Metallica Donate $20k to Feminist Community Organisation, Auckland Women’s Centre

Metallica didn’t just blow the roof off Eden Park this week.

While they were in Auckland for the final stop of the tour, they also quietly dropped a $20,000 donation to the Auckland Women’s Centre through their charity All Within My Hands, supporting a place that provides counselling, education, advocacy and a safe space for women in the community.

When the Centre opened the email, they thought it was a scam. Instead it was Metallica reaching out on their own, offering support with no fanfare attached. Centre manager Maia Hall said the team was thrilled, not just because the money covers around two weeks of operating costs, but because of what it meant to have one of the world’s biggest bands acknowledge their work.

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The Auckland Women’s Centre is a grassroots feminist organisation that runs entirely on community support, which is why the donation landed with so much weight.

Metallica’s stop in Auckland was already a big moment, especially coming off the back of a tour that’s been stacked since the first announcement in the 2025 Australian Tour. The Eden Park set came with a few shifts, including the return of Harvester of Sorrow, which a number of Australian fans were disappointed to miss. You can check out the full gallery of the show in the Auckland gallery. The band chose to match that energy behind the scenes too, backing grassroots organisations right across Aotearoa.

Alongside the donation, Metallica’s foundation also turned up for a hands-on food-packing event with Meet the Need at the New Zealand Food Network warehouse. Fifty volunteers, including a fan who flew from New Jersey, joined Meet the Need ambassador Ben Purua, Fonterra and Sir Michael and Maliena Jones to pack more than a thousand food parcels for families doing it tough.

Seeing Metallica fans, community workers and local leaders shoulder to shoulder at a warehouse in Auckland isn’t the kind of story you expect on a tour run, but it landed with impact. It lines up with the same approach they’ve always had with All Within My Hands, come to a city, play a show, and leave something behind that matters.

Auckland marked the end of a run that moved fast across Australia and New Zealand, with each city getting its own moment. If you want to look back through the earlier shows and see how the tour built to the finale, the Metallica tag has the full run.