We first met Richard Waggott, the Co-founder of The SplashSave Foundation (https://splashsave.org/), through the work that we have been doing on social enterprise structures and charity set ups.
The initial contact email said “I am looking for some advice and idea of costs to engage you in helping me structure our social enterprise / charitable foundation appropriately and transparently.”
That is exactly what we do so it was a great fit and from the first call we could tell that what they wanted to do some serious good in Aotearoa New Zealand with a focus on education for parents and caregivers to empower them to teach young children to swim.
We were able to work through what they had been doing to date and discuss options for the future. We helped them with the set up of a new charitable trust and now they are able to ask for donations and get on with doing some education in the community.
We enjoyed this process because underlying it we knew that they would be doing great things – from his perspective Richard comments as follows:
Parry Field were excellent to deal with, from the first moment I talked with Steven it was clear my research on finding the best advisory team to support charitable and social outcomes had paid off.
Steven was clear in his advice and added huge value in the way I thought about setting up our Charitable Trust to help parents teach their own children to swim. Steven understood that sometimes the wheels can turn a bit slowly when pulling voluntary support together, especially in the early stages and was always very supportive and responsive every step of the way. Also accessing Stevens podcast and networks opened up a whole new world of people looking to make a positive difference which gave me the confidence to push through.
I would recommend anyone looking to establish a purpose and mission driven organisation should talk to Parry Field and Steven Moe.
Richard Waggott, Co-Founder, The SplashSave Foundation
It will be exciting now to watch what happens next and to know that a lot of children will be learning to swim!
