The trust has donated $75,000 to the Historic Cemeteries Conservation Trust to restore the prominent Dunedin businessman and MP's tomb at Dunedin's Northern Cemetery.
It was one of 25 donations from the community trust to organisations throughout Otago during November, totalling $254,000.
Cemeteries trust chairman Stewart Harvey said the tomb, modelled on the First Church in Moray Pl, was originally built at the Northern Cemetery for Larnach's first wife Eliza Jane, and had many magnificent architectural features.
It is hoped the restoration project, which will cost about $350,000, will begin in the new year and be completed by the end of 2010.
As part of the restoration, the tomb would be protected by security measures which would make it "vandal-proof".
"I'm over the moon. This is a very important heritage item for Dunedin. There's nothing else like it in New Zealand or the southern hemisphere."
Other Community Trust donations were. - Alexandra: Alexandra Pipe Band Inc ($1500).
Balclutha: South Otago Athletic Club ($6000); Tahakopa School ($750).
Cromwell: NZ Society of Genealogists Cromwell branch ($1500); Otago Polytechnic - Central Otago campus ($5000).
Dunedin: Te Whare Pounamu Dunedin Women's Refuge ($30,000); City of Dunedin Choir ($7500); Disability Information Service ($5000); Dunedin Bird Club ($500); Dunedin City Council New Year ($4000); Dunedin Opera Co Inc Opera Otago ($15,000); Lifeline Christchurch ($8500); Literacy Aotearoa (Dunedin) Inc ($5000); North End Rowing Club Inc ($8000); Saddle Hill Foundation Trust ($5000); South Dunedin Christian Network ($1000).
Milton: Waihola Looking Forward Inc ($4500).
Oamaru: Scout Association St Patricks ($750); Waitaki Summer Music Camp ($1000).
Roxburgh: Roxburgh Baptist Church ($8000).
Waikouaiti-Palmerston: Cavalcade Host Town Comm Inc ($3000).
Wanaka: Challenge Wanaka Sports Trust ($3000); Wanaka Bowling Club ($20,000).
Otago Careers Festival ($35,000).
