The Cathy Pelly Memorial Trust - Charitable Trust in New Zealand to Assist persons or groups, especially young people, who with a degree of risk to themselves and as part of a quest for a new spirituality, are working for social change between women and men, people of different races, poor and rich; and who are working for the abolition of nuclear weapons

The Cathy Pelly Memorial Trust was established in 1985, to perpetuate the ideals of an Auckland schoolgirl, Cathy Pelly, who was found dead after swimming in a river near her school in Devon, England.

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Cathy Pelly - A Tribute (Given at her funeral in 1984)

A wise friend said to me: "Don't idolize Cathy. Just try to meet her in her humanity." That was good advice. Yet Cathy was an extraordinary person. She had done more in her [short] life than many adults, and gained a greater maturity.

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Trustees in the Cathy Pelly Memorial Trust.
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Applications are currently closed for the Cathy Pelly Memorial Trust.

Grants are given in a quinquennial cycle (every five years). Applications for the Cathy Pelly Memorial Trust will be open again in 2013.

Applications will be invited in 2013.