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It is also hoped it will
provide a purpose-built
area for workshops,
courses and
educa� onal projects
for both young people
and parents.
“Things like with the
cafe, maybe getti ng
a barista and doing
courses through the
school holidays …
that’s what we want,
is people getti ng
some experience and
passing them out into
the community where
they can get jobs,”
Jo says.
It is also hoped the
centre would provide
a space for youth to
gather and spend
� me, providing a
hub for rural youth
and boarding school
students when
they’re home during
school holidays.
“What we are fi nding
now, parti cularly as we get into
relati onships with young people in the
rural sector, is that we’d like to get into
some transport so that young people
can do their sport practi ce aft er
school and then go to the centre
and there will be a bus that takes
them all home,” Jo says.
“It’s about that awareness that
our rural kids aren’t getti ng as
easy access to things as the
kids in Blenheim. And that’s
uni students and boarding school
kids too, when they are at home.”
The trust has a youth worker,
Maxine Sweeney, based in
Seddon, and it is hoped that
establishing the purpose-built
hub in Blenheim will allow the
development of a wider rural
network, while also easing pressure on the
trust’s youth workers, Jo says.
“As ti me evolves we’d love to have some
youth workers that could supply some
support at Picton
or Havelock.”
Establishing the centre has been done with
help from local businesses including the Blue
Door, Floorpride and Cuddon Limited.
The centre opening comes during a month
o� en dedicated to an� -bullying ini� a� ves,
namely Pink Shirt Day which this year marks
12 years since its incep� on.
This year, it falls on Friday 17th May and
businesses, schools and the community as a
whole is encouraged to wear pink as a mark
of solidarity.
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