Newtown Community & Cultural Centre

You can find us on the corner of Rintoul & Colombo Sts, Newtown, Wellington. Phone us on (04) 389 4786.

Nau Mai, Haere Mai! Welcome to the Newtown Community & Cultural Centre

The Newtown Community and Cultural Centre was established in 1977. The centre is located on the corner of Colombo and Rintoul Streets, just opposite the old Salvation Army Family Store. Its central location in the heart of Newtown makes it the perfect venue for the wide range of classes, activities and events we have on offer. Check out the ‘Weekly Timetable’ section of this website for more info!

Need to hire a venue?
The Community Centre has a theatre, a dance hall, and meeting rooms available for casual or regular hire at competitive rates. We also manage the Newtown Hall on Daniell St (opposite the Mediterranean Food Warehouse), with full kitchen and bathroom facilities, this stand-alone hall is the ideal venue for classes, meetings, and your next special event.

Our core premise (The Community Centre, located on Colombo street) is getting an upgrade - this does mean we're likely to be closed for a year from early May 2020! To find out more information please check out the "Our Town, Newtown" tab on our website!

What's going on in Newtown? Keen to keep up to date about what's taking place at the Community Centre, as well as out and about in Newtown (and slightly beyond)...? We send out fortnightly emails to give you all the goss!

Yoga for the Newtown Community!
Love getting your downward facing dog on, but don’t really love shelling out 15 bucks a time to do it? Come along to the community centre’s community exercise classes, where qualified and experienced tutors lead you through yoga sessions all for koha or $2 a pop!

Newtown Hall (on Daniell St):
Tuesdays 6.00 - 7.00pm (koha)
Wednesdays 7.00 - 8.00pm (koha)
Thursdays 6.00-7.00pm (koha) As of Jan 2020 this class is not currently running

Newtown Community Centre (Colombo St):

Monday 6.45 - 8.00pm (koha)
Tuesday 10.00 - 11.15am Babies welcome! Free cup of chai afterwards! $2
Wednesday 10.00-11.00 (koha)
Thursdays 10.00 - 11.15am Free cup of chai afterwards! $2
Sundays 9.30-10.45am (koha)

Classes are open to all levels, and some mats are provided for those who don't have their own.

Please note that Tuesday's 10am class at the Community Centre is a baby friendly class - this means that parents/caregivers needing to bring their baby along with them are welcome to do so.

For news and updates on these community yoga classes, visit facebook and like the Koha Yoga Newtown page.

Click the links to find out more! We also suggest checking out our weekly timetable here. Or you can email or call us on 04-3894786

Soup Group - Free Soup Fridays:
In response to the City Mission being closed on a Friday, we run a 'pop up' soup kitchen with support from awesome volunteers and the wider community. You're invited to enjoy some kai and connection with your community.

Wash Against Waste: Wash Against Waste is a resource containing cutlery, crockery & cloth napkins that can be hired for $5 by the public to reduce single-use products at events, thereby reducing waste to landfill. Save money and the earth. Win/win!

Boomerang Bags: Boomerang Bags Newtown is all about getting rid of plastic bags in Newtown by upcycling waste fabric destined for the landfill into reusable shopping bags for everyone. Join us for our fortnightly sewing bee, Thursdays 5.30pm-7.30pm

Quick Kai: The Quick Kai freezer is always stocked with healthy ready to “heat and eat” meals made for and by the community, in the community! Anyone that needs or wants one can purchase at only $2 a pop! (This is a winter special price - subject to change).

Wellington Timebank: Time banking is the trading of skills within a community, using time rather than money (ie. I walk your dog, earning me a 'time credit' and then I 'spend' my time credit getting Sarah to help me with my fence. Sarah then spends the time credit she's earned to get Mary to babysit her kids. And so on..)

Newtown Tool Library:
"Access over ownership"! The Newtown Tool Library is a lending library for tools of all kinds. Members can check out tools free of charge and can borrow them for up to a week. The library serves many people, reducing the environmental impact that results in everyone owning their own rarely used tools. Tools are maintained and safe to use and the necessary safety gear and training to use the tools is provided.

The Newtown News: We publish a monthly newsletter jam-packed full of newsy goodness for Newtown and it's delivered to homes around Newtown.

You can grab your free copy from one of our sponsor businesses:
Peoples Coffee, Baobab Cafe and The Ramenshop.

If you want to contribute contact ellie@newtowncommunity.org.nz

Newtown Youth Program me:
We hire two awesome youthworkers to deliver opportunities and programmes for young people in Newtown. We are currently running a survey so that we can hear what the young people of Newtown want. This will help inform our programmes moving forward. You can score a $50 prezzy card if you're between 10-17years of age (you live in Berhampore/Newtown) and are keen to spend 10minutes filling it out!

Smart Newtown: Smart Newtown provides free internet and computer training to people who may not have access to computers or the internet.

A huge thanks to our generous funders!