The Venny is threatened with significant change, please sign if you think this is not a good idea without talking to the community. There's a meeting on the 11th at 6:30pm at Kensington town hall I'd like to take the signatures to it.

'After a 37 year tenure of The Venny will end, that is it will no longer be a community managed and run organisation and the Venny as we know it will close. The positive is that the place will continue to be open, but none of the existing relationships will continue, they will be severed, and the yard and experiences had there will be subject to very different regulations.'

Background

It is seldom that I come to a building that not only makes me think ‘yup, tick, they have all the environmental aspects right’, but think ‘wow this place sings’. I get emotional about the Venny and do every year when I take my students there. It isn’t living building certified, it isn't Green Star … BUT… boy does it live. The Venny is a staffed communal backyard and adventure playground facility located in Kensington, Melbourne. This project was built to support the local high density, low socioeconomic neighbourhood, with a communal backyard and child support services. The Venny has been designed to make use of its context and life off the income of its site, as such it produces surplus energy and water, it is designed with passive lighting, heating and cooling strategies and it is made of recycled shipping containers. https://living-future.org.au/2013/09/buildings-make-world-better-place-venny/