Pegasus Post: October 24, 2017
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6 Tuesday <strong>October</strong> <strong>24</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />
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PEGASUS POST<br />
Your Local Views<br />
Funding gives confidence to plan ahead<br />
Manager of the<br />
Neighbourhood<br />
Trust Ginny<br />
Larsen writes<br />
about how<br />
three years<br />
of funding<br />
has secured the trust’s<br />
future to the benefit of the<br />
community<br />
Funding – the very word is<br />
enough to send chills up the<br />
spine of most not-for-profit organisations.<br />
As the manager of Neighbourhood<br />
Trust, (the community arm<br />
of St Albans Baptist Church),<br />
a local not-for-profit working<br />
mainly in the Mairehau, Shirley<br />
and St Albans part of town, I<br />
feel like half my life is taken up<br />
with funding applications and<br />
accountabilities.<br />
So it is a nice surprise to have<br />
some funders making the process<br />
a bit easier by putting three-year<br />
funding as an option.<br />
This year both NZ Lotteries<br />
and the city council, through its<br />
community boards offered this<br />
alternative.<br />
And we are exceptionally grateful<br />
to the Papanui-Innes Community<br />
Board for its grant.<br />
It must be hugely difficult<br />
making decisions, especially as<br />
the funds available to them have<br />
been cut by $85,000.<br />
So what does this mean for an<br />
organisation to have funds guaranteed<br />
for three years?<br />
It gives us confidence to plan<br />
and look ahead, to know we can<br />
retain our wonderfully effective<br />
staff and provide appropriate<br />
training to keep them up-to-date.<br />
It means we can continue to<br />
offer our community consistent,<br />
community-led work at a high<br />
level to a variety of sectors – the<br />
Golden Connections programme<br />
for over-60s; from exercise classes<br />
to community days; from free<br />
English as a second language<br />
classes to OSCAR programmes<br />
to the Pay It Forward collective<br />
of over 50 local designers, selling<br />
their products through the store<br />
at 49 Nancy Ave.<br />
It also means we can dream<br />
a little about working with our<br />
community in different ways,<br />
supporting and mentoring,<br />
listening to their aspirations for<br />
their whanau.<br />
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COMMUNITY: The Neighbourhood Trust can focus on<br />
supporting the community now that it has secured three years<br />
of funding. <br />
project supported by The Tindall<br />
Foundation, we have seen transformational,<br />
long-term change;<br />
some remarkable stories.<br />
Working alongside partners<br />
Te Ora Hou and Kingdom<br />
Resources, with Mairehau<br />
Primary School as a base has<br />
brought a depth to our work with<br />
families.<br />
We have seen the value of<br />
longer-term thinking and are<br />
delighted that this work can<br />
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On one hand, we are humbled<br />
by the trust funders have put in<br />
us; on the other hand, we’d love<br />
to see the process made easier for<br />
all those organisations who have<br />
a proven track record and give<br />
great value for money.<br />
Let’s release them from the<br />
application grind and free them<br />
for more time making things<br />
happen.<br />
Readers respond to an<br />
article about residents<br />
who are unhappy with<br />
consultation over the<br />
Christchurch School of<br />
Gymnastics lease at QE II<br />
Park<br />
Jackie McDonald – These<br />
residents need to get a life. It’s<br />
not a bottle store or pub, it’s<br />
something that hundreds of<br />
children use and is an asset to<br />
the community.<br />
Kendra<br />
Wilkie<br />
Street – The<br />
Christchurch<br />
School of<br />
Gymnastics<br />
has a 100-<br />
year lease with the city council<br />
which needs to be honoured.<br />
The first location was shot down<br />
because it infringed on a rugby<br />
field. Now they aren’t happy with<br />
the second location? Hundreds of<br />
children use these facilities each<br />
week. It is a blessing that CSG<br />
can remain in the area. Why are<br />
people complaining?<br />
Maria Mann – Oh, get over<br />
yourselves. It’s a great idea to<br />
have the school of gymnastics by<br />
QE II.<br />
Janice Belgrave – Loss<br />
of trees? How many have they<br />
destroyed to build the two new<br />
high schools.<br />
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