Prisoners’ aid reduced
A group set up to rehabilitate prisoners has joined other voluntary welfare agencies in expressing concern about the allocation of Golden Kiwi lottery funds.
Earlier this month, a spokesman for the New Zealand Federation of Volun-
tary Welfare Organisations said many groups were getting a smaller share of the lottery funds than in previous years. The director of the New Zealand Prisoners’ Aid and Rehabilitation Society, Mr A. Pinder, said this week that the society was another
group which could not exist without the grant from the lottery’s funds. He said that since 1980, the grant had been reduced 8 per cent in cash terms and 38 per cent in real terms. His concern was that the percentage of the lottery funds given to the Welfare
Services Distribution Committee had dropped from 18.2 per cent in 1975 to 13.2 per cent last year, Mr Pinder said. The organisations working with this group found it difficult to compete with “more popular causes” for funds. “The level of Welfare Services Distribution Committee funding should be maintained to ensure that the original concept of Golden Kiwi funding as a means of community support for the poor and disadvantaged is observed,” he said.
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