Press Release – Central Lakes Trust Central Lakes Trust (CLT) closes its 20th financial year, 31 March 2021, having granted $9.45 million into the Central Lakes community, the largest amount granted in any one financial year the Trust has operated. Trust chair, Linda Robertson says, …
Central Lakes Trust (CLT) closes its 20th financial year, 31 March 2021, having granted $9.45 million into the Central Lakes community, the largest amount granted in any one financial year the Trust has operated.
Trust chair, Linda Robertson says, “Prudent investment has allowed CLT to maintain a healthy and growing grants budget. It is however the community members that drive the projects and causes we see across the board table and it is these groups that enable the Trust to meaningfully contribute to charitable causes at the heart of the community’s needs.”
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By TRACEY ROXBURGH
A new Queenstown charitable trust with a focus on mental health has received a $40,000 funding boost from Central Lakes Trust.
The Southern Wellbeing Trust was co-founded in September by local GP Tim Rigg and health communications specialist Anna Dorsey after they saw the pressures Covid was putting on local health and social services.
‘‘We could see first-hand how big a challenge this was going to be for our communities,’’ Dorsey says.
‘‘Not just the risk to our physical health but the far-reaching and ongoing threat to people’s mental health and wellbeing.’’
Trustees are Dorsey, Rigg and Queenstown Medical Centre boss Ashley Light, who have since worked with a team of volunteers to develop new strategies to help prevent mental illness and promote good health across the district, collaborating with local agencies, the community and providers.
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February 25, 2021
By TRACEY ROXBURGH
Whakatipu residents, a new report says.
The Wakatipu Mental Health Forum was held in November, attended by 80 people, including a cross-section of residents and local agency representatives, organised by Anne Marie Campbell, Daniel Sweeney, Kirsten Dennison, Vanessa van Uden, Anna Dorsey and doctor Tim Rigg.
Van Uden says the group was united in its concern over the devastating Covid-19-related impacts on locals and wanted to meaningfully contribute to guiding the wider recovery, resilience and future wellbeing of the Whakatipu.
‘‘We wanted to come together to share our thoughts and find a collective voice to highlight the challenges and potential solutions for the community, by the community.’’
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