We are so grateful for the support of the local community.

And we love donations … but we do ask for you to check in with us that we need them first - just give us a call 📞 or drop them off when we are on site for a chat, 9am-3.30pm Monday to Friday.

At the moment we’re very keen on:

• stocking our mini op shop - so if you have a few quality household items looking for a new home, think of us!

• plants - we’ve got some new beds to plant out so if you are refreshing your garden for autumn think of us! We like usable things … herbs, small fruit trees, lovely cut flowers, hardy low maintenance things that will survive a lack of love over summer etc.

• 8ply+ wool for our knitters.

Looking forward to seeing you soon. And thanks.

Coming up on the weekend … don’t forget! A great Mothers Day experience. Yummy food supporting a fabulous group of women who do so much for our local community.

We always love a primary school fair. How exciting (a what a great sign!). Add this to your diary!

Hi everyone, just a reminder that ANZAC Day is this coming Thursday … and we will be taking a long weekend … eg. not here on Thursday or Friday. We’ll see you back the following week ready for our AAA Bowls, AAA Art and Clare’s art classes to begin.

And … don’t forget the dawn service at Alphington Park on ANZAC Day … followed by tea and toast at the Alphington Bowls Club - for anyone interested. Check back in our posts from a couple of weeks ago for the details.

Darebin City Council is collaborating with Seniors Rights Victoria and Housing for the Aged Action Group on the Warm Safe Home Project.

The project is a mechanism to build awareness of elder abuse, and will be showcased at Preston Library in early June, for World Elder Abuse Awareness Day that takes place on June 15th each year.

The project asks people in the community to decorate a small house and talk about what it means to them to have a warm safe home.

If you are feeling creative and/or would like to help build awareness of this important issue, you can collect a cardboard house from us. Drop it back once you’ve finished. We’ll then pass the completed houses back to our Council colleagues for them to include in the exhibition.

Note, we should have the kits ready by the end of Monday!