We're so close to the renovation being completed!
8 February 2023
Our upgrade project is charging ahead at full pace, with many of the walls up – it’s really looking like a community centre! It's so close to being done! The building team are hoping to hand over the keys to Wellington City Council (WCC) sometime in mid-February – that means we’ll get access sometime after that (cos we’re separate from WCC, we are a private trust who work in partnership with WCC).
It’ll take us a while to sort out the venue, create new health/safety plans, create new systems, get all our services connected, move in, hang artwork, book in activities – all that good stuff… with that in mind we don’t have a firm date for when we will close up Green street (which has been our temporary home for over a year) and then when we will reopen Colombo/Rintoul.
As we're still working with some unknown timelines - we are expecting that we'll be reopening the renovated centre in mid/late April... It’s a huge task and we’re a small team with other things on too! We are hoping that Covid or other events don’t get in the way and create further delays in the timeline – but this is something that could occur. We’ll keep you updated here and in other communications such as our E-newsletter. You can sign up for our E-newsletter here: http://bit.ly/whats-on-newtown
We've also been asking our community for some help with some items they might have sitting around ready to go to an op-shop, list on FB market place. Maybe you'd like to look at our wishlist and see if you could help us in this way? http://www.newtowncommunity.org.nz/support-us.html . We will be a bit fussy about the types of furniture we want to take – as we want to match the style of the building and keep it classy (free couches aren’t hard to come by, but often they are pretty junky – not funky)! Please get in touch if you have something you think will enhance our space for everyone to be able to enjoy.
Enjoy the updated pictures and hope you had a happy holiday (if you got one!)
Kia pai ō koutou raumati !