Residential FACILITY now available

A residential facility for the holding of progressive conversations, workshops, retreats and family and community functions is now available at 1271 Blair Road, Kotuku near Moana on the West Coast of the South Island.
Also available for overnight mobile home parking and accommodation for cyclists.

It is also available for affordable school camps for senior primary or junior secondary students. The venue can sleep 20 indoors so a camping element may be necessary. There is plenty of space for tents. A programme including bush walks, a farm visit and a pottery session  may be arranged. A cost of $25 per student for a two night stay is envisaged together with self catering by groups.

He whare noho mo te whakahaere i nga korerorero, awheawhe, reti me nga mahi a te hapori. Kei te waatea hoki mo nga waka kaainga mo te po me te noho mo nga kaieke paihikara.

Enquiries: 0211063669; wkcultur@gmail.com


Background

Kotuku has been created from the old Jack's Mill School, designated a Heritage One site because of the innovative educational experiment that took place in the 1930s under the headmastership of Edward Darricott. Darricott instituted the first experiment in technical education when he enabled the pupils to design, build and furnish a child-sized cottage. The school site had become somewhat derelict and empty of purpose and Te Puawai approached the local heritage society and the Department of Conservaiton who own the site with the proposition of repairing and upgrading the school so that it could become a residential facility in turn hosting educational innovation. Manatu Taonga, the MInistry of Culture and Heritage have funded the project.

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