Community News
Extreme Hardship Support Program Information Session
Financial Support for people who cannot access commonwealth income support.
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VicRoads Learner Permit Test Online (LPTO)
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City of Kingston Community Bike Education Program
Bike Education offered to all the community:
• Simple and effective training for both children and adults new to the world of cycling.
• Riding as a family and wanting to gain confidence to ride safety alongside adults on shared footpaths, trails and roads.
• Require update on the road rules and riding in traffic.
• Senior bike group riding focus traffic techniques and hazards.
• Bike maintenance and bike checks.
Session Includes:
• Interactive bike exercises.
• Promoting safe riding behaviour and habits.• Bike checks and suggestions.
• Review of the road rules.
• How to get ongoing support.•
The program can be tailored to any ability and is offered to all. For more information on the Community Bike Education Program please contact michelle.galileos@kingston.vic.gov.au
Scholarship
Laptops
In 2020, the This is ‘IT’ initiative was born, in an attempt to equalise access to education across the South East region of Melbourne. Now in 2023, with the assistance of very generous donors, the initiative has expanded into the Bayside and Peninsula regions. The initiative aimed to offer scholarships to local students, in the form of laptops.
In this day and age, laptops are a required learning tool for all students, not having access to one severely impacts a student’s learning and the subsequent opportunities they will have to access further education, training and employment.
Students from your child’s school have been identified among more than 1,000 students across the region, as recipients of a laptop, as a scholarship in 2023. These scholarships are reflective of the dedication to education these students are demonstrating, and the belief their school has in their ability to succeed at school.
The laptops provided to students from Westall Secondary College were donated by the City of Kingston.
This is ‘IT’ was been established by local business people wanting to have a positive impact on the education of young people. Founders of this initiative are:
- Todd Hartley - Hilton Manufacturing
- Simon Whiteley - Corex Plastics Australia
- Tyrone Landsman - Future Recycling
- Sandra George - South East Business Networks (City of Greater Dandenong)
- Andrew Simmons - South East LLEN
If you would like to know more about this initiative, or have laptops sitting on shelves in your office, that you would like to donate to a worthy cause, please contact Andrew Simmons, CEO at South East LLEN and co-founder at This Is IT, via email asimmons@sellen.org.auor phone
mobile 0488003036.
National Sorry Day Friday 26th May
Every year on 26th of May, National Sorry Day remembers and acknowledges the mistreatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who were forcibly removed from their families and communities, which we now know as 'The Stolen Generation'
To mark this occasion Derrimut Weelam Gathering Place invites you to our Sorry Day Event. Guest will take part in an introduction to Native Plants and Bushfood Workshop, run by Your Green Prescription.
All guests will receive a native plant to take home.
Time: 11am to 2:30pm
When: Friday 26th May
Where: Westall Community Hub 35 Fairbank Road, Clayton South
This event is open to Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people. RSVP to be made via
email to Kalie: Kalie.Kent@Kingston.vic.gov.au
Play your Way
Family Fun Activity at Keeley Park.
When: Sunday 28th May
Time: 11am - 1pm
Free Face Painting
Free Popcorn
GERRIC for Gifted Students Program
Bulls (Noble Park) Juniors Football Club
The Bulls (Noble Park) Juniors FC hs been operating as a local football club nearly 60 years. They are looking for boys and girls aged 11, 12 and 13 years to join the club. They have no club fees and are asking that students consider joining the club to be part of a team. Refer to flier for information.
Mazenod Football Club
Mazenod FC is actively striving to create a Female Football program to run parallel to our long-running male football department.
At present, we have FIVE female teams with room to grow. As such, we have places available to fill our Under 13 and Under 15 GIrls teams, who will play in the Football Victoria metropolitan competitions this season.
With the FIFA Womens Football World Cup due on our shores this year, we would like to see the number of female footballers grow, not only for us but for the nation in general.
