Who We Are
South Alive is an urban rejuvenation project, led by the community, with the goal of identifying the best possible future for South Invercargill and ways to make it happen.
It was established in 2012 with a small steering group, which then held a public meeting in April 2012 to generate ideas and decide priorities. Action teams of volunteers formed around each of the priority areas, and have been working since then to develop and implement projects.
South Alive is an urban rejuvenation project, led by the community, with the goal of identifying the best possible future for South Invercargill and ways to make it happen.
It was established in 2012 with a small steering group, which then held a public meeting in April 2012 to generate ideas and decide priorities. Action teams of volunteers formed around each of the priority areas, and have been working since then to develop and implement projects.
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South Alive - Your Community Hub is OPEN!
Need a place to power up, warm up, or just connect? We're open and ready to welcome you!
We have:
⚡ Power & device charging
📶 Free Wifi
🔥 Heating
☕ Tea & coffee
💧 Water & bottle refills
🚽 Working toilets
🩹 First aid kits
🤗 Friendly faces
Come on down to:
Charge your devices 🔋
Fill your drink bottles 🥤
Keep warm with a cuppa ☕
At this stage, we're open until 3 PM today. We'll update you if our hours change.
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Unfortunately we have had to make the call to postpone our first ever Youth Market for this Saturday. 🥲 The weather is obviously a huge factor in this and for our Rangatahi to get the best success out of the event, we need a calm weekend. We will try again on Saturday the 1st of November. Hope to see you then. Keep safe everyone!
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The Knitwitz team who dedicate their time every Thursday to knit baby items for Kew Hospital's neonatal and children's wards, got a lovely visit this morning!
Staff from MSD Invercargill held a Mufti Day, and donated the funds raised plus extra wool, to support the Knitwitz ladies 🧶
A huge thank you to MSD and to everyone in the community who has donated wool. Your generosity helps them keep making these precious items.
❤️
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Have you check out our Ideas Wall in The Pantry Invercargill yet? We are looking for your ideas for improving South Invercargill. Pop down and see what others have suggested and add your own ideas too.
If you can't make it in but still have some thoughts you want to share, you can fill in our survey here: s.surveyplanet.com/zlk49yj4
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On our next radio show, we are having the lovely Ali Green from WasteNet Southland join us, and we thought, why not let you guys come up with some questions for her!
Do you have some rubbish or recycling that you don't know what to do with? Take a picture and send it through and we will take them to Ali and found out what we can do with them 🗑♻
Tune in to Radio Southland 96.4FM on 10am, Saturday 1 November to hear the results or you can always catch up on our shows here: radiosouthland.org.nz/Programmes/Details.aspx?PID=7513e1cc-5ddd-4790-acd8-18727782fd69
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This week on Stories From the South 🎙
Courtney from South Alive chats with Stacey, Rangatahi Lead, and Shikana, Rangatahi Events Crew member, about the upcoming Youth Market happening on Saturday, 25 October!
Tune in to hear how Southland’s young people are stepping up, getting creative, and bringing the community together through this exciting rangatahi-led event.
Tune in here: player.accessmedia.nz/Player.aspx?eid=48838cb5-97aa-4a17-89d7-9cb1b5627a29
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South Alive - Your Community Hub is OPEN!
Need a place to power up, warm up, or just connect? We're open and ready to welcome you!
We have:
⚡ Power & device charging
📶 Free Wifi
🔥 Heating
☕ Tea & coffee
💧 Water & bottle refills
🚽 Working toilets
🩹 First aid kits
🤗 Friendly faces
Come on down to:
Charge your devices 🔋
Fill your drink bottles 🥤
Keep warm with a cuppa ☕
At this stage, we're open until 3 PM today. We'll update you if our hours change.
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
Unfortunately we have had to make the call to postpone our first ever Youth Market for this Saturday. 🥲 The weather is obviously a huge factor in this and for our Rangatahi to get the best success out of the event, we need a calm weekend. We will try again on Saturday the 1st of November. Hope to see you then. Keep safe everyone!
0 CommentsComment on Facebook
The Knitwitz team who dedicate their time every Thursday to knit baby items for Kew Hospital's neonatal and children's wards, got a lovely visit this morning!
Staff from MSD Invercargill held a Mufti Day, and donated the funds raised plus extra wool, to support the Knitwitz ladies 🧶
A huge thank you to MSD and to everyone in the community who has donated wool. Your generosity helps them keep making these precious items.
❤️
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Our Supporters
Support from local organisations and businesses has been critically important in achieving our project goals, and we’re very grateful for the help we’ve received.
Support from local organisations and businesses has been critically important in achieving our project goals, and we’re very grateful for the help we’ve received.