Groups awarded grants from council funds

Council has awarded over $33,000 in community grants this year.

Twenty organisations and groups received grants last week from the council’s Community Grants Scheme for 2018.

Programme design and delivery manager Tania Parata said the scheme provides grants of up to $2000 for activities and programmes that benefit local communities.

“Each initiative is assessed against the community grants eligibility criteria and its merits in achieving community and social wellbeing.”

The grants allocation committee assessed 43 applications requesting over $75,000 from a limited pool of funding totalling $33,578.

Ms Parata said the committee thanked and acknowledged all the organisations that applied to the scheme for their work and services provided to Ka¯ piti communities.

This year’s recipients are Actively Coping with Cancer, Adult Literacy Aotearoa (Ka¯ piti) Inc, Citizens Advice Bureau Ka¯ piti, Cross Roads Christian Community Trust, Heart Kids Wellington, KapiMana Multiples, Ka¯ piti Coast WEA, Ka¯ piti Summer School Charitable Trust, Ka¯ piti Toy Library, Ka¯ piti Women’s Centre, Kidz Need Dadz, Lifeline Foundation Charitable Trust, Little Sprouts Charitable Trust (Ka piti), Mary Potter Hospice, O taki Women’s Health Group, Parenting Place — Attitude Youth Division, Parent to Parent Wellington, Raumati South Residents Association, The

Ka piti AED Trust, NZ Council of Victim Support.