Neighbourhood News April/May 2017

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1 Neighbourhood News April/May 2017 Courses and activities for May see p.4 CONTENTS WHAT S THIS? SEE PAGE 6 2 WINTER WOOLLIES FESTIVAL 3 NATIONAL VOLUNTEERS WEEK 4 COURSES AND ACTIVITIES 5 SCHOOL HOLIDAYS 6 ARTY STUFF Can you come for lunch? Bring your family & friends. Everybody welcome! COMMUNITY LUNCH 15 MAY 2017 Stawell Neighbourhood House is inviting The Community Lunch is a great way to people to come along and enjoy a meet community members, catch up with delicious, 2-course community lunch at the old friends and find out what s going on. It s Powerhouse on 15 May from 12pm - a place to welcome new people so if you 1.30pm. This will be the 4 th lunch SNH has are new to town, please drop in and hosted in collaboration with Stawell Food introduce yourself. You will be made Connect. The program began in 2016 with welcome! Come and enjoy a healthy lunches on 4 May 2016, 20 July 2016 and 8 nourishing lunch for just a gold coin December They have proven to be donation! We would also like to hear from very popular with the Stawell community, you if would like to help on the day call with around 80 guests at each lunch. Jenny Greenberger on

2 WINTER WOOLLIES FESTIVAL 7, 8, 9 JULY 2017 Powerhouse, 42 Sloane St Stawell Friday 4-6pm Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday 10am-4pm Entry to show: gold coin You re invited to create hats, gloves, mittens, toys, baby clothes, scarves, leggings, spun wool, rugs and socks to sell. Entries close 30 June. 25% commission will be retained from all sales. Item entry is free. Entry forms can be downloaded from The Stawell Winter Woollies Festival is an annual event in Stawell that celebrates anything to do with wool. We had our inaugural event in 2014 and received the 2016 Community Event of the Year Award on Australia Day 2016, presented to us by the Northern Grampians Shire Council. The Festival relies heavily on the kind and caring support of the community as well as the hardworking band of volunteers, with many of them donating knitted goods and many hours of time to help with the setting up of this massive community event. The top 10 best selling items at the 2016 Festival were beanies, scarves, toys, handspun wool, garments, socks, mittens, rugs, cowls. Funds raise will be shared between Eventide Homes Aged Care and Stawell Neighbourhood House. If you would like to volunteer your time for the festival, contact Cherelle Nicholson on or her at chernic16@gmail.com If you need some inspiration for your woolly creations, particularly beanies, have a look at the Alice Springs Beanie Festival web page Or, if you are just starting out with beanie making have a look at this Craftsy blog which has some great tips and free patterns for the beginner hat knitter at-knitting/ Or, if you really want to immerse yourself in one big woolly community join the Ravelry mob at 2

3 NATIONAL VOLUNTEER WEEK 8-14 MAY 2017 National Volunteer Week is an annual celebration to acknowledge the generous contribution of our nation s volunteers. From 8-14 May 2017 thousands of events across the country will be held to say thank you to the 6 million Australians who volunteer. Stawell Neighbourhood House will host an afternoon tea on Wednesday 10 May to thank our volunteers. In 2016, 20 people volunteered at SNH in an average week. This equates to an average of 40 volunteer hours per week. (Information from Neighbourhood Houses Survey 2016). Statewide statistics from the 2015 Neighbourhood Houses Survey reflect similar commitment from volunteers at Neighbourhood Houses around Victoria: Numbers of people volunteering has increased by 24% since In 2015, 6207 people volunteered at a Neighbourhood House each week (2014: 5,513). This is an average of more than 16.5 volunteers per Neighbourhood House (2014: 14 people). The estimated cash value of this voluntary contribution sector-wide is over $22.6 million per year, up by $1.2 million from 2014 and $2.1 million from In Victoria 3,020 people served on Neighbourhood House governance committees. The average committee had 7.8 members. You can read the full 2015 Neighbourhood Houses Survey online at SNH VITAL STATISTICS 2016 Participation: In 2016 approximately 175 people used SNH in an average week. 147 of these participated in programmed activities in an average week. Programs and Activities: In 2016 SNH delivered 759 different program/activity sessions SNH ran 6 community events in 2016 with a total of 1640 attendees and 30 volunteers SNH provided 4 hours of outreach to other location/s in an average week SNH was open 40 hrs per week to the public for 50 weeks of the year in 2017 In an average month, SNH works in partnership with 8 organisations on a regular basis? Did You Know? Rural or regional communities host approximately 50% of Victorian Neighbourhood Houses. In 2015 a record 181,700 people visited Neighbourhood Houses each week in Victoria. This is an increase of 8.2% on 2014 participation rates. 3

4 COURSES AND ACTIVITIES FOR MAY There has been very good attendance at some of our ACCREDITED HOSPITALITY COURSES run by Heather in May: 11 attended the Responsible Service of Alcohol (RSA) on Tuesday 2 May 7 attended the Use Hygienic Practices for Food Safety on 1 May Due to the high demand Heather will be back later in the month to run: Sunday 28 May pm Hygienic Practices for Food Safety a prerequisite for Food Supervisors Course. $110 Monday 29 May 9.00am 5.00pm Participate in Safe Food Handling Practices (Food Safety Supervisor) $130 MORE ACCREDITED COURSES: Now starting Monday 22 May Provide First Aide next course Monday 29 May 9am 2.30pm $170 CPR next course Monday 29 May 9am 12 noon Responsible Service of Gaming (RSG) no date at present maybe offered in semester 2 please put your name down if interested. 4

5 April School Holidays There s always lots of fun and learning for all ages at SNH during the school holidays Chub Suit Challenge and Water Skirmish were hot favourites this time. 5

6 Neighbourhood News April/May 2017 Trompe-l oeil Have you seen the Wonderland mural painted by our own Bev Isaac and her partner Peter Voice (from the Chalk Circle Gallery)?. On what was once a bare ugly wall behind the Lillies and Lattes café (yes that s it on the cover of this newsletter), there is now a playful and interactive 3D artwork celebrating Stawell s relationship to the Grampians National Park. Take a photo of your friends walking the Wonderland trail. Wildlife Art Exhibition Chalk Circle together with WAMA will host an exciting art exhibition of works by - Liz Cogley and Vida Pearson. The exhibition will open on Saturday, 13th May between 2.00m pm. at the CHALK CIRCLE GALLERY, UPPER MAIN ST STAWELL. Join us if you can for this exciting regional event. 42 Sloane St, Stawell, 3380 Phone: office@snhlc.com.au Web: OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday 9.00am to 5.00pm