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Tuesday 7 October 2014
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Design Create Indulge
Energy Centre re-opened
Trust gives Nelson a $5M boost Nelson charities have been given more than $5 million by the Canterbury Community Trust this year, the largest amount to come from the trust in a single year. The trust provides funds to organisations in Canterbury, Marlborough, Chatham Islands and Nelson and this year gave $37 million in donations across those regions. In Nelson, a total of 276 groups were given a donation, totalling $5,098,773. The Suter Art Gallery, the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary and the Nelson School of Music were the big winners, together receiving $1.65 million from a special fund set up by the trust to help the regions recover after the Canterbury earthquakes. More than $500,000 from that special fund has gone to nine other Nelson organisations, including a grant of $300,000 to the Nelson Tasman Housing Trust’s
Warmer Healthier Homes Project for insulation for low-income houses. The Brook Waimarama Sanctuary’s general manager, Hudson Dodd, says money from the trust is vital to groups like his being able get off the ground. “What they do is really important for the Nelson region. The donation to us was a real validation that a very savvy and connected funder, who’s involved in all aspects of the community, saw us as a key cultural component for Nelson over the coming years.” Donations outside of the special fund were split amongst organisations in arts and heritage, community and economic development, education, environment and sport. Jill Spooner, chair of the Canterbury Community Trust, says being able to spread the payments to places like Nelson is a “source of great pride”.
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Titan has sights on NRL
Fight 4 Victory organisers Barry Galbraith, left, and Paul Hampton, outside the new home for the Fight 4 Victory, Saxton Stadium. Photo: Andrew Board.
Fight 4 Victory is back It’s the event that saw local business people, cops, sportsmen and even the mayor get punched in the head and after a one year hiatus, the Fight 4 Victory is back. The charity boxing event will be held on April 4 next year at Saxton Stadium, announced organisers this week.
Andrew Board Editor
andrew@nelsonweekly.co.nz It will again see local personalities thrown in the ring for three rounds of boxing, with 12 weeks of training behind them and a noisy crowd
cheering them on. All money raised will once again go to Victory Boxing. Programme director at Victory Boxing, Paul Hampton, says the news is huge for the club and will not only provide needed funds to the gym
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