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Yandina Community Gardens Inc.

Annual General Meeting

Wednesday 29th September 2021 at 7pm

Blue House, 41 Farrell Street, Yandina

All positions on the committee become vacant at the AGM. We have accepted nominations for President and Treasurer and most of our current committee have also renominated.

We are seeking a new Secretary (Role Description) and welcome motivated and passionate general committee members. We meet monthly both in person and via Zoom. We keep meetings around 2 hours. If you’re looking to get involved in promoting a sustainable lifestyle on the Sunshine Coast we would love you to complete a nomination form prior to the AGM. (Nomination Form)

 Please email nominations for Management Committee Positions to the secretary@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au or bring in to Robyn Matthews by Saturday 25th September 2021

 Members are reminded that they must be financial members on the day of the meeting in order to be eligible to cast a vote – i.e., membership fees for the 2021/2022 year must be paid prior to 29 September 2021. If you have had trouble with the online Membership, please come in and see us to pay.

If you have any questions please contact us via email secretary@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au or come and visit.

Our usual soup and curry will be served at 6:30 pm before the meeting.

Welcome to our new Garden Co-ordinator

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We would like to introduce you to Jane Little, our new Garden Coordinator. Jane is volunteering as the coordinator on Mondays. Jane attended our June volunteer induction and quickly got involved in various projects in the garden. We noticed Jane had a lot of experience with organic gardening and so we quizzed her on her background. Jane shared her resume and it turns out she has been working for several years as the Garden Specialist for the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden at North Arm School. Jane is also involved with and consults to several festivals including Earth Frequency Festival and The Planting. Jane has strong experience coordinating and supporting volunteers, is highly organised and is a skilled communicator.
Jane is also currently learning about soils, systems and regenerative practices. In her 16 years living within Starlight Community Jane has learnt much about designing and planting gardens, permaculture and living sustainably.
Her role at the gardens involves participating in a monthly garden committee meeting, coordinating daily garden activities and allocating volunteers jobs and ensuring our key garden design principles are respected and implemented. Jane will also be working with our team of experienced volunteers to provide training and education to all our new volunteers.
If you’ve been considering volunteering at the gardens we hold inductions every month, our next morning tea for new Volunteers will be on Tuesday 6th October. Why don’t you come along and meet everyone

Are you passionate about Sustainability? Are you our new Project Officer?

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Are you passionate about sustainability? Are you good at working with people? Do you enjoy problem solving? Delivering projects? Able to work autonomously and are self-motivated? And most importantly do you want to make a positive difference to your community?

Then here’s an exciting opportunity for you! The Yandina Community Gardens (YCG) is looking for an energetic and experienced person for a project officer role. YCG has received funding to implement a Food Waste Diversion pilot project in the town of Yandina on the Sunshine Coast. The project is for 12 months and you will be required to collaborate with approximately 20 businesses to divert their food waste. The role will be approximately 10hrs per week.

Why is this such an important project?

•If food waste was a country, it would be the third biggest emitter of greenhouse gases after USA and China.

•Eliminating global food waste would save 4.4 million tonnes of C02 a year, the equivalent of taking one in four cars off the road.

•The Government estimates food waste costs the Australian economy $20 billion each year.

•Over 5 million tonnes of food ends up as landfill, enough to fill 9,000 Olympic sized swimming pools.

The project officer will work with YCG’s management committee and will need to develop and implement a system for business food waste collection and measuring. You will be involved in processing the food waste at the Yandina Community Gardens using a combination of vermiculture, black soldier fly larvae and composting.

Your experience in project implementation and evaluation will be very important for this pilot project.

Required skills / knowledge:

•tertiary qualifications and/or experience in environmental science, permaculture or related discipline.
•experience in planning, implementing and evaluating community projects.
•experience in composting and or worm farming.
•experience in community engagement and developing partnerships with stakeholders
•excellent communication and networking skills
•an understanding of environmental sustainability principles.
•Ability to perform moderate physical work, lifting will be required

If this sounds like a role for you, please send your application, addressing the required skills / knowledge to info@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au we look forward to hearing from you!

