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Please contact our Learning Centre team for venue hire

Learning Centre coordinator: Rebecca Urie

or email: learningcentre@mooramoora.org.au

mail:
The Learning Centre Co-ordinator
Moora Moora Cooperative Community
PO Box 214
Healesville VIC 3777
AUSTRALIA

Workshop and Accommodation:
Spaces For Hire

Running a retreat or workshop? Looking for relaxed spaces in beautiful natural surrounds? Like the appeal of running an event on renewal energy? Or on land protected by a Trust for Nature Covenant? …. We might be just what you’re looking for!

We hire our spaces to groups who share our values. We love hosting people working for positive change, whether that’s through community action, creative practice, relationship skills, or personal learning and growth. In the past this has included groups focused on climate activism, deep ecology, group dynamics/ conflict management skills, dance, women’s choirs and wild butchering… to name just a few! If you’re not sure if you’re a good fit, please reach out for a chat with us. 

In summer there is a spring fed swimming hole, lyrebirds and wombats a plenty. Enjoy loads of space for camping, outside bbq’s or pizzas in our pizza ovens on our deck watching the sunset over the Yarra Valley and Melbourne beyond. 

In winter come cozy up in our large comfortable lounge by the woodfires, have misty mountain walks on our lands protected by covenant… and still see plenty of wombats and lyrebirds!

Want to know more? Read on for more specifics:

We have a range of options to consider. 

The Lodge

Our main building is called the Lodge. Amenities include: 

  • Sleeping space for up to 24 people. Simple backpacker style accommodation. Downstairs rooms have queen and single beds, upstairs with a mix of bunk or single beds. 
  • Ramp access and disabled bathroom and toilet. 
  • WIFI
  • Council registered kitchen (community kitchen category) well equipped to cook for big groups. Gas and electric ovens, generous bench spaces, 2 fridges, electric urn, plenty of pots, pans, crockery and cutlery. 
  • Lounge room with comfortable seating, wood fire, TV with HDMI connection, piano, and split system heating/cooling.
  • Dining room comfortably seating 40 people, wood fire, split system heating/cooling and large whiteboard
  • Small meeting room with dining table and chairs
  • Three toilets and three showers 
  • Advanced first aid equipment including EpiPens. 
  • Firebunker

The Octagon

The Octagon is a lovely building well suited to workshops and groups. It is a flexible space that works well for sit down meals, sitting in circle on lounges/cushions, or for movement workshops (yoga, dance etc). Octagon shaped with a diameter of 14 metres. 

Amenities include: 

  • Lounges, folding tables and chairs. 
  • Whiteboard
  • Ping pong table
  • WIFI connection and has set up screen, speakers, microphones etc for video meetings
  • Projector screen
  • Wood fire and split system heating/cooling
  • Deck with views of the Yarra Valley and Melbourne CBD and 2 gas pizza ovens
  • Simple kitchen 
  • Toilet
Solar workshops
Sustainability learning
Community living

Bushfire Cancellations

Moora Moora is located in a bushfire-prone area. In hot weather – typically December to March – the area may be subject to levels of fire warnings and restrictions such as total fire bans. Under very severe and dangerous conditions we may be required to evacuate all visitors from the property and mountain. We expect all visitors to respect and obey the relevant fire restrictions or rules that are in place at the time. If your group is affected by these arrangements, we will refund the appropriate expenses.