Support Southland's Longwood Loop - help us buy an electric van!

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Support Southland's Longwood Loop - Help Us Buy An Electric Van!

Project 2021-04-23 09:06:29 +1200

The Longwood Loop is a not for profit community food resilience loop, that connects the small rural towns surrounding the Longwood Mountains in Western Southland. Our electric van will travel from town to town bringing fresh, locally grown and made food to community hubs, picking up more produce to bring to the next hub . Everything would be ordered on an online "farmers market' so buyers know who grows the food and where.

The Longwood Loop will provide an important outlet for food growers and crafts people to sell what they produce, and will increase access to good food, and community connection for many in Western Southland, once established this van will serve 3 more "Loops" each week covering more than half of rural Southland.

When there is some form of natural disaster or transport disruption, we have only 3 days supply of food in our supermarkets, as this food comes from all over the world and only a tiny fraction of it comes from the Southland region.  Now is the time, before disaster strikes, to re-localise some of our basic needs - things that we can grow and produce locally.

The Longwood Loop & the Electric Van to the rescue!

Re-localising will bring rejuvenation and resilience to our small country towns - food growers and producers will have access to the low-cost transport loop: their market will grow to 4,000+ people without having to leave their township. This will considerably reduce costs for producers, leading to lower prices for consumers.

This is a pilot for re-localising food for rural NZ - we have an online platform where locals can buy directly from locals, and with the electric van we are raising money for, no producer or consumer need to go more than 10km to buy or sell food through a trading hub.

This will socially, economically and environmentally benefit rural NZ: If just 20% of rural NZ spent just 20% of their current food bill locally, 1.5 million dollars would go back to rural NZ each week!

This van is initially for Western Southland and will travel 165km around the Longwood mountain range. Once we have this working well we will do 3 more loops with this one van: Central Southland, Northern Southland and Fiordland, at least once a week.

We have already received $36,000 from Community Trust South for this fabulous new e-deliver van: this campaign is for the balance. It is $5,000 more for the larger battery, so $20,000 pledged would be ideal. If we get pledged more than we need we will subsidise the running costs of the van while trading builds up. Eventually it will be self-funding with 10% of all trade used to run the loop. You can watch a review of the e-deliver here: https://youtu.be/IiCN2OrMMqo

South Coast Enviromnent Society  is a registered charity so all pledges are tax deductable and we email reciepts on request.

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Thanks everyone! We are going to make it and if we get to $20,000 we can get the bigger battery

31/05/2021 at 1:33 PM

The bigger battery will enable the van to do each loop without needed to be charged in the way even when the van is fully laden. 

Thanks everyone for pledging to enable this amazing project to go ahead!

 

 

This project is a pilot for all rural NZ. This van will serve half of Southland and bring the source of fresh food back home.

29/05/2021 at 10:19 PM

We are so close, we have raised $46.800, with $4,200 to go for the EV distribution van. Please give a little and share ASAP as the Pledgeme campaign closes 4pm Monday!
Check out the great rewards there is honey, hampers, forest garden tours, meals and accommodation and more!

Three new rewards added and five days to go!

26/05/2021 at 9:31 PM

It is now time to pledge and share, with 5 days to go, and we have added 3 more reward levels gifted by more supporters.

It is great that with crowd funding we can do this, and be the start of bringing the source of NZ food home.  In Southland only 5% of our food is sourced from Southland presently, it is time to turn the tide.

If just 40 people gift us $100, 40 people gift us $50 and 40 people gift us $25 we can be the change NZ needs.  If you have already gifted share again with all you contacts.  We can do this!

A week to go to secure the van

24/05/2021 at 4:12 PM

We have raised a total of $42,350 so far and ONLY $8,650 to go!

Thank you to eveyone who has pledged so generously so far we are nearly there.  Now is a great time to let your friends and family know to pledge or share so we can get over the line. Lots of little pledges add up quickly.  Thanks for your support.

