RANUI COMMUNITY HOUSE
474 SWANSON RD, RANUI
WAITAKERE CITY

Check out Ranui’s newest cafe - “The Tea tree”

Open Monday – Friday

10.30 To 2.30pm

The Ranui Community House has a management committee of nine local people including Linda Cooper as the Waitakere City Council representative. The office is open from 9.00am to 4.30pm.  The coordinator of the house is Lippy Chalmers, and her assistant is Kim Williams.
In January 2009 the “Tea Tree” café opened at the house. The café opens from 10.30am to 2.30pm each week day and is managed by Melody Shinnick, who is assisted by Gerda Grasmane.  Melody also spends time in working in the office each day until 4.30pm.

The Ranui Community House provides people with the opportunities to interact and participate in and experience a mix of social, educational, cultural or recreational activities. Rooms are made available for hire for local community meetings, groups and classes.

Please visit us and let us know if there is anything you would like to see here that we are not already offering.

A little History:

In 1974 a small group of like-minded people formed a committee and took on the task of getting the Ranui Community House up and running. They were there for the community.  They did fundraising, existed as a meeting place and held a few classes.  These people had a strong sense of ownership of their small community house.
The Ranui Community House became an Incorporated Society in 1978 and thereafter became bound by the legal structures associated with all societies.
Also in 1988 as part of its strategic plan, the Waitakere City Council took on the central control of the Ranui Community House. It was at this point that the management committee were instructed to employ a coordinator, the wages for which would be funded through Council’s Annual Plan. The coordinator would be accountable to the Committee.

In 1994 the original House at 4 Ranui Station Rd, Ranui was given over the Cook Island group. A much larger relocated building (the old Post Office building from Te Atatu South) was placed on a new, more easily accessible site at 474 Swanson Rd, Ranui.

When the library was built on to the community house there was initially some sharing of the large hall, but this lost in 2005.
When the new library is built, we all look forward to this space being at our disposal again, plus the rest of the space that is currently being used by the library.

Ranui is a vibrant community. Our community house is “bursting at the seams” with great classes, meeting places and learning groups.  Please come and add to the fun – join us.