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Hundreds of worthy groups doing good in neighbourhoods across New Zealand have been selected to be part of Z Energy’s Good in the Hood programme for 2014.

Good in the Hood contributes more than $1 million to neighbourhood groups and projects that help people who need it and that matter most to Z’s customers.

Z Chief Executive Mike Bennetts says the decisions about how the $1 million is distributed are made locally.

“Z is about New Zealand and the neighbourhoods that our 200-plus stations operate in, so we’re going for a truly local approach, where our customers ultimately get the say,” says Mike.

Every Z station in New Zealand is supporting four neigbourhood groups. At each site, these groups will receive a share of $4000 based on the voting of Z customers. A further $1000 per station has also been set aside for Z’s local retailers to support other neighbourhood projects and initiatives throughout the year.

From 1 - 31 March, every customer making a purchase (excluding cigarette only purchases) will be given an orange token to use to vote for the local organisation they wish to support via the voting units on site.

How much funding each group receives will ultimately be determined by the number of customer votes they get.

Each neighbourhood group is also in line to receive even more funding if they’re one of the ten groups nationwide who receive the most votes in our online Token Hunt where visitors can hunt for virtual tokens (as well as score some great spot prizes!).

In November, groups throughout New Zealand were invited to apply to their local Z station to be supported as part of Good in the Hood 2014, and more than 4000 applications flooded in.

Narrowing it down to just four groups per site was a tough job, because every single organisation that applied is doing great things for our New Zealand communities. Ultimately, our local Z site retailers selected the groups that best met our Good in the Hood criteria:

• being active in the local neighbourhood around a specific Z station
• being focused around helping people who need it, and
• being for a specific project or to fulfill a specific need.

 The full list of recipients is available below:

 
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