Sixty community organisations across the Coromandel's five community board areas have been successful in their applications for the latest batch of community grants.

Events featured highly in the list of successful applicants during this latest funding round, says a Thames-Coromandel District Council spokesperson.

A total of 60 organisations across the peninsula have been announced as recipients of the latest batch of Thames-Coromandel Community Board Grants. File Photo.

'But there were recipients from voluntary installation of smoke alarms for at-risk homes, through to funding towards a large bird rehabilitation enclosure for Kuaotunu Bird Rescue.”

Each of the five community board areas has a contestable grants pool to encourage and support not-for-profit organisations which have a positive impact on the community.

For more information about community grants visit the Thames-Coromandel District Council's website at: www.tcdc.govt.nz/cbgrants2016

COROMANDEL-COLVILLE COMMUNITY GRANT RECIPIENTS – $13,500:

• Coromandel RSA - $750 to host the community 2017 ANZAC service
• Coromandel Players - $600 to upgrade the lighting at Hauraki House theatre
• Port Jackson Pohutukawa - $184 to maintain pohutukawa trees planted on Port Jackson Road reserve
• Colville Community Health Trust - $1776 for an electric examination table
• Harataunga Marae - $2500 for replacement chairs at the wharekai
• Te Roopu Tautoko - $2000 for a solar-powered floodlight for the basketball hoop
• Coromandel Gymnastics Club - $900 for new equipment
• Coromandel Volunteer Fire Brigade - $1100 to purchase smoke alarms to install in at-risk homes

The remaining $3690 was retained for disbursement in this funding round in order that the Coromandel Business Association provide further information towards their application for a grant to help purchase and install security cameras in the CBD.

THAMES COMMUNITY EVENTS GRANT RECIPIENTS – $15,000:

• Sport Waikato - $500 for the Secondary Schools Waka Ama Distance Champs at Te Puru
• Totally Thames Incorporated - $500 toward the Santa Parade
• Bella Street Pumphouse - $1000 for the Poker Run
• St Francis School - $4000 for the Thames Christmas Lights Display
• Steampunk the Thames - $3000
• Friends of Bright Smile Community Gardens - $500 for the Brightsmile Spring Festival
• Thames Heritage Events Trust - $5000 for the Thames Heritage Festival
• Thames Music Group - $500 for lunchtime concerts

In addition to the above, the board agreed to waive Totally Thames Incorporated hireage fees for the Civic Centre when it hosts the Wearable Arts event in March, and has also waived the Civic Centre hireage fee for St Francis School to host the Thames Christmas Lights Display.

MERCURY BAY COMMUNITY EVENTS GRANT RECIPIENTS – $20,000:

• Fusion Netball Club - $2000 infrastructure costs for event in September
• Taste of Matarangi - $1000 marketing cost contribution
• MB Seaside Carnival - $1000 for traffic management costs
• Whitianga Community Waka Ama event - $2940 for port-a-loos and marketing
• MB Art Escape Tour - $2500 costs towards 10 year anniversary booklet
• MB Swimming Club - $2500 infrastructure costs for event in March
• Coromandel Classic - $2000 towards 2017 event costs
• Whitianga Bike Club - $2000 for annual maintenance of bikepark
• Kuaotunu Bird Rescue - $800 towards large bird rehabilitation enclosure
• KSAR - $2000 towards 'fitout' costs in new building
• Coromandel Independent Living Trust - $500 towards Art workshop in Whitianga
• MB Community Support Trust - $5000 towards Day Camp
• MB Swimming Club - $1000 funding towards a starter buzzer

TAIRUA-PAUANUI COMMUNITY GRANT RECIPIENTS – $37,000:

• Pauanui Community Library - $1500 for a portable book display stand
• Pauanui Menz Shed - $1198 for machinery to be able to use all the wood donated to the organisation.
• Pauanui Community office - $200 for rabbit control bait
• Pauanui Neighbourhood Watch - $812 towards insurance for technology number plate recognition
• Tairua Pauanui promotions - $4250 for New Years fireworks display
• Pauanui Summer Series - $8000 for events
• Trust Waikato Surf Lifesaving Club - $1000 for rescue tubes
• Hikuai School - $1000 towards the Great Outdoors Expo
• Tairua Care and Friendship Society - $1000 for rent of the Community Hall
• Tairua Elim Community Church - $1000 for its 2016 Light Party
• Tairua Environment Society - $3700 for historic signage at Te Karo Bay (Sailors Grave) for 175th anniversary celebrations for the HMS Tortoise expedition
• Tairua Heritage Group - $2700 for activities for the HMS 175th Tortoise expedition
• Tairua information Centre - $3820 for annual summer events
• Tairua Play Centre - $685 for a cover over the sandpit
• Tairua Rugby and Sports club for netball bibs
• $500 - Parents and friends Tairua School for its Wine and Food Festival
• $1000 - Tairua Volunteer Fire Brigade towards the cost of a 'Combi Carrier,” which is an apparatus to carry injured patients.

Discretionary Fund – The Board also allocated $6000 to the Tairua Information and Community Service Society towards rates relief for the 2016/17 financial year.

WHANGAMATA COMMUNITY GRANT RECIPIENTS – $30,000:

• All Saints Whangamata Community Church - $400 for printing and prizes for the Christmas Eve 'Carols in the Park' event
• Arts Collective Whangamata - $1000 for cost of Whangamata App annual fee
• Ella Williams Trust Fun - $2000 contribution towards the development of specialty advanced surfboard technology
• Onemana Ratepayers Association - $1604 contribution towards the cost of new plants, pest and plant eradication, newsletters, postage and a Market Day permit
• Onemana Surf Life Saving Club - $1000 contribution towards the cost of lifeguard apparel
• SANZ Whangamata Scout Group - $403 for the Whangamata Scout Hall lease
• Trust Waikato Whangamata Surf Life Saving Club - $3000 contribution towards Heartstart FRX defibrillators
• Whangamata Bowling Club Inc - $500 contribution towards vinyl replacement in the Club bathroom
• Whangamata Community Services Trust - $2500 cost of strategic advice for external funding applications
• Whangamata Community Services Trust - $1000 contribution towards the 'Living Without Violence' programmes
• Whangamata Croquet Club Inc - $500 contribution towards lawn maintenance
• Whangamata Lions Club - $1500 contribution towards the Whangamata Run Walk Festival including race timing and traffic management plans
• Whangamata Lions Club - $2000 contribution towards the Whangamata annual Santa Parade