Telethon grants next year?

Press, 17 November 1981, Page 15

Telethon grants next year?

PA Wellington The International Year of Disabled Persons Telethon Trust hopes to make its first allocations early next year. About 1400 applications for $42 million have been made to the trust, which has $5.8 million raised by Telethon. The chairman of the trust, Mr Maurice O’Brien, said that more than 900 applications, totalling $3l million had not been received until the final 10 days before applications closed on October 31, and it was impossible to deal with all of these for some time. “At a full two-day meeting in Wellington, we considered

categories into which they fall and the administrative procedures to deal with them. “These categories cover such things as aids for the disabled, service and training here and overseas, research, education, and capital development. “While the trust wants to consider every application promptly, the public’s generosity in providing the funds also imposes a responsibility on the trustees in apportioning the money wisely.” Mr O’Brien said that the trustees would need to spend the next couple of months, including the holiday period, assessing the applications.