This week the MenShed team completed production of a run of large “double end” traps. Each trap contains not one but two DOC200 mechanisms.
The traps are built tough – stainless steel and with features to ensure hat Kea and Weka cannot find their way inside.
The traps need to be tough – they are headed for the wilds of Fiordland where they will play their part in the ongoing fight to reduce and eliminate pests such as stoats.
As an aside the traps are heavy. Fortunately they wont rely on human legs but helicopters to get them to where they are needed.
The team at the Wanaka Community Workshop have been producing traps for three years. It’s been an interesting journey as designs change to reflect actual experience in our southern bushlands. Its also clear our smartest bird, the Kea, have learnt a few things about destroying traps along the way that have also led to changes in design and materials.
The generosity of the Upper Clutha community never ceases to amaze.
This week the team at Fabricate have been busy working through recent donations of cloth and textiles.
The material is in demand being upcycled and used as raw material to create new items of clothing as well as blankets and throws. With winter imminent its not surprising that many projects are designed for warmth.
The MenShed team this week delivered a pantry to the Aspiring Beginnings Early Learning Centre.
At the Centre the kids are learning the grow vegetables. The pantry will enable the vege’s to be displayed to Mum’s and Dad’s who can pick them up and continue the learning at home by creating meals with their kids.
Wanaka hosts visitors from around the world. Many are here for weeks or months seeking work to support their journey.
Van’s are popular among visitors given that they provide both transport and accommodation.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is increasingly attracting visitors seeking to use the facilities and tools to refurbish and upgrade their vans.
With the arrival of cooler temperatures the focus of visitors is upon getting their vans as comfortable and warm as possible.
Such visitors play an important role in our economy – our hospitality sector in particular suffers from a lack of workers. Van’s provide an alternative to housing and thus enable our regions economy is perform at a higher level that it would otherwise do.
Much of our work at the Wanaka Community Workshop is undertaken with powered tools and equipment. These rang from large table saws through sewing machines to small tools such as drills.
The safe use of electricity is associated with a annual check – this involves testing the machine then attaching a tag indicating all is good. Those tools that fail are made good or made inoperable.
Our volunteers really appreciate the team of Aotea Electric who this week checked all the electrical equipment at the Workshop. Aotea Electric are part of our wider Upper Clutha community and being located on Gordon Road are neighbors of the Workshop.
This week the Wanaka Community Workshop hosted the Repair Revolution.
The Repair Revolution is a program managed by Wastebusters. It provides an opportunity for people to bring along household items to be repaired and returned to use. Repair is a more sustainable and cheaper alternative to disposing the item and purchasing a replacement.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is delighted to again host the Repair Revolution. Repair and reuse is a concept we also value.
Members of both the MenShed and Fabricate joined other volunteers to support the Revolution.
The MenShed team gather at the Wanaka Community Workshop every Tuesday and Thursday mornings. The team spend most of their time together building projects which meet the needs of community agencies across the Upper Clutha.
However the team also enjoy each others company. At every session we take the opportunity to share some kai and from time to time a cake and birthday too.
Every so often a project walks in the door at the Wanaka Community Workshop.
This time the project involved a couple of toy cots. Both were suffering from the impact of a six year old using them as a bed – joints pulled apart and a few broken elements.
Thanks to the skills of a member of our MenShed team both cots are back in use – this time as a bed for dolls.
The first quarter of 2023 has been busy, very busy at the Wanaka Community Workshop.
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Throughout the period the MenShed team came together to work on a range of community projects every Tuesday and Thursday morning.
Attendance totaled 332 representing 1,162 hours of volunteer effort – 7.2 full time equivalents over the period.
No accidents at the workshop beyond two requiring not much more than a band-aid to fix.
The following projects were completed:
Four Lilliput Libraries for Friends of Wanaka Library and various community groups.
Two “Mud Kitchen’s” for local pre schools.
Two Picnic Tables for Bike Wanaka.
150 Tunnels for Rat Traps for local community groups and sale.
30 DOC 200 and 150 Traps for local community groups and sale.
62 Storage and Recycling Boxes for local primary schools and the Wanaka Recreation Centre.
Two “Doggie Stick Libraries” for Roy’s Bay and Bremner Bay tracks.
