Posts Tagged ‘News’
WASEC Regional Impact Award 2025
In June, Green Skills Inc was delighted to be awarded WA Social Enterprise Council’s (WASEC) Regional Impact 2025 Award. We congratulate the finalists, including: Jack’s Shed, Leramugadu Store Maya, Magabala Books and Mumma Jo’s Grocers. Image below: all WASEC 2025 Regional Impact Finalists. Image above: Green Skills Inc’s Ben Dicker, (Perth Team Leader) and Ashleigh…
Read MoreDenmark 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.
Read MoreSustainable 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.
Read MoreProudlove 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.
Read MoreProudlove 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.
Read MoreProudlove Parade Markets Injects Vibrancy Into Thursday Nights.
Hundreds of locals, visitors and four-legged friends attended the inaugural Proudlove Parade Night Markets.
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Read MoreGreen 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…
Read MoreCombatting 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”.
Read MoreBalijup 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreMeet 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.
Read MoreAppreciating Marvellous Garden Givers
Appreciating some magnificent contributors to our Denmark-Kwoorabup community.
Read MoreRecord 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.
Read MoreAppreciating 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.
Read MoreAnnabelle 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.
Read MoreAre 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.
Read MoreSew 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.
Read MoreDreamcatchers and Driftwood Mobiles with an Upcycled Twist
Sewing with Scraps workshop takes a seaside theme, with shells, driftwood and of course, fabric scraps.
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