Board appoints Grant Committee for WIA Club Grant Scheme

Immediately before the Wireless Institute of Australia's Annual General Meeting on 6 May 2006, the WIA Board adopted Rules to govern the WIA Club Grants Scheme.

The Club Grants Scheme Rules require the Board to fix the amount to be allocated to the Scheme in a particular year, and to set a timetable for the year, and to appoint the Grant Committee for the year.

The Board has allocated $5,000 in the current year and fixed Monday 10 July 2006 as the last day on which qualifying Affiliated Clubs may lodge an application for a grant.
A Qualifying Affiliated Club is an Affiliated Club with at least 50% of its licensed members also members of the WIA.

The Board deferred appointing the members of the Grant Committee, which is to be comprised of 3 independent and qualified amateurs.

Grants will be made for projects that advance the purposes of the Scheme, which is to promote and advance amateur radio, the WIA and it's Affiliated Clubs by supporting useful and/or innovative projects undertaken or to be undertaken by Affiliated Amateur Radio Clubs.

WIA President, Michael Owen VK3KI has announced the membership of the Grant Committee that had been appointed by the Board.

"We are very grateful that each of these distinguished members has agreed to give their time for this important project. Clubs are urged to make sure that they read the Rules (which can be found on the WIA website) carefully,
and to make sure that all Applications for Grants are lodged for the Grant Committee to consider at the WIA national office address by Monday 10 July."

Chair of the Grant Committee is Ken Fuller, VK4KF a member of the WIA Queensland Advisory Committee and who has had extensive experience of the scheme in Queensland. Ken's professional experience includes responsibility for the
administration of a number of international science and technology agreements involving the assessment of merit over a wide range of disciplines.

With him is Dr Dean Blackman VK3TX who retired as Associate Professor from the Engineering faculty at Monash University in 2003 and so as an academic he supported his research by winning competitive grants and so knows about
the begging side of the business.

The third member is Dr Wally Howse, VK6KZ, who has played a key role in considering and choosing proposals in a wide variety of fields, as Director of Technical Education Tasmania, a member of the Australian Committee (and
later Commission) on TAFE, Secretary of the WA Post Secondary Commission and Director of the WA Distance Education Consortium of universities.

We are very grateful that each of these distinguished members has agreed to give their time for this important project. I urge Clubs to make sure that they read the Rules (which can be found on the WIA website) carefully, and
to make sure that all Applications for Grants are lodged for the Grant Committee to consider at the WIA national office address by Monday 10 July 2006.

Source: Wireless Institute of Australia

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