We have a few spots available in our book clubs for next year if you are interested in joining one!

Please note that the first meetings for our book clubs will be in February - and our office is closed until the first week of February - so if you join up now we will get your paperwork and you will get a spot - but Kalimna wont be processing the paperwork or getting in touch until she is back at her desk.

Our book clubs are a partnership with Darebin Libraries and are a great way to meet a lovely cross section of people from the local community.

It costs $60 a year to join. You can book in online here.

We hope to see lots of happy and familiar faces at the Christmas Lunch on Friday 9th of December here at 12pm. We’ll be having a traditional buffet lunch of cold cuts and salads - a visit from Santa - and we’ll be sitting outside in the garden enjoying all the hard work our gardeners have undertaken recently.

If you participate in our regular activities like book clubs, line dancing, ukulele or playgroups or use our book libraries or garden you are very welcome to join us. It would be lovely to celebrate the end of the year together.

All are welcome. We just ask for you to RSVP by email so we can cater for the right number of people.

Thank you to all the lovely stall holders that brought their fantastic items for sale last Saturday.

We hope you all enjoyed the atmosphere and the great food, face painting and kids craft on offer.

Here are some lovey photos of the day!

We are in the process of entering all the Toy Library members into our new online borrowing system and as part of the process you will be sent an email asking you to confirm your email address.

If you don’t receive this email and are an active member can you please email us? As we don’t want to miss anyone as we transfer from the current system to the new online borrowing one. Many thanks!

Thanks to everyone who came along and did their Christmas shopping on Saturday at our Makers’ Market. And thanks to those that volunteered (Hazel, Elaine, Marie-Louise and Kevin). It was a great day! Once again Kalimna took some lovely photos and we post some of them this week when she is in the office.

And in the meantime … we have two more events coming up to round out the year:

1. Christmas Lunch - join us on Friday 9 December at 12.30pm for lunch in the garden. It will be yum and fun! You can RSVP here.

2. Christmas Carols - on again at the Alphington Bowls Club at 7pm on Sunday 18 December. School will be finished and so it will be a perfect night to bring the family along and join the Alphingtones Choir to sing ALL THE FAVOURITES! Bring along a gold coin to donate to charity.

Do you like our updated Christmas Tree? This year we’ve kept the community drawings and added some red paint and some gorgeous pink and red pompoms. To bring some Christmas cheer to the street.