"The Community Resilience Fund will go a long way to ensuring that we can provide a meaningful hockey season for our community. Covid-19 really hit our organisation as we had used all our reserves upgrading our playing surface last year. Hockey Wanganui is so thankful for the funding support and guidance given by Sport Whanganui in this process,"
operations manager of Hockey Wanganui Robbie Matthews said.
Jonas said the funding made readily available after such a difficult time had provided enormous relief to many sporting organisations across the region.
"We are grateful to be in a position to support and rebuild community sport through this fund."
Organisations can apply for a maximum of $1000 for clubs and $40,000 for regional bodies.
Sport Whanganui's business capability lead, Lucy Newton, who has administered the fund for the region, said it had been a pleasure connecting with grassroots sport offering the support they could.
Applications close on Friday and the team at Sport Whanganui is available to support with applications face to face, over the phone, or via email.
For more information and to apply visit Sport Whanganui's website, sportwhanganui.co.nz, or contact Lucy Newton for any further inquiries on lucy@sportwhanganui.co.nz or 06 349 2320.