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Speaker 1: For the past at three decades, community House has well

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Speaker 1: and truly been at the heart of our community and

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Speaker 1: caught up with Facilities manager Robbie Ross to note that

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Speaker 1: the place just continues to grow.

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Speaker 2: Because we've got about thirty different agentsies working out a

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Speaker 2: community house at the present moment. Safe Mid Canterbury outgrew

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Speaker 2: the building that we were in in Cass Street and

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Speaker 2: so we've purchased the building behind and they've taken that

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Speaker 2: on a lease out the back and ten me to move. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: made it much better for them because they've been able

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Speaker 2: to expand as well the service as they bring to

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Speaker 2: the community and allowing Danny and the team from Plunkett

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Speaker 2: to come in to our building. It's great to have

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Speaker 2: them there.

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Speaker 1: Big project to foot, what's the plan?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so the roof's leaking. It's all right in the

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Speaker 2: summer when it doesn't rain, it doesn't leak, but in

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Speaker 2: the winter it's not the best.

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Speaker 1: So come out. Have you just taken the buckets from

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Speaker 1: the old library and moved them around to your place?

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Speaker 2: Not quite that, but it's time for the roof to

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Speaker 2: be replaced and so we're beginning. That's the beginning part

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Speaker 2: of the project.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, right, that's a big job. What else are you

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Speaker 1: hoping to get done?

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Speaker 2: So we thanks to a couple of people who have

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Speaker 2: in the local community, have sponsored some solar panels for us.

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Speaker 2: We're going to be putting solar panels on the roof

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Speaker 2: now and that'll reduce the power costs for community house considerably,

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Speaker 2: make us more eco friendly, and so we're really looking

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Speaker 2: forward to that.

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Speaker 1: You know, one of the biggest thrills as the facilities manager,

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Speaker 1: Robbie will be sitting in your office with the app

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Speaker 1: open watching how much power is being generated each day.

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Speaker 1: I would get such a cack out of that.

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Speaker 2: So we're hoping that they're going to be able to

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Speaker 2: put a put that into the building as well, so

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Speaker 2: people coming into the building can actually watch the power

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Speaker 2: chicking by.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, that's something sitting up and watching an open fire.

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Speaker 1: You know.

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Speaker 2: Then, because we've got Plunket now in the building and

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Speaker 2: there's a lot more people coming in, young families, we're

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Speaker 2: also opening up a pedestrian entrance way along the side

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Speaker 2: to join the present ramp that people come up, save

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Speaker 2: them going past all the parked cars and competing with

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Speaker 2: the traffic driving into the car park.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, because at the moment it's all the one entrance

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Speaker 1: and you're got to work your way through the car parky.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit dangerous and we want to

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Speaker 2: make it as safe as we possibly can for people

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Speaker 2: coming into each town.

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Speaker 1: Yeah right.

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Speaker 2: We also have a lot of elderly coming in and

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Speaker 2: it can be challenging for them, so that's part of

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Speaker 2: the project.

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Speaker 1: So all up, it's got a price tag of near

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Speaker 1: half a million dollars. Big campaign of foot to help

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Speaker 1: raise the money.

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Speaker 2: Yes, So we've been asking trust and foundations to support

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Speaker 2: us and some of them have been so far with that.

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Speaker 2: But we're also wanting the community to get behind us,

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Speaker 2: and so we've launched the Wall of Hearts and so

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Speaker 2: you can purchase a heart and a vinyl heart and

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Speaker 2: it gets put on a billboard, a mobile billboard which

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Speaker 2: will travel around different spaces in Ashburton and in doing

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Speaker 2: so you're supporting the work of Community House in this project.

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Speaker 2: It's great. You can take your grandchildren down and show

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Speaker 2: them their names on one of our hearts and we

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Speaker 2: go down and have your photo taken with your heart

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Speaker 2: and yeah, just a bit of fun.

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Speaker 1: And is this campaign underway now?

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Speaker 2: It is underway now. We're presently selling the hearts and

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Speaker 2: we've had a reasonable response to that. They're starting to

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Speaker 2: go out, which is good. And from the sixth of

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Speaker 2: October you'll see the trailer in different spots around for

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Speaker 2: a month.

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Speaker 1: On neat How do we enlist for a heart? Where

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Speaker 1: do we go for this?

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Speaker 2: So if you want to, you can call into Community

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Speaker 2: House and pick up a brochure, or you can go

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Speaker 2: to a Heart of Community dot co dot nz.

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Speaker 1: I need book a heart there. And why is it

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Speaker 1: mean so much to support Community House for yourself? You reagon, Robbie.

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Speaker 1: Why is it that we're so lucky to have this facility.

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Speaker 2: Well, we're very lucky to have the facility because so

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Speaker 2: many people are getting so much help in the community.

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Speaker 2: Over thirty thousand people came through our front door last year. Wow,

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Speaker 2: so it's a lot of people. Yeah, and they're also

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Speaker 2: coming in for different different things. And the beauty of

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Speaker 2: a place like community houses there's a group of organizations

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Speaker 2: in there and so you can get a real wrap

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Speaker 2: around support.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we're pretty lucky to have it right in the

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Speaker 1: heart of town too. Yes, that's going to get these

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Speaker 1: renovations done. For another thirty years of community house and

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Speaker 1: helping drive it all forward, helping the heart beat, or

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Speaker 1: something on those lines. Anyway, I come up with a

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Speaker 1: better pun. Robbie Ross really appreciate you coming on by

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Speaker 1: for the update.

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, and thank you to Amunity