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FOOD WASTE LOOP VOLUNTEERS 💚

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Would you like to be part of some positive change in the new year and do something really amazing for the environment? Our Food Waste Loop program redirects ALOT of food waste from the town of Yandina and is such an incredible program for our community!

We have an awesome team of Food Waste Loop volunteers currently and we’d LOVE to extend our team! If you would like to join forces with us, it will require ~2 hours work from you a week!

These are lots of activities you can be involved in including:

– Compost flipping! (we require strong muscles! or if you’d prefer to replace your gym membership and build your muscles image.png)

– Creating lasagna-method compost

– Weighing our compost buckets (we collect data from all the waste we collect)

– Creating a 5 star meal for our worms 😉
– Washing compost buckets

Please get in touch with us on volunteers@yandinacommunitygardens.com.au to express your interest! Here’s to creating a healthier and happier planet in 2021!

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 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

 

 

Volunteer Induction & Morning Tea, Tuesday 9th March 2021, 10 am – 12 noon

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Volunteers are the lifeblood of our organisation. To ensure that you find the right place to volunteer, YCG will host a monthly volunteer induction morning, on the first Monday or Tuesday of each month. (Alternating) Here you will learn about the Gardens, understand all the activities available to you for volunteering, enjoy a guided garden tour and meet all the other volunteers.  The morning ends with a tea.

We look forward to welcoming all our new volunteers.

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