Brainfood Conference 2013

Jenny, Julie, Anne, Joh and I attended the Brainfood Conference last week. There were a smaller number of participants than usual and it made for a more intimate group and many stories were shared. We heard about the hardships faced by other communities as 'times are tough' everywhere. We had the opportunity to give feedback to the ACFE board about what would help.

Julie and Joh shared with a workshop the things we do at the Traralgon Neighbourhood House to keep our people coming back. We let them know how we only start a course if someone requests to either learn something or teach something and that way we know at least someone is interested;-).

This is the clip they made to show the kinds of things we do to stay interesting to our community:

 

Some of you are in it:). I know I feature in it. I loved the time out and put on quite an entertaining show at the dinner. Have a look at our facebook page photos to see some of the things I got up to!

Jenny and Joh shared a story about how we have drawn on our community support to overcome problems this last 12 months and they won a sewing machine from the lovely man from Toyota - which came just in time for the Red Cross ladies to use on Saturday morning! Don't you love it when that happens.

We really appreciated the enthusiasm and support from our friends in community education. Our crowd funding project received a donation from Springvale Neighbourhood House. At the end of the conference the Brainfood people also made a donation towards our project.

If you haven't had a chance to put your pledge in, click here now - http://www.pozible.com/vrihall only 13 days to go!

PS: Our Committee of Management will henceforth be known as a Board of Governance!