Lyttelton Comes to the Party
The 2010 Festival of Lights in June was a celebration of Lyttelton’s vibrant, creative community featuring everything from upcycling clothes to wine tasting to live music to the festival's signature mask parade, street party and LPC fireworks.
The festival carried out PL's aims of raising awareness of sustainability, bringing the community together and most of all putting a sparkle into winter. Thank you to all our sponsors, supporters, volunteers, performers and participants who made this year's festival such a success! Click here to read more.
- Social Get Together to Celebrate over 300 members! Thursday, Jul 29, 2010 4:00 pm onwards The Empire Well, we have our 300th member plus! Let's celebrate. Come have a drink at The Empire. No need to RSVP. Just drop in from 4.00pm onwards. We would love to shout you a drink but have no wine makers on our time bank! However, we will have some tempting nibbles. So come on down and share some smiles...
- Want to learn Spanish? Here's your chance! Teacher - Time Bank member Ana Aceves Course Length - 6 Weeks, commencing Thursday 22nd July. Time - 5.30-6.30 Venue - Lyttelton Information Centre Cost - Time Credits and a small Koha to cover our admin costs. What to bring - Your friendly self and perhaps a notebook and pen to take notes if you wish. ...
- Happy Birthday to us! Celebrate Good Trades, Come On! It was a nice event See our Photos Timebank's 5th birthday was in February. In the last 5 years Time Banking has become a real treasure in this community of ours. Connections and friendships have been forged, and our time bank has become a wonderful tool for strengthening and building our community. We truly have something wonderful to cele...
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| Phone: | 64 (3) 328 9243 |
| Office: | The Portal |
| 54a Oxford Street Lyttelton | |
| Postal: | PO Box 74 Lyttelton 8841 |
| Email: | office@lyttelton.net.nz |
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Project Lyttelton - Our Story PDF
How did Project Lyttelton get started? How has it developed? What has made Project Lyttelton a model for others?
Find out here: Our Story explores the history and vision of Project Lyttelton (PL).
The achievements of PL in the past six years have been phenomenal. The organisation has embraced cutting-edge thinking to meet the challenges of a changing world. It is showing the way forward with community sustainability, using innovative methods to capture community imagination and help create a shared vision for the future.
Our Story author Anneleise Hall is a former reporter and sub-editor and was a board member of Project Lyttelton from 2004 to 2009. This story is written from a first-hand perspective and experience of PL and through interviews with key people. Download Our Story PDF (1.5MB)
| First Swap-O-Rama-Rama a huge success |
 New Zealand's first Swap-O-Rama-Rama was held on 20 February 2010 as part of the Lyttelton Summer Festival. It was a huge success. Many thanks to all the event's 40 volunteers, who sorted, sewed and screenprinted amazing creations for the more than 250 people who attended!
Swap-O-Rama-Rama is a giant clothing swap and series of do-it-yourself workshops in which a community explores reuse and creativity through the recycling of used clothing. At Swap-O-Rama-Rama consumers are taught to be creators and this transformation takes place through the local talent in the community.
Around 250 people brought their unwanted clothes to the Lyttelton Rec Centre and walked out with exciting new finds and re-made fashions. The eight Singer sewing machines were humming all day reworking garments, turning skirts to dresses and long pants to shorts – thanks to the team of talented volunteers. The Yudu screenprinting machine transformed dull cast-offs with prints from local artists. Screen printers, sorters and sewers worked frantically to keep up with demand.
Swap-O-Rama-Rama, by Wendy Tremayne, is an international network protected under a Creative Commons License. Lyttelton’s Swap-O-Rama-Rama is proud to be sponsored by Singer and Yudu. For more info and upcoming Swap-O-Rama-Ramas click here.
Visit our online photo gallery and for a view of the Project Lyttelton Swap-O-Rama-Rama
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Being the change
Project Lyttelton is a non-profit grassroots organisation committed to building sustainable, connected community.
Through a range of innovative projects, PL is harnessing the power of community and fostering hope and inspiration to create a collective future. Our values-based approach is inclusive and participative - we recognise all people have intrinsic value.
Some of our projects include; supporting local food production, looking at ways to meet energy needs through innovative community-based solutions, minimising waste, creating opportunities for people to come together to play, share information and skills, the initiatives continue grow!.
The PL model is attracting interest both nationally and internationally and we are happy to share what we've learned.
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