Trust Whanau

Patron (2017-cur­rent) — Dame Pat­sy Red­dy, Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al of New Zealand

Dame Pat­sy Red­dy was born in Mata­ma­ta and lived her ear­ly years in Te Akau and then Ming­inui, where her par­ents, Neil and Kay Red­dy, were school teach­ers. Dame Pat­sy’s pre­vi­ous career was in law, busi­ness, and the pub­lic sec­tor. She is the third woman to be appoint­ed to the posi­tion of Gov­er­nor-Gen­er­al after Dame Cather­ine Tizard and Dame Sil­via Cartwright. Dame Pat­sy is mar­ried to the for­mer New Zealand Judi­cial Con­duct Com­mis­sion­er, Sir David Gas­coigne.

Dame Pat­sy has also had sig­nif­i­cant involve­ment in gov­er­nance of cre­ative and char­i­ta­ble organ­i­sa­tions, includ­ing as Trustee of the New Zealand Inter­na­tion­al Fes­ti­val of the Arts, the Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty Foun­da­tion, the Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­si­ty Art Col­lec­tion Trust, the Spark Art Trust, the Welling­ton Jazz Fes­ti­val Trust, the Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra Foun­da­tion, and Sky City Com­mu­ni­ty Trust. She was a found­ing Trustee and advi­so­ry board mem­ber for New Zealand Glob­al Women and has chaired the Board of the New Zealand Film Archive.

Patron (2012–2016) - Lieu­tenant Gen­er­al The Right Hon Sir Jer­ry Mateparae GNZM QSO, Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al of New Zealand

Sir Jer­ry Mat­a­parae was born in Whanganui in 1954 and went to Castle­cliff School, Ruther­ford Inter­me­di­ate and Wan­ganui High School. He is from Ngati Tuwhare­toa and Ngati Kahun­gunu. He also has links to Tuhoe and tribes in the upper Whanganui. He is New Zealand’s sec­ond Gov­er­nor-Gen­er­al of Maori descent.

“Hone Tuwhare was a sig­nif­i­cant cul­tur­al influ­ence for us all because he expressed his thoughts about things in ways that could be under­stood by New Zealan­ders. The Hone Tuwhare Char­i­ta­ble Trust is per­pet­u­at­ing his mem­o­ry through a fan­tas­tic ini­tia­tive to ren­o­vate his crib, so that oth­er artists can have a space to pro­vide insights into their own expe­ri­ences of this won­der­ful coun­try.

I felt very priv­i­leged to be asked to vis­it the crib and to turn the first sod for the project. I am delight­ed to sup­port the Trust’s vision and wish them every suc­cess.”

Found­ing Patron — Sir Paul Reeves (1932 — 2011)

The Hone Tuwhare Char­i­ta­ble Trust was proud that Sir Paul Reeves was our patron from 2010 – 2011.

Paul said he sup­port­ed the trust as he was “a long-time admir­er of the work of Hone Tuwhare and com­mit­ted to pro­vid­ing a liv­ing memo­r­i­al of this great man”. Sir Paul Reeves was Bish­op of Auck­land, Arch­bish­op of New Zealand, Gov­er­nor Gen­er­al, Angli­can Observ­er at the Unit­ed Nations New York and was Chan­cel­lor of AUT Uni­ver­si­ty from 2005 until he passed away in August 2011. He will be sad­ly missed.

Trustees:

Robert Tuwhare (Nga Puhi, Scot­tish) is Hone tuwhare’s son and lit­er­ary execu­tor, fam­i­ly rep­re­sen­ta­tive, writer, car­pen­ter.

Jeanette Wikaira (Nga­puhi, Ngati Puken­ga, Ngati Tamat­era) has 20 years’ expe­ri­ence work­ing in the cul­tur­al  her­itage, ter­tiary edu­ca­tion and research sec­tors.  Jeanette holds post­grad­u­ate qual­i­fi­ca­tions in Maori and Muse­um Stud­ies and is cur­rent­ly com­plet­ing doc­tor­al stud­ies at Ota­go Uni­ver­si­ty.

Stan Scott is a qual­i­fied, licensed build­ing prac­ti­tion­er for near­ly thir­ty years Stan has spent most of his build­ing career ren­o­vat­ing and restor­ing vil­las and bun­ga­lows and his­toric build­ings.  More recent­ly he has been teach­ing DIY­ers how to build for Mitre 10.  An unlike­ly poet­ry lover Stan dis­cov­ered Hone Tuwhare’s work at high school and even pub­lished his own book of poet­ry at age 17.

Chris McBride, HTCT project man­ag­er, is an artist and arts project man­ag­er. He is co-cura­tor/­co-pro­duc­er for The Kau­ri Project ded­i­cat­ed to link­ing artists with sci­en­tists, matau­ran­ga Maori and com­mu­ni­ty work­ing with kau­ri, con­sid­er­ing the poten­tial of art as a tool for research, edu­ca­tion and activism. He is a for­mer man­ag­er of the McC­a­hon Artists’ Res­i­den­cy — 2009–2012.

Top Pho­to: Hone’s Crib Octo­ber 2020

Writer’s Advi­sors: Peter Olds, Cil­la McQueen