Tag: Community Planning
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Find Out How to Contribute to Dereel Community Planning
Community Planning is the name given to a program where the Golden Plains Shire allocates funds to Dereel as a township, and the community decides how it is spent. This money is not given to any particular group. Interested community members can volunteer to be part of the Community Planning group, where projects are determined…
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Have Your Say while Enjoying Barista-Made Coffee
Dereel is about to begin a new 3 year Community Planning cycle. At Hub Cafe, open between 2pm and 4pm at the Dereel Soldier’s Memorial Hall, 14 Swamp Road, Dereel, we will have forms you can complete to tell us your opinions. What is Community Planning? The idea behind Community Planning is that money spent…
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Look What We’ve Done!
Our 2016 to 2019 community plan was created by local people by holding community discussions and interviews to work out what local people wanted to do. The Community Plan was funded by the Golden Plains Shire (via the Community Planning grant) and Dereel locals worked together to form a plan and carry it out. Now,…
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Community Planning Project Update
We are halfway through the three year Community Planning period, so it is time to look at the projects which are close to completion and those about to commence. If you live in Dereel or immediate surrounding areas, we welcome you to a project update guided by Nicole Langtip, Community Planning Facilitator. Date: Monday 16th…
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Draft Dereel Map
Community planning projects are continuing to bear fruit. Pam Bailey has been working with Mick Cosgriff from Golden Plains Shire to update the Golden Plains Shire map of Dereel. The image below shows the general look and feel of the map, and the headings standard for Golden Plains Shire maps. Pam is also working on a…
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Community Planning and DCHI General Meeting
If you enjoyed the recent Summer BBQ in the Dereel Reserve and would like to be more involved with the Dereel community, we would love to see you at our meeting tonight. The meeting starts at 7:30pm in the Dereel Community Centre kitchen. Everyone is welcome, and there is no need to be a member…
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Facilitated Community Planning Meeting
Golden Plains Shire has now transferred $7500.00 to the Dereel community, for projects considered important by the Dereel community. The SEED funding is allocated to the entire community, not to a specific group within Dereel. All members of the Dereel community are invited to attend a Community Planning meeting facilitated by Nicole Langtip on Tuesday 1st…
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Community Plan Update
The Dereel Community Plan 2016-2019 has been developed in consultation with the community. It identifies the areas of focus for the next few years to best serve the needs of the community of Dereel. The community planning process belongs to the entire community of Dereel and everyone is welcome to provide their views and be involved…
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Seeding Dereel
Are you interested in growing and sharing food? Whether you are inexperienced or have a seasoned green-thumb, we invite you to take part in a project to grow and share food from seed to plate. Each season, seeds that are ready to sow will be made freely available through the Food is Free stall. We…
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Dereel People – Doug Braddy
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? Since 2000. I used to go prospecting with a mate around here so knew the area and said I would buy land if it became available. When something came up I couldn’t believe it had a house on the land given…
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Community Garden Photo Gallery
Next Meeting The next Community Garden meeting will be at 2pm on Saturday 18th February in the Dereel Community Centre. Everyone welcome. Working Bee Photos Thank you to everyone who helped with the first Dereel Community Garden Working Bee in November 2016. Approximately 20 people helped out on 26th November, 2016 to do a huge…
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Generations to work together over Tech, Tea and Tales
News from the Golden Plains Shire Golden Plains will be the first Shire in Australia to introduce an exciting new program for youth and seniors called ‘Tech, Tea and Tales’. The program will employ young local jobseekers to provide one-on-one technology help to seniors in the Shire, and to record their life stories and experiences…
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Dereel People – Clio Ellis-Perez
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? Since 3 months before the 2013 fire. Now over four years. I came back to Australia to spend time with my parents after spending many years abroad. And I came to Dereel after they died to live in the bush and…
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Maps, Signage and Publications Project
The kick-off discussion for the Maps, Signage and Publications project will be on Saturday 28th January at 1:30 pm in the Community Centre Meeting Room. This will begin the process of determining the allocation of $1000 SEED funding to specific community projects. If you have a view and would like to be part of the…
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Monday: Knowledge Sharing Project
Continuing the series of Community Planning project discussions, the Knowledge Sharing project will be the focus of discussion on Monday night. SEED funding of $1000 has been allocated to this project as part of the Community Planning process. Some knowledge sharing initiatives have already been trialed in Dereel, such as the Homework Hub on Tuesdays…
