Bay Harbour: October 10, 2024

We need your help to fill our beds.<br />

Cholmondeley Children’s Centre has<br />

23 beds for tamariki to stay during<br />

times of whānau stress or crisis. On<br />

average just 17 of these beds are filled<br />

due to resourcing constraints.<br />

Every empty bed is a missed<br />

opportunity to support a child in need.<br />

Donate today to give Canterbury<br />

tamariki a safe place to sleep.<br />

www.cholmondeley.org.nz<br />

Cholmondeley Children’s Centre provides<br />

short term emergency or planned respite care<br />

for tamariki when they need extra support due<br />

to complications at home.<br />

Cholmondeley is an independent charity<br />

and costs just under $3,000,000 per year to<br />

run. 20% of this figure is met by Government<br />

funding, and the remaining 80% comes from<br />

the generous support of the Canterbury<br />

community.<br />

Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />

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War, womanhood and finding my voice<br />

by Susie Ferguson<br />

A powerful memoir on womanhood by RNZ presenter Susie Ferguson<br />

Early in her radio career Susie Ferguson became a war<br />

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Going Without and The Wine O’Clock Myth<br />

The Lighthouse Secret<br />

by Carmel Harrington<br />

Family secrets never stay buried…<br />

1951, Ireland<br />

On the windswept Cork coast, the lighthouse-keepers’ wives wait, watching<br />

the sea. Their husbands are coming home. But one secret can never be<br />

revealed.<br />

2023, Maine<br />

Decades later, Mollie Kenefick receives an anonymous note: Family secrets<br />

never stay buried. The only person she can ask is her grandmother – however,<br />

Beth made a vow that she swore never to break.<br />

But someone knows what happened that summer in 1951, and it seems<br />

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Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>10</strong> <strong>2024</strong> <strong>Bay</strong> <strong>Harbour</strong> News<br />

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New direction for Sumner Ferrymead Foundation<br />

AFTER completing a strategic<br />

review, the Sumner Ferrymead<br />

Foundation has a new focus.<br />

“We have made the decision<br />

to offer a range of scholarships<br />

and awards for both community<br />

groups and individuals on<br />

an annual basis, rather than<br />

responding to requests for<br />

financial assistance on an ad<br />

hoc basis” said foundation chair<br />

Martin Hawes.<br />

“When the foundation<br />

started over 30 years ago, we<br />

only responded to requests<br />

for financial assistance. But,<br />

in a changing world and in a<br />

changing community we have<br />

needed to change too.”<br />

The first step was to introduce<br />

the Primary Schools’ Puawai<br />

Award and the Scholarships &<br />

Awards Programme five years<br />

ago.<br />

Then last year, the foundation<br />

introduced the Community<br />

Awards Programme, which<br />

generated a lot of interest.<br />

Following a review of the<br />

foundation’s income and<br />

disbursements, it became<br />

apparent that finding sponsors<br />

for individual scholarships and<br />

awards was a more effective<br />

way to obtain funds to help the<br />

local community as opposed to<br />

looking for untied grants.<br />

In a time when it’s hard to<br />

get funding and it’s equally as<br />

hard to find new trustees who<br />

The winners from the <strong>2024</strong> Sumner Ferrymead Foundation Community Awards. The<br />

foundation is currently seeking sponsors for next year’s awards programme.<br />

have the energy and time to ‘roll<br />

up their sleeves’, it made sense<br />

to find the most cost-effective<br />

and time-effective way for the<br />

foundation to operate.<br />

With increasing awareness<br />

of the Sumner Ferrymead<br />

Foundation due to the proactive<br />

programmes, the number of<br />

requests for financial assistance<br />

grew, which presented a<br />

problem – how best to decide<br />

who was most worthy of<br />

receiving the funds.<br />

“In many ways it’s a nice<br />

problem to have,” said foundation<br />

treasurer Max Mathias.<br />

“However, because of the<br />

socio-economic demographics<br />

of the foundation’s catchment<br />

area, we knew many of the<br />

applicants would still be able<br />

to pursue their dreams without<br />

our support.<br />

“So, to have an annual<br />

proactive programme that<br />

supports individuals in both<br />

their academic and sporting<br />

endeavours, and community<br />

groups across a wide range of<br />

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interests, made more sense than<br />

having a reactive approach to<br />

requests for assistance.”<br />

Come January 2025,<br />

applications for the foundation’s<br />

individual and community<br />

scholarships and awards will be<br />

sought.<br />

Last year, the Sumner<br />

Ferrymead Foundation funded<br />

the inaugural Community<br />

Awards Programme, but for the<br />

next round they are looking for<br />

sponsors who would like to help<br />

their local community.<br />

In particular, sponsors are<br />

being sought for:<br />

• $5000 Environment Award<br />

• $5000 Sports Award<br />

• $5000 Education Award<br />

• $5000 Arts & Culture Award<br />

• $<strong>10</strong>,000 Major Award<br />

• If you would like to<br />

support the Sumner<br />

Ferrymead Foundation’s<br />

work, please contact them<br />

at sumnerferrymead<br />

foundation.co.nz or phone<br />

Martin Hawes (021 222<br />

2737) or Max Mathias (021<br />

433473)