One “Doggie Refreshment Station” for Sticky Forest.
Six peonies Flower Boxes for a local grower.
Two large Outdoor Tables for The Hub.
Various outdoor Signage and Information Boards for Wai Wanaka, Te Kano and The Hub.
Various Christmas Decorations.
Two Donation Stands for Love Wanaka
Two “Viking Tables” and six “Viking Benches” for community groups and sale.
Ten “Viking” Star Gazing Chairs for a new local business.
Two large Seedling Raising Tables for a local pre-school.
Ten Cornhole Game Board sets for sale.
Six Wine Crates for a local business.
Eight “Spinning Wheels” for Volunteer Otago / Southland and Kahu Youth.
A Human Fruit Machine” for Wai Wanaka.
Bowls Boxes for Aspiring Village.
Three Portable Stages for Mount Aspiring College.
Various small projects and repairs in support of the local hospice, opportunity shops and for local households.
Our projects were built either totally or largely from recycled materials. This up-cycle or re-cycling removed some 4,200 Kg from the waste stream.
Over the last 3 month period members of the MenShed Team further volunteered at the workshop in support of:
QLDC Wanaka Recreation Centre holiday programs.
MINT woodworking program
During this same period the volunteers also completed projects within the Workshop including improved storage and shelving as well as a table for light engineering and welding.
In terms of wellbeing for the volunteers, each MenShed session is associated with a “cuppa”. Following the receipt of a grant from the local Health Board, food is also provided at our machine use and safety sessions.
Textile working – Fabricate
During the last three months the Fabricate Team also came together each Tuesday and Thursday morning.
No accidents took place.
Community projects undertaken include:
Costumes for Wai Wanaka.
Bags for Corn Hole Game Board sets.
Yoga Bolsters for the Wanaka Recreation Centre.
Volunteers supported a MINT textile workshop.
Donations, Workshop Improvements and Upgrades
Throughout the period the Workshop received a stream of ‘in kind’ donations from across the Wanaka Community. Building materials from the Upper Clutha construction sector as well as local households together with tools and equipment have been incorporated into the wood workshop. Cloth, tools and equipment have been received largely from households for the textile workshop.
Upgrades to the Workshop have included:
Steel work table and associated concrete foundation to enable light engineering.
Small mobile work benches to enable greater capacity to undertake projects both inside the Workshop and outside in the yard.
Storage and shelving within the wood workshop.
Storage and shelving within the textile workshop.
An embossing heat branding machine to mark items created within the Workshop.
Private Projects
A wide range of projects are undertaken utilising the work space, tools and materials at the Workshop.
This activity is undertaken by members of the Workshop outside those times utilised by the MenShed and Fabricate for community projects.
Projects include:
Minor home upgrades, extensions and repairs.
Building furniture and furniture repairs.
Shelving and storage.
Visitors using the facilities of the Workshop to upgrade their vans is a particular feature.
Next Quarter
The Wanaka Community Workshop is now well established however capacity remains to utilise its facilities in different ways. This includes hosting training sessions in a variety of practical skills. This quarter we shall investigate this opportunity.
The MenShed team at the Workshop shall continue to seek to strengthen its relationships with community groups across the Upper Clutha.
With the likely reduction in the range and extent of government grants available for the natural environment, the team may, for example, be able to offer a trap maintenance and refurbishment service rather than new build.
The MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop are currently busy producing a range of DOC 200 traps. Each is destined for a local business or community group who will deploy the traps to protect endangered species from pests such as stoats and rats.
The traps are designed to kill pests yet ensure inquisitive birds such as Kea and Weka are kept well away from the trap mechanism.
Over recent years the MenShed team have produced hundreds of traps which are now doing their business across the valleys and hills of the Upper Clutha. Most have been built new but we have also be engaged in maintaining and refurbishing traps in order to extend their useful lives.
With the creation of a foundation for our metal work table the capacity of the Wanaka Community Workshop to undertake welding and light engineering took a step forward this week.
The relocation of our work table to a more convenient location adjacent to the Workshop comes shortly after our initial training in the use of our ARC welding machines.
“We still have a way to go” says Gerald who is overseeing the project “but we can now complete the set up and get some projects underway”.
Teaching kids about the value of plants and the practical aspects of growing food is something we should all encourage.
