by helen | Apr 28, 2020 | Green Skills Inc. - Sustainability Non-Profit
Dear Denmark Tip Shop customers and valued visitors – We greatly regret having to close the Tip Shop during this COVID-19 epidemic period. Green Skills assures you that we will reopen as soon as the Federal Government lifts the current restrictions placed on non-essential business trading. Our staff and customer’s safety is our primary concern and because we can’t ensure social distancing protocols as required under government regulations, we have decided that it is the right thing to do to close the Tip Shop. PLEASE do not throw away those items that you would otherwise donate to the Tip Shop but keep them in storage to donate to us when we reopen. We will be relying on our Denmark community’s support to help us re-build our Tip Shop into the thriving community business that it has been and will be as soon as we reopen. PLEASE do not leave any items at the Tip Shop gates, as we are not accepting goods at this time, and items left will just become a mess for someone to have to clean up when we open the gates to you all again. We will keep you posted on when we hope to reopen, but until we hear from the government, we can’t give any definite reopening date at this time, but keep an eye on the website because we hope that we will reopen soon.
Green Skills thanks you for your valued support to date, and we look forward to reopening our Tip Shop in the near future and re-building to normal activity when these difficult times are over.
by albanymanager | Feb 20, 2020 | Green Skills Inc. - Sustainability Non-Profit
The 2020 Sustainable Community Festival in Albany is shaping up to be an absolutely amazing event.
Green Skills are welcoming new supporter Sustain: Community Food Events Food for Thought Festival PLUS the City of Albany South West Street Fest in addition to the Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre Harmony Day.
West Australia’s premier sustainable living event has evolved to include cultural diversity and sustainable economies, held in the Albany Town Square during Harmony week on Saturday 21st March.
York Street will be buzzing with everything from:
- local markets
- a cultural array of music
- kids activities
- street food
- Hands-on workshops for both kids and adults
- presentations on everything from gardening, re-gen Ag and the Regional School Cook-off
- and more
Leading the presentations will be Sabrina Hahn.
Sabrina is a whole lot of Hort with Heart – a master gardener, horticultural professional, award winning radio presenter and writer. She has passion for the creation of sustainable landscapes that make cities more live-able. Her aim is to educate listeners in the importance of creating biodiversity in their own backyards. She believes that the diminishing green spaces in urban areas are making our cities sterile hot spots. Urban gardens play a vital role in returning biodiversity into our cities and offering people a space for physical and mental well-being.
You won’t want to miss this event. Mark it in your diary
NOW!!!
https://www.facebook.com/events/227-york-st-albany-wa-6330-australia/sustainable-community-festival/1244045182458605/
by albanymanager | Jan 29, 2020 | Green Skills Inc. - Sustainability Non-Profit
Finishing January on a high with our biggest night planned yet. Do you celebrate Valentines Day or Easter? Then we have a range of gifts available for you this week. Waxiwraps will be here with their amazing sustainable solutions to reduce the need for single use plastic. Plants and fertiliser for the garden, fruit and veg, jams, sauces, soaps, woodwork, and new art work from Awesome Aboriginal and Kara Matters. Shale Pottery is having specials on this week. You can have a tarot card experience reading by Shona. Great local food and coffee by Gin Lao, Bar Tarifa and Pla Thai and Quickshot Coffee. Up-cycled wares from Vamp it Up and Sharee Orell are always popular.
Do you have hard to shop for people in your life? How about a buying a tour for your loved ones and visitors to experience our local and regional landmarks, wineries and restaurants? Award winning Busy Blue Bus will be available at the markets this week to answer your queries.
Local Proudlove Parade Town Team business La Botanic are having red cross specials on a range of house plants, Barletta’s and Yak On York have great dinner options too on Thursday Nights. And don’t forget the public lectures at the Wave Energy Centre from 5pm – 7pm.
We will have fantastic buskers from 4pm onwards.
by albanymanager | Jan 22, 2020 | Green Skills Inc. - Sustainability Non-Profit
We are into the 3rd week of the January roll out of the Night Markets on Proudlove Parade. Thirty businesses from as far as Kojonup through to Denmark, Mt Barker in addition to Albany have showcased their wares and made the most of the opportunity to trade in the Proudlove Parade precinct on a Thursday night. You can find anything there from hand crafted new and up-cycled gifts, fruit and vegetables, honey jams and preserves, clothes, indigenous art, storage options, plants, soaps and candles, beauty products, garden products, jewellery pottery, beds and bbq’s, book a tour and great dinner choices from a variety of food vendors.
This week sees the inclusion of tarot card readings, music and the launch of the Albany Regional Volunteer Service BBQ trailer. This trailer will ultimately be providing breakfasts for the disadvantaged and homeless in Albany and manned by volunteers.
Next door to the markets at 5pm, the Wave Energy Center is conducting a public lecture on research that will be undertaken within the Bremer, Leeuwin, & Perth submarine canyons over the next month. Led by Dr Julie Trotter from the University of Western Australia and partnered with the philanthropic Schmidt Ocean Institute (SOI), the expedition has the rare opportunity to use deep-sea ROV technology to explore depths to ~4000 m. For the first time, high definition images will be captured and various fauna will be collected for analysis post-cruise, with a specific focus on deep-sea corals. A large seawater analytical programme will also be undertaken to investigate the unique conditions creating these hotspots of biodiversity.
The markets are open from 4pm to 9pm. Email [email protected] or call Anne Sparrow 0498 194 222 if you would like a stall next week.
by albanymanager | Jan 13, 2020 | Green Skills Inc. - Sustainability Non-Profit
Hundreds of locals, visitors and four-legged friends attended the inaugural Proudlove Parade Night Markets. Located under the trees in the car park, the ambience of the markets breathed vibrancy into the night-time of this precinct. A variety of market stalls from local businesses offering back to school and cooking displays from Harvey Norman, up-cycled, local and home-made items and produce, home-wares and storage, food, tour operators offering experiences in our region and food vans with a range of choices for your dinner. Green Skills provided a hands-on opportunity to make bath bombs and created a very low waste event.
Local shopkeepers who formed the Proudlove Parade Town Team supporting the markets with Green Skills Albany and the Albany Chamber of Commerce and Industry, including Yak on York, La Botanic, Barlettas Albany and York St IGA offered specials on dinners, pot plants and more. Next week there will be even more specials on offer including workshops in La Botanic !
This all created a busy Thursday Night Shopping experience with vibrancy that filled both Proudlove Parade and lower Stirling Terrace which increased opportunity for all these local businesses to showcase their wares. The markets will operate initially on Thursday nights all through January. You can still book a stall for the upcoming weeks. Contact the Albany office on 9842 1334 or [email protected]
