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Our purpose is to nurture and support sustainability and environmental organisations in Greater Christchurch.
In order to fulfil this purpose, we base all activity on three strategic pillars.
Facilitate collaboration and innovation between associated groups.
Provide support to environmental and sustainability groups and their projects.
Provide support to environmental and sustainability groups and their projects.
To facilitate collaboration and innovation between groups, we are working on activating three spaces in Christchurch. Our aim is to ensure these spaces are useful, usable, and used by the sustainability and environmental community.
2019: In December, we activated The Kiosk, a centrally-located space inside the Christchurch Botanic Gardens. Shared with Canterbury Horticultural Society and Friends of the Botanic Gardens, this space is ideal for hosting workshops, meetings, talks, and presentations.
2020: Towards the end of 2020, we secured a second space inside the Ōtākaro Avon River Corridor. In collaboration with Riverlution (and several other groups), this space will be activated in the second half of 2021. To complement The Kiosk, this space offers something special: it will function as a sustainability show home providing opportunities to demonstrate different environmental solutions, while allowing people to learn and experience how they might implement them at home.
2021: Towards the end of 2021, we will activate a third space in partnership with the Food Resilience Network. Associated with the Ōtākaro Orchard, and situated in the central city, this purpose-built sustainable hub will bolster the Envirohub offering by providing workshop and meeting space, along with opportunities for networking and connection with others interested in food and community.
These spaces enable connection between groups – they are bumping spaces, they also provide a physical space from which we can deliver provisions and services. At Christchurch Envirohub, we focus on capacity building activity that responds to the needs of organisations in our network. For example, administration and communications support such as setting up funder database, creating and managing newsletters, or maximising the efficacy of social media tools. We also respond to needs and gaps at a sector level. To be responsive to community needs, we maintain open and active communication channels, including seeking regular feedback and input.
To advance education and inspire action in environmental protection and sustainable living sustainability, particularly among associated groups but also the wider network, we focus on three areas. These areas are believed to be of key importance if we are to collectively strive for environmental and community wellbeing in Greater Christchurch
We focus on supporting and actively engaging with groups, projects and organisations (commercial and nonprofit) that:
are working to address issues related to reducing the causes and addressing the impacts of climate change. We actively look to partner with those providing resources, running workshops, and creating pathways and outlets for advocacy and policy change.
As part of supporting and connecting groups, as well as connecting the community to their projects, we will continue to develop this website to serve the needs of the sustainability and environmental community. We encourage you to connect with us and tell us what you need and what you want to see on here, perhaps you could even lend a hand as we strive to improve. At the moment, we are focusing on:
