Our Partners

CELESTIELLE

We are experiential travel designers who create personalized itineraries which reflect our clients' interests, budgets and tastes.

The destinations, accommodations, activities, and restaurants we recommend are the places we love best. Many of these are jewels unfamiliar to most travel planners simply because they lack the first-hand travel experience essential to arranging an exceptional trip.

Our two principals, Doug Easton and John Ziegler, personally visit each destination, stay at each hotel or property and experience each local attraction before we recommend it. They normally run the company from the road for all but 90 days per year in order to provide our clients with first-hand knowledge and advice.

the rising foundation

CCT has partnered with New Zealand-based The Rising Foundation (TRF), whose mission is to foster a world where all young people enter adult life with a clear understanding of who they are, how to live, and of where they are headed.  TRF believes in the potential of youth, seeing firsthand how a sustained program of intervention and support works; lifting life trajectories is at the forefront of TRF's work.  

TRF proposes to CCT the candidacies for scholarships of conservation-minded student-leaders from five South Auckland high schools. The scholarships, for fully-funded travel to African lodges operated by Great Plains, are designed to expand the recipients' worldviews and to offer them an enhanced vision of the world as they proceed toward higher education or enter the workforce.

VICTORY BOXING

Victory Boxing offers programmes that are non-contact fitness-based and are underpinned by their core values of Respect, Responsibility, Determination and Caring.  Participants have the opportunity to "earn" a Victory Boxing singlet - by working through the programme and showing that they understand and can represent the values, both inside the gym and outside the gym at home, school and in the community. Emphasis is on character traits such as high motivation and commitment, an optimistic and positive outlook, a determination to strive for higher goals, a strong ability to focus, an improved ability to develop with adversity and set-backs in order to become more resilient, develop goal-setting abilities, improved self-esteem, become a positive contributor in a range of social situations, and showing more focus and motivation within an educational environment.

Scenic Air Safaris

The Celestielle Charitable Trust (CCT) and Scenic Air Safaris have partnered to offer our scholarship participants air transportation throughout East Africa, giving them a bird’s eye perspective of their surroundings.

Scenic Air Safaris’ journey to becoming a specialist aviation solutions provider started in 2009, with Capt. Torben Rune, Capt. Aslam Khan and Mr. Severin Schultte purchasing an executive Grand Caravan for their own private use. They invited friends and embarked from South Africa on an epic personal flying safari home to Kenya, following a route not often flown, up the east coast of Africa. The fun and breathtaking low flying experience of land, sea and sky were too spectacular not to share.

Doug and John’s Inspiration

We created the Celestielle Charitable Trust to provide exceptional travel experiences to deserving young New Zealanders at a critical age as they consider continuing education or as they enter the workforce.

Our own travels have greatly influenced our lives. Our hope is that overseas experience will similarly help shape the lives of our international travel scholarships participants, giving them a better understanding of the world. Our aim is to expose them to the challenges and opportunities that will define their generation so as to help prepare them for leadership roles which will benefit New Zealand in the years ahead.