This week the MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop have been completing two large “seedling tables” for a local school.
The tables will provide the foundation for kids getting their seeds started before the resulting seedlings are planted out. Each table will come with frost cloth covers to ensure better success through our cool winters.
Build from untreated timber and materials recycled from our regions building sector the tables will contribute to a better understanding as to the importance of plants in our lives.
The wood workshop and Fabrication, our textile workshop are the two key elements of the Wanaka Community Workshop. That said the MenShed team who normally spend their time in the wood workshop are keen to establish a capacity to undertake light engineering.
A table suitable for working with metal has been built. This week the team held their initial training in welding.
We still have a way to go – properly siting the work table and enabling more people to handle the equipment safely. Extending our ability to work with metal will enable a greater range of projects to be undertaken.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is itself a community. It is an important outcome that members enjoy each others company, are valued and are able to contribute.
This week following a training session focused upon light engineering and welding the MenShed team got together for lunch. Sharing kai is a great way to catch up and enjoy a “chin wag” – all part of promoting wellbeing among the group.
Upper Clutha is know for outdoor sports but we know the arts are key to the great lifestyle we in our community enjoys.
Over recent weeks the MenShed Team at the Wanaka Community Workshop have designed and built a series of mobile stages. The stages will be used by students at Mt Aspiring College for music and drama.
The Team really appreciate the opportunity to apply their skills to support our community to be the best it can be.
It is great kids across the Upper Clutha are active. Our district is crammed full of outdoor opportunity.
From time to time even the most active need to take a break.
This week the MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop completed three solid and rather rustic seats to provide a resting opportunity for kids who skate. Built from timber once used as scaffolding in our building sector the seats are designed to last.
The Fabricate and MenShed teams at the Wanaka Community Workshop this week completed a joint project resulting in the production of popular Corn Hole Game sets.
“Its great to work on a project together” said Sue, a volunteer from Fabricate. “Each game set comes with eight throw bags filled with clean river”.
The game sets are built from recycled materials and met the requirements of the US Corn Hole Game Association.
Corn Hole Game sets can be purchased via the Wanaka Community Workshop website.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is a busy place. In order to get stuff built the Workshop is equipped with a wide range of tools. It may surprise folk but from time to time the Workshop is untidy – messy even.
This week members of the MenShed team are working to put things right.
New shelving has been erected in the toolroom while box’s have been built to store tools and accessories. Great stuff – the aim is to create an easy to use workshop. One never knows, perhaps tidier as well!
Across the Upper Clutha families and environmental groups are working hard to manage down predators that threaten our iconic wildlife. Much of this work relies on effective trapping.
The MenShed Team at the Wanaka Community Workshop are supporting this work building traps – lots of traps. Over recent weeks our store of traps has reduced as more have been demanded. In response the Team have been busy both to meet demand and replenish our stocks.
Given the popularity of our initial Doggie Stick Library the MenShed team have completed a second.
The new Library is located adjacent to the lakeside track leading to the Wanaka Tree.
The library has already featured on social media. Given the number of folk taking photo’s of their library with their dog or just selfies, perhaps – just perhaps the Wanaka Doggie Libraries will become as well known as the Wanaka Tree!
Every year the Upper Clutha community hosts thousands of overseas visitors. Many are long term visitors to New Zealand who convert vans in order to freedom camp throughout the nation.
The Wanaka Community Workshop regularly hosts such travelers who are seeking to upgrade their vans with beds, storage, kitchen and toilet facilities. Summer is our busiest season. It is not uncommon to see two or three vans being worked on in our front yard.
In completing their work many travelers appreciate the advice and experience provided by members of our MenShed Team
Schools need to be organised and the busyness of a primary school meant the cardboard boxes that were being used by Estelle and the team at Take Karera Primary School were frequently wearing out. We offered to help out and have now made 40 x 4 litre Small Parts Boxes, 2 x Compartment Lego Boxes, 8 x Small General Bins, 2 x Nail Boxes With Nails and 8 x Paper Recycling Bins.
It has been a great project using up a lot of the smaller ply we had been donated that would have ended up in landfill. We’d like to make more of these and organise the world (or at least our town) so if you need some come and visit.
The General Purpose BinsAllan wearing one of the aprons Cactus kindly sent down
This week the team at the MenShed have been busy building corn hole game boards.
