Creating Thriving Wheatbelt Communities

Creating Thriving Wheatbelt Communities By locals for Locals
This is a free and inclusive placemaking learning event that will offer a series of engaging and interactive hands-on activities, presentations and workshops that will support anyone interested in building their community and connecting with like-minded doers! Including but not limited to local and state government staff, volunteers, community group members, town teamers, landowners and local business staff and owners!
You will learn (and share!):

• Engage and connect your community through doing lighter, quicker and cheaper initiatives that make an impact on your town
• Bringing your community together to work better
• Take an idea from inception into action - By making it happen!
• Pickup some practical tips and ideas in placemaking and community making

THURSDAY 5th of October, 10.30am to 4.00pm  
Bencubbin Community Resource Centre
Series of inspiring workshops, including moving tea and lunch. 

• 10.30am - registration, coffee and morning tea
• 11am - opening session
• 12.30pm - lunch
• 1pm - workshops
• 3pm - networking and refreshments

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The exact agenda and activities we will do at this session will be guided by you. We can promise it will be:

- Interactive

- Relevant

- Beneficial

When you register, please provide your thoughts on these questions to help us shape the benefit for you and the rest and the audience:

1: If you had to choose just one priority for the session, would it be:

- strengthening our sense of community

- learning about ways to make our town even better through community-led action

- engage and empower local young people

- identifying how we can build on our strengths and opportunities

- brainstorming new ideas to prepare for potential future drought 

- strengthen social resilience for resourceful and adaptable communities

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2. Would you prefer:

- Activities inside

- Activities outside

- Activities both indoor and outdoor