How fun!

Alphington Football Club is planning a dazzling end of season fireworks display.

There will be open air movies for the kids along with food - including BBQ, crepes and a bar. If you and your family would like to join in the fun you can click here to purchase tickets.

The ticket includes a double bill open-air family movie, hotdog and drink.

Timing:

• 5pm kids soccer ⚽️ movie

• 8pm fireworks 💥

• 8.15pm teenage soccer ⚽️ movie.

All proceeds go towards covering the community pyrotechnics display.

Last week Melbourne Farmers Market was awarded the national ‘Outstanding Farmers Market Community Initiative’ for work tackling food security in Melbourne.

This initiative is a credit to the Moving Feast partnership.

In lockdown when farmers were struggling to sell produce in the downturn of hospitality and, at the same time so many vulnerable Victorians were without fresh food, MFM connected the dots.

Since then they have sourced almost 50 tonnes of local, seasonal, high-quality food to share with partners DIVRS (Darebin Information Volunteer Resource Service), Cultivating Community and STREAT who work directly with people in need in the City of Darebin, Yarra and Melbourne.

They also set about growing more food at Alphington Community Food Hub to share with vulnerable communities into the future - the boxes along the Yarana Road perimeter are managed by DIVRS and STREAT as part of a ‘grow it forward’ project - where the community grows and shares with others.

Super hey? Aren’t we lucky to have such great community initiatives incubated in our neighbourhood!

Hi Kalimna here. Last weekend I attended the wonderful slow stitch workshop and was so pleased to take some photos while soaking in the calm vibe whilst learning all about this relaxing and creative process.

I was totally inspired by Serene’s personal style. She showed us some really cool things she had transformed with her creative slow stitching. And her overall artistic flair is infectious.

Did you know that Serene is also hosting monthly visible mending gatherings here at the Alphington Community Centre?

They are on the first Saturday of each month in September, October and November from 10am-11:30am.

You can book a place here.

It is $15 to attend. Bring along your project and work on mending your items beautifully with the help and guidance of Serene and enjoy the company of other like-minded creative repairers.

We received an email from Sean from the Department of Justice and Community Safety looking for people who would be interested in becoming Justices of the Peace (JPs) across the City of Yarra local government area.

He noted,

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These highly-respected volunteer roles play an important role in the Justice system and provide a valuable authorised witnessing service to all members of the community.

We’re inviting people to register for a one-hour information session that provides detail about the role and an opportunity to meet staff from the Honorary Justice Services support team.

Those interested can register for one of four session dates at this link.

Over the last year the Darebin Neighbourhood House Network (us, Bridge Darebin, Jika, PRACE, Reservoir and SPAN) has been working together on a climate action and resilience plan.

It has been a super process to go through and we’ve all learnt a lot.

The hard copy documents are available here for your reading pleasure and there’s also a little animation Lee made explaining all about it. It is pretty gorgeous.

DHNHN Climate Action and Resilience Plan