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We love to hear how our students, tutors, and friends are doing and to keep up with your news. Please let us know what you’re up to and we’ll share it with our community.
Enjoy our Community Talks Series with our tutors who are here teaching. We’d love to have you join us. Talks are held at the school. Limited to 35 people. RSVP required.
My Time, My Life at Founders Heritage Park was a wonderful day of connecting with the wider community. Visitors tried steam bending, made shavings and chatted with us about fine furniture and woodworking.
Our Open Day was a fantastic success, welcoming around 100 new visitors to the school from across the country. Guests explored our workshops, enjoyed steam-bending demonstrations, viewed student work, met our tutors, and discovered more about our courses in a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere.
Go to the full newsletter to read about June at the school. https://mailchi.mp/cfw/may2025newsletter?e=18cc7f8a9e
Go to the full newsletter to read about May at the school. https://mailchi.mp/cfw/may2025newsletter?e=18cc7f8a9e
CFW Community Talk Series “Designing for Woodworkers” with Stuart Faulkner 6th June 2025
Go to the full newsletter to read about April at the school. Alice’s new adventure, update on our raffle winner, Our Featured Course of “Jigs for the Home Workshop” and 3 weekend courses that are perfect for a get-away. We’ve also got new info about our Scholarship Program, Maker of the Year Awards, and of course, our Wood Quiz, which is a little different this month.
Graduating from the full time Furniture Makers’ programme in 2018, read about what Josephine Jelicich is doing now.
The weather has been a bit fickle, with the summer sun blazing to thunder and hailstorms crashing down. Despite the unpredictable weather, the tick over from midnight at the end of one year to the start of the next year is energizing and there's a collective rise in spirits with the possibilities a new year brings. Coming off the back of last year, which was a difficult year for many, there seems to be a shift in the atmosphere. People want to smile more, worry less, and spend more time doing things we love, with people we enjoy. Here at the school, we feel that way, too. We're excited about 2025 and and the possibilities of what's to come.
It's also that time when we tend to reflect on the past year. 2024 was a little different for the school, a time of transitions and readjustments. There was no Full Time Furniture Makers Programme this year, which had only been misseed twice before, in 2011 and 2016. So we packed in as many short courses as we could. Was wonderful to meet new students and see our returning students again.
As the weather turns on a dime from glorious sunshine to downpours, this has also been a month of mixed emotions. We've had some wonderful news in hearing of Lou and James' engagement, and we wish them every possible happiness together. We've also being struck with tragedy that has shaken all who knew Will Bayliss.
With the end of the year in sight, we want to send to you, our whānau, our gratitude that we have you to share our highs and lows with.
It's been busy in the workshop this month, with 7 short courses running in October. The mornings are still chilly, but the afternoons are warming up nicely. We're enjoying having more days with the roller doors open and lunches outside on the picnic tables
And welcome to Spring - the sun is shining, the daffodils are out, the days are getting longer and the workshop is getting warmer!
Our Open Day at the end of last month was a ROARING success with over 100 people calling in to check us out, say hello and watch some demos. It was great to see so many people showing enthusiasm and interest in what we do here, and of course the ever-entertaining steam bending demonstration always goes down a treat. Thank you to everyone who made the day such a success.
Greetings from the workshop - thanks for taking the time to read our latest newsletter and hopefully there's something that sparks your interest.
We are just about half way through the year and already plans are well underway for the 2025 short course programme which will be up on the website in the next few weeks.
You may not realise that we are a not-for-profit organisation and a registered charity based on the fact that we are the only dedicated woodworking school in New Zealand. As part of our requirements to the Charities Services / Ngā Rātonga Kaupapa Atawhai we have to annually report on our finances and performance. A very heartwarming statistic we can share with you is that in both 2022 and 2023 the percentage of our students who return for another course is a whopping 59%. This figure may. be a little distorted post-Covid, but even so it feels like a good excuse to brag! Seriously though, our sincere thanks to you, our students, for supporting the school by continuing to enrol in our courses and workshops.
