C.S.B. sets aside $200,000 in grants

Press, 28 August 1980, Page 20

C.S.B. sets aside $200,000 in grants

A record $200,000 will be distributed this year by the Canterbury Savings Bank in grants to welfare, educational, and cultural organisations in Canterbury, Marlborough, and Nelson. Hie president of the bank’s board of trustees (Dr D. J. Janus) said that emphasis had been placed on assisting those concerned with medicine and medical research.

The biggest grant — $20,000 — will go to the Templeton Hospital and training school welfare council trust appeal. The Canterbury Postgraduate Medical Society will get $lO,OOO to establish and maintain its new professorship, a scheme to bring, overseas professors to New Zealand, and the National Heart Foundation (Canterbury region) will get $5OOO. Other grants include $5OOO each to the Canterbury Aged People’s Welfare Council; St John of God, Marylands; and Christchurch’s Accident Medicine Group. Primary school libraries in the Canterbury region will receive $9150 of a total education grant of $19,000. A special grant of $5OO will go to the Woolston Primary School for a library extension, in memory of a former teacher who died in the Mount Erebus air crash.

Other grants include $13,750 to organisationsfor

the handicapped; $13,250 for the promotion of sport for ’youth; $ll,OOO to groups dealing with children and $7750 to cultural organisations.

Welfare and social services will receive almost $28,000 with sums for each of the 11 regional Plunket groups in Canterbury. Surf life-saving associations will receive $5OOO, community camps $1750, and community associations $2OOO. Including the 1980 grants, $792,000 has now been returned by the Canterbury Savings Bank to the community since 1962. The full list of grants is:

Special regional grants: $15,000. Divisional grants allocation: Canterbury $153,500, Marlborough $13,000, and Nelson $lB,OOO. Canterbury divisional grants are: Special divisional grants, $35,000; primary school special projects, $3OOO, primary school libraries $9150, intermediate school libraries $2650, secondary school libraries $7200, musical and cultural $7750, medically, physically and intellectually handicapped $13,750, infants and children $ll,OOO, hospitals and medical $3250, promotion of sport for youth $13,250, welfare and social services $35,000, miscellaneous $12,500. Marlborough divisional grants are: Special grants $2500, primary school libraries $650, intermediate school libraries $225, secondary school libraries $750, medical, physically and intellectually handicapped $1075, musical and cultural $lOOO, Infants and children $675, youth $975, welfare and social services $lB5O, miscellaneous $l7OO. community

halls, gymnasium and facilities $l6OO. Nelson Divisional grants are: Special grants $3BOO, primary school libraries $l6OO. intermediate school libraries $-150, secondary school libraries $lB5O, kindergartens $BOO, playcentres $4OO. Musical and cultural $l2OO, welfare and social services slBao, physically and intellectually handicapped $1550. youth $2150. miscellaneous $1950. To be allocated, $lB,lOO.