We built our first board over a year ago. In response to demand from households, firms and community groups our team has been regularly producing corn hole game boards.
Its a great game and its always satisfying seeing folk enjoying our handiwork.
Wanaka is busy – hosting an average of 18,000 visitors daily during our peak visitor season. Many of our visitors are kids who have been making great use of the Beach Toy Library located on the lakefront near the Water Sports Facility.
As a result a number of the wooden toys built by the MenShed Team have been the subject of normal wear and tear. In response this week a few of the toys came in to the Workshop for repair. They will soon be back on the job.
Its great to see the Beach Toy Library being used. Its also great to see that the community have donated toys to the library for use of others. Yet another sign of the great community we are part of.
Every so often the MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop get the opportunity to support local business. The funds raised go toward meeting our operational costs such as electricity.
The Upper Clutha is home to a highly regarded wine sector. Minaret Peak is a long standing wine grower of our region. This week the team have completed a “run” of wooden crates for the display and sale of a dozen bottles of Minaret Station’s best.
Over the last couple of years the MenShed team operating from the Wanaka Community Workshop have built Lilliput Libraries. Today these libraries serve local communities throughout Wanaka as well as Lake Hawea and Luggate.
This week the most recent addition to the network is ready to open. The lilliput library is located within the Wanaka town center outside Bookshelf – the great bookshop whose service is appreciated by many in our community.
The lilliput Library is of a design that reflects the architecture of the bookshop.
The team enjoyed putting their design and construction skills to the test with the project – a great outcome all round.
This week members of the MenShed welcomed kids participating in the holiday program managed by the Wanaka Recreation Centre.
We had prepared for the visit by fabricating components of wooden crates ready for assembly. The kids used a simple jig to complete the job with some precise (and not so precise) hammering.
Its great to see kids, some of whom had never used a hammer, create something to take home.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is part of our community here in Upper Clutha. We often see real evidence of the support of our community through the donation of building materials, plant and equipment.
This week members of the MenShed team have collected (and will soon sort) power and hand tools, equipment as well as a wide range of materials ranging such as screws, nails nuts and bolts. We very much appreciate this support and can assure those who have gifted the materials that they will be put to use across projects benefiting our community.
Summer across the Upper Clutha is hot and dry. Dry for humans and dry for dogs.
A keen cyclist visiting the region decided to do something about the problem. Do something for the dogs who accompany their owners when biking the trails in Sticky Forest.
The stand was quickly created using recycled materials at the Wanaka Community Workshop and together with a large plastic water container and bowl placed at one of the key intersections of the Sticky Forest trails.
If owners can now take on the responsibility for topping up the container from their own bottles the dogs will be happy.
Loki a visiting husky really appreciated the effort.
This week the Workshop welcomed the crew from MINT. While MINT are regular users of the Workshop their December visit was special – a get together with a Christmas focus.
With the support of MenShed members this month’s project was a “organic” Christmas Tree largely build from driftwood collected around the lake shore.
The crew from MINT are regulars at the Wanaka Community Workshop. Its great to have groups working together for the benefit of the community.
This week members of the MenShed team were invited for morning tea at Kids First – a pre school located at Hawea Flat.
Recently the team delivered a second mud kitchen for use by the kids as play equipment.
The two mud kitchens (one with a stove!) followed a couple of built up gardens where today the children are growing vegetables along with wooden christmass decorations for the kids to paint and take home.
Mud Kitchen made at the Wānaka Community Workshop for KidsFirst Kindergarten
Our visit to Kids First was our first opportunity to see the projects “in action”. It was great, almost as good as the chocolate brownies the kids helped to bake.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is delighted we can make a difference while also reusing and upcycling timber and materials which would otherwise go to waste.
Volunteering is a way of life across the Upper Clutha. Many people across our community contribute through giving their time to activities which make our community strong – culture & arts, sports & recreation, spiritual, the natural environment and others who just need a helping hand.
Volunteer South is a local agency which works to connect people and the community through volunteering.
Earlier this year the MenShed team completed a spinning wheel to be used by Volunteer South as part of a promotional campaign to attract people who wish to volunteer and link them to opportunities which may interest them.
