Mr Francis Fanning, QSO, of Wellington, for services to the community
Mr Francis Fanning, of Wellington, for services to the community
Francis Fanning organised the Sisters of Compassion’s annual Street Day Appeal raffle fundraiser for more than 20 years. He volunteered for many years with Wellington’s Compassion Soup Kitchen and the Wellington Night Shelter. He joined the Soup Kitchen’s Board of Management and later became chair, leading the Soup Kitchen’s growth to provide other support functions, including emergency, transitional and long-term housing, assistance with social welfare, employment and mental and physical health services. He chairs Compassion Housing, which oversees 92 social housing units in Upper Hutt. He was instrumental in a joint venture with Willis Bond to purchase the social housing stock of Horowhenua District Council, bringing the total properties to 209.