Grants announced

Press, 1 December 1988, Page 20

Grants announced

Twenty-three community groups will receive grants totalling $22,053, announced by the Social Welfare Department’s district executive committee. The grants were allocated from the Community Welfare Initiative Fund (C.W.1.F.), a small fund intended to help small-scale initiatives that had no other sources of funding. The fund is directly administered by the district executive committee, appointed by the Government in May. The C.W.I.F. is the only fund district executives

comittees administer directly, but they also have a monitoring role in all areas of Social Welfare Department funding. The grant recipients were: Cystic Fibrosis Association of New Zealand, $5000; Employment Network, $2500; Cobb and Cass Trust, $2500; Chritian Family Movement, $2000; Adoption Support Group, $1000; Child Cancer Foundation, $1000; Aranui Activity Centre, $1000; Recreation for Youth, $800; Adolescent Planning Group, $600; Shirley

Methodist Church Play Group, $575; Welfare Rights Unit, $500; Glenelg Health Camp, $500; 196 Counselling Centre, $500; Housing for Women Trust, $500; Chatham Islands Community Child Protection group, $500; Schizophrenia Fellowship, $440; Pegasus After School Activities, $400; Tuia Cooperative, $400; Aranui Consumer Fair: ad hoc groups, $300; Employment Network, $275; the New Zealand Road Show Trust, $250; Al-A-Team, $180; Parentline, $168; West Christchurch Women’s Refuge, $165.