Highly Commended at the 2025 NZ For Purpose Reporting Awards
05-06-2025
We’re proud to be recognised as a Highly Commended Winner in the 2025 New Zealand For Purpose Reporting Awards.
Run by Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ), the awards celebrate not-for-profit organisations that demonstrate transparency, innovation, and best practice in their reporting. Since 2018, they’ve highlighted excellence in how charities and community groups communicate with stakeholders and meet accounting standards.
Tier 4 Highly Commended, sponsored by PKF: Cycling without Age Napier Trust
Cycling Without Age (CWA), began in 2012 by Ole Kassow in Copenhagen, Denmark. Ole wanted to help elders get back on their bicycles but had to find an answer to their limited mobility. His solution was a trishaw in which he offered rides to his local nursing home residents.
CWA is now an international program in 40+ countries. The Napier Chapter was created in 2022 by Alan White and Liz Barrett and we are excited to be a part of this global community.
“The Award is very special because it means that not only have we met the reporting requirements but that more people will get to know and understand what Cycling Without Age is all about. ‘Without Age’ refers to CWA positioning aging in a positive context. The Award also enables our thanks to all our funders, donors and supporters to be broadcast more widely, without whom we could not have funded our 3 trishaws.
CWA provides the essence of bike rides by focusing on health and surrounding effects of riding a bike, such as connection with nature, feeling the wind in your hair, and experiencing various scents, sounds and sights, without the constricting boundaries of age and the physical exercise required to ride a bike.
Our team of volunteer pilots are priceless, and they were already delighted just to have been selected for the shortlist. Our “wind in your hair” pleasure measures show they have now ridden over 7,760 km of passenger rides with smiles to date, since the first ride was undertaken in May 2022.”
Elizabeth Barrett, Trustee/Treasurer/Secretary
