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What is a Nurdle?

It was September 2017 where the word Nurdle first entered my vocabulary. I was doing some internet research on cotton bud marine pollution and found Scotland’s environmental charity organisation FIDRA website. They run the ‘The Cotton Bud Project’ tackling...

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‘Keeping the Ball in the Air’

Everyone loves the Silver Ball It is hard to imagine Warrnambool without the FJ’s Silver Ball on the skyline, but just a few years ago its future was in jeopardy. Full of rust and a public safety concern, the ball was going to go unless someone put the money into...

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Drought Crew helping farmers

A series of videos created for the Glenelg Hopkins CMA that highlight the great work of the Glenelg Hopkins CMA Drought Crew. Funded through the Victorian Government, the Drought Employment Program provided financial support to those affected by drought. The...

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Surfers partner with conservation

In 2016, Corangamite CMA formed a new partnership with Surfing Victoria with the aim of encouraging surfers involvement in conservation. They established a number of new initiatives to encourage the involvement of the surfing community in environmental projects.
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The surfers who re-vegged Bells Beach

The Corangamite CMA give small grants to community groups working in the natural environment. One of these grants is the Coastal Small Grants fund and one of the recipients of this fund is a group called SANE (Surfers Appreciating the Natural Environment). SANE...

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Time for a change: I Can

If you take look at the Australian national education and employment statistics for people on the Autism Spectrum you’d be pretty horrified, they are very low. Whats worse is they don’t have to be this way at all, there is plenty that can be done to change them....

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Everyone loves the Silver Ball

It is hard to imagine Warrnambool without the FJ’s Silver Ball on the skyline, but just a few years ago its future was in jeopardy. Keeping the Ball in the air from First Ladies - Colleen Hughson on Vimeo. Full of rust and a public safety concern, the ball was...

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The Giant Knitted Bowel

The Giant Knitted Bowel from First Ladies - Colleen Hughson on Vimeo. In 2016 the South West Healthcare Bowel Cancer Prevention Team came up with an idea to get people talking about Bowel Cancer. The idea came in the form of a giant knitted bowel complete with...

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FJ’s Christmas Garden Party 2015

What a wonderful day of colour, art, music, fashion, family and friends at the FJ's Christmas Garden Party! It was fantastic to have members of the Jones family in town to witness a modern day Fletcher Jones Gardens Christmas Party and the launch of the Fletcher...

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