Growing Winchelsea News
Blooming Roses
The roses on Winchelsea Railway Platform have received a new lease of life with a much needed prune.
August Community Market
Winchelsea Community Marke, Sunday 4th August 2024, 9am-1pm at the former Winchelsea Shire Hall in the town centre.
Train Station Face-lift
Over the coming months our train station will continue its facelift with further beautification
underway.
Our Kids Futures Deserve Better Facilities
Growing Winchelsea, together with interested parents, has started a journey to help tackle the challenges our children face at our school today.
Community meet Council
Over 30 community members met Mayor Liz Pattison, Surf Coast Shire CEO Robyn Seymour, Cr Adrian Schonfelder with senior staff Chris Pike, Damian Waight and Darryn Chiller to hear about recent developments in Winchelsea.
Riverside Amphitheatre
A stepped grass amphitheatre with flat steps suitable for market stalls, picnics and other uses combined with an enlarged covered deck space which doubles as a stage was identified as an important project in Growing Winchelsea – Shaping Future Growth 2015 strategy.
Council on board
All aboard was the call on Tuesday 11 June 2024 when Surf Coast Shire Mayor Liz Pattison, CEO Robyn Seymour, Cr Adrian Schonfelder with senior staff Chris Pike, Damian Waight and Darryn Chiller joined John Tebbutt and committee members of Growing Winchelsea together with Tony Phelps Chairman of Community House on the Bendigo Community Bus for a tour of the town.
Our Chatty Corellas
On Tuesday 11 June 2024 at the Growing Winchelsea community forum, there was lively chatter
about one of our most pressing issues – corellas.
Community Forum on Winchelsea Primary School
On Thursday 23 May 2024 representatives of Growing Winchelsea Inc attended a community forum
about the dire position of the Winchelsea Primary School
Community Forum with Surf Coast Shire
On Tuesday 11 June 2024 Mayor Liz Pattison, fellow Councillors, CEO Robyn Seymour and senior
staff will visit Winchelsea hosted by Growing Winchelsea Inc
Forum – Winchelsea School future
This will be of interest to our carers in the community.
Caring for Carers
This will be of interest to our carers in the community.
General Meeting Recap – 9 April 2024
Presentation about CORA, project updates, and call for more helpers
Movie Club – Crazy Rich Asians
Growing Winchelsea Movie Club Movie - Crazy Rich Asians 16 May 2024This contemporary romantic comedy based on a global bestseller follows native New Yorker Rachel Chu to Singapore to meet her boyfriend's family.10 screenings annually for $70 (Concession $65)5 Autumn...
A Teddy Bears Picnic
Why not come to the Winchelsea Community market on Sunday 7 April 2024 and have fun at our own Teddy Bears Picnic.
Urban Futures Strategy & Planning Scheme Review – Key Findings
An Engagement Summary Report has been prepared which provides details of key engagement activities undertaken and a summary of engagement findings for the Urban Futures Strategy and Planning Scheme Review 2023
General Meeting, Apr.2024
A general community meeting by Growing Winchelsea Inc, open to all, for April 2024 – featuring a CORA presentation.
Winchelsea mural complete
Linking community organisations allows collaboration and enables positive local development.
Movie Club – Leave No Trace
Growing Winchelsea Movie Club Movie - Leave No Trace 21 March 2024A father and his seventeen-year-old daughter are living an ideal existence in a vast urban park in Portland, Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever.10 screenings annually for $70...
Fostering community links
Linking community organisations allows collaboration and enables positive local development.
Movie Club – Dream Horse
Growing Winchelsea Movie Club Movie - Dream Horse 8 February 2024 7:30pmWinchelsea Shire HallDream Alliance is an unlikely race horse bred by small-town Welsh bartender Jan Vokes. With no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help...
New Winchelsea IGA site – planning application
There’s a proposal for a development in Anderson Street to create eight small shops plus 46 parking spaces & planting of trees on a 3,000 sq.m block.
Movie Club – The Terminal
Growing Winchelsea Movie Club Movie - The Terminal 14 December 2023Viktor Navorski is a man without a country; his plane took off just as a coup d'etat exploded in his homeland, leaving it in shambles, and now he's stranded at Kennedy Airport, where he's holding a...
Movie Club – The Wife
Growing Winchelsea Movie Club Movie - The Wife 16 November 2023A wife questions her life choices as she travels to Stockholm with her husband, where he is slated to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.10 screenings annually for $70 (Concession $65)5 Autumn or...