Self Help Trust grants

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 13

Self Help Trust grants

Youth organisations would receive more than 25 per cent of the Sutherland Self Help Trust funds this year for the “tremendous social pressures and problems facing youth today,” the chairman of the trust board (Mr J. Sutherland) said in a statement.

The board had distributed grants totalling $116,800 to 234 associations this year, bringing the amount distributed since the trust was formed in 1962 to $877,500.

Announcing the granting of $31,200 to youth organisations, Mr Sutherland said the board felt an obligation to those organisations working to develop young people as citizens.

The largest single grants of $5OOO each go to the National Children’s Health Research Foundation in Auckland, and to Birthright, because the board is “particularly conscious of the problems of those people raising children under difficulties.” The board will meet early next year to discuss which organisations will be invited to apply in 1973, because it will be reverting to its normal policy of devoting the entire funds available for distribution to a limited number of major projects. Last year grants of $60,000 and $50,000 were made to the Intellectually Handicapped Children’s Society, and to the Plunket Society, respectively.

Grants in the circulation area of “The Press” were as follows:— Youth homes.—South Island Methodist Orphanage and Children’s Home (Christchurch), $lOOO. Youth camps.—Raincliff Trust Board (Timaru), $3OO. Other youth organisations.— Christchurch Y.M.C.A., $500; Nelson Y.M.C.A.. $300; Christchurch Boys’ Brigade, $400; CanterburyWest Coast Girls’ Brigade, $500; the Scout Association (South Island), $1000; BuUer district scout association (Westport), $100; Gleniti-Glenwood scout group (Timaru), $100; St Christopher’s hall committee (Blenheim), $lOO. Homes for the aged.—Presbyterian Social Services. Winder-

mere House (Christchurch), $1000; Methodist Central Mission (Christchurch), $500; Aged Peoples’ Welfare Council (Christchurch), $500; Aged Peoples’ Welfare Association (Geraldine), $5OO.

Hospitals.—Calvary Hospital Clinic (Christchurch), $5OO. St John Ambulance Association (Rangiora), $5OO. Handicapped.—Sheltered Workshop Association (Christchurch), $500; Disturbed Children’s Aid Movement (Christchurch), $200; Co-ordinating Council for the Handicapped (Christchurch), $200; New Zealand Crippled Children Society (Timaru), $400; Crippled Children Society (Oamaru), $300; Canterbury Parents of Deaf Children (Christchurch), $3OO. Education.—Bishop Julius Hall

of Residence Committee (A) (Christchurch), $5OO. General.—Canterbury Museum Trust Board (Christchurch), $500; Nelson Museum Trust Board, $200; Marlborough Kindergarten Est. Committee. $100; Life Line (Christchurch), $300; Family Planning Association (Christchurch), $100; Presbyterian Social Services Association (Christchurch). $1000; Hospital Adoption Trust (Christchurch), $.300; Catholic Social Services (Christchurch), $1000; City Mission (Christchurch), $1000; St Vincent de Paul Society (Timaru), $200; Buller Hospital Comforts Committee (Westport), $2OO. Plunket Society.—Christchurch, $200; Burwood. $200; Avonhead. $200; Opawa-St Martins, $200; Marlborough. $lOO,