Going for Goals hits stage two

Press, 24 June 1989, Page 4

Going for Goals hits stage two

NIGEL MALTHUS

The Going for Goals campaign has entered its second phase with the establishment of a Going for Goals Foundation and Going for Goals, Ltd, to develop and implement ideas put forward at the Queen’s Birthday week-end forum.

Going for Goals, Ltd, will be registered as a non-taxable limited liability company to manage the setting and implementation of goals for the advancement of Canterbury. The foundation, registered as a charitable trust, would own the shares in the company and audit its functions for the benefit of Canterbury people, said the chairman, Mr Alan Shadwell. The trustees, announced yesterday, are Mr Shadwell; the Mayor, Sir Hamish Hay; Mrs Margaret Murray, representing the regional council; Mr Richard Bray, of Trustbank Canterbury; Mr Bob Todd, of the Engineers’ Union; Ms Jan Andrews, the City Council’s employment services co-ordinator; Mr Stuart

Mackay of the Chamber of Commerce; Mr Riki Tau, of Ngai Tahu; and Mr Oliver Grigg, representing Federated Farmers. A board of directors and an enlarged “core executive” have also been named for Going for Goals, Ltd, whose job will be to sort through the hundreds of suggestions put forward at the forum, decide which are appropriate and achievable, and put them into action.

Criteria have already been set for choosing specific goals. First and most important was whether it would create jobs.

Mrs Gillian Wess, a director of Going for Goals, Ltd, said that goals should also have a positive impact on the com-

munity as a whole — which meant that they should not compromise the health, wealth or quality of life of any other sector. Goals also had to be realistic and achievable through local action, without dependence on the Government, she said.

The timetable aimed to have task forces set up and ready to announce their initial lists of goals by August 17. Short-term goals should be implemented by Christmas. One recommendation made at the forum was already being implemented — a Youth for Goals forum planned for August. A spokesman, Mr lan Shrimpton, said that Going for Goals organ-

isers had been disappointed with the turnout of young people at the main forum, and believed it was because they feared they would be swamped.

Senior secondary school students would therefore have their own one-day forum, probably coinciding with Senior Students’ Week (August 7 to 11).

Going for Goals would put the structure in place, but let the students run it themselves.

Unlike the Going for Goals forum, with its six broad topic areas. Youth for Goals would have jobs as its one key area. The students’ suggestions would then be incorporated in the Going for Goals implementation process.