What's New

  Our New Home The Community Foundation is very pleased to announce that it is moving to a new home, here in Mirboo North. We have taken on a lease of 96 Ridgway, formerly the In-line Café, and should move in by the end of August.   While there is some…

    The Baromi Centre Story   Margaret Peters, member of the Community Foundation and Secretary of the Mirboo North Senior Citizens Centre Inc gives us the background. The building now known as the Baromi Centre was built and opened in 1977. From its opening it has been a Shire…

MNSC Year 9 Showcase   Community Foundations are key community enablers on many different levels, and one advantage is their ability to bringing funding into new territory, where new, innovative and somewhat unproven ideas can bring benefit to the community.   The MNSC Year 9 Showcase is one such project. The…

  Have you got your Boomerang Bag? After a gentle start, Boomerang Bags Mirboo North has developed into a hive of activity. The arrival of screen-printing equipment, the abolition of single-use plastic bags from the Mirboo North IGA, and then a recent family tragedy on the far side of the…

 Boolarra Bell Harp On a beautifully sunny morning towards the end of April, I was pleased to attend the opening of the Bell Harp Musical Sculpture in Boolarra. The Mirboo North & District Community Foundation collaborated with the Mirboo North & District Community Bank in funding this project, with both…

 The Mirboo North Swimming Pool Fund As the redevelopment of the Mirboo North Swimming Pool edges closer, with SGSC including $3.8M of capital expenditure in its proposed budget for 2018, the Community Foundation is pleased to announce its collaboration with the Friends of the Mirboo North Swimming Pool (‘Friends of…

     Let’s take our District’s ‘Vital Signs’  Vital Signs is a framework developed by the Community Foundations of Canada and used world-wide to take the ‘pulse’ of communities and measure their vitality in key quality of life areas. Vital Signs uses credible data, local knowledge and expertise to gain…

  Reducing Harm from Alcohol & Gambling in Mirboo North   Earlier this month, South Gippsland Shire Council (‘SGSC’) hosted a forum in Mirboo North to hear the voice of the community on the issue of Reducing Harm from Alcohol and Gambling. A small group of interested community members attended…

MNSC – Community Leadership Forum 2018   One element of the Year 9 Community Breakout program at Mirboo North Secondary College is the Community Leadership Forum. The aim of this Forum, organised by Rebecca Woodall, Year 9 Breakout Co-ordinator, is to expose the Year 9 students to the why and…

Boolarra BMX Track – Official Opening   We have featured the Boolarra BMX track project before in this newsletter, highlighting it as a fantastic example of a community giving its time and energy to develop a space for their young people. Well, the final pieces of the puzzle came together…

Men’s Shed Health and Wellbeing Event   A very successful Men’s Shed event was held at Lang Lang Memorial Hall on Tuesday 17 April, which saw almost 100 shedders, partners and community members come together to discuss health and wellbeing. The day was promoted as “Looking after self, looking after…

Communities in Control 2018 Our Community is Australia’s Centre of Excellence for the nation’s 600,000 not-for-profits organisations. It provides advice, easy to use tech tools, resources and training for people and organisations working to build stronger communities. Each year Our Community holds a two day annual conference called Communities in…