Kate Sheppard Room
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The Kate Sheppard room (our largest room) can be used for activities including art, sewing, craft, board games, photography group and card games. The room is also hired out to and is very suitable for community groups and business organisations for meetings and workshops.
Room Hire $20+GST per hour
Holds 15-20
The Pania Room and the Kate Shepard room can be opened up together to make one large space.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
Katherine Wilson “Kate” Sheppard (10 March 1847-13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealand’s Women’s Suffrage and was the country’s most famous Suffragette. She also appears on the New Zealand ten-dollar note. Since New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage in 1893, Sheppard’s work has had a considerable impact on women’s suffrage movements in several other countries.
The Pania Room
Room Hire $20+GST per hour
The Pania room is great for fun activities for both physical and mental wellbeing including singing, yoga, courses, and sit dancing. The room is also hired out to community groups and business organisations for meetings and workshops.
The Pania Room and the Kate Shepard room can be opened up together to make one large space.
According to local Maori legend, Pania, often styled ‘Pania of the Reef’ is the kaitiaki (guardian/protector) of the reef and her wairua is connected strongly to the Napier ocean. Legend has it that Pania was a shimmering and iridescently beautiful maiden who lives in the sea and following a human encounter and a broken heart, she lingers there under the waves still. Erected in 1954 on Napier’s Marine Parade, the statue ‘Pania of the Reef’ is a major local tourist attraction and one of Napier’s best-known symbols., often styled “Pania of the Reef”, is a figure of Maori mythology, and a symbol of the New Zealand city of Napier.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
Ruth Lovell – Smith Room
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2-8
With couches and armchairs, the Ruth Lovell-Smith Room is ideal for small, meetings, mediation, group counselling, and supervision sessions. Opening out onto the garden area it is a very comfortable room that is also ideal for support groups. In the past it has also been used for small style support groups, a knitting circle, numerology and a writers group etc.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
Ruth Lovell-Smith (1884-1963) was identified with nearly every club or society in Hastings and at the forefront of many women’s issues in town. An active member of the Womens Christian Temperance Movement she was involved in positive lobbying and advocating to the Hastings Mayor and Councillors in the early 1890s to support the construction of the Hastings Women’s Rest. Due to the dedication, tenacity, generosity, and foresight of Ruth Lovell-Smith and other significant local women the Hastings Women’s Rest in which we are situated was opened in 1921. Ruth Lovell-Smith’s strong voice allowed other women to speak up in support of its construction.
Mrs Garnett Room
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2-8
This room is ideal for counselling, small meetings, and supervision sessions. We are also offering this room as a rentable office space in a move to become more sustainable.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
In the early 1900s the land that the Hastings Women’s Rest is sited on was bought by the Hastings Council from Mrs Hannah Garnett. The sale was conditional on the Hasting’s Mothers’ Rest being built there. Mrs Garnett also donated £750.00 of the purchase money to go towards building the Hastings Women’s Rest. Given that it was estimated that the building would cost £2000, this was a very significant donation. The Hastings Women’s Rest was opened in 1921 as the first building in Australasia that was purpose built to address the needs of women and was a matter of pride for the whole district.
Anne Marie O’Sullivan Room
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2-6
The Anne-Marie O’Sullivan Room is a private and comfortable therapy space. Including a massage table, it is ideal for those providing therapeutic massage and treatments as well as other counselling and therapeutic supports.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
Nursery
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2-6
Filled with toys, books, puzzles, blocks and activities the Nursery is a wonderful space to host activities for babies and children such as playgroups, mother’s coffee groups, toddlers’ group or lactation support services.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
Camelia Room
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2
Situated in the counselling area of the Heretaunga Women’s Centre, the Camelia Room is private and comfortable. The Camelia Room is ideal for counselling appointments, supervision sessions, and one on one appointments and meetings.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.
Magnolia Room
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2 – 3
Situated in the counselling area of the Heretaunga Women’s Centre, the Magnolia Room is private and comfortable. The Magnolia Room is ideal for counselling appointments, supervision sessions, interviews, and one on one appointments and meetings.
Rose Room
Room Hire $15+GST per hour
Holds 2 – 3
Situated in the counselling area of the Heretaunga Women’s Centre, the Rose Room is private and comfortable. The Rose Room is ideal for counselling appointments, supervision sessions, interviews, and one on one appointments and meetings.
Hireage includes the use of the staff kitchen and tea and coffee making facilities are available. We’re happy to provide tea and coffee but we do ask hirers bring their own milk.