2405 days ago

Reopening of Headquarters Building in Hobsonville Point - 2 September

Organisational Leader from Hobsonville Community Trust

Hobsonville Community Trust is excited to announce that the the building works for the Headquarters Building are officially finished and the last minor tidy ups and handover pieces are underway.

The Headquarters Building, recently named 'Te Mahere', will reopen for hire from Monday 2 September. Room hire will be available from 7am to 10pm, 7 days a week.

Bookings will open online through our website, from 11am on Tuesday 20 August. Please note that no one-off bookings will be received before then.

Over the coming week, we will be contacting those groups that have previously expressed an interest in becoming regular hirers of an ongoing booking time to confirm your interest and final details. We will then work the regular hire matrix through with Auckland Council and invite the approved regular hirers to create their bookings with us.

The hire rates for the Headquarters are now on our website. Our venue hire conditions can be accessed there also and will be included with any online booking.

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This latest batch even features her own hand-sewn designs, and customers have been loving them, they sell almost as soon as they hit the shelf!

It’s creativity, sustainability and community all stitched together, helping animals in need 🐾

📍 217 Onehunga Mall, Onehunga
🕘 9am–5pm, 7 days