Volunteers deliver a summer icecream treat

Young people out of work and into volunteering are manning the Wairarapa Resource Centre's latest enterprise - selling icecream.

Wiremu Brown, 19, is one of a number of unemployed young people looking to gain skills by working in the icecream caravan this summer.

"It helps, it gives confidence and people see me and see me doing a good job," he said.

Mr Brown left school when he was 15 and, after working in vineyards in the South Island for a few years, came home to try something different. But he has been out of work for six months.

Team leader John Patterson said the icecream caravan, like the Reuse Shop, was about giving young people skills so they could go out to get paid work.

The caravan will be at summer events over the coming months, including an exclusive spot at Martinborough festival La De Da, and making regular stops at Kandahar Home.

Kandahar Home resident Allen Cobb, who used to sell icecreams when he was teenager in Wellington, said he loved icecreams and was happy to hear the caravan would be making regular visits.