Strategy & Hub Blueprint ›
Five pillars, three phases, one wheel.
Adopted by the membership in 2023; reviewed every two years. The full document lives in the volunteer library; this is the public-facing summary.
Where this came from
A strategy written in member meetings, not in a boardroom.
This strategy was drafted across nine member meetings and four working-group sessions in 2023, then ratified at the September AGM. It has been revised once (2025) to add the Living Nature programme as a sub-pillar of Environment.
It is deliberately short. The five pillars are stated below — every working group reports up to one of them. The three-phase blueprint that follows is what we are doing about it, and when.
Compiled by the strategy working group, ratified by the membership at the AGM, reviewed every two years. Last review: September 2025.
The five pillars
Everything we do answers to one of these.
Adopted by the membership in 2023; reviewed every two years. Each pillar maps to a working group; each working group reports up to one pillar.
01
Tourism & visitor welcome
One door, one map, one familiar voice. Information that's actually current, from people who live here.
Pillar 01
02
Arts & handmakers
A working shopfront for local makers — fair margins, plain pricing, no exclusivity clauses, ever.
Pillar 02
03
Heritage & story
The wheel, the river, the township — recorded honestly, including the parts that are uncomfortable.
Pillar 03
04
Environment & place
Living-nature programmes, sustainability targets, and Landcare partnerships up and down the valley.
Pillar 04
05
Community & gathering
The reason any of the others matter. Markets, screenings, working bees, a kettle that's always on.
Pillar 05
The blueprint · 2024 – 2030
Useful, then durable, then ours.
Three phases of two years each. The committee reviews progress against each phase at the AGM and publishes a one-page audit alongside the annual report.
Make it useful.
Get the doors open seven days, the wheel turning, the makers stocked, and the volunteer roster on a stable cadence. The version of the Hub that feels like a working, dependable place.
Outcome we'll know we've hit it: 96+ active volunteers, 60+ stocked makers, A$400k+ returned to makers, audited annual report.
Make it durable.
Move from "it works because Mara is on the desk" to "it works because the systems hold." Roster software, induction kit, working-group cadence, sustainability targets, formal partnerships with Council and the catchment group.
Outcome: any working group can run a season without the chair on call; finance has 12 months' runway audited.
Make it ours.
Title acquired or renewed for 25 years; the building heritage-listed; the wheel mechanics group passing the trade to the next generation; the visitor numbers stable in a way that doesn't hollow the village.
Outcome: a Hub that the next chair inherits as a finished thing, not a project — a place that has earned its long second century.
“A strategy is a thing we tell ourselves so the working bee on Saturday makes sense.”
— Mara Jensen, AGM minutes, September 2023.
The full document
Read the Hub Blueprint, page by page.
Fifteen pages of the strategy in full — use the arrows to paginate through, or download the PDF below.
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