New job scheme next month

Press, 25 June 1983, Page 9

New job scheme next month

The new Cooperative Development Resource Centre in Cambridge Terrace, which will opet! next month, is already hanging inquiries about ways to! develop and expand self-help job creation projects. Management and marketing skills wil be available to co-operative ventures, such as world trusts. Of 27 self-nelp initiative groups surveyed recently, 13 indicated a nqed for market research ana selling development. ’■ Two applicants for a marketing/sales co-ordina-tor position are already assisting with a marketing strategy foi “child aid”

kitsets produced by the well-established Taua Mahi Trust. Developers of the resource centre are drawing up a list of about 250 names of people who could be encouraged to become financial contributors to the centre by donating $5 a week for two or three years. That fund-raising effort, which aims to have 150 contributing Friends of the Resource Centre by the end of September, follows a $20,000 grant to the project from the Canterbury United Council. Before the centre’s July 29 opening, four people funded through Labour De-

partment schemes will be working in the building at 81 Cambridge Terrace on tourism projects — two for the Weka Pass Railway Society and two for the Canterbury Promotion Council. Liaison has also been established with the Ministry of Works and Development landscape design section, a firm of landscape architects, and two work trusts to co-ordinate “Beautiful New Zealand” tree planting near Darfield. Mr Graeme Carroll, the centre’s interim co-ordina-tor, said that Canterbury already had about 30 selfhelp initiative groups.