Ideas for a Community Asset.

One of the ideas put forward is an adventure playground at Eely Point.

With the successful sale of the Stonewood Homes House Build House and planning for the 2010 festival underway, we now have plans to turn some of the proceeds into a community asset. The Wanakafest Community Trust is currently deliberating on what to create as a community asset and they would like you, the Wanaka community, to have your say.

During the 2009 Willowridge Wanakafest and associated Stonewood Homes House build some money was attained for the trust through the help and support of local builders and contracters, who gave their time, services, and products at heavily reduced cost or even for free. Subsequently, the festival was a success, the Stonewood homes housebuild house sold for a great price at an auction and so now it is time to give back to the community that gave so much..

It has to be physical… something that we can touch and see, it has to have a wide benefit to the community, it of course has to be based in Wanaka, and we would like to see it have a life expectancy of around 20 years or over”

Some options that have been tabled so far are: an adventure playground at Eely Point, a transportable trailer stage, a band rotunda at Pembroke Park and a water park as part of the dinosaur park at the lake front. The Trust is still settling the exact amount that will be available for the asset, and we are planning on doing additional fundraising to top up what we have raised so far. As a guideline, we are looking for a project around $100,000.