(Friday evening, 30th May- Monday lunch, 2nd June) This weekend is seen as a tradition for the Quaker Settlement, with the community residents and visitors working alongside each other to complete a wide variety of tasks,which residents can’t achieve alone. Although some of the work is maintenance, much of the...
On friday night we welcomed 37 Friends (including 5.children and several babies) of all ages to the Settlement to join our efforts to get some bigger jobs done. Lots of good conversation and laughter was shared throughout the weekend. The concert on Saturday night comprised an amazing range of poetry,...
We were invited this year to be part of the Whanganui Summer Programme and host an open day. As this was the last weekend of the stay of our visitors from Earlham College, we chose the Saturday. However, one article advertised it as Sunday so we ended up with TWO...
SOLAR ARRAY turns TWO YEARS OLD January 24th was the 2nd anniversary of the installation of the Solar Array. In these 24 months the system has harvested a total of 26.16 MEGAwatt/hours which averages out at 35.83 kilowatt/hours per day. While the monetary return on the system has been severely...
