It’s National Volunteer Week, and the Yarra Neighbourhood House Network held a lovely shared event at Fitzroy Learning Network on Saturday to thank a range of volunteers across our network and enable them to come together and meet each other. Even in our own house, sometimes our volunteers don’t cross paths, so it is lovely to have an occasion to catch up.

We were thrilled that 10 volunteers from ACC could come along, from our committee members to knitters and jam makers to people who help each week to run our AAA Arts program and gardening group etc. etc. We really couldn’t run all the things we do without wonderful support from people like Shirley who runs line dancing, Phil who offers computer support, Sarah who sets up the toy library, all the people who put their hand up to coordinate the book clubs, ukulele, choir etc, And then there are the cooks and crafters and makers … people who help out at our events, and our lovely committee. Also the wonderful partners at the Alphington Bowls Club, who help out regularly with our AAA Bowls program and the CWA ladies who are cooking our morning teas for us … The list goes on (and I hope I haven’t missed you in this quick summary).

Here is a lovely photo of Clare at the event! And some of the great food …

These photos were taken by Tony who runs Carlton Neighbourhood Learning Centre, but Kalimna took lots of photos too, so I will share them next week.