What’s On
Read through our collection of articles about Lalor Neighbourhood House’s News, Events and New Programs
Final Thursday Community Lunch for the year!
It has been so lovely to have Helen and Faye back at the centre providing delicious community lunches every Thursday including the food pantry with the support of St Vincent de Paul and Second Bite produce. You are welcome to join us! 12 noon Thursday 15 December to...
Christmas Lunch to say thank you to all our Volunteers!
Looking forward to celebrating the year with all our wonderful volunteers and committee members. Please consider joining us from 12 noon on Tuesday 13 December for great food and fun activities! RSVP via manager@lalorllc.vic.edu.au or call us on 9465 6409
Celebrating International Volunteer Week! Thank you Ildiko & Zaheda!
Lalor Neighbourhood House has a growing number of wonderful volunteers joining our programs. We particular want to say thank you to Zaheda Dayoub who has joined the centre over the last few months and is helping to set up better systems for our volunteers and has...
Pop-up Vaccination clinic Monday 5 December
Time to get that next Vaccine update? Why not drop into Lalor to see the DPV Health Nurse for your next vaccine to keep up to date and stay healthy.
Join us! New Community Development Position available!
- We are excited to announce that we looking for an experienced Community Development Coordinator for a new 2 day a week 12 month position starting in mid-January 2023 to help coordinate our fabulous new Lalor Refresh Project! The Lalor Refresh Project Coordinator...
Counselling now available at Lalor!
TELL ME YOUR STORY A Counsellor for our Community Benita Murray is a Therapy Counsellor and will be at the Centre each week on Mondays from 11 to 3 for sessions on any topic you need to unpack within your life. We will unpack your thoughts together and work on...
Delicious home cooked community lunches are back!
It was great to see a good crowd of people attending our community lunch this week! Our incredible cook, Helen, serves up a wonderful meal, sometimes, created with vegetables from her own garden and Halal meat or fish! Served up every Thursday from 11.30 am onwards....
Thanks for contributing to our AGM!
We had a lovely AGM on Monday 17 October with some wonderful reflections from the executive and great presentations from Bronwyn Halfpenny, MP for Thomastown, and from Carmela Garcia who has taught with LLLC for 24 years. Carmela gave a lovely historical perspective...
Living Local Suburban Grant Success!
We are so excited to announce that we have been awarded a Victorian Government Living Local Suburban Grant which will enable us to transform the Lalor Living & Learning Centre and surrounds into a beautiful arts and permaculture precinct! It is exciting times...
New Craft Group starts this week
Bring your unfinished or new projects and share your skills, or learn a new one! - Our group meets every Wednesday from 2pm - Everyone of all abilities and craft talents is welcome - All craft projects are welcome, no matter the size or scale! - Tea and coffee is...
Sustainability Victoria Grant awarded to LLLC
We are very excited to announce that we have been awarded a Circular Economy Grant from Sustainability Victoria! it is for our Lalor Interactive Arts, Permaculture and Waste Reduction Precinct Project, known as 'Lalor Refresh' for short! The project will include:...
Wednesday Morning Art Classes are so popular!
Ildiko and Atalia’s art class is so popular that the participants didn’t want to break for the school holidays! And their art skills are blossoming as a result! The group meet from 9.30 to 11am on Wednesdays. Just $30 to cover art materials – so why not think about joining us!
Calling for a Volunteer Art teacher – After school Thursdays 3.30-5pm
if you have a passion for art and enjoy working with children, we'd love to hear from you. We have lots of students keen to join the art class - so we are ready to start when you are! As a volunteer, you will need to have a Working With Children Check and crim...
Get support to contribute to the Disability Royal Commission
North East Citizen Advocacy provides free support to anyone who would like to make a submission to the Disability Royal Commission. By making a submission, you can help to prevent the mistreatment of people with disabilities by giving them a voice and an opportunity...
AGM: 11am – 12pm Monday 17th October
Please join us for our Annual General Meeting on Monday 17 October at 11am – 12 noon. Please RSVP via the Eventbrite link here. We hope to see you in person here at 47A French St, Lalor. A delicious morning tea will be on offer! Members, please check your emails...
Occasional Childcare Garden activities!
Transforming our outdoor areas for the children! Wonderful outcomes thanks to a grant from Andrew Giles MP's office and particularly our Melbourne Polytechnic community services students in partnership with our Childcare team and the Community Facilitation course...
New Craft Exchange Group starting in Term 4
Do you have a craft you'd love to teach others, or is there something you would like to learn! Or just bring your knitting or craft materials along and enjoy some company and cuppa while you create together. We are thinking of meeting around 2pm on Wednesdays from 19...
Grupo Della Amicizia
Since May this year, a wonderful group of Italian speaking women (and some men, sometimes) have been meeting over coffee, to play games, share stories and memories and simply enjoy each other's company. And now the program will include a monthly Italian luncheon!...
Fabulous afternoon with Zara Al Hasany
We have a wonderful group of people who form our Committee of Governance. Zara Al Hasany is a great member of the committee and a highly skilled community facilitator - so we were very grateful that she volunteered her time to run a fabulous communication and...
Wonderful visit from Andrew Giles
We had a lovely visit from Andrew Giles, the Federal Member for Scullin and Minister for Immigration last Thursday. It was a wonderful afternoon where members of our Italian Social group, LLLC committee members and our tertiary students were all able to join with...
We welcome your ideas – 2 min survey
TEll us what you'd like to see happening at our centre by following this link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/MZSJHPP
What a great Adult Learners’ Week we had!
Huge thanks to our teachers, Sheryl, Mahe, Carmela, Shruti and Paula who created two wonderful events for Adult Learner's week! Tuesday was great fun with a round robin of fun English learning activities and on Wednesday our art teachers Ildiko and Atalia who ran some...
Help us transform Lalor Living & Learning Centre
Free coffee, snacks and kids activities plus fun ways to tell us what you think we need to change, improve, start at Lalor Living & Learning Centre to better meet the needs of the community. Hope to see you there! Drop in for a few minutes between 2pm and 4pm...
Murals, community gardens, outdoor seating, outdoor play? You tell us!
Wednesday 14 September - any time between 2-4pm. Drop in for a few minutes for a FREE real coffee or a cup of tea and a snack and tell us what you would like to see changed around the Lalor Living & learning Centre. Things we are dreaming of include: Community...