Demand for Funding Remains High as Trust approves over $3.4M
1 Jun 2018
Otago Community Trust approved a total of just over $3.4 million dollars in its May funding round to support a wide and varied number of initiatives across Otago.
In what was one of the largest funding rounds of recent times, the Trust announces today that it not only approved significant capital grants towards the Taieri Community Facilities Trust Mosgiel Pool project ($1,500,000) and the Wanaka Watersports Facility Trust ($400,000), but it also approved a $450,000 grant to the University of Otago - Music, Theatre & Performing Arts Department and it significantly increased its funding levels to Otago social service agencies by close to 50%.
“Last year the trust approved $405,000 in our social services funding round, this year we have increased that to $600,000”, said Ms Bridger
We see the social service agencies as a key contributor to our region, not only providing essential services for our community but also employing more than 200 people and spending an estimated $15m across the region.
“What the trust consistently hears from our applicants is that they are encountering clients with more complex needs, requiring more comprehensive responses and unfortunately many service providers are struggling financially with the increased demand for these type of services”, Ms Bridger explains.
Ms Bridger also notes that going forward, as part of the Trust’s five-year strategic plan we are looking closely at opportunities to provide partnership grants that offer multiyear funding.
“Trustees believe that one of the ways we can make a real difference is by moving towards a long-term funding approach for those organisations that are well established service providers and are consistently able to demonstrate that they have: best practice delivery; robust governance and leadership, alongside sound financial management”.
Ms Bridger says taking a long-term funding approach gives certainty for providers and offers significant benefit in terms of being able to employ and retain skilled staff and focus on service delivery to those that need it most.
With respect to the grant to the University of Otago - Department of Music, Theatre and Performing Arts, the $450,000 will contribute directly to the purchase of equipment to be used in the recording studio and performing spaces in the new Music Department facility.
The new recording and performance spaces will be open to community groups, explains Bridger. The Trust is supportive of these wider community groups having access to this new equipment and is pleased to be assisting the University of Otago with this project.
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Otago Community Trust Social Service Grants, May 2018 |
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Dunedin |
Catholic Social Services |
$40,000 |
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Presbyterian Support Otago |
$75,000 |
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Stopping Violence Dunedin Inc |
$45,000 |
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Methodist Mission Southern |
$75,000 |
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Aroha Ki Te Tamariki |
$55,000 |
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Malcam Charitable Trust |
$75,000 |
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Able - Southern Families Support |
$50,000 |
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Anglican Family Care |
$75,000 |
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Otago Youth Wellness Trust |
$75,000 |
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Otago |
Salvation Army New Zealand Trust |
$35,000 |
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Total |
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$600,000 |
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Otago Community Trust General Community Grants, May 2018 |
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Alexandra |
Omakau & Districts Playcentre (Otago Playcentre Association) |
$17,662 |
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Omakau - Earnscleugh Collie Club |
$13,000 |
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Clyde Tennis Club Inc |
$40,000 |
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Central Otago Compassionate Friends |
$1,500 |
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Central Otago Friendship Network |
$2,000 |
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The Good Life Charitable Trust |
$3,200 |
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Balclutha |
Catlins Promotions |
$4,000 |
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Cromwell |
Cromwell Youth Trust |
$5,000 |
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Dunedin |
Malcam Charitable Trust |
$15,000 |
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Dunedin Tamil Society Inc |
$10,000 |
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The Dunedin Lodge of the Theosophical Society Inc |
$1,200 |
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Pirates Squash Rackets Club Inc |
$2,117 |
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University of Otago - Music, Theatre & Performing Arts Dept |
$450,000 |
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Belleknowes Golf Club |
$2,000 |
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Grants Braes School |
$17,500 |
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Purakaunui Block Inc |
$7,300 |
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NZ Salmon Anglers Assn Otago Branch |
$5,000 |
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Northern Association Football Club Inc |
$955 |
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University of Otago - Business School |
$10,000 |
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Dunedin City Council - Art Gallery |
$34,300 |
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Amputee Society of Otago & Southland Inc |
$2,000 |
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Milton |
Tuapeka Vintage Club Inc |
$24,000 |
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Mosgiel |
Taieri Community Facilities Trust |
$1,500,000 |
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Oamaru |
Filipino Waitaki Incorporated |
$4,000 |
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North Otago Scout Zone |
$1,500 |
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Hampden Presbyterian Church & Community Church Committee |
$2,000 |
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Otago |
Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ |
$1,117 |
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UpsideDowns Education Trust |
$5,000 |
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Outward Bound |
$120,000 |
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Wanaka |
Wanaka Watersports Facility Trust |
$400,000 |
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Winter Games NZ Trust |
$50,000 |
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The Showgrounds Community Sports Centre Trust |
$120,000 |
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Total |
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$2,871,351 |