Ian,
I'm local if you need any help. I think its safe for me to say I'm pretty active in the RepRap community and been working on the project as a whole for a few years coming. I held the first US RepRap build workshops (check me out @ digifabindustries.blogspot.com).
(In case you see my post elsewhere and it is eerily the same, I am not a spammer or a ROBOT, I am a real human!)
But yeah, I am always down for helping local RepRappers or creating new ones. So feel free to contact me.
- Anderson Ta