Students from Ara Institute of Canterbury have just completed the repainting of a community sports gym in New Brighton. Painting and Decorating students took their learnings out of the classroom, to repaint a worn and torn sports gym at Grace Vineyard.  The gym is used daily by young people attending Youth Alive Trust programmes, plus many other groups. Trust Manager, James Ridpath said “It was a win, win, win for all! The students needed a place to practise their skills and be assessed by tutors, the gym has had 10 years of wear and tear and really needing a freshen-up, and Resene and Haydn chipped in to provide some of the paint and materials, to promote their products to the students and support our charity work too! Amazing!” The Grace Vinyard Beach Campus building used to be a supermarket over 35 years ago, but is now a community hub and church used by hundreds of people every week. “With advice from Resene and our own creatives, we chose Delta Grey with big splashes of Turbo Yellow. It certainly stands out and the young people said it looks great”. The gym is used by most of their 8 after school clubs, holiday programmes, basketball training, other local schools, alternative education schools, a weekly winter inter-schools table tennis competition, pre-school groups and more! The trust is now applying for funding towards a digital scoreboard as part of the finishing touches.