New Zealand Agricultural Show and the Box 112 Canterbury Heritage Awards.
