Heritage Central Otago

Digital imaging, collecting, and preservation workshop
2026-01-28 09:30 - 16:00 (Pacific/Auckland) | Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery, Alexandra
Cromwell Museum and Central Stories Museum and Art Gallery have coordinated a digitisation workshop for museum/galleries. This will be useful for any organisations or teams that are actively or wanting to start digitising objects, photographs, artworks etc.
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Cromwell Funding Clinic
2026-02-18 11:30 - 12:30 | Central Lakes Trust, 190 Waenga Drive, Cromwell
Funding Clinics by Central Lakes Trust
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Alexandra Funding Clinic
2026-02-18 17:00 - 18:00 | Alexandra Community House, 14/20 Centennial Avenue,, Alexandra, 9320
Funding Clinic by Central Lakes Trust
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Finance 101 for Non-Profit Board Members
2026-03-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Alexandra Community House, 14/20 Centennial Avenue,, Alexandra, 9320
A practical workshop designed for local community groups and hosted by Georgie McLean from ICL Chartered Accountants and Carole Gillions from huddl and Alexandra Community House. In this session, we’ll cover:

How to read and interpret key financial statements, including profit and loss reports, balance sheets and cash flow summaries.
What are your responsibilities as a committee or board member when it comes to the finances, and what good oversight looks like.
What are some questions board members should be asking management teams or the treasurer.

This workshop is for non-profit board and committee members who want to feel more confident asking the right questions so they can contribute to financial discussions at the board table and fulfil their financial governance responsibilities. Ideal for new board members, volunteer-led organisations, or anyone wanting a refresher on the financial side of governance.
Date: Wednesday 11 March
Time: 5.30pm – 7pm
Price: Free
Where: Alexandra Community House, 14/20 Centennial Avenue, Alexandra
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HERITAGE TALKS: From Britain to the Goldfields: Wallpaper and the Making of Home in Gold Rush Otago
2026-04-09 18:30 - 20:00 | Clyde Museum, 4 Blyth St, Clyde, 9330, New Zealand
Join Dr Eva Forster-Garbutt, Area Manager for the Otago Southland regional office at Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga, as she unpacks the fascinating story of wallpaper during the goldfields era drawn from her recently completed PhD thesis.
During Otago’s gold rush in the 1860s, thousands of people poured into the region hoping to make their fortunes. Along with miners came merchants and a surprising variety of goods – including wallpaper.
This talk explores the story of wallpaper in gold rush Otago and the role it played in shaping the trade in wallpaper and the interiors of homes, hotels and businesses. Drawing on newspaper advertisements, historic photographs and surviving wallpaper fragments, it reveals the styles available in the 1860s and the trade networks that brought them here from Britain, often via Melbourne. It offers a glimpse into how people created comfort, style and a sense of home in the rapidly growing towns of gold rush Otago.
Image: Dunedin paperhanging shop, 1864. Courtesy of Toitū Settlers Museum
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