Calendar

 
Jan
30
Thu
Climate cafe @ Platform 3095 Cafe
Jan 30 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

On the last Thursday of each month.

Discuss the issues of climate change with other like-minded locals.

Jan
31
Fri
Free community meal @ Eltham Senior Citizens Centre
Jan 31 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

On the last Friday of each month.

The SALT Foundation and Southern Cross Church invite you to a free community dinner. Arrive at 6pm for dinner at 6.30pm. No booking required.

Feb
4
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Feb 4 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Feb
12
Wed
Safe use of medicines – questions to ask (Jenny Gowan) @ Eltham Central Pavilion
Feb 12 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Jenny Gowan will discuss the implications of particular medicines for falls and preventive treatments. She will also take any questions on the safe use of medicines.

Jenny is an accredited consultant pharmacist and focuses on medication reviews in the home and in aged care facilities as well as quality use of medicine consultancy for community health. In 2013, Jenny received the PSA Australian Pharmacist of the Year and in 2016 was the Australian Consultant Pharmacist of the Year. In 2024, she received recognition as a Member of the Order of Australia for service to medicine as a pharmacist, to professional societies and to community health.

The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.

Feb
18
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Feb 18 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Feb
19
Wed
Fun quiz with David O’Brien @ Eltham Central Pavilion
Feb 19 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Howdy quizzers, 2024 soon to be ‘goneski’ and before you blink its ‘hellooooo 2025’. Well, pencil in 9.30am on Wed 19th Feb 2025 onto your new wall calendar (or smartphone, smart watch or post-it note for the fridge) because a new round of fun quizzes begins. Lots of history and geography, Australiana will return, literature of course, and another round of ‘annoying’ double meanings words to work out. And nope – still nothing on sport, technology or music after the 1960s. What’s not to like about 90 minutes of quiz questions.

Your host: David O’Brien.

The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.

Feb
26
Wed
Adventures in archaeology in Turkey: ancient land and ancient peoples (Jan Bailey) @ Eltham Central Pavilion
Feb 26 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Jan Bailey will describe the day-to-day life of an archaeologist on a dig. Two cultures will be discussed: the Kura Araxes group of people who were present in the region for more than 1,500 years, from around 3000 BC; and the Urartian Empire, which dominated the region for 250 years from approximately 900–600 BC, before they were wiped out by the Scythians.

Jan is a retired teacher from the tertiary sector, who has long been a passionate student of archaeology, achieving her Bachelor of Arts (Honours – Archaeology) as a mature-age student.

The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.

Feb
27
Thu
Climate cafe @ Platform 3095 Cafe
Feb 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

On the last Thursday of each month.

Discuss the issues of climate change with other like-minded locals.

Feb
28
Fri
Free community meal @ Eltham Senior Citizens Centre
Feb 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

On the last Friday of each month.

The SALT Foundation and Southern Cross Church invite you to a free community dinner. Arrive at 6pm for dinner at 6.30pm. No booking required.

Mar
4
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Mar 4 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Mar
5
Wed
Nillumbik Public Health and Well-being Plan – what ‘ageing well’ priorities? @ Eltham Central Pavilion
Mar 5 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Nillumbik Council will be running a range of general consultations with the community on its Public Health and Well-being Plan in early 2025. This is a workshop specifically for members of Nillumbik U3A and focusing on what should be the ‘ageing well’ priorities for older residents of Nillumbik.

The session will include: an overview of the Council’s Public Health and Well-being Plan; information on timelines and process; factsheets and information about health needs in Nillumbik; space to listen to your ideas and suggestions; and time for Q&A.

The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.

