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Volunteers are crucial to the success of sailing and regattas and the role of volunteers has been recognised by the Government with the establishment of the Community Leadership Fund.
Volunteers made a huge contribution at last year's 2016 Aon Youth Sailing World Championships at Torbay. Photo: Sailing Energy / World Sailing.
The fund, with $500,000 available, was announced last week by Community and Voluntary Sector Minister Alfred Ngaro.
“The community and voluntary sector makes a massive contribution to New Zealand every day,” Ngaro said. “This is only the second year the fund has been available and recognises the support, capacity building and guidance that many of New Zealand’s community leadership groups provide.
“Last year we were able to fund six organisations, including The Volunteer Army who were using the grant to support its work with schools to develop our future volunteers."
Nationally-focused not-for-profits who provide leadership and capability building have until July 12, 2017, to submit applications, with decisions to be made by the end of August.
More information can be found here.
