Southern Steel - ILT Stadium
An objective of our Trust is to contribute to our community in a number of important ways. These include:
Donations and Sponsorship
The Invercargill Licensing Trust and the ILT Foundation provide donations and sponsorships of approximately $10 million annually to nearly 500 organisations.
Promotion of the Southern Region
The Trust actively promotes Invercargill and the southern region of New Zealand as a tourist, events and conference destination. The Trust plays its part in regional promotional activity, both in New Zealand and abroad as well as working with the local regional tourism organisation to ensure we contribute to the marketing of our region.
The Southland Stags - Sports Funding
Sport and Recreation
Our Trust supports nearly every sport played in Invercargill as well as funding professional coaching and development programmes in many sporting codes. This enables those sports to develop infrastructures that benefit thousands of young Southlanders. The leading role the Trust adopts in assisting and promoting high profile sports such as the Southern Steel Netball Team and Rugby Southland are well known.
Grants & Donations
The Invercargill Licensing Trust and the ILT Foundation are major funders of community projects in Invercargill. We provide donations and grants totalling around $8 million a year to over 500 organisations.
These range from “big ticket” developments such as ILT Stadium Southland and the Velodrome, to helping grass-roots projects such as supplying interactive electronic whiteboards for local schools or a new Learner’s swimming pool at Splash Palace.
Your Trust
The Invercargill Licensing Trust belongs to you, the people of Invercargill. This concept of community ownership is both the Trust’s uniqueness and its reason for being.