HOON HAY COMMUNITY CENTRE

Hoon Hay Community Centre is run by volunteers who are the committee members of Hoon Hay Community Association (Association). The Association is run by a group of small but energetic volunteers.

The Hoon Hay Community Association was formed in 2017  with the purpose of building community connectedness, improving safety and security in Hoon Hay and providing a community hub. This initiative came out of the Hoon Hay Community Centre Steering Committee. 

Over the past few years, the Association has run a range of events and hosted meetings at the centre. After a brief hiatus due to members moving out of the area,  the Association relaunched in 2020. Its first event was a successful Halloween Kids Night with 150-200 of our neighbours stopping by for the fun. It has also hosted a coffee and card making session and attended Hoon Hay Fiesta in 2020. 

Since 2020, our Association has done the following:

• Run events for the community such as Halloween Kids Nights, Easter events, picnics, Community Fun Days, movie nights and more
• Run several residents meetings on local issues
• Run a local body election "Meet the Candidates' event with Spreydon Neighbourhood Network
• Run Repair Cafes in the warmer months, with volunteers doing free basic repairs on a range of items
• Held charity drives such as regular Food Drives for Hoon Hay Food Bank, as well as collecting for the Love Grace handbag appeal
• Worked with the Council to get more rubbish bins in Hoon Hay park
• Submitted on various Christchurch City Council plans
• Raised issues with the Council on behalf of our members, and helped connect members to where they can go to raise their issues or get support for their ideas
• Support community members with their local ideas and projects
• Collected 120+ signatures and suggestions as part of the Better Road Safety in Hoon Hay Petition, and presented to the Spreydon-Cashmere-Heathcote community board on the findings. We are currently awaiting the response.

We plan to organise similar community events, seek out feedback on local issues, and promote the centre. We ask for your support in these events and future activities. 

To nominate to join the committee, we run an Annual General Meeting in November each year. We run elections for committee members - a chairperson, deputy chairperson, secretary, treasurer and a maximum of 7 general officers. You can access our nomination form and consent form from here:

 Nomination form

Consent form as Officer of Incorporated Society

Please get in touch if you have ideas or local issues we can assist with.

You can read our constitution here: HHCA Constitution

Follow us on Facebook: Hoon Hay Community Association (Facebook page) or Hoon Hay Community Association Noticeboard (Facebook group)

Email: hoonhaycommunityassn@gmail.com