Applications close 14th February 2020.

Are you our next Treasurer? Would you like to be part of our Management Committee?

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We are looking for an experienced treasurer to join our Management committee, if you have experience in accountancy or finances, are well organised and you are willing to donate your time to our Volunteer based organization, you could be our next treasurer. If you want to join a group of like minded individuals who are passionate about Permaculture and want to continue the legacy of Yandina Community gardens for another 20 years and make a real difference in our Communities then please get in touch.
You will be required to be a current paid member of YCG to nominate yourself.
If you’d like to find out more or apply for the role please contact Donna at secretary@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au  
A little about the role:
The Treasurer is responsible for the financial supervision of the organisation to allow the committee to provide good governance. The Treasurer is the chief financial management officer whose tasks include the preparation of annual budgets, planning for the organisations financial future and monitoring the organisations revenue and expenditure. It is desirable that the treasurer is well organized and possesses a level of financial expertise.
Desirable Attributes
  • • Good organisational skills
  • • Has some financial expertise
  • • Ability to maintain accurate records
  • • Honest/trustworthy
  • • Good communication skills

Legal Duties

  • The following legal duties apply to all members of an Incorporated Association Board
    • the duty to act in good faith in the best interests of the organisation and for a proper purpose
    • the duty to act with reasonable care, skill and diligence (including the duty to prevent insolvent trading)
    • the duty not to improperly use information or position, and
    • the duty to disclose and manage conflicts of interest.
Specific duties include but are not limited to
  • Upholding and acting in the spirit and intent of the YCG Code of Conduct
    • Provide advice to the committee in their management of the organisation finances
    • Administer all financial affairs of the organisation
    • Lead the annual budget process and ensure an appropriate annual budget is provided to the committee for approval
    • Ensure development and committee review of financial systems, policies and procedures
    • Support any required auditing processes
    • Ensure all controls are in place for incoming and outgoing monies
    • Ensure accurate records are maintained of all income and expenditure
    • Ensure that all receipts and payments concur with bank deposits and withdrawals
    • Be a signatory on committee account

 

 

Yandina Community Gardens Outreach program with Lissa Evans

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Yandina Community Gardens Outreach program with Lissa Evans,

Working with Nambour Community Centre & Deadly Espresso in Eumundi

I’ve been working each week at YCG for over 4 years and I felt the desire to share what we know and practice with other nearby communities, particularly with people struggling to live in our current paradigm of fast and processed food.

A group from Nambour Community Centre came with Ana Greenfield, Community Development & Cultural Connections Program to a YCG Garden Tour. They were such an inspirational group – excited by what we were doing, keen to learn and had so much of their own knowledge to share.

I decided to offer a workshop on planning, planting and preparing permaculture food as a way of exploring these ideas further. The first session was held at YCG and after a short discussion we harvested from the garden and prepared a delicious, simple, healthy lunch which was enjoyed by all. A few weeks later I ran another session at the Nambour Community Centre. From this developed the idea of a regular gardening group at NCC harnessing Ana’s passion and enthusiasm to develop the existing garden and involve anyone who was interested. This has been happening each Monday 9-10 am for the past two months.

I was also aware that Deadly Expresso, run by the amazing Terri Waller, Sevgen, was also creating a garden. Apart from pot plants around the cafe Terri had been offered access to the sloping land behind the cafe and with assistance from Pete, had found many native trees to plant. My husband, Dave helped with cutting furrows on contour. We lined these above with branches to slow down water flow and encourage soil development along the contour, ultimately feeding the plants below. Once the heat passes, we’ll look at developing the “vege patch” further with the compost we’re making, weed teas and cover crops.

Both sites are seeking donations of cardboard, grass clippings, 40 l barrels, worm farms/bathtubs, woodchips and potting mix. If you have any of these items to donate, or you’re wishing to help in some way please contact Lissa 54467373

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