The Tuesday and Thursday morning sessions, 9am-12pm, are really starting to crank. We started with Alan, two more Alan’s showed up and now we have up to a dozen regulars making rat traps, shelving, organizing the workshop and working on their own projects.
On the 18th April 2021 the 4KT Elephant Workshop happened at the Wanaka Community Workshop.
A wonderful event that resulted in beautiful elephants going home with the happy makers.
We’re getting some stuff done. Today Dunlop Building dropped off some great materials and we started making the first sign. Evolution!
The building is rented at 15 Gordon Road and will be open for the first time on Thursday 1st April 2021. Drop in and see what is happening. If you can bring us any timber, a saw bench or some volunteer labour all the better!
The hardest thing to sort out has been a physical location for the Workshop. We’ve talking to Council about locating a building on Council land and looked at every option we can think of.
In order to actually get this thing started we’ve decided to lease a building on Gordon Road, Wanaka for the following reasons:
This is exciting! We can actually start to think about the next steps and can reasonably expect to get the establishment open in the next few months.
The end of the year is here and while we haven’t achieved what we were hoping to, a locked in physical location to start the Wanaka Community Workshop journey, we have started a Charitable Trust, done a lot of research and feel like we’re closer to making the idea a reality.
We’re feeling confident we’ll hit the ground running after the holiday period.
