Self-help grants

Press, 21 June 1985, Page 25

Self-help grants

Sutherland Self-Help Trust Board grants totalling $750,000 have been announced by the chairman of the board, Mr John Sutherland. The grants will be distributed to 116 organisations throughout New Zealand. This year’s grants have been increased $170,000 over last year. The total amount distributed by the trust since the first grants were awarded in 1962 now stands at $5,188,606. ' Organisations receiving grants include: New Zealand Association of

i the Blind and Partially Blind ; ($2000); New Zealand Crippled • Children ’ Society ($25,000); the Combined New Zealand Societies for the Deaf ($19,000); and the New Zealand Federation for Deaf Children ($3500). 1 , I.H.C. in Nelson ($17,000); I.H.C. in Canterbury ($7000); , Paraplegic and Physically Disabled ($25,000); New Zealand Riding for the Disabled ($1500); Presbyterian Support Services (Christchurch) ($1000); Christs church Diabetes Centre ($1400); I Epilepsy Association ($2500); Haemophilia Society Inc ($7200). ! The Multiple Sclerosis Society in Nelson ($1000); Musf cular Dystrophy Association

($7500); Parkinsonism Society ($5000); National Forum for Health Education and Health Promotion ($30,000); Diabetes Foundation ($2000). Nurses’ Association enteros.tomal therapy section ($2000); the Red Cross Society ($10,000); Schizophrenia Fellowship S Birthright ($10,000); c Social Services, Christchurch ($4000); Nelson Region Rape Crisis Network ($1000); Salisbury Street Foundation, Christchurch ($1000); National Collective of Independent Women’s Refuges ($8000); 196 Counselling Centre ($2000). Hypercalcaemia * Parents’ Association ($1000); InterChurch Commission on Immigrant and Refugee Settlement ($2000); National Children’s Health Research Foundation, cot death division ($60,000); Institute of Mental Retardation, Dunedin ($500).