Tuesday 24 November 2020
Cut above
Touch booming
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Kitchen crisis
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Rosalie Snowden and Sandy Inwood are hoping their Pre-Christmas Peek wishes come true. Read the story on page 4. Photo: Paula Hulburt.
Matt Brown Reporter
matt@marlboroughmedia.co.nz Marlborough’s only community kitchen is at crisis point as grants become unsustainable and vital funds dry up. Crossroads on Redwood Street in Blenheim is facing an uncertain future as staff struggle to find enough money to meet its $3000 a week running costs. Manager Richard McDonald has a plan to make the centre a central pillar of the community, but he needs Marlburians to help. “I want to get away from grants and want it [Crossroads] to be supported by the local community,” he says. It costs about $3000 per week or about $150,000 per year to keep Crossroads, aka John’s Kitchen, doors open. But a reduction in Community Organisation Grant Scheme funds two years ago means the organisation has been left with a shortfall. “Lottery funding covered about $30,000 each year, but that ended this year,” Richard says. “Generally, a lot of operating costs grants are only partially funded which leaves us with a shortfall to find elsewhere. “When a grant application is denied completely, it leaves us a huge shortfall.” Founded in 2000 by the Wesley Methodist Church in response to the homelessness witnessed around their church, John’s Kitchen was originally a soup kitchen named after the road it was on.
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