Miscellaneous
AUSTRALIA’S BIGGEST MORNING TEA
Your hosts, the ladies of Wandandian and Bewong, invite you to join us at our Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.
Let’s get together and enjoy a cuppa so we can support
those impacted by cancer.
WHEN: THURSDAY 21st MAY 2026
WHERE: WANDANDIAN COMMUNITY HALL
TIME: 10:00 AM TO 12:00 PM
COST: $5
DETAILS: Enjoy a Devonshire Tea tea or other home baked goodies with your cuppa! Children under 8 – free!
Bring extra gold coins for a few fun games (eg. teapot coin toss) & the ‘home made’ or ‘fiddly bits’ table. Let us know if you have a quirky or funky teapot or mug that we can display – you may even win a small prize for the most popular item!
Everybody is welcome, men included!
RSVP. If you wish but not essential. Just come along, have some fun and support a worthy cause!
For further info phone/email Eve 0408 249 546 eveb146n@gmail.com
Cold August Night
Time is running out for you to get your tickets for a fun and relaxing night without the kids and you don’t have far to travel.
Tickets are still available from the Shell Servo. Get yours now!
EXPO Change of Date
Due to circumstances beyond our control the 2025
Wandandian Woodchop and Community Expo will now be held on 30th November.
We look forward to seeing everyone then.
Thank you to everyone who has completed our survey. We are processing the results, but we would love to have more people complete the survey to enable us to gain a better snapshot of our Community and to plan for your future needs. We would especially like to hear from those of you who have never, or rarely, interacted with our Association.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
HAVE YOUR SAY!
Wandandian Progress Association is conducting a survey of our residents in order to better understand their needs and to plan future activities.
You have an opportunity to give your feedback, share ideas and get involved in your Wandandian community.
We invite you to participate in the survey at Our Community, Your Input
Community Infrastructure Strategic Plan Review Workshops
Shoalhaven City Council recently hosted four community workshops regarding the Community Infrastructure Strategic Plan (CISP) Review, two in St Georges Basin and two in Bomaderry. The final two workshops will be held in Ulladulla in late June 2025.
Gillian Smith represented Wandandian Progress Association at the workshop held at St Georges Basin on 28th May 2025.
84 people have attended the four workshops undertaken so far and Council has provided some feedback from the sessions (outlined below).
So far, feedback has varied from workshop to workshop – each session has provided distinct preferences and feedback. Workshop participants have underscored the importance of having spaces and places – to meet, gather, experience art and culture, connect with community, and engage in sport and physical activity – for community health and wellbeing. Maintenance and ease of access to community facilities were mentioned regularly. Some workshop participants are interested in ways to partner with Council to deliver upgrades at their favourite community facility.
All of the feedback provided by workshop attendees will be analysed in detail by the project team once all engagement activities are completed at the end of June 2025.
What to expect next
May-June 2025
The current round of community engagement activities was launched on 12 May and will close on 30 June 2025. Two stakeholder workshops and two focus groups for people living with a disability will be held later this month. Pop-up engagement activities are scheduled for a range of community events. For a full listing of pop-up engagement events, please visit the CISP Review Get Involved page here.
We encourage you to share links to our surveys with your clubs, organisations, or networks. The more feedback we receive, the better we can plan for community places and spaces in the Shoalhaven.
Survey 1 – Share feedback on all community facilities across Shoalhaven City
Survey 2 – Express your thoughts about your favourite community facility or the one you use most often.
A summary of all feedback received will be provided to Council and published on our website (anticipated July-August 2025). All feedback received from the workshops will be de-identified, meaning that feedback will remain anonymous. Council will provide Wandandian Progress Association with a direct link when the community engagement summary report is published.
Draft CISP
Feedback received during the May-June 2025 engagement period, including workshops, surveys, pop-ups, focus groups, and direct submissions – will be considered by the project team and processed as an input to draft CISP findings and recommendations. The draft CISP will be released for public exhibition (anticipated February 2026). We will email you a direct link to the document at the commencement of the public exhibition period and ensure you are invited to any additional workshops held during this time.
Wandandian Progress Association urges you to complete the surveys and have your say.
2024 Review and another Family Dance
As we welcome the New Year, we want to extend our warmest wishes to our wonderful community. Your continued support means the world to us. We appreciate your outstanding contributions and are excited to keep serving you in the year ahead.
As befits the beginning of the New Year for Wandandian Progress Association, here is a rundown of our activities for 2024:
- Our monthly Community Breakfast and Home Harvest Swap continues to be well attended with a core group of attendees sharing friendship and garden goodies every month. We hope to see many more people, especially young families, join us in 2025.
- Our major fundraiser for the year, the Community Expo and Woodchop competition which was held in October was a huge success, despite the extra expenses of DAs and obtaining permits to stage the event. Wandandian Hall is owned freehold by Wandandian Progress Association, not Shoalhaven Council, so fundraising is required to pay for its maintenance. The money raised from the Expo will be used for this purpose and to suppport Community Events when possible.
- A fun family dance in May was well attended and it was fabulous to see some new faces.
- Hall hire continues to provide a reliable income stream. The hall is used regularly by Grand Pacific Health, Society for Creative Anachronism (mediaeval re-enactment group), Amthetyst Park Stompers dance group and casual bookings which have included exercise classes, professionals and amateur band practice, political group meeting, a funeral, 80th and children’s parties, indigenous group workshops and a Christmas party. Hall hire fees also contribute to the upkeep of the hall and surrounds.
Wandandian Prgogress Association will be holding another Family Dance on 22nd February 2025 but this time it will be a ‘Pay as you Enter’ and ‘bring our own drinks and a plate of food to share for supper’ event. As dinner will not be included this time the entry fee has been reduced.
Wandandian Expo 2024 a great success!
Yet another successful Wandandian Expo was held on Sunday 20th October. The community was treated to a fabulous Woodchop competition, a great Car Show and terrific market stalls and emergency displays from our Wandandian RFS brigade, St Georges Basin SES, Sussex Inlet Marine Rescue and Sussex Inlet Red Cross.
What a great day for our community.
Check our the Photo Gallery for images from the day.
Wandandian Expo 2024
H. Parsons Chapel coming soon to Wandandian!
After many months of renovating, the Dimitri’s Restaurant will soon open as the newest chapel of the H. Parsons Funeral Directors Group.
Here is a sneak peak inside.
A great business asset for Wandandian.
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Recognising our Volunteers
It’s National Volunteer Week! Australia’s largest celebration of volunteering!
Thank you to our wonderful volunteers for all that you do for our community!