The team at Make A Change Australia is pleased to offer Expand Your Impact - a program designed to support leadership to thrive. It’s relevant for both professional development and...
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We’re excited to announce our next initiative as part of Greater Bendigo’s Curriculum for Change on the theme CONNECTING. Find out all about it and save the date for Thursday…
Answer these questions and let us know what you reckon! Where's your happy place in nature & why? What’s your favourite activity and why? What do you think about the...
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Greater Bendigo Curriculum for Change Save the date for our next events: Outside the Square - Connecting Thursday 27th July 6:45 - 9:30 Click your preference and save to your...
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Our recent program to generate a community wide conversation about building resilience and shared responsibility has uncovered a wealth of knowledge, references, links and existing initiatives. We are sharing these…
The Old Fire Station was buzzing with a full house last Thursday evening when 140 people including hosts and speakers attended an interactive forum on the theme ‘Resilience’. Hosted by...
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Bendigo residents gathered at Outside the Square’s Ramp Up Resilience, to share and be inspired about building resilience in our community. It was a cool April evening, but with a…
The dictionary tells us the word resilience means: The ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; Some say ……it’s…
What do YOU reckon ? What does RESILIENCE mean to YOU ? In the lead up to our next event, we're having a BIG conversation about ‘resilience' Get involved by:...
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Make a Change Australia is hosting, Greater Bendigo’s Curriculum for Change – a series of discussions and events throughout 2017, underlining how each and everyone of us, can play a…
We’ve recently announced an exciting new program we are delivering in Bendigo this year – Greater Bendigo’s Curriculum for Change. Included in this program will be an event you won’t…
Bringing people together, to think about what’s important to us, is high on the agenda this year! Many of us are talking about… Stronger resilient communities… Leading the way together…An…
$500 enables us to include a specific target group (such as youth) in a What Do You Reckon campaign As an innovative campaign to ensure the voice of that group…
Pat Thwaites, Bendigo Artists Inc with Maree Tonkin, Coordinator Arts and Culture, City of Greater Bendigo Recently I had the pleasure of attending the launch of The Avenue Studios –…
Darren Sharp is a systems entrepreneur and sharing strategist. He’s the Australian Editor of Shareable, a global not for profit that provides news, tools and connections around the “sharing transformation.”…
John Lennon encouraged us to Imagine…to see a VISION for a better world….and we see this, in action – everywhere! In 2016, we had the privilege to work with community and…
Does Art Matter to you? It sure does to us. We love art and creativity and we value the benefits that creative people bring to communities. That is why…
You can make a difference, even within a government organisation, that may seem a little complex at first glance. On this topic, Make a Change is talking with two interesting…
Craig Lapsley, Emergency Management Commissioner, recently announced that Emergency Management Victoria (EMV) is “making a change” in how they approach emergency management. We are looking forward to sharing more with…
At Make a Change, we support positive change in communities. We do this by: creating connections guiding interaction and fostering leadership of all kinds. This includes the standouts as…
The more we see the ripple effect, the more we are ‘addicted’ to being changemakers! On a bad day we try and see reason, accept the status quo, attempt to be sensible in…
The Woolly West Fest in Western Victoria proclaims to be the largest (geographically speaking) community arts project in Victoria, and possibly even Australia! It was founded in 2014, by two…
“It was that sinking feeling of overwhelm, that inspired us to create the skills training program Expand Your Impact. The apprehension of knowing your vision is going to make a…
Continue to grow the success of your project or enterprise with Make a Change Australia, at Expand Your Impact. Saturday 13th of August is your last chance to get free…
This 5 step tool is a great way to get you clear and ready for your projects. It’s useful for times such as at the start of the year, the…
Big Give is a fundraising campaign, for everyone in Central Victoria: from the Murray to the Macedon Ranges. It’s a free online platform to support fundraising, in an infectious environment…
Make a Change Australia has now been supporting people for six-months—from the Romsey, Lancefield and Cobaw regions—to make great stuff happen; recently hosting Let’s Nut It Out. Local communities…
Our recent Let’s Nut it Out day in Southern Grampians Shire was a great success. 40 community members from towns across the Shire gathered to nut out their projects with…
We have designed a day to make your project, initiative or enterprise go to the next level! On the day you will meet other like-minded people who make ideas happen….
“The next step in making the community gym a reality, is to bring together a dedicated group.” Make a Change is talking with Vivien Philpotts of the Lancefield Neighbourhood…
