Thirteen groups have received Papakura Local Board small grants funding.
Funds will be used for everything from supporting the area’s toy library next year to compliance costs to mount the Warbirds on Parade event, and from supporting photography programmes to machines to help prepare food for hungry young gymnasts.
Board chair Brent Catchpole says the grants allow organisations and groups that might only need small amounts of funding to achieve their aims.
“Not everyone is doing something on a large scale, but that doesn’t mean the projects that come forward don’t do good in the community. It’s great to be able to provide the smaller sums that make a lot of those good ideas a reality.”
Successful applicants:
- Community Publishing Institute, $1000 for a poetry showcase
- Kootuitui Trust, $2000 for fruit trees for the community to share
- Te Maunga Kohungahunga Kohanga Reo, $2000 for an outdoor playground
- Conifer Grove Residents Association, $900 to residents’ newsletter
- Jagbir Singh Chahal, $1000 for a video to showcase Sikh COVID-19 support
- Papakura Toy Library, $2000 for annual operating costs for 2021
- Papakura and District Historical Society, $2000 for Buller’s Birds exhibition
- Warbirds, $2000 for Warbirds on Parade in Papakura
- Life Bliss, $500 costs for Rudram counselling service
- Counties Manukau Gymnastics, $1200 for food preparation equipment
- Papakura Business Association, $2000 for installation of Anzac Day flags
- Everybody is a Treasure, $500 for Click Happy photography programme
- Interacting, $1000 for in-school tutors and workshop materials.
