The Star: January 18, 2018

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Crash victim trust seeks funding
Fire rages, homes at risk
• By Bridget Rutherford
A MEETING was held yesterday
to discuss funding options
for the charitable trust which
organises a remembrance day to
honour those killed in crashes on
Canterbury roads.
It comes after the city council
rejected its funding application
last year.
The Road Traffic Accident
Trauma Charitable
Trust applied for $56,500
last year to run its annual
Road Accident Remembrance
Day, as well as
several other projects.
It required about
$15,000 for the November
4 remembrance day. The
remainder would have
gone to its counselling and
support services, an awareness
campaign, and the establishment
of a paid full-time general manager
role.
City council staff categorised
its application as a lower priority
than others.
In September, city councillors
approved more than $1 million
of funding for projects from its
2017/18 Strengthening Communities
Fund, but the trust was
not one of those. City councillor
Aaron
Keown
Aaron Keown, who is the MC for
the remembrance day, said yesterday’s
meeting was attended by
trust representatives, himself and
city council transport operations
manager Aaron Haymes.
“It was a discussion on what’s
the best way forward for them
to get funding. How could we
potentially support the event?”
Cr Keown said.
“We didn’t even talk
about figures yesterday.”
Trust founder Sarah
Dean said the city council
approached the trust
because it wanted to support
the remembrance
day. She said at the
meeting specific funding
strands were identified.
“The trust is not
government-funded and solely
relies and proactively seeks sponsorship,
grants and donations
to assist with its operational
expenses.”
Ms Dean said it was “disheartening”
when funding
applications were declined, but
it worked hard to ensure its operational
expenses were covered
through other funding.
Cr Keown was the MC for the
event because his mother Laureen
Reilly was killed when a boy
DEVASTATING: People who died in Canterbury crashes,
including the three teenagers killed in the 2016 Boxing Day
crash near Leeston, were honoured at the Road Accident
Remembrance Day.
PHOTO: GEOFF SLOAN ​
racer crashed into the vehicle
she was in on Main North Rd in
May 2008. He said it was “disappointing”
and “embarrassing”
the city council had not provided
financial backing to the trust.
City council head of
community support, governance
and partnerships Lester Wolfreys
said last year’s application, which
was categorised priority three,
met the criteria, but to a “lesser
extent” than those in priorities
one and two.
Other organisations to receive
grants from the fund included
priority two Gap Filler, which
received $7500, priority one
Volunteering Canterbury with
$40,000 and the priority two
New Zealand Vegetarian Society
Christchurch Branch, which got
$6750.
“Whoever had decided the
priority on it didn’t know the
value of the event and the work
the trust does throughout the
year,” Cr Keown said.
The remembrance day in
Hagley Park honours those
killed on Canterbury roads the
year prior, crash survivors, and
those involved in post-crash
recovery and responses.
Ms Dean set up the trust after
she survived two crashes. It also
offers counselling, advocacy and
advice for those impacted by
road accidents.
At the last year’s remembrance
day, Mark Moore spoke of how
he lost his 15-year-old daughter
Lily in a car accident near
Leeston on Boxing Day 2016.
The crash also killed two of his
daughter’s friends.
•The trust is seeking
sponsorship for the
Road Accident
Remembrance Day. If you
are interested, email Ms
Dean on roadtraffictrauma@
xtra.co.nz
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