Black Gold Kai Club Win Education & Child Youth Development category at the Clutha District TrustPower Community Awards 2011
This group highly impressed the judges in their efforts to empower Youth in the Clutha District. The number of their achievements in the last few years runs high and they have been very busy assisting with projects left right and centre.
With an aim to build leadership skills and raise the profile of youth leadership through increased social participation in partnership with the community this group have organised and staged many Youth orientated events.
A part of the success of these projects is the Youth participation including organising, planning, and putting the plans into action.
With over 63 volunteers the list of events this group have been involved in stretches wide and far but some of these include: Black Gold Kai Club Youth Forum, Matariki celebrations, Supporting Kaitangata Bob Scott Memorial Hill Climb, as well as the hotly contested "Off Your Trolley" Derby.
On top of this there have been fundraisers for the Pike River Mine disaster and the Christchurch Earthquake.
Having recently been granted one year's free use of the Kaitangata War Memorial Hall....its a wonder what more this group can achieve...Congratulations!
Written by the TrustPower Community Award group.
Members of Black Gold Kai Club Shaun and Liam represented the group .
Shaun said "Thank you on behalf of everyone who is a part of Black Gold Kai Club. We really appreciate this award.
Thank you to COGS, Kai Point Coal, Clutha District Council and all the groups and businesses who have supported us and our activities.
Thanks to the adults who help us achieve our goals, especially Michelle Ramsay, Rachelle Morrell and Jean Proctor.
And a very special thank you to the volunteers without whom we could not run our events and activities."