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The Volunteering Auckland Trust has gained a healthy stocking filler this Christmas, with charity funder ASB Community Trust approving a $50,000 grant for its operating costs.

 

 

Volunteering Auckland Trust promotes and encourages volunteering throughout the region and expects 900 new volunteers to register next year. The $50,000 ASB Trusts grant will help with training and resource costs for  Volunteering Auckland, which has 165 community organisation members.

ASB Community Trust CEO Jennifer Gill said an estimated 10,000 volunteers and 400 community groups would directly benefit from the Volunteering Auckland Trust’s work. The Trust has been supporting the Volunteering Auckland Trust’s work for 15 years, during which time it has granted the organisation in excess of $300,000.

Migrant Support Services has also benefited from the Trust's funds, with a $36,443 grant approved at the trust’s December board meeting. The money will go toward running costs at the service’s Onehunga base, where 3750 migrant and refugee people have been helped in the past year.

The support service provides courses such as computer literacy, driver licensing education, Treaty of Waitangi education and parenting skills at little or no cost. Last year ASB Community Trust granted it $20,000 towards its operating costs.

(ENDS)