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Our English students love their teacher so much!

Our English students love their teacher so much!

If the huge pile of thank you boxes of chocolates, wonderful food and the number of selfie requests, say anything, it's we love our English teachers. Sheryl is featured here, surrounded by her students. Carmela and Mahe complete the English teaching team that offers...

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Even the men are helping to cook our community lunches!

Even the men are helping to cook our community lunches!

Our Community Lunch is going from strength to strength with over 40 families collecting food relief packages each week and many staying on for lunch! On this occasion, the men who often wait outside, offered to cook lunch. They created a delicious salad, chicken,...

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The Lalor Creative Hub is up and running!

The Lalor Creative Hub is up and running!

Our amazing new social enterprise, the Lalor Creative Hub is up and running and kicking amazing goals! We have held two market stalls so far, one in partnership with Mernda Neighbourhood House, where our Lalor Creative Hub team sold nearly $1000 worth of goods! We...

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Bushra just cannot help herself!

Bushra just cannot help herself!

After completing all the wonderful murals, garden polls, Laneway bubbles and curating the multicultural panels, we commissioned Bushra Hasan to paint some corflutes to attach around the fences of the childcare area to brighten up the space and make it more playful....

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Wonderful AGM held 23 October!

 Thank you for joining us! More than 50 of us attended the AGM on Wednesday and enjoyed celebrating all the incredible achievements of 2023/2024. It was lovely to hear from Keir Patterson, the CEO of Neighbourhood House Victoria, who told his story of recovery from...

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Lalor Creative Hub attends its first Market!

Lalor Creative Hub attends its first Market!

Our new Social Enterprise, the Lalor Creative Hub, held its first market at the Mernda Neighbourhood House Market with great success. The team brought together a fabulous range of products and sold over $1000 worth of goods! So wonderful, and they all had so much fun...

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You’re Invited to our AGM Wed 23 Oct 12 noon

I am sure those who attended our AGM last year, really enjoyed the day!  And hasn’t that time come around again so fast! We have a lovely line up of guest speakers and a delicious light lunch planned, so we look forward to you joining us. Come and join a tour of our...

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Three awards for our Homework Club!

It was such a privilege to attend the Homework Club Awards run by the Centre for Multicultural Youth (CMY)! In 2023 we were shortlisted for the Outstanding Newcomer section achieving a Highly Commended accolade. In 2024, we nominated for three Awards and were...

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RUOK day took over our Community Lunch!

What a great day we had last week to acknowledge RUOK day. Hala Attalla Saba organised a fabulous day with a Halal Sausage sizzle, music, drums, dance and beautiful Greek, Middle Eastern and Italian displays around the building. We also distributed 29 food packages,...

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Fun times at our community lunch – all welcome!

 Our community lunch keeps growing and getting better every week. With more volunteers helping with the food distribution packages and cooking delicious meals. We also now offer sewing classes and craft activities before and after the lunch, and there is just so much...

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Horticulture course starts Monday 7 October 10am-1pm

Join our horticultural class and learn about composting, growing vegetables and get tips to develop that green thumb!  And while you're at it, come try out our new seats! Finally installed to complete our garden project. By summer, they should have green shade on the...

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We’ve made the front page!

We’ve made the front page!

 Great to see Bushra, our wonderful Community Artist, in front of our wonderful mural on St Luke's wall on the front page of Star Weekly. It is part of a bigger project of transforming the Lalor Neighbourhood House and laneway, thanks to two grants from Victorian...

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We are the World – Lalor Version!

We are the World – Lalor Version!

       ‘We are the World- Lalor’  We know we have already shared this, but this is our final best version of our gorgeous film clip, which we hope you will share with all your networks far and wide!  Let’s put Lalor on the Map! Biggest thank you to...

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What a fabulous celebration!

What a fabulous celebration!

       The sun shone, the crowds came, the food was amazing and the singing sublime! What a wonderful way to celebrate the completion of our Lalor Refresh Project!  So many people to thank! Bushra Hasan made it all happen! And then a long list of...

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We are hiring! Join our wonderful & fun team!

Join the incredible team at Lalor Neighbourhood House and be part of our new Lalor Creative Hub - Social Enterprise and Lalor Refresh Project. See all the roles below - all two year fixed term contracts! Applications due Monday 27 May. Our new Lalor Refresh Project...

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