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Today: Pop-Up-Shops Discussion and Hub Cafe
Pop-Up Shops Discussion: Community Centre Meeting Room at 1:30pm Are you interested in exploring how we can have Pop-Up Shops in Dereel? As part of the Community Planning process, $1000 of the SEED funding has been allocated to this exploration. Today we begin the discussion about how to proceed with this project. Meeting begins at…
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Hub Cafe Today
In the Kitchen If you want to reconnect with local people after the festive season, come to the Hub Cafe today. We’ve set the kitchen as a general chat area with our delicious coffee, hot chocolate or chai. In the Meeting Room We also have a separate discussion about the community planning project for the Dereel Swamp/Lagoon…
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Call for Interested People
The first of the seven Community Planning Projects is the Dereel Community Garden, and it is great to see a group of interested and committed people beginning work on this project. DCHI are calling for people interested in working on one of the other six projects to contact us. We envisage putting together six separate…
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Community Garden: First Working Bee
The fruit of research, planning sessions and many discussions is looking plump and ripe for tasting in relation to the Dereel Community Garden. If you’ve been waiting for the practical, getting your hands dirty part of the project, it’s about to begin. The Dereel Community Gardening group would love your help for a working bee…
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Dereel People – Erin Gallagher
1. How long have you lived in the area and what brought you here? We moved here in June 2015, primarily for family but also looking for a self-sustainable lifestyle with a minimal impact on the environment. 2. What’s great about living here? The quiet – although it’s full of sound, with the birds and…
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Reminder: Dereel Community Garden Meeting Tonight
As published in our October edition of Dereel Spokes, the next Dereel Community Garden meeting will be held tonight at 7:00pm in the Dereel Community Centre, 14 Swamp Road Dereel. All welcome. Read about the Dereel Community Garden here.
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The Dereel Community Plan
Tomorrow, Pam Bailey will present the Dereel Community Plan, launched on 20 August, to the Golden Plains Shire Council. The presentation is to seek approval for the plan and to formalise funding for the proposed seven projects. The seven projects were determined by the community planning process including the Vision Workshop and the Seed Funding workshop. Project…
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Launch and Lunch (Free)
Join us on Saturday 20th August for a free lunch to kick off the Dereel Community Plan for the next three years. Lunch is at 12:30 and the launch is from 1pm to 3pm. After lunch, we will look at the projects included in the proposed Community Plan and you can decide what is most important to…
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Dereel People – Kim Stanley
1. How long have you lived in the area? Almost 18 years, I’m a bush girl. I wanted to have a hobby farm and animals somewhere out in the bush. It’s handy to have easy access to town for work, I hadn’t had a bin service before coming to Dereel! Everything lined up to make…
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Imagine Dereel
The Vision workshop, held on Saturday 23 July, was a great opportunity for us to reflect on what is great about living in Dereel and imagine the best of how our community could be in the future. Participants spent two hours discussing a wide range of topics to flesh out a future vision for Dereel.…
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Dereel People – Richard Emery
1. How long have you lived in the area? 3 ½ years. We were living in suburban Ballarat and for my 60th birthday received hire of a camper van as a gift from my family. We were home two hours from the trip when my partner said it was too noisy and she wanted to…
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Participate in Dereel Community Planning
The next facilitated Community Planning meeting will be held on 21st June 2016. At this meeting, information received from the community will be reviewed by the community planning team. The ten questions below aim to identify what is good about living in Dereel and how we can build on that to make it even better. If…
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Dereel People – Rick Olsson
1. How long have you lived in the area? About 3 or 4 years, we were looking for about 20 acres for a reasonable price. It is centrally located for my work with surrounding shires. 2. What’s great about living here? The quietness. It’s good for gold hunting and hunting rabbits. I like the people that…
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Dereel People – Rob Maclean
1. How long have you lived in the area? I bought my block in 1987 for $9,000. I was living and working in Melbourne but the company I was working for was bought out and I was made redundant. We sold up and moved here in 1989. It took me 5 years to build my mud…
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Dereel People – Caroline Everett
1. How long have you lived in the area? Most of my life. I grew up here and have been here ever since except for about 15 years. Just before I turned 18, I moved to Melbourne for a little over a year to work, then to Ballarat and Maryborough. In 1996 I moved to…
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