Help Protect Animals Across New Zealand with a Major Gift

Transform a life. Change what’s possible for animals across the country.

Every day, SPCA is there for animals who are frightened, injured, neglected, or suffering cruelty - often with nowhere else to go. When you choose to make a significant gift, you do more than help an animal today. You create lasting change: stronger systems of care, safer facilities, better outcomes, and a future where fewer animals suffer.

A substantial donation is a powerful act of compassion - and an investment in solutions that improve animal welfare in New Zealand for generations to come.

Why your support matters

SPCA is the only charitable organisation charged with upholding the Animal Welfare Act 1999.

While we receive a limited amount of funding from the government it’s caring people like you who fund 90% of the vital programmes that run across the country to help animals and work to prevent cruelty and neglect.

What transformational giving can achieve

Supporters who partner with SPCA make bold, measurable progress possible in so many ways:

Preventing cruelty through advocacy
Helping to create big picture change through advocacy to improve the collective health of animals across the country.

Rescue and urgent response
Supporting frontline response for animals in crisis, including urgent admissions and welfare interventions.

Rehabilitate
Providing vital veterinary care, life-saving treatment, and surgical intervention, recovery programmes and preventative veterinary care to stop the spread of fatal diseases like Canine Parvo Virus.

Desexing to prevent suffering
One of the most powerful ways to reduce animal suffering is to prevent it. Strategic desexing programmes stop unwanted litters, ease pressure on shelters, and prevent the cycle of neglect and abandonment before it starts. Transformational investment in desexing creates long-term, sustainable impact — fewer animals born into hardship, fewer animals entering care, and stronger, healthier communities.

Safe, fit for purpose facilities
Providing infrastructure and equipment that can ensure best practice care lifts welfare standards, improves recovery, reduces fear, stress and anxiety, which means shorter stays and better outcomes.

Reuniting families and rehoming
Improving pathways to reunite lost pets and helping more animals into safe, loving homes sooner.

Education
Educating the next generation to foster a kinder world for animals and people.

Partner with the Trusted Animal Charity in New Zealand

Major gifts can be directed towards:

A national priority (e.g., inspectorate response, desexing, education, rehabilitation)
A defined project (e.g., equipment, facility upgrades, vehicles, clinical capability)
Wherever the need is greatest (enabling SPCA to respond quickly to urgent welfare needs)

If you have a particular passion - cats, dogs, equines, wildlife, inspectorate, education, community outreach - we can help align your major donation with the impact you most want to create.

What you can expect as a major donor

We understand that significant giving is personal. Our commitment to you is respect, clarity, transparency and meaningful connection.

As a major donor, you can expect:

A confidential, personalised relationship
Clear information about how your gift will be used
Timely reporting on outcomes and progress
Opportunities to see the impact of your support
Recognition options, always guided by your preference

Whether you choose to give publicly or privately, we will honour your intent and keep you informed.

Ways to give

Make a one-off transformational gift

Support an urgent need or a strategic project with immediate and lasting impact.
Make a pledged gift

You may prefer to make a pledged gift over specific period.

Start a multi-year partnership

Create stability and scale by supporting SPCA over several years, allowing deeper and more sustainable change.
Gift a living legacy

You may like to gift a living legacy so that you can enjoy the difference you make in your lifetime.

Let’s talk about the change you want to make

If you are considering making a major gift, we would value the opportunity to speak with you - to listen, understand what matters to you, and share where your support could have the greatest impact.

Contact our Major Gifts team
Email: philanthropy@spca.nz
Phone: 022 340 2133

Or complete the form below and we will be in touch.

A world where all animals are respected and treated with kindness

A major gift changes what is possible - for animals, for communities today an into the future.

Thank you for considering standing with us. At SPCA, we know first-hand, people can be a powerful force for change. Will you join us?

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