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By DAVID HILL<br />
Local Democracy Reporter<br />
Satisfy Food Rescue is looking forward<br />
to work beginning on apermanent<br />
facility to house its growing service.<br />
The <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong>based food<br />
rescue charity is one of several<br />
organisations set to benefit from the<br />
proposed Kaiapoi Community Hub in<br />
the former red zone.<br />
‘‘We are excited to be working with the<br />
other stakeholders for this project to see<br />
it come to fruition,’’ Satisfy Food Rescue<br />
manager Stef van Meer said.<br />
‘‘Each year we are receiving and<br />
distributing more and more food to help<br />
sustain the community organisations we<br />
support.<br />
‘‘A purpose built facility as part of the<br />
Kaiapoi Community Hub will work<br />
wonders for us in the long term as we see<br />
the need for our service increase.’’<br />
Satisfy retrieves food from local<br />
supermarkets, businesses and residents<br />
with surplus garden produce, which it<br />
passes on to food banks across the<br />
Waimakariri and Hurunui districts.<br />
In the last financial year Satisfy<br />
distributed 45 percent more food than<br />
the year ending March 2021.<br />
Satisfy collaborated with other<br />
organisations last year to form Food<br />
Secure <strong>North</strong> <strong>Canterbury</strong> and has<br />
secured funding from the Ministry for<br />
Social Development to build anew<br />
facility as part of the Kaiapoi<br />
Community Hub.<br />
The Waimakariri District Council has<br />
signed off an additional $760,000 in the<br />
<strong>2022</strong>/23 annual plan, to increase its<br />
contribution to $1.475 million.<br />
Work is expected to begin early next<br />
year on the proposed hub, which will be<br />
located off Courtenay Drive, not far from<br />
the south bank of the Kaiapoi River and<br />
to the east of Countdown.<br />
The Kaiapoi Men’s Shed and the<br />
Kaiapoi Croquet Club are also joining<br />
the hub, with room for more groups, the<br />
council’s community and recreation<br />
manager, Chris Brown, said.<br />
Deputy Mayor Neville Atkinson said<br />
the hub is ‘‘an extremely positive<br />
development’’ for Kaiapoi.<br />
‘‘It’s agreat use of that land and a<br />
positive investment, and these groups<br />
make such apositive difference to the<br />
community.’’<br />
The council’s contribution will be<br />
about onethird of the overall costs,<br />
providing infrastructure including the<br />
three waters, car parking, ecological<br />
linkages and awalkway.<br />
The balance of the funding will come<br />
from the organisations using the facility<br />
and outside funding sources such as the<br />
Rata Foundation.<br />
Aproject manager has been appointed<br />
to lead the project through the detailed<br />
design and tendering process, Mr Brown<br />
said.<br />
‘‘It’s likely to be next year before we<br />
get aspade in the ground. Iwould expect<br />
it to be around February or March.<br />
‘‘The way the hub has been designed<br />
allows for the whole community to use<br />
and access the whole area in aparklike<br />
setting.<br />
‘‘It will be aplace where people feel<br />
comfortable and can recreate formally<br />
and informally.’’<br />
The three groups are in the process of<br />
Community hub ... The draft concept plan<br />
for the proposed Kaiapoi Community Hub<br />
was approved last year.<br />
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