Tēnā koe Nigel,

 

Thank you for your request for information.

 

We are handling your request under the Local Government Official
Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA). We have forwarded it to the
appropriate Christchurch City Council staff, and we will provide a
response or update within 20 working days of the date we received your
request. If we are unable to respond to your request by then, we will
notify you of an extension of that timeframe.

 

If you have any queries, please feel free to contact me using the
reference 1343935. If any additional factors come to light which are
relevant to your request, please do not hesitate to contact me so that
these can be taken into account.

 

If you have not had a reply within 10 working days, please email
[1][Christchurch City Council request email]  

 

Nāku noa iti, nā

 

Jess Griffin
Official Information Advisor
Te Ratonga Ture me te Manapori - Legal & Democratic Services

 

 

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Tēnā koe Nigel,

 

On 9 April 2025, you requested the following information, under the Local
Government Official Information and Meetings Act 1987 (LGOIMA):

 

 1. Funding awarded in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 financial years to
organisations or service providers delivering (including Organisation
name, amount funded, name of the funding programme or stream, a short
description of what the funding supported):

 a. Food security initiatives (e.g. foodbanks, community meals, food
rescue)
 b. Housing support or homelessness response
 c. Cost-of-living or welfare-based social services

 2. Planned funding for 2024/2025, including;

 a. Any budgeted or forecasted funding for these types of services
 b. Funding programmes or focus areas for the upcoming financial year
 c. Any confirmed or indicative allocations
 d. Spreadsheet format is preferred if available

 

Release of information

In regards to your first question. Please find attached the following
information:

 1. Funding awarded in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 financial years
relating to food security initiatives
 2. Funding awarded in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 financial years
relating to Housing support or homelessness
 3. Funding awarded in the 2022/2023 and 2023/2024 financial years
relating to Cost-of-living or welfare-based social services

 

In regards to your second question, there are a small number of relevant
multi-year agreements in place for:

o Christchurch Methodist Central Mission - $25,000 – community social
services
o Christchurch Community Accounting – $25,000 - financial support for
those hard-done-by
o Youthline Central South Island - $25,000 – youth suicide hotline
o Community law canterbury - $20,000 – financial social support
o Cholmondeley Children's Centre Charitable Trust - $20,000 – Social
services for children in dangerous home environments

 

These fit into the ‘welfare-based social services’ category, and will be
paid (provided all accountability criteria is met) in July 2025.

 

For all other decisions, grants made are ‘contestable’. Due to this, no
decisions will be made until Councillors and Community Board Members meet
in Mid-August to allocate funding. Until that time, no decisions have been
made yet, but when they do, this information will be publicly available
with the decision made within the Council meeting and the funding
information updated on our public website here: [1]Community funding :
Christchurch City Council. Due to this we will be declining this part of
the request under the following sections of the LGOIMA:

o 17(d) – the information requested is or will soon be publicly
available
o 17(e) – the information requested does not exist or cannot be found

 

You have the right to ask the Ombudsman to investigate and review our
decision. Complaints can be sent by email to
[2][email address].

 

Publication of responses to LGOIMA requests

Please note: our LGOIMA responses may be published on the Christchurch
City Council website a month after they have been responded to, with
requesters’ personal details withheld. If you have any concerns about
this, please contact the Official Information team on
[3][Christchurch City Council request email].

 

Nāku noa iti, nā

 

Jess Griffin
Official Information Advisor
Te Ratonga Ture me te Manapori - Legal & Democratic Services

 

 

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