Shirley-Papanui Community Board 1989-2010 - Christchurch City ...

Key Achievements 2004 - 2007
Te Koru Pou Iho – Growing Youth In Papanui
A number of community working bees followed and the business
community came on board with donations of building materials
and services.
Rewarding Responsibility In Hospitality
Building on a programme established by the Burwood Pegasus
Community Board, the Shirley-Papanui Community Board launched
its ‘Host Responsibility Awards’ in 2005.
Papanui High School students Daniel Chu and Chantal Tumahai cut the ribbon with former
Christchurch Mayor Garry Moore at the opening of Te Koru with Ross Banbury, the first manager
of the youth centre watching.
April 2007 saw new ground broken in Papanui with the opening of the
Papanui Youth Centre or Te Koru.
Primarily a place for 11-18 year olds, the centre was developed after the
Youth Summit in 1998 identified the need for a youth facility.
It is ‘state of the art’, with a huge array of facilities including a fullyequipped
art room, computer room, Playstation 3 room with big screen
TVs, recording studio and control room and a video-editing suite. It also
has a team of professionals who work with the youth there including a
doctor, a sexual health worker, a budget advisor and youth workers.
“There’s nothing like this anywhere in the country,” original manager
Ross Banbury said at the time it opened.
The project was nine years in the making. It was led by Te Papanui
Trust, which operated out of Papanui Baptist Church with funding from
the City Council and Shirley-Papanui Community Board. After two years
of searching for a site, St Paul’s Anglican Church came forward with a
generous offer.
“They allowed us to build and own a building on their land. As far as we
know it’s the first time an Anglican Church has done that in New Zealand,”
said Ross Banbury.
Ross Banbury says the end result shows the power of dreams and
would never have been possible without the support of the Shirley-
Papanui Community Board
“The Community Board was one of our early innovators and the
$35,000 seed funding it provided ensured we could get off the ground
and attract other partners to making the vision a reality. They also
came to rescue with $27,000 to fund our kitchen when we ran into
budget problems later in the project. Their support and friendship
has been continuous which has been important.”
Ross Banbury, former manager, Te Koro Pou Iho
Junior Neighbourhood Support
2006 saw the Shirley-Papanui Community Board once again go
where no other board had gone before in supporting a pilot of Junior
Neighbourhood Support at Shirley Primary School.
The programme is delivered in conjunction with Canterbury
Neighbourhood Support and aims to “promote a sense of pride, safety
and community spirit in children and their wider school community.”
How? The programme’s co-ordinator visits schools and educates children
with skills on safety, emphasising community and neighbourhood values
and promoting an ‘It’s cool to care!’ message.
The children, teachers and parents are then invited to nominate any child
who shows the values by posting a nomination in a dedicated letterbox in
the school’s office. Four awards are given out twice a term and presented
to recipient children by the co-ordinator and a member of the emergency
services (when available), or a community support person.
The pilot proved a huge success and it’s now being rolled out to other
primary schools across Christchurch and New Zealand.
Junior Neighbourhood Support is very effective in terms of creating
a heightened sense of responsibility and in helping reduce the
likelihood of anti-social behaviour.
The awards are run in conjunction with the local Liquor Licensing
Authority and police. They see judges visit local hospitality
establishments and assess them on a range of criteria, including:
• Availability and affordability of food.
• Non-alcoholic drink range and availability.
• Whether duty manager named is, in fact, on duty.
• Accessibility for disabled patrons.
• Safety.
• Availability of phone and taxi numbers.
Gold Winner
2007
Host
Responsibility
Award
Presented by the
Shirley/Papanui Community Board
The Chairperson and members of the
Shirley/Papanui Community Board are pleased to
make this award on behalf of all residents to
SPEIGHTS ALE HOUSE
______________________________
Chairperson
Shirley/Papanui Community Board
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Date
“Winning the award had a
huge impact on our business.
It gave us the feedback that
we’re on the right track for
our customers, and the safety
and wellbeing of our patrons
is paramount. It encourages
us to constantly look at our
host responsibilities, and
to continually focus on that.
We have the award proudly
displayed at our front door
and have had a fantastic
reaction to it.”
Richard Norton, Bealey
Speights Ale House
The third extension to the Dog Park at The Groynes was opened on 31 March 2007 with
an agility display.
Tenacity Pays Off
One of the biggest challenges any community board faces is finding the
motivation and tenacity to stick with ideas that are difficult to make into
a reality.
“There are some ideas that come to the board and we can easily make
them happen. Others take tenacity – you’ve got to get other groups or the
Council on board, engage with the community and stick with them, even if
the initial answer’s ‘no’,” said Yvonne Palmer.
The Morrison Avenue Reserve is an example of a project that took a long
time to bear. In 1989, a group of residents from the avenue (which runs
between Sawyers Arms and Langdons Roads) approached the Board
concerned that a lack of playgrounds and parks in the area meant local
children were meeting and playing on the road.
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