Closure of Avalon workshop for disabled: Tania Wilson (commercial manager), Helen Brownlie (change manager) and Karel Driessen (board chairman). Photo/John Borren
Te Puna's Avalon site, which assists disadvantaged or disabled people, is moving into the city and its owners are calling for people to lease their original site.
The not-for-profit organisation, Equality Property Trust - which owns the TePuna site that has been home to Avalon since the late 1980s -
is calling for parties interested in leasing the site. Those looking to lease the property will have to enable disabled or disadvantaged people to learn or work in some way.
This is in line with the Equality Property Trust's (EPT) focus on training disadvantaged people and creating a career pathway for them, says trustee Don Pilbrow.
"One of our key objectives is to support, subsidise and encourage courses of training and education within New Zealand for disadvantaged and disabled people, which will advance and promote the ability of such people to find employment in the community.
Therefore the rent is negotiable for the right tenant as EPT wants to help those who help others with disadvantages," Mr Pilbrow said.
The property currently tenanted by Avalon includes a nursery, wood workshop, sewing workshop, administration block, commercial kitchen, training rooms, shop and more.
