HIRL’s free community Open Day

DEVONSHIRE teas, tours of the Bandicoot enclosure and a vast display of arts and crafts will be part of HIRL’s Open Day for the community on Sunday April 16 from 11am-4pm. Venue manager Sharon Lawton and president Terry Fitzgerald look forward to showing the public around HIRL and everything the unique facility has to offer. Photo: GLENN GUY.

By Lizzie Hallam

April 06, 2023 | 11:00 AM

HIRL’s doors and its beautiful grounds will be open for free to showcase all the regular organisations and activities it hosts, for a single day on Sunday, April 16, from 11am - 4pm,

Set on ten acres of meticulously manicured ecologically sensitive gardens, what began as the Hamilton Institute of Rural Learning (HIRL) Inc., has now been rebranded as simply HIRL (not an acronym) and the community is invited to experience everything the unique facility has to offer.