How businesses can help
Your business can make a real difference in keeping our team in the air and saving lives. It is a great way to give back to your community and demonstrate social responsibility to your stakeholders.
Click on the links below to find out about:
Making a donation
Payroll giving
Having a collection bucket
Holding fundraising events
Becoming a sponsor
Joining our Street Appeal
Making a Donation
Company donations play a significant role in ensuring we are ready to respond to emergencies 24/7.
We would be very grateful if you could make a difference by donating.
Company donations are tax deductible on every dollar. Please refer to the Inland Revenue website (www.ird.govt.nz/news-updates/like-to-know-tax-rules-charity.html) for further information.
If you would like to have your donation attributed to you, please ensure you include your Life Flight supporter number with any donation you make. If you don’t have one, please email info@lifeflight.org.nz or phone (04) 387 9591 and we will happily give you one.
Please select a donation method below:
Credit Card: Click here to make a secure online donation. You will get an instant tax receipt if you include your email address.
CHEQUE: Please make payable to the Life Flight Trust and send it by FreePost it to:
The Life Flight Trust
FreePost 3622
PO Box 14448
Kilbirnie
Wellington 6241
Please remember to include your contact details so we can send you a receipt.
WESTPAC BRANCH: To donate by CASH, CHEQUE or EFTPOS go in to any Westpac branch. You’ll receive an instant receipt.
DIRECT CREDIT: To donate by direct credit, The Life Flight Trust’s bank account number is 03 0578 0048481 08. Please ensure you enter your supporter number in the reference field so that we can attribute your donation to you.
Thank you kindly for supporting the Life Flight Trust and helping to provide a lifeline for your community.
Payroll Giving
What is Payroll giving?
A community partnership between businesses, their employees and Life Flight to ensure that a dedicated air rescue and air ambulance service is available to save lives 24/7.
Employees nominate an amount to be automatically deducted from their regular pay, and this is donated to Life Flight automatically through the employer. In some cases, the business will match employee donations.
Why is payroll giving so effective?
Regular gifts via payroll giving make a real difference to building the air rescue and air ambulance service and ensuring our team is there to respond to emergencies 24/7.
Benefits for employers:
It can be a fun way to enhance team spirit and demonstrate your employees' contribution to the community. Employers are able to promote their corporate social responsibility to the wider public. Research demonstrates that 80% of consumers agree they are more likely to buy a product or service that is associated with a cause they care about, price and quality being equal.
Benefits for employees:
• Hassle-free: there is only one form to fill out, and from that point on, donations are administered automatically
• Flexible: ability to stop or alter donations at any time
• Budget conscious: regular donations are easier to budget for
• Yearly report: for tax purposes but also so you can see the difference you have made
• Tax rebate: Inland Revenue may rebate charity donations. Visit (www.ird.govt.nz/news-updates/like-to-know-tax-rules-charity.html) for more information
• Match funding: where the employees company also contributes there is a real sense of motivation.
How does payroll giving work?
Employees can sign up by filling out a simple form distributed by your Human Resources department. The form should state the regular amount that will be deducted from their pay packet and nominate The Life Flight Trust as the receiving charity. The employer then deducts the nominated amount from the regular pay. The total amount of donations from employees is then remitted to The Life Flight Trust at the end of every month.
At the end of the financial year it is recommended that an 'Employee giving' summary be sent to employees individually, with all the information required for their tax returns (donations may qualify for a tax rebate), and employees can stop or alter the donations at any time.
A Life Flight Trust representative is available to speak with you to give an overview of the programme and provide answers to any questions. Life Flight can also assist your business to promote payroll giving to your employees and talk to them about the difference this could make to the charity. For more information, email info@lifeflight.org.nz or phone (04) 387 9591.
Having a Collection Bucket
Putting a small collection bucket on your counter or reception is greatly appreciated. This means you can be raising funds that keep our service flying without lifting a finger.
We can arrange for our team to come by periodically to empty the bucket and re-seal it.
We would be very grateful if you would email info@lifeflight.org.nz or phone (04) 387 9591 to arrange to have a small collection bucket sent to you.
Holding Fundraising Events
Find out about organising a fundraising event here.
Becoming a Sponsor
The Life Flight Trust has a strong family of corporate sponsors who help keep us in the air and saving lives. Life Flight is leading the way having developed and retained many long-term strategic partnerships.
Life Flight values its corporate partners and understands that each company is unique. Life Flight takes the time to ensure that partnerships are tailored to meet the particular objectives of each company. This approach guarantees mutually beneficial outcomes, more satisfied supporters and longer-term, sustainable corporate partnerships.
Our corporate partners are proud to be associated with Life Flight and excited by the impact they can have through helping save the lives of people in New Zealand. Additionally our partners are impressed by the opportunities, positive recognition and goodwill that their support generates.
Life Flight would be delighted to explore ways of working with your company. There are a number of ways in which companies and small businesses can work with us, including sponsorship opportunities, payroll giving, events fundraising and cause-related marketing.
Research demonstrates that 80% of consumers agree they are more likely to buy a product or service that is associated with a cause they care about, price and quality being equal. 75% of chief executives, marketing directors and community affairs directors believe that cause-related marketing can enhance corporate or brand reputations.
If you would like more information about becoming a Life Flight corporate supporter, please contact our Marketing and Fundraising Manager Candy Coe who would be happy to discuss the opportunities with you further. Please contact her on (04) 387 9730 or email info@lifeflight.org.nz.
To see a list of current sponsors please click here.
Joining our Street Appeal
The Life Flight street appeal raises funds to cover operational expenses and also helps to promote our service to the public.
We are grateful for street appeal volunteers. It really helps if a business manages an appeal location for half a day or a day and organises a roster of employees to collect there.
Feedback is that people really enjoy being involved as a group for a great cause, and we’ll provide you with reporting on how you went.
Why not encourage different teams to compete with each other, or offer your business as a street appeal location if it is in a high-foot-traffic area?
The Life Flight street appeal is usually in May.
Our marketing team would enjoy hearing from you and can happily provide more information. Please email info@lifeflight.org.nz or phone (04) 387 9812.
