Winter Updates at ALoT - August 2023
Kia Ora ALoTers,
We hope you're keeping warm and dry this winter, and finding opportunities to do some DIY and get stuck in to your gardens.
We have exciting news! Waitemata Local Board have given us a $3000 grant to spend on new tools, and we need our members to help us choose! We've complied a poll to vote on commonly requested items:
We'll be tallying the votes on the 19th of August, so watch this space for some shiny new tools and equipment!
Thank you to everyone who submited photos of their lovely DIYs to go in the chance to win $20 ALoT credit. You're all winners in our hearts of course, but Victoria won the $20 credit with this great folding table DIY.
We'll be making this a regular thing, so please send us photos of your DIYs, garden transformations, or even your dogs looking cute with our tools for
the chance to win a $20 credit on your account!
To enter, send us photos of our shared tools in action on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, or if you prefer, email us. The ALoTery winner will be announced at the end of August. If you've already sent photos in since our last competition (end of May), you're already in the draw!
This is a friendly reminder from your librarians to please check and clean your tools before returning. Especially lawnmowers, vacumn cleaners, paint tools and chainsaws. Thank you!
ALoT Volunteer Night & General Business Meeting
Sunday 6th August 5.30 - 8.30pm
5.30pm - 7.30pm Come help us tidy the library, organise, catalog and maintain our inventory, and connect with other ALoTers.
7.30pm - 8.30pm We'll have a quick general business meeting and some
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Come be a part of the action! Please RSVP and let us know any dietary requirements by Sunday 4pm, via email aucklandlibraryoftools@gmail.com
Interested in volunteering but don't want to be a librarian?
We are looking for some keen people to help us fill these roles on our team:
Tool Maintenance & Repairs
Tool Inventory & Purchasing
Marketing & Comms
Funding & Grants
And we librarian roles available too of course! Please get in touch with us if you'd like to volunteer. Volunteers get a free membership and free loans.
Volunteers Wanted for our first ever ALoT Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Fundraiser!
We are having a sausage sizzle fundraiser at Bunnings Grey Lynn, Saturday 19th August. We need people to chop onions, butter bread, cook sausages (vegetarian & meat) and take orders and cash.
Please sign up here to help out.
New and interesting items at ALoT:
Tools Wanted:
We are always on the lookout for new items, or duplicates of popular items. Here's our current list:
Line Trimmers/Weed Whackers
Sanders
Pocket Hole Jig
Video Tape Player
Metal Detector
Staple Guns
Biscuit Joiner
Fabric Rotary Cutter and Mat
Projector
Bike Repair Stand
Laminator
Tillers & Forks
Gift vouchers available
Gift an Auckland Library of Tools annual membership to your loved ones. We have two options available:
Digital voucher - available online by credit card only.
Physical voucher - available from the Tool Library during opening hours by cash or bank transfer.
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