 

    Pledgers 125

    Colin Tanner
    20/05/2021 at 6:55pm
    Theo Andrew Redepenning
    20/05/2021 at 6:18pm
    Anonymous pledger
    20/05/2021 at 5:23pm
    Jenny Klosser
    20/05/2021 at 1:14am
    Lizzy Redding
    19/05/2021 at 11:47pm
    Philippa Jamieson
    19/05/2021 at 4:15pm

    "Awesome initiative! Imagine if this kind of local food distribution was rolled out across the nation - healthy local food, supporting our own regions. "

    Anonymous pledger
    19/05/2021 at 4:14pm

    "Great idea to grow community as well as health"

    Julia Fast
    19/05/2021 at 3:36pm
    Katherine Marsters
    18/05/2021 at 8:51pm
    Ham Davidson
    18/05/2021 at 6:29pm

    "<3"

    Roger & Margaret Baillie
    18/05/2021 at 3:03pm
    Robertson
    18/05/2021 at 11:52am

    "correct email is [email protected]"

    Anonymous pledger
    18/05/2021 at 11:50am
    Wendy Joy
    17/05/2021 at 8:27pm

    "Very happy to support this project. "

    Tom Macfarlane
    17/05/2021 at 3:30pm

    "Grow team grow!"

    Anonymous pledger
    17/05/2021 at 10:45am

    "Awesome and best of luck"

    Don Byars
    16/05/2021 at 8:52pm
    Emma Goodman
    14/05/2021 at 2:18pm

    "Testing :)"

    Anonymous pledger
    11/05/2021 at 9:06pm
    Matt Couldrey
    11/05/2021 at 3:57pm
    Anthea Madill
    11/05/2021 at 9:31am
    Jordan Wyatt
    11/05/2021 at 9:27am

    "Thank you for all your great work! Invercargill Vegan Society"

    Anonymous pledger
    10/05/2021 at 8:58am
    Susan Kennedy
    07/05/2021 at 5:58pm
    Libby
    04/05/2021 at 3:18pm
    Liz kerslake
    04/05/2021 at 9:31am

    "Awesomely inspiring initiative, all the best!"

    Anonymous pledger
    03/05/2021 at 11:56am
    Terry Guyton
    30/04/2021 at 10:29am

    "A worthy cause indeed! Go team let's do this!"

    Zebulon Lafe Horrell
    27/04/2021 at 6:46pm

    "Go you legends go! "

    carol clapp
    27/04/2021 at 12:42pm

    Followers 1

    Followers of Support Southland's Longwood Loop - help us buy an electric van!

    Support Southland's Longwood Loop - Help Us Buy An Electric Van!

    Project 2021-04-23 09:06:29 +1200

    The Longwood Loop is a not for profit community food resilience loop, that connects the small rural towns surrounding the Longwood Mountains in Western Southland. Our electric van will travel from town to town bringing fresh, locally grown and made food to community hubs, picking up more produce to bring to the next hub . Everything would be ordered on an online "farmers market' so buyers know who grows the food and where.

    The Longwood Loop will provide an important outlet for food growers and crafts people to sell what they produce, and will increase access to good food, and community connection for many in Western Southland, once established this van will serve 3 more "Loops" each week covering more than half of rural Southland.

    When there is some form of natural disaster or transport disruption, we have only 3 days supply of food in our supermarkets, as this food comes from all over the world and only a tiny fraction of it comes from the Southland region.  Now is the time, before disaster strikes, to re-localise some of our basic needs - things that we can grow and produce locally.

    The Longwood Loop & the Electric Van to the rescue!

    Re-localising will bring rejuvenation and resilience to our small country towns - food growers and producers will have access to the low-cost transport loop: their market will grow to 4,000+ people without having to leave their township. This will considerably reduce costs for producers, leading to lower prices for consumers.

    This is a pilot for re-localising food for rural NZ - we have an online platform where locals can buy directly from locals, and with the electric van we are raising money for, no producer or consumer need to go more than 10km to buy or sell food through a trading hub.

    This will socially, economically and environmentally benefit rural NZ: If just 20% of rural NZ spent just 20% of their current food bill locally, 1.5 million dollars would go back to rural NZ each week!

    This van is initially for Western Southland and will travel 165km around the Longwood mountain range. Once we have this working well we will do 3 more loops with this one van: Central Southland, Northern Southland and Fiordland, at least once a week.

    We have already received $36,000 from Community Trust South for this fabulous new e-deliver van: this campaign is for the balance. It is $5,000 more for the larger battery, so $20,000 pledged would be ideal. If we get pledged more than we need we will subsidise the running costs of the van while trading builds up. Eventually it will be self-funding with 10% of all trade used to run the loop. You can watch a review of the e-deliver here: https://youtu.be/IiCN2OrMMqo

    South Coast Enviromnent Society  is a registered charity so all pledges are tax deductable and we email reciepts on request.

