Volunteers hard at work packing over 300 hampers for a previous Operation Christmas Hamper effort. A $1700 discretionary grant was given to the organisation.
The Te Awamutu-Kihikihi Community Board has allocated $35,000 from the first round of its discretionary funding.
The board has $50,000 to distribute in the financial year starting July 1 – and received 29 applications seeking a total of $55,000.
The largest grant awarded at the board’s meeting last week was the $5000 given to the Rotary Club of Te Awamutu, followed by the $4000 the Te Awamutu Community Menzshed received.
The Te Awamutu Citizens Advice Bureau and the Pirongia Forest Park Lodge each received $2500.
The Girl Guides Association of New Zealand received $1800, Operation Christmas Hamper got $1700 and the Kihikihi Residents and Ratepayers association was given $1500. A total of $1450 went to the Waikato branch of the New Zealand Hot Rod Association and $1400 to The Theatre Beautiful Limited.
Te Awamutu Bible Chapel and Te Awamutu both received $1200, while Hospice Waikato, Kids in Need Waikato and La Leche League New Zealand each got $1000.
Among other grants The Maungatautari to Pirongia Ecological Corridor Society and the Te Awamutu Community Toy Library were both awarded $850, while The MS Waikato Trust – a not for profit organisation providing support services to people affected by Multiple Sclerosis and Huntington’s disease – was given $750.
The board’s second funding round will be early next year.