The project was a great success and as a result this week the MenShed Team completed six more spinning wheels for Volunteer Agencies across the nation. Some are heading to Auckland, others to the Bay of Plenty and Canterbury.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is proud to be associated with Volunteer South and are delighted the project has now gone national. Great outcome.
Te Kākano Aotearoa Trust is a Wānaka non-profit organisation that is making a difference for our natural environment. The Trust eco-sources seeds from the Upper Clutha area, raises seedlings in their nursery, and then facilitates community-based native planting and habitat restoration.
They do a great job.
This week the MenShed Team made a small contribution toward the Trusts work.
We completed signage which will be placed at their sites where restoration is underway which will advise the public about their work. We are proud to support Te Kākano and their programs.
Christmas is a time for family and friends together. This week the team who regularly get together at the Wanaka Community Workshop 2023 met at the workshop to celebrate Christmas.
Wellbeing is important for all. While we love designing and building stuff for our community we also enjoy each others company. Christmas is a time to talk through what has been achieved and share food – and Christmas food does not get much more traditional than a pavlova with kiwifruit and strawberries.
July was a great month for the MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop.
Team members hosted 24 kids undertaking a holiday program with the Wanaka Recreation Centre. Each went home with a small wooden crate. We also hosted 9 folk from MINT who each went home with a bird feeder.
During July the team completed; the restoration and upgrading of ten Riddling Racks for Quartz Reef Winery, a food bank for Community Networks / Kahu Youth, 15 Weta Homes for Te Kakano Nursery, a Mud Kitchen for Lake Hawea Pre School, a Lakeshore community toy library, the wooden structure of a prototype “poof” and a set a drawers the Seed Library at Wanaka Library.
We are currently working on four “standard design” Lilliput Libraries for Friends of Wanaka Library, a “special design” Lilliput Library, a engineering / metal work table and welding screens for the Workshop, a storage container door for the Wanaka Grebe Program, a “stick library” for the dogs of Wanaka, a produce stand for the Wanaka Pre School.
We are working with the Wanaka Death Cafe with the aim of hosting a series of night schools in September which will involve the construction of coffins.
Within the Workshop we placed an additional fire extinguisher in the tool room and purchased a “pallet buster tool”. The pallet buster will greatly enable the use of recycled timber from pallets.
We sold a couple of stoat traps and received donations of cash and building materials.
We had no work related accidents during the month.
Due to a number of our regular members being on holiday and the impact of various winter ills attendance during our normal Tuesday and Thursday sessions was 80 representing 240 hours or 6 full time equivalents. This attendance excludes team members hosting groups such as MINT and holiday programs as well as attendance at other times.
It is estimated that during July the MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop re-used 600 Kg of material which would otherwise have been dumped.
The Upper Clutha community is a community that reads.
The evidence is that the Wanaka Community Workshop is full of Lilliput Libraries. The libraries each containing a small book exchange are popping up all over the town.
Four new libraries at the Workshop will be managed by the Friends of Wanaka Library.
A fifth is back in the Workshop for repairs following damage caused by being blown down by recent strong winds.
The last library is a one off – designed specifically to reflect the arcitectural features of the building it will be placed beside.
Death Cafe Wanaka is group that embraces and honours the intricacies, ambiguities and mysteries surrounding how one may seek meaning within the context of death and dying.
This week the MenShed team have been working with members of the Death Cafe to finalise how they can access the Wanaka Community Workshop and construct coffins for themselves or their loved ones.
Over recent weeks the team at the MenShed have built a couple of prototypes.
Both prototypes have been built of recycled materials but each to a different design. One was displayed at the presentation by the Death Cafe at this weeks Matariki 2023 held on the shores of Lake Wanaka.
We are working toward hosting night school classes in September which will be led by members of the MenShed team where members of the Death Cafe can construct their coffins.
Wanaka has had its fair share of inversions of late – a layer of cloud trapped below slightly warmer air above. The grey cloud layer above the town lets little sun through. As a result those of us on the ground feel the cold.
Despite the temperature the MenShed team at the Wanaka Community Workshop continue to design and built a range of community projects. That said the team are wrapped up – base layers, puffer jackets, gloves, hats along with hot drinks.
MINT is a community agency who works towards forging great lives for those with intellectual disabilities in the Upper Clutha Region.
