Supergrans is a community organisation which has now been in operation in Christchurch since 1996. We are a fully registered Charitable Trust (CC10058) under the governance of the Home Made Partnerships Trust.
Our objective is to provide free practical tuition and mentoring to anyone who needs a little help to learn more about household management, practical cooking, household budgeting and other basic life skills.
Our goal is to enable others to make the most of the resources and finances available to them, by giving guidance and tuition that gives people confidence and skills that are of practical value in the home.
Some of the areas that we can support people in are Household Management and Budgeting offering advise with some of the following:
- Menu planning
- Nutrition
- Simple household routines
- Budget shopping
- Growing vegetables
- Healthy, economical cooking
- Time management and housekeeping skills
- Tuition in clothing repairs
- First steps in sewing skills
- A wide variety of craft skills
- Specific cooking programmes
- Advocacy with government departments and other agencies
- Household budgeting
We operate on three distinct levels
- Our ‘In Home' mentoring programme
- Small Group courses from our Learning Base
- Cooking Courses and Budgeting Advise
Our services are available to clients throughout Christchurch.
We have government contracts with The Ministry of Social Development/Family & Community Services, Christchurch City Council and The Tertiary Education Commission, we apply directly to funding trusts for additional funding and raise funds ourselves throughout the year with various fundraising events.
We have also in the past five years set up a garden at the back of our premises. Here we grow a significant variety of vegetables that we give to people in the community at no charge. We also use the vegetables in our cooking classes and our volunteers can take them to use with clients they are mentoring in cooking programmes. Any surpluses are offered to the local foodbank or any other community organisations who can use them.