Piece it together - Community Social Puzzling night

Gather your team for a slightly chaotic evening of Social Puzzling at Progress Hall, Saturday 17 October, 5–7.30pm.

Teams of up to four will strategise, colourise, socialise, clamber, laugh and celebrate at pace, as they piece together our brand-new bespoke 500 piece community puzzle, pictured. And this isn’t your conventional jigsaw. Its unconventional cut should keep even seasoned puzzlers guessing.

There’s local glory at stake too. Which team will claim the honour of Coal Point’s social puzzling champions?

We’ll keep the buzzing brains and nimble fingers working with soup and damper, plus sweet treats for puzzling stamina.

A team ticket is $50 and includes one puzzle to take home.

Registration required by 15 October,

The puzzle behind the puzzling- Fundraiser

Created to celebrate 80 years of CPPA connecting our community, the puzzle brings together a map of our place in space, snippets of local history and some of the wildlife that also call the Coal Point peninsula home.

It’s also part of our 80th anniversary fundraiser, helping CPPA care for our local environment, connect our community and maintain Progress Hall. Keep it for yourself, send one to family or friends overseas, add one to the games cupboard at the holiday house, or get some Christmas shopping done.

Puzzles are $40 each and available to order now through the booking page. Select the ‘PUZZLE ORDER’ ticket.

Come for the puzzle. Stay for the soup, damper and good company and help us put the pieces together for the next chapter of CPPA.

What's on at the Hall July-August 2026

 

Piece Together Coal Point - A Community Speed Puzzling Night

Celebrate 80 years of community with a night of friendly competition

To celebrate the Coal Point Progress Association's 80th birthday, we're inviting the community to enjoy something a little different, a Speed Puzzling Night at Progress Hall.

If you haven't discovered speed puzzling yet, you're in for a treat. Teams race against the clock to complete the same jigsaw puzzle, testing observation, teamwork and a little bit of luck. It's fast, surprisingly competitive, and guaranteed to produce plenty of laughs.

Saturday 17 October
5.00 pm for a 5.30 pm start
Progress Hall, 197 Skye Point Road, Coal Point

Teams of two, three or four will tackle a bespoke, high-quality jigsaw created especially for the CPPA's 80th anniversary. Better still, every team takes their puzzle home at the end of the evening.

Will a larger team finish first, or will too many puzzle solvers create delightful chaos? There's only one way to find out.

Not feeling competitive? That's perfectly fine. Enter a social team, enjoy the challenge at your own pace, and discover some of the fascinating flora, fauna and history of the Coal Point peninsula as the picture comes together.

Non-puzzlers are welcome too. Bring along your favourite board game, catch up with friends, or simply watch the friendly mayhem unfold.

Soup and damper will be served from 7.00 pm.

What to bring

Your favourite nibbles and drinks, a little patience and your laughing gear.

Cost

$50 per team, including your commemorative puzzle, soup and damper.

All proceeds will support the next stage of improvements to Progress Hall, making it more accessible for everyone in our community.

If you'd simply like the puzzle, commemorative copies can be pre-ordered for $40. They make wonderful Christmas gifts or keepsakes celebrating our beautiful peninsula.

Bookings via Humantix. Numbers are limited to 20 teams. 

Because the real prize isn't just winning... it's being able to say you're the best puzzlers east of Toronto and north of Wangi.

5 Community Conversations at one Open Day

Saturday 14 March 10am-noon
Progress Hall. 197 Skye Point Rd
(Parking at Gurranba Reserve)

1. Grow Me Instead Display - Protecting Coal Point’s Living Web

An important Open Day conversation centres on something slowly disappearing all around us, our biodiversity. Globally, species are disappearing at unprecedented rates. Habitat is shrinking. Ecosystems are under pressure.

And yet here on the Coal Point peninsula, we are in a rare and precious window of time. We still have extraordinary diversity in our yards, reserves and verges. Bushes, shrubs, trees, groundcovers, grasses, insects, birds, possums, fungi and flying foxes, all the intricate threads that form the web of life.

Some of it is obvious. Some lies hidden in dormant seed banks beneath lawns, but it is still here. Given the chance, it returns. Our local landscape has strong regenerative capacity. Birds move through the canopy spreading seed and maintaining genetic diversity. Life is ready. The question is, will we make room for it?

The garden escape problem

At the Open Day a Grow Me Instead display will highlight common weeds across the peninsula.

