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Linda Cooper - Director

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Gary Williams - Chairman

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Margi Watson - Director

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Warwick Hodder - Director/General Manager

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Linda Cooper

Director

Linda Cooper MNZM JP is an experienced governance leader with more than three decades of service across local government, statutory funding bodies, and community organisations in Auckland. A long-serving trustee and former President of the Waitakere Licensing Trust, overseeing significant community reinvestment. She also serves on the Auckland Regional Amenities Funding Board, helping allocate regional funding to arts, culture, rescue, and community institutions. Her governance experience spans health and social services, including leadership roles with Hospice West Auckland, Family Action, and Waitakere Health Link. An appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) for services to local government and the community.

Vince Aynsley

Director

Southland born and bred, Vince Aynsley has been sheep and beef farming in the Gore District for more than 30 years after taking over the family farm at a young age. Married with four young adult children, Vince has a strong commitment to community and regional development.

For more than three decades, he has been actively involved in hockey at both local and national levels, contributing across a wide range of roles and helping support the growth of the sport.

Vince has also served as a trustee of the Mataura Licensing Trust for the past 10 years and currently holds the position of President. Through this role, he has developed a deep understanding of the importance of supporting local organisations and the positive impact community investment has on building strong, thriving communities.

Gary Williams
Director

Dunedin based for over 40 years, Gary originally trained as a teacher before entering a successfully corporate career in HR and general management in the retail menswear, transport and emergency care sectors.  He has had prior involvement as a Trustee of the Otago Peninsula Trust and as a Director of Taieri Gorge Railway and is currently completing over 20 years with The Otago Foundation Trust Board and its subsidiaries.  A member of Dunedin South Rotary for over 30 years and a Past District Governor of RI District 9980, Gary has a strong community focus and understands the challenges that face groups seeking funding from their local community resources.

Margi Watson

Director

Margi is a born and bred Aucklander with a strong community focus along with a business and governance background. She is a nurse and has worked in both hospital and community settings and been involved in many community groups. Over the last 16 years, Margi has moved into governance and led school boards, an Auckland Council Local Board and sat on an infrastructure board and other local business and philanthropic trusts. 

Warwick Hodder

 

Warwick brings a wealth of experience to the General Manager role having been involved in both the regulatory and operational sides of the class 4 gambling sector since its inception.
He has also been involved in various sports, as a player, an administrator and a parent and therefore knows exactly what it takes for community groups to survive in an increasingly demanding environment.
Warwick is very conscious of the fact that not everyone is enamoured with gaming machines operating in pubs.  He counters that by highlighting the fact that at least 40% of the profits are distributed back in to the communities in which they are domiciled, whereas many other jurisdictions throughout the world allow the operators to be the sole beneficiaries.