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.

Our Toy Library is transitioning to an online booking system thanks to some Inner North Foundation funding.

We’re nearly there, and to complete the process we request that all borrowed toys be returned to the centre so they can be logged in the new system.

We hope our new online library (which will be up and running as soon as we’re open in 2023) will be a vast improvement and will better enable our community to access all the wonderful toys we have here at ACC.

AOS is on again for another year. Why not pop in to the studios this coming weekend?

Our annual Christmas Makers Market is coming up on Saturday 26th of November from 11am-2pm. It’s on the election day … always such a wonderful neighbourhood day with everyone wandering the streets, and we hope that on your way to or from voting at Fairfield PS or Alphington PS you will drop by and take a look at all the wonderful stalls of local makers that will be lining the footpath out the front of ACC and pop in to enjoy the salon exhibition inside our centre - part of the Alphington Open Studios weekend.

We are hoping for great weather (fingers crossed) and for lots of locals to come out and support this lovely community day (and our local makers).

And … we are looking for some lovely volunteers to help us out on the day with either our craft stall or food stall. We always appreciate our long standing volunteers who regularly help us out on these days; but it is also great to have some new and friendly faces to lend a hand.

So if you have an hour or two free on Saturday 26th of November between 11am-2pm and would like to do something neighbourhoodly … then send us an email.

It would be great if you could nominate a time and what you might like to help out with. The more the merrier.

Thank you!