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Gap Filler began shortly after the September earthquake, funded entirely by the creators, because it was something we all felt was important to do. The emails and Facebook posts that came flooding in indicated that the people of Christchurch, and around NZ and the world, also saw the value of these temporary interventions. So we have persisted. We founded a new Charitable Trust. Bit by bit, we’ve attracted enough funding to keep going, but it’s a precarious business.

The vast majority of work is still done voluntarily, from our director, who puts in twice as many hours as she gets paid for, to our completely voluntary Trust Board, all the volunteer on-site labour, and people like me (as I sit here updating the website). The sense that we’re doing this because it’s simply the right thing to do is invaluable; we’re definitely not in it for the money! But the thought that we might not be able to continue for lack of funding, after all this hard work, is heartbreaking – especially when there are so, so many suggestions and so much energy coming from the community. If we could afford to employ TEN people full time, they wouldn’t run out of things to do, with so many ideas and so many gaps to fill.