Our purpose
The charitable purposes of the Tūpiki Trust include to:
foster and encourage climbing in New Zealand, including mountaineering and rock-climbing and allied activities;
promote climbing as a healthy activity providing physical and mental health benefits, and promote public participation in climbing;
develop and encourage volunteer capacity and expertise in climbing-related matters;
promote instruction of climbing, including through educational programmes, learn-to-climb programmes, instructor development, climbing programmes for Māori, youth climbing programmes, mature mountaineer programmes, and programmes and activities designed to protect and promote the health and safety of climbers;
promote research relating to New Zealand climbing and its environments, and encourage publication of mountaineering books, including guide books, magazines, and journals;
promote public access to New Zealand climbing areas, and provide and maintain public amenities, including huts, lodges and toilets, in climbing regions that are available for the public to use;
promote conservation of climbing spaces, and the maintenance and improvement of the ecological status of climbing spaces, including through weed and pest control and other conservation projects, and by providing a forum for discussing sustainability of climbing activities;
further such other related purposes, which are charitable according to the law of New Zealand, as the Trustees in their discretion think fit; and
support the charitable purposes of the New Zealand Alpine Club to the extent that they are consistent with the above charitable purposes