Duration: 4:17
Ambient music plays.
[Wide shot over of Mount Maunganui beach taken from Papamoa Beach viewpoint]
[Logo appears: Kānoa Regional Economic Development and Investment Unit]
[Text: Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre – Bay of Plenty]
[Mid shot of Chris Emmett. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
[Title: Chris Emmett – COO for Surf Life Saving New Zealand]
Chris Emmett: Surf lifesaving is all about whanaungatanga, so that's about relationships in collaboration and shared experiences with other people. So that works across our clubs it works across our members, it works for us to provide a service to the community.
[Wide shot revealing the front of the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre, with someone walking across screen eventually entering through the front door]
[Mid shot of Chris Emmett. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
Chris Emmett: This is a really great example of how to build a facility that’s fit for purpose for the community and by the community, and I call that a community build – where people join together and come together to build it on time, within budget, and they put a bit of their aroha in the build as well, and that’s what we saw from this build.
[Mid shot of Donal Boyle. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
[Title: Donal Boyle – Joint Project Manager]
Donal Boyle: The funding from Kānoa, was absolutely a game changer for us. It would have been a five, six year, plan if we hadn't had that additional funding and to receive the support from Kānoa was just wonderful. It really gave us the confidence to move forward, but also to look wider as to what the development what we can do and offer for the wider community.
[Mid shot of Ian Glover. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a banner in the background]
[Title: Ian Glover – Joint Project Manager]
Ian Glover: It’s very hard to get a project off the ground in the initial stages, and it could’ve taken ten years. So that funding, has fast forwarded it and has bought it together quicker. Tiny little business, seven people, employ something like 250- 300 people or even more. Up to 1,000 people when you include all of the subcontractors, so it’s really huge.
[Pan shot of surf lifesaving photograph on the wall]
[Mid shot of Donal Boyle. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
Donal Boyle: Our vision and the team that established the building was a long-term vision. This building here has really created a cornerstone for the club or going forward as far as future proofing it, having a secure premise, and also helping the community which is just another extension of what we do on the beach.
[Close up shot of the outside of the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre]
Donal Boyle: So, the piece of land was next to the mount Maunganui Bridge Club, which was a 1970’s building, it was very old. And in our discussions, we often thought and dreamt about joining the two sites together.
Donal Boyle: Looking back now, one year on the bridge club has had an increase in membership by 15 percent they now have a lovely club rooms to play in, nice ambience, plus the addition of a training room that they can teach and educate people, so that future proofs their club going forward, as well as another facility in the community that can be hired out or used by different organisations.
[Shot of Ian Glover walking around surf rescue car]
[Mid shot of Chris Emmett. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
Chris Emmett: So the Rescue Centre acts as the Hub. So it's like a hub and spoke model, where we've got the clubs out here in the coalface on the beaches doing their patrolling and jobs. And we’re actually in behind supporting them with services, and equipment basically helping them thrive to become healthy clubs.
When there's an emergency go down. We also look at equipment supported from this centre and that allows us to be able to expand our life-saving footprint while we're out here in the community.
[Still shot of sand dunes and the ocean from Papamoa beach]
[Mid shot of Chris Emmett. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
Chris Emmett: This means collaboration across our region. So, it brings all our clubs together and our people together and it allows us to springboard into the community and help save lives.
I think it allows us to become serious about we do, it allows us to really focus on our clubs and it makes our jobs a lot easier.
[Mid shot of Ian Glover. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a banner in the background]
Ian Glover: Its quite unbelievable really, even today seeing the satisfaction of the bridge club people, the satisfaction of the surf club people – it’s a wonderful feeling, wonderful, and it couldn’t have been done without MBIE.
[Mid shot of Chris Emmett. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
Chris Emmett: Keep supporting projects like this, this is a fantastic way to actually make communities thrive.
[Mid shot of Donal Boyle. He stands in the Port of Tauranga Rescue Centre with a Surf Life Saving New Zealand banner in the background]
Donal Boyle: They can sit back and say, look that was an investment well invested in and now we’ll certainly futureproof the Bay of Plenty and certainly Surf Lifesaving, and The Mount Maunganui Bridge Club.
[Wide shot over of Mount Maunganui beach taken from Papamoa Beach viewpoint]
[Logos appear: Kānoa Regional Economic Development & Investment Unit, Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment Hīkina Whakatutuki, Te Kāwanatanga o Aotearoa New Zealand Government.]
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