Members of the North Harbour Club have the desire to promote EXCELLENCE by encouraging and providing financial assistance to youth in the North Harbour region.
background
The North Harbour Club & Charitable Trust was established on 18 May 1995.
A group of North Shore business people met and established a constitution with the following objectives:
- To promote the North Harbour region.
- For business establishments and passionate residents to meet and network for the good of the region.
- To form a Charitable Trust to raise funds and present grant funding to the youth of the North Harbour region through the Trust’s annual AIMES Awards. To qualify for the AIMES Awards, recipients must have shown outstanding ability or potential in the areas of the Arts, Innovation (Science & Technology), Music, Education, Sport; and Service to the Community.
Members of the North Harbour Club have, among other stated aims, the desire to promote excellence by encouraging and providing financial assistance to the young people of the North Harbour region who have significant ability in their chosen field and display personal characteristics which make them worthy of the support.
The North Harbour Club is made up of over 250 members, all passionate in local affairs, business, education, sport and social development. They are all residents or have their businesses in the North Harbour region of Auckland (New Zealand).
North Harbour Club LIFE Members & Ambassadors
LIFE Members and Ambassadors photographed at the 2024 AIMES Awards Gala Dinner
(Left to right) LIFE members Professor Ian Watson, Gary Monk (also NHC Patron), Peter & Michelle Wall, Joan Finlayson, Shane Cortese (Ambassador/AIMES Awards Judge), Aidan Bennett (LIFE member/AIMES Awards Judge) and Cam Calkoen (Ambassador). Absent LIFE members Bob Jago and John Bishop and Ambassadors Ian Jones and Peter Montgomery
Our members
Patron
Gary Monk ONZM
LIFE Members
Aidan Bennett QSM, Joan Finlayson, Gary Monk ONZM, Professor Ian Watson, John Bishop, Peter & Michelle Wall, Bob Jago
Trustees
Mike Atkinson – President
Murray Lockwood – Vice President
Andy Ruzich, Becky West, Blake Douglas, Jeremy Parsons, Lisa Connor, Lloyd Kirby
Ambassadors
Cam Calkoen, Ian Jones MNZM, Peter Montgomery MBE, Shane Cortese
AIMES Awards Judges
Andrew MacDonald (Chair), Aidan Bennett QSM, Dean Flyger, Shane Cortese, Sue Kohn-Taylor, Courtney Davies, Tom Ashley
North Harbour Club Members
Our Objectives
The annual AIMES Awards are the highest-profile face of the North Harbour Club, but the objectives of the club are five-fold:
1. To establish and maintain a club of non-political character for members to meet through regular lunches and social activities.
2. To establish a charitable trust, known as The North Harbour Club Charitable Trust, to promote and develop local talent in the fields covered by the AIMES Awards.
3. To support cultural, sporting and recreational activities in the North Harbour Region.
4. To foster a spirit of pride in the North Harbour Region.
5. To foster a ‘good neighbour’ and ‘good citizen’ ethos in the North Harbour Region.
Membership of the North Harbour Club returns benefits to members as well as the young people the Club chooses to reward.