After 25 years of providing services to the community Sally Mclean has written the completion of its history Hub of a Community, The Story of Parnell Community Trust.  This has given the Trust an opportunity to reflect upon its successes and failures, the reasons for its  survival and the achievement of providing for an increasingly diverse and demanding community. The author Sally McLean came to the Trust as a volunteer researching the Trust archives. She was inspired by what she read and felt the story of Parnell Trust should be told. What has emerged is an informative case study of a New Zealand social organisation which reflects values, guiding principles and relationships which characterise so many New Zealand community organisations.

Hub of a Community tracks the history of the Trust from its early days in the 1970s in  Knox Church Buildings in Birdwood Crescent Parnell though to 2010 and its location in the historic Jubilee Building in Parnell Road and its various activities which reached 244,500 people in 2009.

Through individual memories, recollections and anecdotes combined with archival materials the story is told of how the Trust grew from an entity with a limited mandate in Parnell to its current role as a dynamic hub responding to the needs and requirements of those living in Newmarket, Parnell, Epsom, Grafton and the wider Hobson Ward.

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The Trust is also open to donating copies but would appreciate a koha to at least cover postage and packaging costs.