$1.4m CSS facility may open next year

• Published date: 24 June 2022
• Publication title: Otago Daily Times (New Zealand)

Catholic Social Services director Mike Tonks said the social work and counselling organisation had raised $900,000 in an ongoing fundraising campaign for a standalone building to complement existing offices in the nearby St Patrick’s School building in Macandrew Rd

Resource consent had been granted for the project at a neighbouring Broughton St site and the organisation was completing drafts for a building consent application.

The aim was to break ground in October and open the new facility early next year, he said.

The organisation would not leave its present space but the rooms there were already at capacity.

‘‘And it’s making it more difficult for us to actually deliver our services.’’

The project to expand the organisation’s footprint began after it received gifts from the J. Barker Eames estate and Judy Egerton estate, and subsequently funding from the Otago Community Trust, Alexander Macmillan Trust and A.A.W. Jones Trust.

But he still hoped to raise another $500,000 for the project, Mr Tonks said.

‘‘That’s part of the...