New beneficiaries for will trust

ON Track Foundation and the Ballarat Regional Multicultural Council’s Interkultura Football Tournament have received financial support from the Bert Wilson Trust.

BRMC Chairman, Chez Dichiera and On Track Foundation President, Craig Schepis met with trustees, Andrew Byrne, Helen Coombes and Michael Kearney on Tuesday morning for the handover.

Mr Schepis said two arms of On Track will benefit.

“We’re currently putting a brand-new kitchen into another Soup Bus so we can get out to two destinations, and we’ve got the scholarship fund, putting children through secondary education,” he said.

“Our main target area is children coming through the Soup Bus service. We then fund that child from Year 7 to Year 12.”

Ballarat City Football Club have partnered with BRMC, delivering Interkultura.

“The aim is to bring together young people from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds that don’t have an opportunity to play soccer, so we’ve organised a tournament for the 18^th and 19^th of October,” Mr Dichiera said.

“Craig Foster is a patron of the event and he’s going to talk about sport and human rights.”

Electrical Contractor, Bert Wilson died in 2014, but had set up a Discretionary Charitable Trust.

Under the terms of his will, this pool of funds would financially support local charitable organisations, and so far, $100,000 has been distributed back into the community.

Any other charities interested in applying for support from the Bert Wilson Trust can send an application in writing to Sandra Page at BJT Legal, 38 Lydiard Street Ballarat, or by email at [email protected].