Ashhurst’s community pool has been granted $9300 to assist with its upgrade project, following the last funding round of the Meridian Te Apiti Community Fund.
Swim School Coordinator, Joanne Doyle, says the grant will be greatly helpful to the pool and will enable it to expand and grow into the future and provide more to the community."
Other projects supported by the Fund include:
- $2562 for the Ashhurst Pohangina Rugby Club to replace the central floodlight at the team’s training ground
- $1505 for the Woodville Junior Football Club to purchase equipment and help initiate a junior football competition
- $994 to Ashhurst Kindergarten for a fence upgrade.
The chair of the funding panel, Meridian Wind Operations Manager Mike Goldsworthy, says it is pleasing to be able to help provide facilities which will be of long-term value to local organisations.
“The Fund was set up to support community projects which might not otherwise go ahead, and we are pleased to have been able to help these organisations achieve their objectives.”
The Meridian Te Apiti Community Fund totals $100,000, which will be allocated to projects which meet the funding criteria over three years from October 2009.
The Fund is for the Ashhurst and Woodville communities, near Meridian’s Te Apiti wind farm. Applications for consideration in the next funding round close on 21 September 2010.
For more information contact:
Claire Shaw
External Communications Manager
Meridian Energy
021 370 677
claire.shaw@meridianenergy.co.nz
About Meridian Energy
Meridian is New Zealand’s largest electricity generator and currently owns and operates nine hydro stations and three wind farms within New Zealand:
• Manapouri power station and eight hydro stations on the Waitaki River in the South Island
• Te Apiti wind farm near Palmerston North
• White Hill wind farm in Southland.
• West Wind farm in Wellington.
Meridian puts significant investment into new renewable energy sources from Wellington’s first wind farm West Wind, through to our most southern wind farm Ross Island (Antarctica).
Meridian also retails electricity to around 188,000 customers throughout New Zealand, which includes households, farms and businesses .
It also provides electricity to Rio Tinto Alcan New Zealand Limited; formally Comalco New Zealand Limited; this aluminium smelter in Bluff, is New Zealand’s single largest electricity user.
Meridian has over 1,000 megawatts of New Zealand development opportunities in the resource consent pipeline and has recently commenced construction on the Te Uku wind farm, in Hamilton.