Our Toy Library is transitioning to an online booking system thanks to some Inner North Foundation funding.

We’re nearly there, and to complete the process we request that all borrowed toys be returned to the centre so they can be logged in the new system.

We hope our new online library (which will be up and running as soon as we’re open in 2023) will be a vast improvement and will better enable our community to access all the wonderful toys we have here at ACC.

AOS is on again for another year. Why not pop in to the studios this coming weekend?

Our annual Christmas Makers Market is coming up on Saturday 26th of November from 11am-2pm. It’s on the election day … always such a wonderful neighbourhood day with everyone wandering the streets, and we hope that on your way to or from voting at Fairfield PS or Alphington PS you will drop by and take a look at all the wonderful stalls of local makers that will be lining the footpath out the front of ACC and pop in to enjoy the salon exhibition inside our centre - part of the Alphington Open Studios weekend.

We are hoping for great weather (fingers crossed) and for lots of locals to come out and support this lovely community day (and our local makers).

And … we are looking for some lovely volunteers to help us out on the day with either our craft stall or food stall. We always appreciate our long standing volunteers who regularly help us out on these days; but it is also great to have some new and friendly faces to lend a hand.

So if you have an hour or two free on Saturday 26th of November between 11am-2pm and would like to do something neighbourhoodly … then send us an email.

It would be great if you could nominate a time and what you might like to help out with. The more the merrier.

Thank you!

Time flies when you are having fun!

We’re now putting together the program at ACC for next year and as always, we are interested in your ideas.

If you have a skill you’d like to share through a weekend workshop or through a regular activity please let us know (eg. our Visible Mending Club runs monthly thanks to Serene offering to share her skills).

If you have been to a course or program somewhere else that you think would be super for our community please let us know (eg. it was thanks to recommendation that we met Gordon who now runs our Sewing Machine and Overlocker Maintenance workshops annually ).

Just email info@alphington.org.au or give us a call on 9499 7227 and we can talk about how to make it happen!

And as a taster … new things on our radar for next year include:

• Movie Club - once a month on Tuesday afternoons we’ll head over to Westgarth Cinema on the train to watch a film together.

• Podcasting 101 - a short ACFE course (we have funding to support this program thanks to RCLC - our lovely neighbourhood house colleagues in Richmond)

If you are interested in joining in these new activities just look out for our new program that will provide details of how to register. It should be out by early December …

Lovely to see local events like the Fairfield Primary School art show starting again after the Covid hiatus.

I (Leanne) made some stools for them to auction off (even though my kids aren’t there anymore) and added a bit of spruiking of our lovely community centre into the event in the banter that went with the auction!

Hope you went along … aren’t we lucky to live in a such a great creative community.