Author: Gwilym GJ
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School Holiday Programme visits the Workshop again
We were lucky to have a beautiful sunny day during the school holidays for the QLDC Sport and Recreation’s Wānaka-based holiday programme visit in September. Everyone went home with a toolbox they’d made themselves and some hug smiles. Thanks to Allan, Taj, Alan and Barrie for all the mahi cutting the parts, making the nailing…
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Food Stand for Wānaka Primary School
Debbie at Wānaka Primary School contacted us regarding building a Food Stand for their Environment Group. Barrie and the team recycled a bunch of pallets into the main body and we made our first attempt at a standard way of reusing bike wheels, something I’ve wanted to do for ages. Living in a big mountain…
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Mud Kitchen for KidsFirst Lake Hāwea
Lets face it, kids generally love mud. The combination makes for great play. This week the team at the Wo(Men)Shed finished a mud kitchen. It is destined for the local KidsFirst local pre school. Designed to be located outdoors in the playground the kitchen provides easy access to a shelf, basins and of course the…
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Wānaka Rec Kids Holiday Programme Winter 2023
We were lucky enough to have two teams of smaller builders come to the workshop last week with the Wānaka Rec Centre Holiday Programme. They bought their own hammers and used them with gusto. Allan had pre-prepared the components for the Small Crate Project we have been developing as a standard project lesson we can…
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The Adventure Film School Visits the Wānaka Community Workshop
In June we had the Adventure Film School, which is adjunct to the Mountain Film Festival in Wānaka, visit our Community Workshop. The students and Ross Mackay, their tutor, were amazing and everyone had a great time. Check out the video – it really sums up what we are about.
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Spinning the Wheel of Fortune
A quick project we built over the last week is a Wheel of Fortune raffle wheel for Volunteer South. The excellent Pukka Signs printed up the graphic and applied it to a 1m disk of ACM. ACM is quite good for this sort of thing, stable and easy to cut. We used some scrap of…
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Tuesday and Thursday Morning Sessions are Growing Strongly
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.
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4KT Elephant Workshop
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.
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Sign Making
We’re getting some stuff done. Today Dunlop Building dropped off some great materials and we started making the first sign. Evolution!
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We Have A Building!
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!
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Meetings and Decisions
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…
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2020 is coming to a close…
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…