Greetings from your Community Board

Highlights from our latest meeting

Our Community Board met on Friday 4 September. Some highlights of our meeting included hearing from Casebrook Intermediate students who pupils spoke on behalf of the group of students who attended the Papanui Youth Development’s Leadership Training Course held earlier this year. We also approved funding for a number of community projects as part of our discretionary response and youth development funding and allocated funding for our Positive Youth Development Fund. We have a submissions committee meeting this Friday to submit on the Strengthening Communities Strategy review, as we feel that it’s important for us as a Board to have input into these reviews. You can read the minutes to see what else we discussed and find out the dates, times and details of upcoming Community Board and Council meetings here.

 Shirley Food Resilience Map sharing nature's bounty

If your fruit trees are ripe for the picking, then the Shirley Village Project would like to hear from you. Community Project Activator Bec Roper-Gee says the group have launched a Food Resilience Map to help share locally-grown fresh fruit and produce across the community.
"The idea of the Shirley Food Resilience Map is to encourage use of our local communal resources and sharing of produce," Bec says. "It includes community pantries, community gardens, public fruit and nut trees (including selections from the Christchurch City Council SmartView fruit tree layer), and private trees where owners are happy to have them listed - for instance, where they get an excess of fruit which is accessible from footpath."
The Shirley Village Project is also working to encourage home gardening in the neighbourhood with a community tool shed for lending garden tools and connecting experienced and new gardeners. Bec says "Growing and sharing food helps build community and provide sources of affordable healthy food for local whanau."
Please contact the Shirley Village Project if you have fruit to be picked or shared.

Apply for Sustainability Funding for your project

Does your community, school, social enterprise or business have a project that help meet our climate change objectives and targets? Projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions within Christchurch or support resilience to the impacts of climate change could now be eligible for a grant from Christchurch City Council. This is to support Christchurch's goal of halving greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and reaching net zero emissions by 2045. Applications for funding are now open.

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