As part of their regular program MINT regularly attends the Wanaka Community Workshop. At the Workshop the team from MINT work with wood or fabric. This week’s visit was a bit special. The visit was part of MINT’s July school holiday program and the project involved the creation of a wooden bird feeder.
Over previous days the MenShed team had designed a sturdy bird feeder and fabricated the parts. All the parts were recycled materials donated to the Wanaka Community Workshop.
The participants from MINT each received a kit they needed to assemble.
Over the next couple of hours with a bit of help and support everyone completed their project. Great job!
Everyone gets to take home their work. Lets hope the birds enjoy their new feeding stations as much as we enjoy working with MINT.
This week Wanaka hosted the New Zealand Mountain Film & Book Festival. It is a great event that showcases the natural environment and the people who challenge themselves within it.
Part of the Festival includes workshops for budding camera people to improve their craft.
The Wanaka Community Workshop were used by participants as an opportunity to train and develop new camera techniques. Team members of the Wanaka Community Workshop were interviewed, woodworking skills filmed from all sorts of angles, lighting and sound systems established.
The day was a great opportunity for members of the Wanaka Community Workshop to experience something new – perhaps stars in the making! In addition the Workshop will receive a brief edited video we can use to show what the Workshop is about.
The Team at the Workshop this week completed the latest in a growing network of food banks serving communities across Upper Clutha.
The Network has been established by Community Networks our one stop shop for community services operating by the Community Hub. Food banks can be found at the Community Hub as well as the Wanaka Recreation Centre, Luggate and Hawea.
Our newest element of the food bank network will be managed by Kahu Youth at their facility.
Food banks are a simple idea. Those with extra food can simply leave it in the bank where those who need food can pick it up. Its a great idea that helps those families across our community who are struggling with rising living costs.
The Wanaka Community Workshop is proud to be part of our strong and supportive community here across the Upper Clutha.
Lets face it, from time to time kid’s can be messy.
The MenShed team can help with this.
This week we shipped four large wooden box’s. Each is mobile with a set of wheels. The box’s can store stuff. Stuff left about on the floor can be popped in and the box stored away – easy and clean. Job done.
We love it when we can help with life’s little problems!
Plunket has long been New Zealand’s largest support service for the health and wellbeing of children and their families. From their Clinic in Wanaka, Plunket’s serves families across the Upper Clutha.
This week the MenShed team completed a book shelf for Plunket.
Built of re-cycled materials the book shelf is a small contribution to aid the great work Plunket and families undertake to benefit kids across our community.
Never let it be said MenShed team are not versatile.
This month the Wanaka Community Workshop was transformed to host Re-fashion – a fashion show cut differently.
With the support of Queenstown Lakes District Council, Wastebusters Wanaka and Fabricate led the transformation. The aim was to show what can be achieved with recycled and upcycled clothing.
The MenShed team helped with the set up and select few walked the catwalk.
We can achieve great outcomes for our environment and look stylish as well!
The Wanaka Community Workshop regularly hosts Kahu Youth – in particular the team known as Grounded.
Grounded are youth who are focused on improving our natural environment.
The team are aiming to enhance recycling at Mt Aspiring College – Te Kura O Tititea.
To achieve this the team are building two depots to locate at the school. Each depot permits waste to be separated such that it can be more effectively recycled.
Jim Bob has been a resident of Wanaka throughout much of his life. Being a builder there are few places across the Upper Clutha which have not benefited from his skill and experience – houses, shops, community and farm buildings.
Today the MenShed team benefits from Jim Bob’s skill – and his stories!
This week Jim Bob completed a number of work tables.
Each table has been crafted from recycled materials. A couple include an up-cycled and repaired vice.
The work tables will enable more people to use the Wanaka Community Workshop – conviently and with greater safety.
Some 18 months ago the Wanaka Community Workshop was a new element in our community. Its great therefore that the Workshop can now play a role in welcoming new members to our community.
The Workshop enables folk to practically establish themselves in their new home. They may involve creating some furniture or storage units.
Workshop Members also provide an initial network that new arrivals can build and expand from.
Given the issues our community has in filling jobs important for the health of our local economy it is important that new arrivals settle in quickly.
Its great that the Wanaka Community Workshop can play a part in aiding this.
