Sponsorships
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Our sponsorships reflect our commitment to community growth and development. By partnering with local events, sports teams, and cultural initiatives, we are investing in the future of North Canterbury.
MainPower has several long-term sponsorship partners who we support for multiple years to delivery ongoing benefits. Find out more about our sponsorship partners below.
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Current sponsorships
MainPower supports several community initiatives, events, and activities throughout the Waimakariri, Hurunui, and Kaikōura regions.
Compass FM
Compass FM is run by the North Canterbury Radio Trust, who provide a strong and passionate community-focused FM radio station for North Canterbury, covering the Hurunui and Waimakariri districts. The radio station has been a part of the North Canterbury community since 2011 and is unique given it is the only radio station in New Zealand that is on full power transmission.
Enterprise North Canterbury (ENC)
ENC works alongside businesses to develop an innovative and prosperous region. The organisation promotes economic growth by providing support in three key areas: developing and maintaining a strong regional brand identity; supporting existing and new businesses to grow and prosper; and growing visitor numbers and value to North Canterbury.
Life Education
Life Education empowers children with the knowledge and confidence to make healthy decisions for themselves. Working with schools to reach children through the Health Sciences (part of the New Zealand Curriculum), Life Education’s mobile classrooms provide a unique learning environment through audio-visual materials, interactive models, and Harold the Giraffe.
Satisfy Food Rescue
Satisfy Food Rescue is committed to reducing food waste and ensuring good food reaches those who need it most. They partner with supermarkets, wholesalers, growers, and food producers to rescue surplus food and redistribute it to over 50 frontline organisations, including food banks, community meal providers, and schools. By acting as the crucial link between the food industry and local charities, Satisfy Food Rescue helps nourish our communities while preventing quality food from ending up in landfill.
North Canterbury Sports Trust
The North Canterbury Sports Trust provides recreational and sporting benefits to the community. MainPower supports the Trust’s work to deliver several school sport and recreation community initiatives in the North Canterbury and Kaikōura region, including the MainPower Primary Schools Coaching Programme, MainPower Youth Sports Scholarships, and the WaiSwim programme, which provides swimming and water safety lessons to school children across the Waimakariri, Hurunui, and Kaikōura districts.
MainPower Stadium
Opened in August 2021 the MainPower Stadium is one of the largest community sports grounds in the South Island. The facility includes four full-size sports courts, a fitness centre, group fitness studios, sports health provider treatment rooms, a sports administration house, and multi-function meeting rooms. The MainPower Stadium is a pillar of community wellbeing with a jam-packed schedule of clubs, groups, and sport and recreation activity.
MainPower Hockey Turf
The MainPower Hockey Turf is home to the two local hockey clubs as well as hosting a variety of competition fixtures, club and rep trainings, and coaching clinics.
The world-class blue turf facility is helping to further the development of hockey in North Canterbury at all age levels.
Empower Energy
Empower Energy is on a mission to end energy hardship in Aotearoa. They are a charitable trust that aims to address energy affordability through peer-to-peer donations. The Empower Energy platform allows any person or business to donate through their power bill (or Stripe). Empower Energy also allows users to share surplus energy from solar, to be directed to those who could use a hand with their energy bills.
Hutton’s Shearwater
The nationally endangered Hutton’s shearwater/Kaikōura tītī (Puffinus huttoni) has only two breeding colonies remaining in the Seaward Kaikōura Range. We fund the Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust‘s efforts to encourage and promote the preservation, conservation, research, public education, and sustainable management of the endangered Hutton’s shearwater, and the Kaikōura Wildlife Centre to provide rehabilitation services to injured Hutton’s shearwaters.
ElectricAir
ElectricAir is on a mission to clean up the skies by encouraging owners and operators to choose electric planes. In 2021, ElectricAir broke the world record for the farthest flight over water by a battery electric plane when their Pipistrel crossed the Cook Strait. The plane is also approximately 70% quieter than its fossil-fueled equivalents. The plane’s battery lasts up to 90 minutes and can be recharged in under an hour, making it ideal for pilot training.
Community Wellbeing
Community Wellbeing North Canterbury Trust has been supporting local families, whānau, and individuals for more than 30 years to reach their full potential through free wellbeing services offered across the Waimakariri and Hurunui. Community Wellbeing focuses their support on enhancing strengths, removing barriers, and helping a wide variety of people to meet life’s challenges.
Department of Conservation (DOC)
Kākāriki karaka, or orange-fronted parakeet, is a small, forest-dwelling bird with an orange strip above its beak. It’s New Zealand’s rarest parakeet, with just a few hundred birds left in the wild. MainPower supports the Orange-fronted Parakeet Recovery Programme by maintaining hydro power generation and electrical assets at a DOC research hut.
North Canterbury Rural Support Trust
The North Canterbury Rural Support Trust is part of a nationwide network providing free and confidential wellbeing services to the agricultural industry, including counselling, business planning, and financial advice.
The Trust has access to networks, services, and government funding and can help people navigate their financial and personal challenges, or assist during extreme weather events like drought, flood, or heavy snow.
MainPower Amberley Swimming Pool
The Amberley Swimming Pool is a five-lane public swimming pool situated at the entrance of the Amberley Reserve. The swimming pool offers swimming lessons for people of all ages and abilities, fitness classes, and inflatable fun for kids.
It is a well-loved community asset that is also used by surrounding schools.
MainPower Waiau Community Pool
Located in the heart of the Waiau township, next to the Waiau Primary School, the pool is open throughout the summer season for community and visitor use.
Completed in 2019, the pool is community managed. It’s a great place for families to relax and play, and it hosts swimming lessons, aqua-fitness classes, and community and competition events.
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