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- Dec 16, 2021
- 3 min
Value of Neighbourhood Houses
Did you know that the Neighbourhood Houses in Hepburn Shire Council deliver more than eight times the impact that they are funded to...
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- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
Clunes Health Finalists
The health benefits that result from community-based activities are well understood in Clunes and the value of initiatives demonstrating...
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- Dec 1, 2021
- 1 min
Let your Light/s Shine!
Do you love decorating your house for Christmas? Or perhaps your letterbox, or even your front gate? Get into the spirit of Christmas...
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- Nov 5, 2021
- 3 min
From Little Things, Big Things Grow
More than five years ago, Clunes Neighbourhood House partnered with the State Government to undertake research to find out what issues...
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- Oct 8, 2021
- 3 min
Kindness the cure for the social stigma of COVID/Series
As Wendy’s family slowly recovered from COVID, she worried not only about the long-term physical effects on her family, but also about...
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- Oct 7, 2021
- 4 min
Every Little Bit Helps/Series
We all know that having people to lean on is important. But how easy is it to build a solid social support network around yourself? And...
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- Oct 6, 2021
- 4 min
Managing COVID at Home/Series
If you get COVID, fingers crossed your symptoms are mild enough to stay at home. Chances are as vaccination levels rise keeping...
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- Oct 5, 2021
- 4 min
Living with (and surviving) COVID/Series
Catching COVID is not something any of us set out to do. But one day it might happen, and how well we survive that will depend (in part)...
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- Oct 4, 2021
- 3 min
Living with COVID/Series
More than a year of our lives have been spent learning behaviours that aim to keep COVID at zero. Unfortunately now, COVID is no longer...
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- Aug 31, 2021
- 3 min
It's Beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
Actually it’s not. Not yet anyway. But it is time to start talking about planning Christmas in Clunes. We don't have a snow globe to...
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- Aug 24, 2021
- 2 min
Christmas. Something to Look Forward to.
Making plans during a pandemic sucks. You can try to put a positive spin on it or use the word ‘pivot’ prodigiously, but sucks has a...
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- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
Reason to Celebrate
There’s nothing like a lockdown (even one hopefully coming to an end) to put you on a downer, but sometimes you have to reframe what...
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- Jul 19, 2021
- 2 min
Older Adults Leaders in Innovation
Flip your thinking. Imagine if we lived in a world where we thought of old age as a period of time when older adults could do more - and...
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- Jul 3, 2021
- 2 min
Volunteering connects you
Connecting with community the way we did in the past is harder than it once was. Reaching out to groups to say you want to volunteer is...
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- Feb 5, 2021
- 2 min
What the 'lingo' Translates Into?
Community engagement might as well be a buzz word. Unless you work in that area everyday it doesn't necessarily have a lot of relevance...
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- Feb 1, 2021
- 2 min
Leaving Nothing to Chance
Having the right attitude to age well isn’t something you should leave to chance. In Clunes, a group of community members came together...
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- Dec 18, 2020
- 2 min
Christmas Lights - Winners!!!!
This year it's taken a bit for all of us to get our heads around Christmas. But that hasn't stopped people pulling out the tinsel,...
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- Dec 10, 2020
- 1 min
Wellbeing Christmas Cheer
Deep breaths, a chance to stretch, a quick first aid refresher before summer, prizes and a Christmas gift. What better way to spend a...
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- Dec 4, 2020
- 1 min
Let your Light/s Shine!
Do you love decorating your house for Christmas? Or perhaps your letterbox, or even your front gate? Get into the spirit of Christmas...
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