Slush Fund

In 2017 the Big River-Waiuta track received some overdue love, courtesy of the Kennett Brothers’ fundraising efforts and enthusiasm from Reefton locals. The Ground Effect Slush Fund added $1000 to the pot for bridge and drainage materials, digger hire, and heli hours.

The Christchurch Singletrack Club have been developing mtb trails in and around Christchurch for the past 15 years. Recently much of their time has been spent developing a trail network in the Halswell area, now officially named the Crocodile XC Mtb Park. The Ground Effect Slush Fund has stepped in with $1000 cash to help with the purchase of an e-barrow.

Over Summer 2017 the Belmont Area Mtb Association (BAMBA) built an 800m long Grade 3 descending track, Electric Avenue, adding to the expanding mtb trail network in Belmont Regional Park, Wellington.  Short $1200 to complete the track the Ground Effect Slush Fund stepped in with the cash.

Back in 2016 the Nelson Mtb Club worked hard on the jumps in Branford Park, Maitai Valley. The Ground Effect Slush Fund helped out with $1000 towards digger and truck hire.

The Rata-Tui Restoration Trust is the owner of the Motupipi Hill Block in Golden Bay. The Trust had a busy 2016 building Grade 2 mountain bike tracks popular with non-technical riders. The Ground Effect Slush Fund donated $1500 cash, put to good use on digger hire to complete the La Rambla Track.

Simon Kennet, Chair of Makara Peak Supporters Inc. put the call out last year for some funds to help purchase an e-barrow for shifting dirt to build up berms and switchbacks, and gravelling. The Ground Effect Slush Fund said yes with $1000. Apparently it's made a huge difference to volunteer enthusiasm.

The Yackandandah Mtb Track network in NE Victoria has named a 17.2km trail after us, the 'Ground Effect Loop'. The Slush Fund helped out with cash for trail maps, and supplied IMBA books so they could build a sustainable network of cross-country mtb trail.

The Waiheke Mountain Bike Club has been formed to create and implement a strategic plan for fostering the development of mountain-biking activity on Waiheke Island for both residents and visitors, with particular emphasis on family groups.

In late 2016 the Tumut Mountain Bike Riders approached the Ground Effect Slush Fund for a cash contribution towards their project to improve signage in the Tumut Mountain Bike Park.

Project Rameka in Golden Bay has been waging an ongoing crowdfunding campaign to double the size of the Project Rameka Carbon Forest.

The Kalamunda Mountain Bike Collective hang out on the outskirts of Perth in WA.

Kaitoke Forest is part of the Tunnel Gully Recreation Area, nestled at the foot of Mount Climie just north of Upper Hutt.