In association with Welcome to Heroic Gardens, an Auckland summer garden festival. Co-founded by The Fifth Season and GABA, Heroic Gardens was started as a fund-raiser for Auckland City Mission's Herne Bay House, a respite and treatment centre for people living with HIV and AIDS. The festival has become an annual event ever since. Over the last eleven years Heroic Gardens Festival has given over $415,000 to two charities who assist those living with or affected by HIV. In the first ten years $375,000 was donated to the Auckland City Mission for this purpose.  Herne Bay House has since closed and since 2007 and beyond the organizing committee decide in conjunction with input from the gardeners themselves, who to direct the funds too.  First held in 1997, Heroic Gardens is a yearly event which has become a much enjoyed part of the Auckland summer calendar. It appeals to a broad spectrum of the community and provides an opportunity to see a diverse range of gardens and to meet the garden owners. As a Summer event, the festival celebrates the subtropical aspect of Auckland's gardens, it's casual relaxed life-style and is a chance to be inspired while supporting a worthwhile cause

Garden - Ian Ferguson & Kevin Hunt

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GABA The Gay Auckland Business Association was started in 1984 as an organisation of gay men and lesbian women in business and the professions. It's basic aims are: to promote and strengthen the business and professional interests of our members; to build a gay and lesbian business community; to provide opportunities for interaction amongst gay men and women in the professions and in business; and to provide funding and assistance to the gay community through requests to the GABA Charitable Trust. For further information click on the link above.