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Lyttelton Farmers Market - Road Closure/Traffic Management
Opportunity for the community to provide feedback about traffic management for Lyttelton Farmers Market.
What is working well and any suggestions?
Your feedback helps to inform decisions that work for everyone.
The public have a chance to provide feedback on the road closure for Lyttelton Farmers Market operating weekly on a Saturday from 7.30am-2.00pm on London Street from Canterbury Street to Oxford Street.
Please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or check Christchurch City Council website to make a formal submission.
Lyttelton Farmers Market is a social enterprise run by Project Lyttelton all surplus generated by the market support other community projects in Lyttelton Harbour – Lyttelton Community Garden, Lyttelton Youth Group and Lyttelton Harbour TimeBank are some of the projects supported.
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Rec Centre programme aims to reflect diverse community interests
The Lyttelton Rec Centre has always been an intergenerational hub of the Lyttelton community. Project Lyttelton has been in a partnership with CCC to reactivate the space and create a community-led governance group to guide its ongoing management.
Lyttelton Rec Centre Facility Manager Nathan Mauger has been appointed to ensure the smooth running of the facility for the diverse range of programmes and user groups.
Locally born-and-raised, the former All Black and Canterbury coach has enjoyed reconnecting with people from his youth and meeting new locals. He remembers a Rec centre that was a thriving community hub, with gatherings and inter-generational activities.
Nathan is excited to be back in Lyttelton and put together a programme that caters to a wide range of interests and grows the Rec Centre user community.
The Garage Sale
Lyttelton's op shop helps recycle and rehome surplus items while raising funds to support groups in our community. We always welcome new volunteers come and have a chat!
The Garage Sale, the dedicated volunteers and staff and the community's support has benefited all these local organisations:
Lyttelton Youth Programme
Normal Programmes
Monday - Year 7 and up
Lyttelton Recreation Centre, 3.30 - 5.30pm
Wednesday Girls' Group
5.30-7.30, Venue varies
Contact Candice Milner 027 446 1319
Friday - High schoolers session
Lyttelton Recreation Centre, 6.30-8.30pm
Follow on the lytteltonyouthgroup instagram page or the Lyttelton Youth FB page!
Increasing social connectedness and wellbeing. Find out how the Lyttelton Recreation Centre Activation Team has progressed with the restoring the Centre's place as a community hub here. View the results from their community reserach into current and desired future use, here.
The beloved Lyttelton Farmers Market is open every Saturday from 10am til 1pm, with fresh produce, organics, meat, fish, eggs, honey, flowers, plants, preserves and baked goods. We also provide music and a community stall for groups who want to raise awareness or promote a charity.
Four days a week local people and visitors flock to The Garage Sale, our local op-shop, which both upholds the principle of re-using goods and provides clothing, books, kitchen goods and all manner of other things for great low prices.
Come along to 58a Oxford Street Wednesday-Friday 10am-4pm or Saturday 10am-1pm and check out the bargains.
Our commuinty is a community gathering place to share ideas, to help improve community well-being and a place of beauty. It offers the opportunity for people learn to grow food and minimise waste and a place to share in the bounty of the nutritious spray free food from the garden.
The LIFT library offers members over five hundred books on the transition movement, alternative currencies, sustainability and community development, economics, food, health, and relevant DVDs and magazines.
Trade skills with other community members, get the weekly bulletin and get involved with other projects and events through the Lyttelton Harbour TimeBank.
Read the May 26, 2020 Newsletter - here