Community

A new playground in the iconic Parsley Bay Reserve in Vaucluse provides the Woollahra community with an inclusive play space catering to all ages and abilities.

Register to host your own garage sale on Saturday 19 & Sunday 20 October 2019.

How do we help someone who may be struggling with their mental health and thoughts of suicide? Carlos Duarte, Chair of the Eastern Suburbs Suicide Prevention Network, provides some guidance and talks about the annual Suicide Prevention Walk – taking place on Sunday 8 September from 11:30am in Rose Bay.

In support of Dementia Action Week we’re running a number of free events to help make Woollahra an inclusive and dementia-friendly community.

For the past 50 years Colin McQueen has braved floods, bushfires, storms and busy public events to lend a hand to others as an SES volunteer. His service to our community was celebrated at a special event at the Waverley Woollahra SES headquarters recently.

Additional signs have been installed along the Parsley Bay suspension bridge to warn of the dangers of jumping off the bridge.

More than $87,000 in grants have been awarded to 27 local groups and charities to support the important work they do in our community.

Nominations are now open for the 2019 Woollahra Garden Awards. All residents, local businesses, school groups and community organisations are encouraged to showcase their gardens - big or small. Entries close 13 September.

To celebrate the launch of our new monthly e-newsletter, Woollahra News, we’re giving away some great prizes – including a Sydney Seaplanes flight for two! Entries close 22 September.

We have two new waste trucks which we need help decorating, so we’re running an art competition for local school kids around the theme "Choose to Refuse Plastic".