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Denmark Tip Shop closed until further notice due to COVID-19 trading restrictions – reopening soon!

Green Skills assures you that we will reopen as soon as the Federal Government lifts the current restrictions placed on non-essential business trading.

Sustainable Community Festival 21st March

The 2020 Sustainable Community Festival in Albany is shaping up to be an absolutely amazing event.
Green Skills have not only partnered with the Rainbow Coast Neighbourhood Centre and Albany Regional Volunteer Service but also welcoming new supporter Sustain: Community Food Events Food for Thought Festival PLUS the City of Albany South West Street Fest.

Learn how to Cloth Nappy – workshops coming to Ellenbrook, Beechboro and Guildford

Click on the sessions to register, and see how many tix are available.

Proudlove Parade Night Markets final for January

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.

Proudlove Parade Night Markets creating opportunities for local, small, micro and home-based businesses

We are into the 3rd week of the January roll out of the Night Markets on Proudlove Parade.

Proudlove Parade Markets Injects Vibrancy Into Thursday Nights.

Hundreds of locals, visitors and four-legged friends attended the inaugural Proudlove Parade Night Markets.

Proudlove Parade Night Market

Thursday Night Markets in Albany

Green Skills Twilight Market in Albany

40 stall holders at the Twilight Markets! Encouraging “shop local this Christmas” is the theme behind the inaugural Green Skills Twilight Markets. After extensive tours of UK Christmas twilight markets in 2018, and knowing how creative the great southern community is, Green Skills Albany Manager, Anne Sparrow, came back to Albany inspired to provide opportunity…

Combatting dune erosion at Coogee Beach

Visitors to Coogee Beach will notice Ecojobs staff working in the dunes – not trampling, but using a technique called “brushing”.

Balijup Sanctuary Citizen Science Event Focusses on Elusive Native Fauna

For two days in mid-October, Green Skills held a Citizen Science environmental monitoring event at the Balijup Sanctuary near Tenterden.

The Denmark Community Garden – Growing and Engaging South Coast Community Gardeners

The Denmark Community Garden is operated by Green Skills in collaboration with the Denmark CRC and was opened in March 2019.

Meet the Team: Mystine Brown

Mystine has been a longtime Ecojobs casual, since July 2016. She is a versatile member of Ecojobs, from hand-weeding and chemical weed control to local government Natural Resource Management positions.

Appreciating Marvellous Garden Givers

Appreciating some magnificent contributors to our Denmark-Kwoorabup community.

Record Planting Day for Yellagonga Regional Park

Perth Ecojobs plants record-breaking number of seedlings in Yellagonga Regional Park, 30 minutes north of the CBD. Reserve maintenance is always busy in Winter with planting jobs.

Appreciating Marvellous Garden Givers

Appreciating some magnificent contributors to our Denmark-Kwoorabup community. Here Green Skills takes the opportunity to thank and appreciate those volunteers and groups who support the Denmark Community Garden and who are consistently marvellous.

Annabelle Newbury Says Farewell

Perth manager Annabelle Newbury has retired. It’s big news for the Green Skills community, especially the Perth office which she managed for 21 years.

Are Compostable Nappies Really Compostable?

They’re becoming more common – “eco-disposable nappies”. Biodegradable, chlorine free, fragrance free, chemical free, cloth-like… the list goes on and the packaging is convincing.

Sew Cool! and the Denmark Upcycle Collective Denim July 2019 Workshops

Join Ruth and Von for Sew Cool! and the Denmark Upcycle Collective creative sewing workshops using upcycled denim.

Dreamcatchers and Driftwood Mobiles with an Upcycled Twist

Sewing with Scraps workshop takes a seaside theme, with shells, driftwood and of course, fabric scraps.

Looking for Parent Ed Classes with Cloth Nappies?

Thanks to a grant from the Waste Authority, Green Skills has been training local Parent Educators how to use modern cloth nappies, and provided nearly all Perth’s maternity hospitals with an Antenatal Cloth Nappy Demo kit.