The Gisborne Veterinary Club Charitable Trust was formed in 1995 to positively improve animal health.

 

The trustees are keen to foster the objectives of the trust and seek a wide variety of applications. When the Gisborne Veterinary Club was winding up, the remaining of the assets of the vet club were distributed to the Gisborne Veterinary Club Charitable Trust, which was formed specifically to receive those funds and use them in a positive manner to help improve animal health in the Gisborne area. 

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Objectives of the Trust

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The trust will support applications towards further education and research in relation to any aspects of animal health i.e.:

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• Provision of scholarships, bursaries, grants or assistance to those who the trustees consider are likely to benefit the Gisborne/East Coast area to enable that person to undertake studies relating to animal health. 

• Any research into animal health that is likely to benefit our area.

• Any other educational activity or purpose that is likely directly or indirectly benefit animal health within the area. 

• Reimbursement of costs for vets moving to district.

• Vet nursing courses.

• Vets.

• Agricultural science courses.

• Support for Waipaoa Station farm cadet training.

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Past Approved Grants

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•    Eczema monitoring programme with results made public to all farmers in Gisborne Herald and online

• Theileria research project

• B12 research project

• Barbers pole research project

• Genetics research project

• Drench resistance project

• Campylobacter research project

• Research of summer toxins on livestock

• Grants for animal health field days and workshops

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