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More than five years ago, Clunes Neighbourhood House partnered with the State Government to undertake research to find out what issues...

As Wendy’s family slowly recovered from COVID, she worried not only about the long-term physical effects on her family, but also about...

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...

If you get COVID, fingers crossed your symptoms are mild enough to stay at home. Chances are as vaccination levels rise keeping...

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)...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Having the right attitude to age well isn’t something you should leave to chance. In Clunes, a group of community members came together...

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,...

Deep breaths, a chance to stretch, a quick first aid refresher before summer, prizes and a Christmas gift. What better way to spend a...

Do you love decorating your house for Christmas? Or perhaps your letterbox, or even your front gate? Get into the spirit of Christmas...

The experience - and lines - that come with age were celebrated last night in a sneak preview of the COVID-inspired Laughter Lines...

Do you remember the excitement of opening a door on your advent calendar as a child? This Christmas, through our partnerships, we are...

Human-centred design thinking is a mouthful. But it’s a mouthful worth getting your head around because it ‘s a way of thinking that is...

This Thursday, 19th November from 10am til 12 noon in Clunes we'll be holding our second free Wellbeing Day. Run in partnership with...