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On Wednesday 15 May, YWCA Canberra Clubhouse members participated in a consultation for a new whole of suburb play spaces review, for Richardson through the ACT Government Better Suburbs Play Spaces Program. A Citizen’s Forum in 2018 allocated $1.9 million to improve play spaces across Canberra. The consultation was an opportunity for us who live […]

On Friday 10 and Saturday 11 August, YWCA Canberra Clubhouse kicked off National Science Week by hosting a stall at Science in ACTion at the Old Bus Depot Market. National Science Week is Australia’s annual celebration of science and technology. Running each year in August, it features more than 1000 events around Australia. These events […]

On Wednesday 6 June, the Clubhouse partnered with MTP Services to offer 10 Clubhouse members the opportunity to participate in a website design tutorial. This excursion was organised after two members attended a Scratch for Beginners class in April. This led to the Clubhouse Coordinator and MTP Services collaborating to design a second workshop specifically […]

The YWCA Canberra Clubhouse is an innovative, creative, out-of-school learning space where young people from undeserved communities can work with adult mentors to develop new skills, explore their own ideas, and build confidence in themselves in the areas of science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM). We know that it isn’t always possible for young […]

How did you connect with the Clubhouse? I heard of about the Clubhouse through conversations with the new Clubhouse Coordinator, Annie. Currently working as a casual primary teacher after 5 years of full time teaching, volunteering in the community was a great way for me to spend my afternoons. The Clubhouse was a perfect fit […]

(Originally published on the YWCA Canberra blog.) Mieka Vigilante is a Director of Fashion for FASHFEST – what she calls, “the business of dreams”. FASHFEST, a Canberra-based fashion show now in its fourth year, aims to cultivate modern, emerging fashion, design and creative talent. FASHFEST has a focus on encouraging participation from young people, either as fashion students […]

Stir is an online platform that helps people form their ideas into reality through crowd voted micro-grants. While only relatively new, in its first year the platform saw 45 uploads of different ideas and awarded fifteen $1000 grants. Two of these projects progressed to win a total of $20,000 in ANU’s start-up program InnovationACT. This […]