Community gaming grant funding of $9,800 will go to the Nechako Lakes area to support the Air Cadet League of Canada, 899 Vanderhoof sponsoring committee in the amount of $3,500 and the Lakes District Childcare Society for $6,300.
The province will provide gaming grant recipients in the human and social services sector with $6 million in funding to help with the transition between grant programs.
"From training young cadets to caring for our children, these community groups provide valuable services," said Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad. "This funding will allow them to continue to deliver high-quality programs in the community."
The transition funding is in addition to any other gaming grant funding the organizations will receive in 2011-12.
As well, daycares will receive $2 million from previously unallocated funding to bring their grants this year up to approximately the levels they received in previous years.
The province will distribute these extra funds to these groups as part of a $33 million payment of community gaming grants to thousands of non-profit organizations in the human and social services sector in the first week of March.
In all, $120 million in community gaming grants will go to about 6,000 community groups during the current fiscal year.
For more information about community gaming grants visit: www.pssg.gov.bc.ca/gaming/grants/.
