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"It's time we talked" - Parent Workshop
The Otago Community Trust in conjunction with St Hilda's Collegiate School are proud to offer an Otago wide workshop / seminar for parents of teenagers and pre-teens being presented by Maree Crabbe. For interested parents this will address the important issues our children are faced with through the internet, media and various social media sites.
Read moreJoss House
It is always pleasing to see a project reach completion and this was especially true for the relocation of Joss House. The small nondescript weatherboard cottage was once an integral part of Lawrence's Chinese settlement.
Read moreSupporting the Attitude Programme in Otago Schools
The Otago Community Trust is pleased to be once again providing funding support to The Parenting Place – Attitude Division’. The $6,000 donation granted in November 2016 will assist with the cost of presenting the Attitude Programme in Otago schools this coming year. The programme for 2017 is entitled 'Being Me' and provides a guide to friends, identity, puberty and technology.
Read moreNational Rural Health Conference 2017 - Scholarships
The Otago Community Trust is delighted to confirm that it will be supporting up to ten people from rural Otago to attend the 2017 National Rural Health Conference in Wellington (March 30 - April 2) with a scholarship fund of $10,000. The scholarship will be $1,000 per person to be used towards the registration fee, flights and / or accomodation.
Read moreTrust provides $1.7M pre-Christmas boost to community groups
Community groups across Otago have received a boost of more than $1.7 million thanks to Otago Community Trust. Moana House, a residential therapeutic community house that supports men with alcohol and drug problems, was the major beneficiary of the trust’s November funding round. The trust approved a $400,000 donation to help extend Moana House’s facilities.
Read moreWanaka Search & Rescue – Sub Alpine Training Day.
Wanaka Search and Rescue Sub Alpine training day at Cattle Flat, Mt Aspiring National Park provided an opportunity to look at core skills and competencies around helicopter operations, first aid, stretcher carrying and patient handling in and around low angle terrain, river crossing and awareness and navigation.
Read moreCourageous and Free
'Courageous and Free' was officially launched at the Wanaka Public Library on Armistice Day, November 11. Five dedicated Otago authors have spent two years painstakingly collecting stories about Upper Clutha soldiers and nurses who died during World War 1 service.
Read moreRecreational Turf Trust granted $95k
Oamaru’s North Otago Recreational Turf Trust was the major beneficiary of the Otago Community Trust’s October funding round. The Otago Community Trust approved a $95,000 donation to the Trust which will assist with the cost of replacing the recreational hockey turf at Centennial Park. North Otago Recreational Turf Trust chairman Ray Simpson explains that the current water based turf was originally laid in 1999 and while it has been maintained to a high standard, it is now impractical and uneconomic to continue repairing it. “The expected life span of a turf is typically 10 years and we have had 17 years out of it” Mr Simpson said.
Read moreAnother healthy contribution to EECA’s Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes Programme for Otago
The Otago Community Trust is pleased to announce that it has committed over $700,000 towards insulating more low income homes across the Otago region for the year to 30th July 2017 through the EECA’s Warm Up New Zealand: Healthy Homes Rental programme. Working with providers Smart Energy Solutions and Technobond, this funding will allow almost 1000 more low income homes to become warmer, healthier and more efficient.
Read moreCentral Otago Wilding Conifer's
Committed volunteers in action! Thanks to Phil Murray from the Central Otago Wilding Conifer Control Group for sending us some great photos of the volunteer crew ready to start work on drilling and filling several hundred trees, some quite large, on a QEII covenant site above Conroy’s Rd earlier this month.
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