Some are already established in bushland. Others remain mostly in gardens but have the potential to escape.

Once certain species move beyond the fence line, they outcompete local natives, alter soil conditions, suppress regeneration and reduce habitat complexity for wildlife.

That’s why we need local heroes. Native species that provide nectar, pollen, fruit and shelter. Plants adapted to our soils and climate extremes. Species that strengthen the genetic diversity of our isolated peninsula.

What you’ll see at our Landcare team’s display:

• Common environmental weeds

• Garden plants to keep under watch

• Recommended native replacements

Bring a sample or photo of a mystery plant and we’ll help identify it.

Have the conversation about why small decisions matter, the verge planting, the creeper allowed to spread, the clippings dumped in the reserve. Each choice either strengthens or weakens the web of life.

We will also take orders for autumn plantings, where cooler soil and better rainfall makes for strong establishment before summer.

Join the conversation. Let’s strengthen the strands of our living web.

2. Progress Hall Access, Inclusion and the Next Chapter

In 1951, the people of Coal Point built Progress Hall through garden parties, fundraising and working bees. For more than seventy years it has hosted dances, concerts, meetings and celebrations. It is owned by the community, not council.

But expectations have changed. Accessibility standards have strengthened, community understanding of inclusion has grown. What was once acceptable no longer meets contemporary standards.

If the Hall is to serve everyone into the future, we must plan for it now with a strategic approach.

This year, CPPA will develop a detailed Disability and Access Plan, with a staged, strategic framework that assesses the current limitations, identifies best-practice solutions, integrates building and landscape design and positions the CPPA to apply for grant funding to implement the design.

We are seeking expertise from landscape architects, design specialists, surveyors and grant writers.

More than compliance, accessible design benefits everyone; parents with prams, less mobile residents, hall users moving equipment. Good access is good design.

At the Open Day we invite imagination. What could be possible? Seamless pathways, integrated landscape design or flexible outdoor spaces. The Hall was built by the community. Its next chapter will be shaped by the community too. If you can't make it to the open day and are interested in contributing to the discussion, register your interest here

3. Dancing Through the Decades with music, movement and community.

When Progress Hall was built, it was designed for dancing, with a raised stage, sprung timber floor, and plenty of room to roam with razzle and dazzle.

This year we want to bring that intention back to life with Dancing Through the Decades, a celebration of music from the 1950s to the 2020s across eight events.

And who better to provide the soundtrack than our own community? Coal Point is rich with talented musicians. Bands. Duos. Solo artists. Some gig regularly, others may just need the right invitation...you’re invited!

The concept is that each event will include a dance instructor to guide a few moves from the era, nothing formal, just enough to get started, then the floor is yours.

Dancing dissolves age barriers, it builds connection without saying a word and is good for the brain and the body.

If you would like to attend, perform, organise or suggest some songs for a decade, come to the Open Day or get in touch through this Expression of interest form.

Let’s fill the Hall with music and dance again. 

4. From Brighton Avenue to a Nature-Positive Future

Thinking Ahead of the Curve

Some conversations take years. In 2016, a DA for 2 Brighton Avenue/133 Excelsior Pde proposed removal of 215 of 218 trees on the block. Community concern was strong with 133 submissions and the matter progressed to the Land and Environment Court. The amended proposal retained 31 trees in keeping with Council’s recommendation “the applicant should give strong consideration to retaining continuous canopy vegetation to conserve scenic amenity to the Toronto Bay area”

As the implementation of the DA works began with the gruesome grind of the arborist’s arsenal it has again highlighted how confronting canopy loss can be. Biodiversity decline rarely happens in one sweep. It happens incrementally, tree by tree.

Across the Coal Point peninsula, connected canopy corridors allow wildlife to glide, flit and forage between the Spotted Gum Open Forest, remnant rainforest gullies and Swamp Oak Floodplain Forest. When those corridors are thinned or broken, fragmentation compounds and safe movement through the landscape becomes harder with each passing year.

The bigger picture

In February, the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services released its Business and Biodiversity Assessment.

Its message is clear. Biodiversity loss is not just environmental. It affects economic systems, property values and community resilience. Nature underpins everything. The report calls for shifting financial flows toward protection and regeneration, not simply managing decline.

A local response?

One Open Day conversation will explore the idea of a local Green Investment Fund.

