My Account
A late application for $20,000 from Orewa Surf Club was the largest of the Local Grants allocated to community groups by the Hibiscus & Bays Local Board recently. The surf club was one of 15 Hibiscus Coast-based organisations to benefit from the second round of these grants. The successful Hibiscus Coast applicants were:
- Hibiscus Coast Concert Band, $2000. Towards the cost of musical instruments
- Hibiscus Coast Music Society, $2000. Towards the cost of professional performers for the June concert.
- Centrestage Theatre Company, $5000. Towards the costs associated with Blood Brothers.
- Hibiscus Coast branch Forest & Bird, $2000. Towards costs of exhibition Waders and Wonders of Orewa Estuary.
- Hibiscus Coast Community Arts Council, $5000. Towards costs associated with the Art Awards 2017.
- Hibiscus Coast Youth Council Inc, $7500. Towards costs tagged for consistent delivery of the programme every week.
- Rodney Neighbourhood Support, $1097. Towards the costs for the Rodney coordinator to carry out programmes including identifying new groups across the Hibiscus & Bays areas.
- Age Concern Rodney Inc Charitable Trust, $1000. Towards the cost of postage paid envelopes for sending information to members.
- Hibiscus Coast Community Patrol Charitable Trust, $1425. Towards cost of first aid training for volunteers.
- Hibiscus Men’s Shed Trust, $9200. Towards cost of professional feasibility study for construction of a Men’s Shed.
- Whangaparaoa College, $2700. Towards costs of removing weeds and preparing site for planting for the Rata Stream Ecological Restoration Project.
- Hibiscus Hospice Charitable Trust, $4000. Towards costs for Legends – Best of British Show and Dinner.
- Hibiscus Petanque, $5000. Towards excavation and building of petanque court.
- Red Beach Surf Lifesaving Club, $3000. Towards costs of purchasing five surf skis.
- Orewa Surf Lifesaving Club $20,000. Towards costs of a feasibility study for the redevelopment of the surf lifesaving building.
