GIVING your time and talent to be a part of a community group or sporting club brings you together with your ‘tribe’ (face-to-face or online if it’s project volunteering), helps you hone skills and confidence you can use for employment or offers you a chance to have an active retirement and social life.
INTERNATIONAL Volunteer Day is held annually on
December 5 to raise awareness of the important role
volunteers play in responding to challenges facing the world.
Our forests are fundamental to water and food security, as well as the habitat and protection of our eco-system. Logging and mining mean pollution and greater risk of flood and fire.
SINCE Covid changed the way we live our lives, getting involved in your community through volunteering is no longer as straight forward as it once was.
A free discussion is on the menu as the Goldfields Library Corporation's Woodend Library hosts 'The Memory Place: Kitchens and cooking in days of old tomorrow, November 24.
Central Highlands Rural Health is calling for more volunteers to help deliver Meals on Wheels and allow older residents to live in their homes for longer.
Hepburn Shire Council is inviting the community to come forward with any bright ideas or insights to help increase affordable housing across the shire.
Federal Member for Ballarat, Catherine King, has visited the Midlands Golf and Bowls Club to inspect their newly updated bowling green, made possible through a Stronger Communities Grant
The state government has moved to help businesses across the state to avoid waste and create new commercial opportunities for recycled products, creating new local jobs and industries.
