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Trust donates $57,600 in latest grants round
Wednesday, October 17, 2012
SPORTING groups in Gisborne are winners in the latest round of donations from Eastern and Central Community Trust.

Sport Eastland received the biggest boost of $57,600 for human resources and Midway Surf Life Saving Club will use its $3500 for three new rescue boards.

The community trust is a regular funder of sports in Gisborne and has also provided more than $310,000 since 1999, for transporting East Coast children to city sports competitions.

Donations will continue to support clubs and coaches, with the biggest benefactors those who run sport at grass-roots level.

“The donation is very important. It is mainly used for human resources, so many programmes and services would have to be cut if we did not get the trust’s support,” says Sport Gisborne operational manager Thomas Edge.

Gisborne does not have a regional sports organisation representing each individual sporting code. Sport Gisborne fills that role, focusing on support for volunteers and coaches.

It also dedicates some of the funding to providing professional development for teachers, to help them encourage students into sport.

Midway Surf Life Saving Club says equipment takes quite a battering and it is difficult to find the money to regularly replace and upgrade.

The club has a large contingent of juniors and will visit Gisborne primary schools next week as part of a recruitment drive to encourage more youngsters into the sport.

The Community Trust says the club has introduced a strategy of employing a lifeguard coach, which is proving successful. Midway has about 150 juniors in the 5 to 14 age group and requires all qualified lifeguards to volunteer for beach patrols during November to March.

Also included in the donation list is $9900 to Friends of Rere Charitable Trust to build a community room, $3500 to the Tairawhiti Community Law Trust for display units and $1000 for Gisborne’s Budget Advisory Service.
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