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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 opera...

Mountain Scene 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. ...

Mountain Scene 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 m...