    Comments

    You need to pledge to see this update.

    Thanks everyone! We are going to make it and if we get to $20,000 we can get the bigger battery

    31/05/2021 at 1:33 PM

    The bigger battery will enable the van to do each loop without needed to be charged in the way even when the van is fully laden. 

    Thanks everyone for pledging to enable this amazing project to go ahead!

     

     

    This project is a pilot for all rural NZ. This van will serve half of Southland and bring the source of fresh food back home.

    29/05/2021 at 10:19 PM

    We are so close, we have raised $46.800, with $4,200 to go for the EV distribution van. Please give a little and share ASAP as the Pledgeme campaign closes 4pm Monday!
    Check out the great rewards there is honey, hampers, forest garden tours, meals and accommodation and more!

    Three new rewards added and five days to go!

    26/05/2021 at 9:31 PM

    It is now time to pledge and share, with 5 days to go, and we have added 3 more reward levels gifted by more supporters.

    It is great that with crowd funding we can do this, and be the start of bringing the source of NZ food home.  In Southland only 5% of our food is sourced from Southland presently, it is time to turn the tide.

    If just 40 people gift us $100, 40 people gift us $50 and 40 people gift us $25 we can be the change NZ needs.  If you have already gifted share again with all you contacts.  We can do this!

    A week to go to secure the van

    24/05/2021 at 4:12 PM

    We have raised a total of $42,350 so far and ONLY $8,650 to go!

    Thank you to eveyone who has pledged so generously so far we are nearly there.  Now is a great time to let your friends and family know to pledge or share so we can get over the line. Lots of little pledges add up quickly.  Thanks for your support.

     

      Colin Tanner
      20/05/2021 at 6:55pm
      Theo Andrew Redepenning
      20/05/2021 at 6:18pm
      Anonymous pledger
      20/05/2021 at 5:23pm
      Jenny Klosser
      20/05/2021 at 1:14am
      Lizzy Redding
      19/05/2021 at 11:47pm
      Philippa Jamieson
      19/05/2021 at 4:15pm

      "Awesome initiative! Imagine if this kind of local food distribution was rolled out across the nation - healthy local food, supporting our own regions. "

      Anonymous pledger
      19/05/2021 at 4:14pm

      "Great idea to grow community as well as health"

      Julia Fast
      19/05/2021 at 3:36pm
      Katherine Marsters
      18/05/2021 at 8:51pm
      Ham Davidson
      18/05/2021 at 6:29pm

      "<3"

      Roger & Margaret Baillie
      18/05/2021 at 3:03pm
      Robertson
      18/05/2021 at 11:52am

      "correct email is [email protected]"

      Anonymous pledger
      18/05/2021 at 11:50am
      Wendy Joy
      17/05/2021 at 8:27pm

      "Very happy to support this project. "

      Tom Macfarlane
      17/05/2021 at 3:30pm

      "Grow team grow!"

      Anonymous pledger
      17/05/2021 at 10:45am

      "Awesome and best of luck"

      Don Byars
      16/05/2021 at 8:52pm
      Emma Goodman
      14/05/2021 at 2:18pm

      "Testing :)"

      Anonymous pledger
      11/05/2021 at 9:06pm
      Matt Couldrey
      11/05/2021 at 3:57pm
      Anthea Madill
      11/05/2021 at 9:31am
      Jordan Wyatt
      11/05/2021 at 9:27am

      "Thank you for all your great work! Invercargill Vegan Society"

      Anonymous pledger
      10/05/2021 at 8:58am
      Susan Kennedy
      07/05/2021 at 5:58pm
      Libby
      04/05/2021 at 3:18pm
      Liz kerslake
      04/05/2021 at 9:31am

      "Awesomely inspiring initiative, all the best!"

      Anonymous pledger
      03/05/2021 at 11:56am
      Terry Guyton
      30/04/2021 at 10:29am

      "A worthy cause indeed! Go team let's do this!"

      Zebulon Lafe Horrell
      27/04/2021 at 6:46pm

      "Go you legends go! "

      carol clapp
      27/04/2021 at 12:42pm

      Followers of Support Southland's Longwood Loop - help us buy an electric van!

      This campaign was successful and got its funding on 31/05/2021 at 4:00 PM.
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