Oamaru’s North Otago Recreational Turf Trust is the major beneficiary of a funding round.

The Otago Community Trust has approved a $95,000 donation to the Turf Trust.

The money will be put towards the cost of replacing the recreational hockey turf at Oamaru's Centennial Park.

Turf Trust chairman Ray Simpson says the current water-based turf was originally laid in 1999, and is no longer able to be repaired.

Simpson says hockey water turfs typically last a decade, but they managed to make their old one survive 17 years.