Funding
The SPCA receives no government funding in order to run its campaigns and programmes, and thus relies very heavily on fundraising campaigns, public donations and bequests for its operational income. In 2010, the Society was granted $1.2 million from the Ministry for Primary Industries (New Zealand) in order to attend to animal welfare cases involving large-scale farming operations, to be split over four years.
Fines as the result of prosecutions related to animal welfare abuse are often directed to be paid to the SPCA and the society often seek the cost of food and veterinary bills from offenders during legal proceedings.
The SPCA also engages in partnerships with various New Zealand businesses that also generate funding for the Society. For example, pet store chain Animates runs a 'Christmas Giving Tree' in support of the SPCA at Christmas time, whereby customers make a donation to the SPCA in return for an ornament that they can hang on the tree in-store.
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