Mar
12
Wed
A literary tour of gardens (Christine Lister) @ Eltham Central Pavilion
Mar 12 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

Throughout the centuries, nature, gardens and beauty have inspired many great writers and poets to put pen to paper. Christine Lister will explore one of literature’s most intimate relationships: authors and their gardens. This tour features twenty acclaimed British writers (including George Orwell, Sir Walter Scott, William Wordsworth, Beatrix Potter, the Bronte Sisters, Shakespeare, Jane Austen, J.R.R Tolkien and Virginia Woolf) and the settings that they lived in and loved.

Christine Lister, once a school principal, is now a wise woman, an elder and an old soul who is passionate about orchids, gardening and her precious poodle, Bella.

The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.

Mar
18
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Mar 18 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Mar
26
Wed
Rowville’s Italian prisoners of war (Darren Arnott) @ Eltham Central Pavilion
Mar 26 @ 9:30 am – 11:00 am

In March 1946, the war was over. The Italian prisoners of war who had been captured several years earlier in northern Africa were interned in camps around Australia and were waiting to be returned home. One Saturday evening, the commandant of the Rowville internment camp, Captain Waterston, shot and killed a prisoner, Rodolfo Bartoli, who he claimed was attempting to escape. What initially appeared to be a straightforward case of an Australian army officer carrying out his duty, soon appeared to be something else. Allegations of assaults, reckless firing of weapons, drunkenness and stolen goods began to emerge.

Darren will be sharing his discoveries after delving into military and court archives, historical police reports, newspaper articles and personal accounts from former locals who still had memories of the Italians and the camp. He learnt of the brutal treatment of some of the internees and of a romance between the young shooting victim and the daughter of a local farmer.

Darren Arnott is a former Rowville resident and the author of No regard for the truth, shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards 2020.

The arrangements for you booking your place will be announced in early 2025.

Mar
27
Thu
Climate cafe @ Platform 3095 Cafe
Mar 27 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

On the last Thursday of each month.

Discuss the issues of climate change with other like-minded locals.

Mar
28
Fri
Free community meal @ Eltham Senior Citizens Centre
Mar 28 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

On the last Friday of each month.

The SALT Foundation and Southern Cross Church invite you to a free community dinner. Arrive at 6pm for dinner at 6.30pm. No booking required.

Apr
1
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Apr 1 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Apr
15
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Apr 15 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Apr
24
Thu
Climate cafe @ Platform 3095 Cafe
Apr 24 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

On the last Thursday of each month.

Discuss the issues of climate change with other like-minded locals.

Apr
25
Fri
Free community meal @ Eltham Senior Citizens Centre
Apr 25 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

On the last Friday of each month.

The SALT Foundation and Southern Cross Church invite you to a free community dinner. Arrive at 6pm for dinner at 6.30pm. No booking required.

May
6
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
May 6 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

May
20
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
May 20 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

May
29
Thu
Climate cafe @ Platform 3095 Cafe
May 29 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

On the last Thursday of each month.

Discuss the issues of climate change with other like-minded locals.

May
30
Fri
Free community meal @ Eltham Senior Citizens Centre
May 30 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

On the last Friday of each month.

The SALT Foundation and Southern Cross Church invite you to a free community dinner. Arrive at 6pm for dinner at 6.30pm. No booking required.

Jun
3
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Jun 3 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Jun
17
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Jun 17 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Jun
26
Thu
Climate cafe @ Platform 3095 Cafe
Jun 26 @ 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm

On the last Thursday of each month.

Discuss the issues of climate change with other like-minded locals.

Jun
27
Fri
Free community meal @ Eltham Senior Citizens Centre
Jun 27 @ 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

On the last Friday of each month.

The SALT Foundation and Southern Cross Church invite you to a free community dinner. Arrive at 6pm for dinner at 6.30pm. No booking required.

Jul
1
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Jul 1 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.

Jul
15
Tue
Eltham Memory Care Cafe @ St Margarets Anglican Church
Jul 15 @ 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm

Every 1st and 3rd Tuesday.

The Memory Care Cafe is a place where people with memory loss or impairment and their carers can come together for afternoon tea and connection in a welcoming place.