Quiet community workers get funding help for winter day out

July 14th, 2010

Motueka Community Care, a voluntary group which quietly helps some of Motueka's elderly and disabled people to get out and about a bit more, has been granted $400 of discretionary funds from the Motueka Community Board to help cater for an afternoon tea next month.

Although the group has for the past 15 years been hosting a Christmas Dinner for around 150 people who have little or no family or other community support, board members said they were not aware of Community Care's existence and what it does. So impressed were they by the modest way in which Community Care has gone about its work that the funding request was approved with enthusiasm and appreciation.

Pam York, who represented the volunteers, said that the Lions paid for the Christmas meal at the RSA, but the event they are organising for an August Sunday for about 90 people would include transport, afternoon tea and entertainment as a special day out during winter. The approved funding would assist with hall rental, catering and wheelchair transport.

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