Hi Brian Thanks for bringing attention to the money we have donated to date. The annual figures were presented at the recent AGM as are currently monthly figures are presented each month at the meetings which occur on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at the Community Centre at 6pm.
We will try and communicate better with our members and the people of Obs and any other interested parties in the future and make available minutes of all meetings on our website - obs.org.za Briefly, some organisations are getting money as they asked or approached and were noticed by committee members. Those two organisations - which you note have received very little have never applied for funding. And the are outside the OCA area of Observatory - 1 of the criteria required but that which is not necessarily strictly adhered to as Home SPM is outside Obs. see http://www.obs.org.za/oca/20-oca-info/72-home-spm-what-they-do Here is a piece on the City of Cape Town site - http://www.capetown.gov.za/en/subcouncils/Subcouncil15/Pages/OCAsupportslocalNGOs.aspx Betha Rapha is a drug treatment house and we were sponsoring an individual who has since left the house. - see http://www.obs.org.za/oca-information/14-oca-news/91-beth-rapha-threatened-with-closure-funding-appeal Adonis Musati is a organization that provides humanitarian aid to refugees - see http://www.adonismusatiproject.org/ The Shine Centre is a volunteer driven NGO. Our programme provides support in literacy and language enrichment to second language children in the Foundation Phase (Grade R-Grade 3). In this case the money was for books for the library at Obs Junior School - see http://www.theshinecentre.org.za/ Stamp is not an organisation! You have misunderstood the annotation - this was I believe for a rubber stamp with the OCAs name on it to stamp in the donated books!!! I can also say more recently we agreed to fund a student nature conservator who will be working three days a week on the Liesbeek river - the funding was in the region of R5000 for 8 months. All funding has to be approved by a majority vote in a committee meeting. The funding proposal needs to re circulated to committee members before a committee meeting. Discussions as to the merits take place at the meeting and a decision is made. Organisations receiving ongoing funding which is time limited, send reports to the OCA accounting for the use thereof. The minutes of the last meeting I will make available in draft form as soon as the secretary sends them to me! Remember these will be draft and subject to changes and approval at the following meeting. Applications for funding are also welcomed - contact me or any committee member directly via email. I hope that answers all your queries Brian. Cheers Trev Chair OCA PS As this is not crime related at all please direct any follow discussion to the iloveobs google group by starting a new thread there - many thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Observatory Neighbourhood watch" group. To post to this group, send email to obsnw@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to obsnw+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/obsnw?hl=en.
