$200,000 disbursed

Press, 26 November 1987, Page 9

$200,000 disbursed

The Canterbury Community Organisations Grants Scheme has announced grants to community groups that range from $5OO to $13,200. The Canterbury distribution committee has decided which community groups will receive the more than $200,000 it has to distribute in November. The smallest grant was $5OO to the Beckenham Neighbourhood Association for its work with the elderly. The biggest grant of $13,200 went to the Unemployed Rights Collective.

Four of New Zealand’s nine main tribal districts received $lO,OOO each to

set up their whanau in Canterbury. The community worker for C.O.G.S. in Canterbury, Ms Joy Sylvia, said that the sum was a “one-off” grant to help the groups establish their whanau. The money would be used for community development, beginning language nests, teaching marae customs, arid organising training workshops about social services. Ms Sylvia said the other large grants included: $11,500 to Te Roopu Karere O Te Waipounamu, a group setting up a network structure to co-ordinate the

work of Maori groups. $ll,OOO to Maori wardens for training new volunteers, and travel expenses. . $ll,OOO to Te Whatumanawamaoritanga O Rehua Marae, for a social work scheme at the Rehua Marae run by the Methodist Central Mission. $lO,OOO to Childhelpline, to extend its services. $lO,OOO to Whakamaru Tinana Incorpoorated, a self-defence course aimed at Maori women. $lO,OOO to 196 counselling centre, a counselling and drop-in centre that does a lot of work in the Sydenham area.