More than $300,000 has been awarded to community groups across the Bay of Plenty in the latest funding application round by NZ Community Trust - NZCT.
Grants totalling $330,815.17 have been made in May to 18 community groups, music and sports groups and schools.
NZCT's main focus is to provide funds for amateur sport – around 75 per cent of the grants are for sporting purposes.
"We also support other important causes, including rescue and lifesaving services, community groups, education and culture," says a NZCT spokesperson.
"We generally distribute funds to the area where they were raised. We understand many charitable and sporting organisations operate in zones that are broader than a single territorial authority area, so we think it's appropriate that funds raised within a region are distributed throughout that region."
Funds are generated from gaming machines and rooms in the community, usually located in bars and taverns.
NZCT also fund national organisations, like Special Olympics and the Secondary Schools Sports Council, that offer benefits to the wider community.
The 18 organisations across the Bay of Plenty that have been awarded NZCT funding grants during May are:
|
Organisation |
Amount approved |
Purpose |
|
Age Concern Rotorua District Inc |
$10,400.00 |
Lease costs (excludes deposits) |
|
Bay of Plenty Cricket Association Inc |
$3,210.52 |
Nets hire; Coaching fees (from 17 May 2022) |
|
Bay of Plenty Symphonia Inc |
$1,774.69 |
Contractor |
|
Bay of Plenty Youth Development Trust |
$10,000.00 |
Salary |
|
Eastern Bay Villages |
$10,000.00 |
Contractor |
|
Graeme Dingle Foundation Rotorua |
$20,000.00 |
Salary |
|
Mamaku School |
$50,000.00 |
Charge Smart Solar panels and batteries on swimming pool roof/charging units - instal 2 |
|
Mount Maunganui Bridge Club Inc |
$30,000.00 |
Facilities upgrade and equipment, includes electrical work (excludes TV) |
|
Mount Maunganui Sports Club Inc |
$25,000.00 |
Painting; Sanding of squash courts |
|
Rotokawa School |
$50,000.00 |
Playground installation - includes materials (excludes travel and accommodation of installation team) |
|
Rotorua Girls High School |
$8,046.96 |
Sports uniforms (excludes jackets) |
|
Rotorua Intermediate |
$7,850.00 |
Chromebooks (excludes leases; 12 month warranties only) |
|
Rotorua Lakes High School |
$10,000.00 |
Camp accommodation and instruction fees (excludes food and deposit) |
|
Squash NZ Inc |
$60,000.00 |
Glass Court |
|
Swim Rotorua Inc |
$12,000.00 |
Swimming pool lane hire (from 17 May 2022) |
|
Tauranga BMX Club Inc |
$2,125.00 |
Coaching fees (from 17 May 2022) |
|
Tauranga Sports Junior Rugby Club Inc |
$10,408.00 |
Uniforms and equipment (includes delivery) |
|
Waiariki Womens Refuge Inc |
$10,000.00 |
Salary |
|
|
$330,815.17 |
|
The NZCT gaming venues that contributed to these grants are:
- Cheers Tavern, 15 Owens Place, Mt Maunganui
- City Sports Bar, 20 Hamilton Street, Tauranga
- Clover Bar, 80 Willow Street, Tauranga
- Cobb & Co. Whakatane, 79 The Strand, Whakatane
- Forta Leza, 2656 Main Road, Katikati
- Horses Bar, 17 Plummers Point Road, Omokoroa
- Judea Tavern, 35 Koromiko Street, Tauranga
- Kasper's Sports Bar, 1302 Tutanekai Street, Rotorua
- Kawerau Hotel, 1 Plunket Street, Kawerau
- Marble Bar, 1000 Cameron Road, Tauranga
- Mo's Bar, 1142-1144 Tutanekai Street, Rotorua
- West End Tavern, 223 Old Taupo Road, Rotorua
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