Slush Fund

The 12km Lake Brunner Scenic Trail is now under construction through the pristine native forest on the western shore of the lake linking Moana to Mitchells. The Ground Effect Slush Fund has donated $990 to enable the purchase of a couple of chainsaw packages to assist the volunteers. The trail welcomes visitors to an area previously only accessible by boat. 

The North Avon Christchurch BMX Club are a small group of passionate volunteers behind the building of the new asphalt pump track at the Bexley Reserve in Eastern Christchurch. The Ground Effect Slush Fund supported their recent crowd funding campaign with a $1000 contribution.

The Marlborough Mtb Club recently approached the Ground Effect Slush Fund for $2000 cash to purchase a couple of weed eaters and 10 of the newly designed Trail Beaver Tools rakes. They were put to good use at last weekends Homebrook Dig Day to spruce up the Enduro and DH tracks.

The Mtb Trails Trust based in the top of Te Waipounamu is charged with ensuring tools and resources are available to look after existing trails as well as create new ones. The trust approached the Slush Fund for $700 to purchase an electric hedge trimmer for their new volunteer tool shed at St Arnaud.

The Golden Bay Mtb Club have been given the green light to build a grade three descending mtb trail in the scenic reserve on the mighty Takaka Hill. The club received $2000 from the Ground Effect Slush Fund to put towards more digger time on project.

The Kerikeri Mtb Club is busy constructing new trails in the White Hills Forest. The Ground Effect Slush Fund has donated $1600 for the purchase of new tools to keep the solid group of regular volunteer trail builders happy.

The Central West Trail has been researched and developed by volunteers to provide cyclists with a 400km countryside ride on the safest and quietest back roads in the Tablelands region of NSW.

A team of keen volunteers has been working hard to rediscover the Painkiller Track in Reefton. The Ground Effect Slush Fund stumped up the $1800 required to install two culverts.

The Ground Effect Slush Fund has put its name to a couple of the 13 prescribed trail routes at the Wairoa Gorge MTB Park, and donated $1000 cash to help the Nelson Mtb Club maintain and continuously improve the Wairoa Gorge trails.

The Ground Effect Slush Fund has hooked up the custodians of Lyttelton Mountain Bike Trails with some cash to purchase tools to help with trail maintenance and building efforts at Urumau.

Ground Effect's Slush Fund helps out with funding of materials to construct a Kauri Dieback Wash Station at the Coromandel Bike Park.

The Kaikoura Cycling Club completes the new 11km Kaiterau loop track on Mt Fyffe.