When The Daily Café opens next month people will walk in to the usual hums, clicks and spurts reverberating from a coffee machine.

But this will be no usual café – because 3 Commerce Lane is about to become a social meeting place which in time will give back to the very community which frequents it.

The idea for The Daily Café came to Chrissi and Martyn Robinson and their friends in November 2014.

They've since created The Search Party Charitable Trust to give birth to the café. But ultimately the café will be giving back profits to the trust, which it will use to administer projects to help the community The Daily serves.

'It really just came out of heart to see more good things in Te Puke and to see the goodness spread around a bit in Te Puke,” says trustee Chrissi Robinson, who with husband Martyn, Richard Crawford and Andrew Reid run the trust.

They took over the lease of a bare bones property and spent 2015 getting café plans drawn up and council consents for the café they term a ‘social enterprise'.

'We're all in it for the long haul. We're setting it up to be a sustainable charity,” says Chrissi.

'We're needing a little bit of help to get started but eventually café proceeds will go towards supporting charitable work in the community.

'Our particular focus is around community – building community in Te Puke and breaking the deprivation cycle.”

Chrissi says the social sector in Te Puke is amazing but it lacks cohesion. 'We want to bring some collaboration to it.”

A room in the café will be available to community groups to utilise. 'They can run workshops and fundraisers and our hope is by centralising it real connecting will start to happen.”

The trust hope to open the café next month – and Chrissi says the Te Puke community has been absolutely amazing so far.

'From the moment we started we've had tradespeople working on their days off – I could give you a list a mile long of people who have given time and companies which have donated either services or products.

'The place we've got to in our initial budget would be worth about $1115,000 and it's cost us nothing like that thanks to the generosity of Te Puke.”

Plus Te Puke Community Board granted $900 for coffee equipment and the NZ Lottery Grants Board gifted $9999 for kitchen equipment.

But help is still needed. 'We need someone to help with funds to top up kitchen equipment – and some cash to start with, to pay wages for the first few weeks and to stock the café.

'Also, we could use help with beautifying and landscaping the outdoors area, or donations of raw materials for it.”

Chrissi envisages the whole community will use the café as a community space. 'We see different times attracting different people.

'We've got a real heart for after-school activities – we'd love to join with young people from the town and facilitate them being able to run their own after-school sessions from the premises.

'We've talked to local schools about learning-out-of-class opportunities, and we're keen to see the café used out-of-hours for functions and occasions.”

A local community garden group is keen to use their produce for cooking lessons at the café.

Café manager Bex Billington is currently delivering lunches on Wednesdays and Fridays in the Te Puke area and providing catering, out of a local commercial kitchen, to generate funds to help paying the café's lease for now.

Plus The Daily is set to be the first local café to sell ‘good coffee' from local roasters Excelso, where each cup sold provides clean safe water for a person in Cambodia for one week. 'We are so excited about this,” says Chrissi.

But the trust won't be giving cash out – projects will run via the café to use it as a resource.

'We think there's a lot of people with amazing ideas for the town but they just need an infrastructure and a support network.

'When we dream about it, we see someone getting an idea and going: ‘I'll go to the Daily because they'll be able to help us'.

'The reason we're called the Search Party Charitable Trust is because we're searching for the people whose needs aren't being met through what already exists. We don't want to duplicate things already being done.”

So Chrissi cannot wait until that coffee machine starts humming, and for the goodness within The Daily Café to spread.

'It just blows me away – it's absolutely incredible to think that four people had an idea and Te Puke is like: ‘Yeah!'.”

The Daily Café has a Givealittle page, or people who want to help with non-monetary donations can call Chrissi on 021 025 65054 or email: marty.chrissi.robinson@gmail.com or visit their website