Te Puna Auaha

Our job will be to create the safe space and provide and maintain the tools that we put there. We will listen to ideas and suggestions and to try to encourage and enable those as best we can. We want creators to reach deep into their potential and to bring forward ideas so we can do our best to try to support those sorts of ambitions.

Ideally people will be able to come to the space, find the tools and materials to work with and then use them on the site or, in at least the case of the Lyttelton Library of Tools and Things, borrow those items and take them away to use.

We also want people to come to learn and share their talents and skills. The idea here is that we will have people with expertise to come and share that with people and teach and inspire.

We’ll also be gathering information and contacts/connections to share with the community and we’re planning to make those across a variety of platforms, so we can provide a library of DIY, sustainability and other information to help in the new normal.