North Shore City media release

Safe investment in not-for-profit organisations
August 16, 2007

North Shore City Council has rewarded organisations providing community services or undertaking projects across the Shore with grants totalling over $1.7m.

Community liaison manager, Lisa Tocker, says 92 applications were received from 75 organisations.

“Investment through grants is one way that we support the delivery of community services and programmes.

“We provide this high level of support as we know that community development is best practised within the community and in partnership with community,” she says.

Age Concern North Shore ($39,150) and Badminton North Harbour ($5000) were two of the organisations to receive funding.

Badminton North Harbour intends to use its grant to run programmes to increase participation in sport by young people. In addition they will work with migrant communities and people with disabilities.

“Over the 2005-2008 contract period we have allocated $7.9 million worth of grants to the not-for-profit sector and provided over $4 million in community accommodation support towards community facilities,”Mrs Tocker says.

“The organisations we invest in are accountable to the community for the investment the ratepayer has made in them to deliver results.

“In 2007/08 round of grants, seventy per cent of the 92 grant applications supported child and youth initiatives, over 45 per cent ethnic and multicultural, and 45 per cent arts and cultural sectors,” she says.

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