Community effort raises money for health centre

A Tasman community has built a house that will be sold to raise money for a new family health centre.

Locals donated their time, money and services to build the house, which will go to auction next month.

For 18 months Golden Bay locals have been trying to raise $1 million by busking, holding dinners and auctions and by building a house.

"The fantastic thing about this project is that it will actually bring us to the completion of our fundraising activities," says health centre trustee Linda Sanders.

It's a grand way to finish and the house is expected to fetch at least $400,000.

"To get to a target like that we really needed to have something more significant to bring in these sorts of funds," says fundraising group chairman Matthew Toynbee.

And it was a real community effort.

"All of the contributions come from the donation of time and a lot of products that people have given," says Ms Sanders.

The result was a four-bedroom house in the Bay's prime holiday location, Pohara.

"There's an awful lot of people who have put some tremendous effort in here, right from the electrician to the concrete layers," says fundraising committee member Nick Hodgkinson.

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Community effort raises money for health centre