The Hororata Community Trust is focused on enabling our community to thrive. Following is an update on what we have achieved in the past 12 months and what we are planning.

For the Hororata Community Trust (HCT), success markers for 2023 were:

• A united and motivated community
• Provided tangible benefits to our community through supporting and enabling groups to achieve their goals
• Continued development of online hub with increased community engagement www.hororata.org.nz 
• Staged successful and sustainable major events - Hororata Highland Games and Hororata Glow Festival
• Enabled other events in our community
• Connected with our partners to strategically deliver agreed outcomes to both them and our community 

The HCT achieved all these markers with support from our Patrons, funders, partners and Clan Hororata volunteers. 

Here is a snapshot of how the Trust engaged with our community (click to enlarge):

Our events, the Hororata Glow Festival, Mechanical Swap Meet and Hororata Highland Games, are highlights for the HCT and our community. These events provide massive social and economic benefits to our rural area and enable the HCT to support our community year-round.

Watch this video filmed at the 2023 Hororata Highland Games, showing what these events mean to our community:

What does the next twelve months look like?

• The HCT Trustees have established a new 5-year strategic plan—please look at the attachment
• Handover of the Hororata Hall and land to the HCT from the Selwyn Council so we can begin the Hororata Hub project
• Focus on wellbeing in our rural community - the  HCT is running GoodYarn Workshop and smaller events for people to connect at
• Continuing to support community groups with events, fundraising, strategy, resource
• Hororata Mechanical Swap Meet - 21st September
• Hororata Highland Games - 9th November
• Planning for the new Hororata Glow, which will return next year 10th May 2025

It's going to be busy!

 What success will look like in March 2025 for the HCT:

• The HCT will hold the keys to Hororata Hall
• The HCT will have developed a functional plan for the Hororata hub with our community
• A new strategy will be in place for Hororata Highland Games
• The community will be united and motivated – across all villages
• The HCT will have provided tangible benefits to our community through supporting and enabling groups to achieve their goals
• The HCT will have invested in our stakeholder relationships in readiness to bring them on the Hororata hub journey

Thank you to everyone who is part of Clan Hororata, working with the HCT to make amazing things happen in our rural community. We welcome collaboration. Please do not hesitate to get in touch info@hororata.org.nz 

Hororata Community Trust Trustees:

• Ainsley Walter (Chair)
• Chris Thwaites
• Mark Stewart 
• Olive Webb
• Richard Lang
• Sam Richards