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Servant Industries Trust began as an initiative of Kapiti Christian Centre in 1984 when unemployment was on the rise and many people were finding it difficult to gain employment. A market garden type scheme was set up to teach horticulture skills, growing vegetables and selling them locally.
Shortly after that, the Lake family made their land in central Paraparaumu available for farming use. Some of the Mongrel Mob members joined the project and later de-patched as they saw there was a better lifestyle to be had. Towards the end of the 1980’s when the stock market crash began impacting our community, the focus of Servant Industries changed. New courses were introduced to help men and women in the 40-50 age group to retrain, having lost their jobs in the post-crash downsizing of large corporations and businesses.
This proved very successful and a carpentry course and sewing course began. In 1995 Servant Industries entered a new phase, being registered as a Private Training Provider by the New Zealand Qualifications Authority. This enabled them to offer courses with unit standards. Work based training courses were also added but as the unemployment level dropped significantly, there was not such a demand for adult courses. Drastic changes were needed for Servant Industries to continue. In the year 2002 Servant Industries was re-launched with it’s new focus on youth, and we adopted the name...
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