A community space for all to enjoy

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It will serve the community in a variety of ways.

The new centre includes spaces for counselling, a café, hospitality and for young people to connect with youth leaders, as well as a soft indoor play zone for tamariki and a traffic-free courtyard.

There will also be a quiet space for people to work and study and an emphasis on giving young people an opportunity to earn their first job by working in the building.

Te Kor ria will provide counselling services from purposedesigned rooms in partnership with Mind Health.

The new centre to develop budgeting support through a partnership with CAP (Christians Against Poverty).

The café is the first in Wellington serving Common Good coffee, which fits Te Kor ria’s ethos of social enterprise as they use fairly traded beans and donate a significant amount back to work in areas of extreme poverty in India, having just hit the $200,000 mark.

“The whole idea is for a community space for all ages and for people to enjoy,” Karori Anglican Church Community Enterprise Manager, Kate Harvey-Green says.

“We have a long history of serving wh nau and want to further meet their needs.”

Te Kor ria is “a place to relax,be yourself and to connect with others.

“Co-located on the same site as our afterschool care service SMASH and our Early Childhood centre we are expanding the ways in which we support wh nau in our ever-changing world.

“Reducing Isolation and strengthening families are all going to be achieved through

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community services offered from Te Kor ria.”

Kate says she hopes the facility will serve Karori for at least the next 100 years and solidify the church as part of the community for generations to come.

“The whole thing works on a social enterprise model so any profits are reinvested back into giving families access to early childhood or after school care or to counselling.”

Developing Te Kor ria has been a $5.1 million project. The Karori Anglican Church has raised $4.3 million of this already, partly funded by a $1 million land sale.

Fundraising continues and people can contribute by visiting karorianglican.org.nz or tekororia.org.nz.