A new Trust set up by the Waikato District Council has funded additional security cameras for Raglan. The Waikato District Community Wellbeing Trust has approved total grants of $100,000 for Waikato communities.
The Trust met earlier this week and approved four requests for funding from community groups around the district. The Trust Chair, Councillor Dynes Fulton, said the Trustees were pleased to give out the first round of grants and believed that the recipients’ projects would benefit the wider community.
This was the Trust’s first funding round, since being established in May 2010 to manage and distribute the funds received from the former Waikato Foundation Trust. The fund delivered a surplus of $363, 972 for the year ended 30 June 2012.
$20,000 went to the North Waikato Crime Prevention Technology Trust for security cameras in Te Kauwhata, Huntly, Ngaruawahia, Tuakau and Raglan.
Other recipients were the Huntly Lions Club towards building a Poppet Head monument in Huntly to mark the 43 miners who died in the Ralph’s Mine disaster in 1914 when a miner’s light ignited gas, $40,000 for a walkway project in Tamahere and $19,000 for a new power supply switch board for the Ngaruawahia Rugby League Club.