Connect with St Albans
This website is dedicated to the recovery of St Albans and its city, Christchurch following a devastating series of earthquakes in 2010 and 2011. This service by the St Albans Residents’ Association (SARA) offers relevant local information. If you are from an organisation or a business and have essential information you would like to share with the community, then please get in touch by email to sara@stalbans.gen.nz and we will endeavour to publish it here.Translations
Author Archives: belinda
St Albans News receives COGS grant
The St Albans Residents Association has received a $5000 grant from COGS, the community grants system administered by the Department of Internal Affairs. The grant is for wages and professional services for the St Albans News, the local print newsletter, … Continue reading
Posted in SARA
Leave a comment
More eqc drilling for land damage
EQC is about to do more drilling around Christchurch streets, only this time it will be to gather data about soil composition and land damage and not about foundations.
Posted in Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Making St Albans inclusive and accessible
The Human Rights Commission will partner St Albans residents to ensure that the needs of the disabled are included when projects outlined in the St Albans Community Strategy are implemented.
Posted in Accessibility, Community, SARA
Leave a comment
Kittens to giveaway
Adorable kittens free to give away to good homes in January 2013. They will be able to leave their mothers around mid January though visits before this would be welcomed. Ph/text Emma on 027 2886334.
Posted in Free
Leave a comment
Break from roadworks
Stay at home residents will be pleased to hear that they will get a break from all the roadworks when SCIRT workers head away on holiday on December 21 and won’t return till mid January. In areas around shopping centres … Continue reading
Posted in Roading
Leave a comment
Database of community groups moves to new website
Christchurch City Libraries has relaunched their CINCH database of community groups on its own website at www.cinch.org.nz.
Posted in Community
Leave a comment
Some interesting gems in community board paperwork
This linked document contains the agenda for the December 5 meeting but it also contains some interesting reading if you read on. At the end of the Community Board minutes in an appendix, in amongst a list of capital works, … Continue reading
Whakaoho, a youth-run event for families
Location: Papanui Domain, Sawyers Arms Road Time: 1-4pm on December 9 Description: Join in the fun at this family event organised by young members of the Papanui Youth Development Trust.
Posted in EVENTS, Family, Past, Youth
Leave a comment
Picnic for volunteers
Location: Abberley Park Time: 12:00pm – 2pm on December 5 Description: Bring your lunch, chair and an international hat to celebrate International Volunteer Day in this beautiful little park in St Albans.
Posted in EVENTS, Past, Uncategorized
Leave a comment
Bringing back native plants to the city
Title: Plant Conservation Network AGM and talk Time: November 29 at 5:30pm Location: Canterbury Horticultural Centre, Hagley Park Website: www.nzpcn.org.nzDescription: A public talk on bringing native plants back to the city is the key feature of the New Zealand Plant … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, EVENTS, Past
Leave a comment
Library back at centre (for 90 minutes)
It’s the post quake version of the Mobile Library and it will be at the St Albans Community Centre on Mondays from 10am to 11.30am.
