"It's difficult to allocate a limited amount of funding fairly throughout Wairarapa Community, and we do our best to make health, sports and education a priority for the funding.
"For example, we recently gave a $90,000 grant to the Hospice on Renall St, $35,000 to Aratoi, $15,000 to Life Education Trust and $16,000 to Makoura College.
In the Trust House annual report, 340 grant applications were approved amounting to more than $3.5 million.
Of this, more than half the funds were allocated to recreation and sport, and community promotion and development (39 per cent and 34 per cent respectively). Ten per cent was allocated to arts and history, 10 per cent to health and welfare, and 7 per cent to education.
Mr Hart said there were a few other means by which the funding had been requested for the Fab Lab which included Lands Trust.
"We're talking to a range of funders and have resubmitted our application with an improved business case and we are confident that if the public decide it is a worthy project, that we will receive the funding we need," he said.
"The reason we wanted to go public is because we were getting so many enquiries from schools and we have 12 lined up to talk to this week, but we really just wanted the whole community to be on the same page. We've got a pretty comprehensive business plan that shows we can be self sufficient after two years, and it's a very good investment in terms of what the community will be getting back.
"If there are any individuals who are interested we would love to hear from them."
