Brown Hill Directory Edition 3, Part 2 - Community, Activity and Sporting Groups August 2020 A Brown Hill Progress Association project brownhill.vic.au Who is who in Directory History A project of the Brown Hill Brown Hill? Progress Association, the Brown Hill Community Newsletter, Welcome to the third Brown Hill Directory and Online Hub creates Directory, Part 2 - Community, The Brown Hill Progress a sense of belonging for our Activity and Sporting Groups! Association Inc. (BHPA) is a not- community. Local residents feel for-profit volunteer group whose Inside, you will find contact connected, heard and up-to-date aim is to promote the economic, details for our local groups, those with news, events and activities. social and cultural development which are either based in (or very They find out about the lives of and progress of the community of close to) Brown Hill. people living in Brown Hill, both Ballarat as a whole and of Brown current and historical and learn This is a project of the Brown Hill Hill in particular. The BHPA meets about our beautiful local Progress Association and our the first Tuesday of each month at environment. The project was an intention is to provide residents 7.00 pm in the Brown Hill Hall, 375 initiative of the Brown Hill with a handy guide to help you get Humffray Street North. Everyone Engaging Communities Program, involved with and support our is welcome and encouraged to run by the City of Ballarat, which local groups. attend. brought together local service, Thanks to Caledonian Primary Volunteer opportunities sporting, education and activity School, Brown Hill and Juliana Volunteering is highly associated with groups to invest in improvements Addison MP for their support greater health and happiness. for our community. With an initial through advertising, allowing us Volunteering Victoria (2018) grant from this program, the first to print this edition. newsletter was printed and There are many ways in which Thanks to volunteers Andrew delivered to every property in you can volunteer your time, skills Johnson and Sarah Greenwood- Brown Hill in May 2016. It was a and energy to support the Brown Smith who contacted every group hit! Advertising by local Hill Progress Association (BHPA). to ensure details are up-to-date. businesses started in Edition 7 and Our very successful and well-liked the newsletter has been We hope you keep this Brown Hill community newsletter has grown financially self-sufficient since Directory, Part 2 - Community, in four years from six to over then, publishing six editions each Activity and Sporting Groups as a twenty pages. It is a big job to put year. A team of 20 volunteers handy guide. Please get in touch if it all together. You can help by: hand-deliver over 2650 you have any feedback or updates. newsletters to residents and local * Sourcing articles Sarah, Andrew, Brian, Geoff, businesses and over 1000 people * Interviewing local people and Andrea, Kelsie, Ellie, Sally, Peter also receive it online. Our local businesses and Hazen. directory for business, community * Turning interviews into articles and sporting/activity groups has Brown Hill Community Newsletter, * Taking photographs also been printed and delivered Directory and Community Online Hub * Editing articles three times. All of the information team, Brown Hill Progress Association * Proof-reading articles is kept up to date on the Brown [email protected] * Seeking advertising Hill Online Community Hub. Contact the BHPA. Call our * Contacting local businesses to Secretary Brendan on 5334 8014 check and update contact details brownhill.vic.au/newsletter/ (evenings only) 0409 018 867 on the Community Online Hub. 1 brownhill.vic.au We acknowledge the Wadawurrung Community people and their ancestors who Community have been custodians of the Art Alcoholics Anonymous Ballarat area for thousands of 1300 222 222 years performing age old cultural Ballarat Society of Artists 7:30pm Wednesdays in the Brown ceremonies, celebrations and Contact: Membership Secretary Hill Uniting Church Hall traditions. [email protected] We would like to acknowledge the PO Box 1328, Ballarat Mail Centre, Ballarat Community Garden Ballarat Aboriginal community, 3354 Contact: Sheilagh Kentish many of whom were forcibly ballaratartists.asn.au 0417 347 395 removed from their families during Find us on Facebook [email protected] the Stolen Generations decades and Corner Queen Street and Dytes brought to Ballarat. 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