After a lovely school holiday break we are raring to go and have started welcoming back all our programs this week.

We look forward to seeing you for 2023.

We’ve got lots of new things coming up, along with the old favourites. Keen to join in? You can find our latest program on our website here.

Hi everyone, we are running a bit late this year - but we do finally have our new brochure out into the interwebs … and the universe!

Highlights in the first term include:

• the Alphington Show and Dog Show on Saturday 25 March (save the date and start your craft/food projects)

• a series of Jamming (and Preserving) workshops through February and March to make the most of local fruit trees and build up some items to sell for fundraising for ACC

In the second term we’re running a series of workshops including:

• Podcasting 101 over 4 weeks

• Indian cooking over 3 weeks

• Recycled Timber Design with Jane, and

• Pillow Talk with Annie.

Also … movie club on Tuesday afternoon once a month (we’ll head down to Westgarth Cinema - fun!).

You can check it all out here or visit our home page. You can also book in via our website. Not everything is up for booking into yet … but we hope it will be in the next few days!

Are you keen to join our Women in the Shed program for 2023? We’re now taking bookings for Term 1 and Term 2. Just head to our website here to book in.

It is a wonderful 6 week program that runs on Thursdays for 6 weeks. In the course you will be introduced to all the basic tools in a shed and will get to practise using them across a series of projects.

So … you’ll finish the course with a whole lot of new skills, loads of confidence and some lovely creations.

Women in the Shed is run by Maylei Hunt and is a really popular program. So if you are interested to join up you should book in sooner rather than later! If you miss out on a place, please email us at info@alphington.org.au and we will be able to add you to the waiting list.

We have a few spots available in our book clubs for next year if you are interested in joining one!

Please note that the first meetings for our book clubs will be in February - and our office is closed until the first week of February - so if you join up now we will get your paperwork and you will get a spot - but Kalimna wont be processing the paperwork or getting in touch until she is back at her desk.

Our book clubs are a partnership with Darebin Libraries and are a great way to meet a lovely cross section of people from the local community.

It costs $60 a year to join. You can book in online here.

We hope to see lots of happy and familiar faces at the Christmas Lunch on Friday 9th of December here at 12pm. We’ll be having a traditional buffet lunch of cold cuts and salads - a visit from Santa - and we’ll be sitting outside in the garden enjoying all the hard work our gardeners have undertaken recently.

If you participate in our regular activities like book clubs, line dancing, ukulele or playgroups or use our book libraries or garden you are very welcome to join us. It would be lovely to celebrate the end of the year together.

All are welcome. We just ask for you to RSVP by email so we can cater for the right number of people.