Tributes Flow for Leading Philanthropist

Leading NZ philanthropist Sir Roy McKenzie has died aged 84. McKenzie spent most of his life managing the JR McKenzie Trust, which was founded by his father from the profits of the family’s national chain of budget department stores. In addition, he established the Roy McKenzie Foundation and the Centre for the Study of Families at Victoria University, was a patron of the Outward Bound Trust and councillor at the Council for Educational Research, and made significant contributions to Women’s Refuge, the Deaf Decade Trust, Birthright, the hospice movement, and the Nga Manu Native Reserve Trust. “It was a life very well lived,” said Philanthropy New Zealand executive director Robyn Scott. “He believed passionately in the power of people ‘giving back’ and he viewed himself as just part of being able to make that happen.”

Sir Roy McKenzie: died 1 September