Not an offset scheme or a protest mechanism but a proactive investment model supporting habitat protection and restoration, linking of wildlife corridors and collaborative and sustainable housing

This would require careful design and collaboration. It is not about stopping development. It is about recognising biodiversity as living infrastructure.

The Brighton Avenue story reminds us that decisions today shape canopy cover for decades. How do we move from reacting to shaping? Join the conversation or register you interest in the project here.

5. Fortify Your Foreshore

Walk the waterfront after a storm and you can see the change. Exposed roots. Slumping banks. Sections of foreshore that are quietly disappearing. The foreshore is under pressure.

This year, CPPA proposes a workshop series titled Fortify Your Foreshore. You can register your interest in the workshops here.

Workshop One – Where and When

Where is the foreshore? It is not a fixed line. It shifts over time with water levels, storm surge, sediment movement and vegetation change.

Experts, historical mapping and current mapping will help demonstrate where the foreshore sits now and where it may move in future.

Workshop Two – What and Why

The foreshore is the transition zone between land and lake. Water meets soil. Roots bind banks. Fish shelter. Birds feed. It is one of the most biologically rich areas in the landscape.

Healthy foreshores absorb wave energy, filter runoff, protect property and safeguard water quality. When degraded, impacts ripple outward.

Workshop Three – Who and How

Responsibility for the foreshore is shared between landholders, Council and State agencies. But practically, one property owner’s actions affect their neighbour.

Hard structures can deflect wave energy. Clearing vegetation can accelerate erosion. We will explore soft engineering approaches such as strategic native planting and appropriate structural responses.

Protecting foreshores is not a single-property issue. It is a whole-of-community project. If you live by the water, walk the shoreline or care about the health of our lake, this conversation is for you.

Complete the Expression of Interest form to keep in touch about the event.

What’s on at the hall

In our 80th year it’s wonderful to see our hall being used to bring people together for yoga, pilates, sound baths, wine appreciation, fibre and textiles classes, private functions and CPPA meetings. The online calendar shows when the events are on.

Back by popular demand is Cheese and Yoghurt Making, offering a hands-on class where you’ll learn to make Fetta, Persian Fetta, Haloumi, Yoghurt, Labne, Ricotta, Mascarpone, Paneer and Cream Cheese... and take it home.

You’ll leave with the skills and confidence to recreate these dairy delights in your own kitchen. This is a practical, small-group workshop. Places are limited to 12 per class. Bookings are essential.

Dates in MAY: Sunday 3, Saturday 9, Sunday 10

Cost: $150 per person

Catering: Lots of tastings and a sumptuous morning tea. Please advise in advance of any special dietary requirements.

Hosted by: Lyn & Pete Malcolm - Mobile Cheese Class.

How to Book: A $50 deposit is required to secure your place.

Phone/text 0402 978 820 or Email: mobilecheeseclass@gmail.com

Facebook & Instagram: @mobilecheeseclass

80 years of connecting our community

This year marks a significant milestone for the Coal Point Progress Association(CPPA). Formed in 1946, the CPPA is celebrating 80 years of advocating for local services and infrastructure, strengthening community connections, protecting the local environment and representing community concerns to Council.

The anniversary year is a chance to look back and look forward. We’ll be sharing snippets from the archives (first issue of The Chronicle from 1980), reflecting on where we’ve come from, and exploring where we want to head next through a series of Conversation Cafés. Along the way, there will be plenty of opportunities to come together socially at Progress Hall.

Our first anniversary event will be held on Saturday 14 March, starting with an open day from 10.00am to 12.00pm at Progress Hall. The morning will feature the very popular a Grow Me Instead weed display and plant sale, a chance to meet members and the Committee and a Conversation Café, with café-style beverages and light bites, and opportunities to share your ideas on

• How will we celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the CPPA?
• How can people move safely around the Coal Point peninsula without relying on cars?
• What role should the CPPA play in the community over the next few years?
• How can we protect local bushland as housing density increases?

After a break for lunch, we’ll come back together for an efficient Annual General Meeting, where committee positions will be filled and reports presented.

We look forward to celebrating this milestone year with the community that has shaped the CPPA for eight decades.

Time to renew or Join Up

A CPPA membership helps keep our community-owned hall open, our bushland cared for and our community informed. Join or renew today and be part of what keeps our community connected. Here's an online form. Or click on the form below. More information about the CPPA membership is here

 

Can you help...Organise social events, donate for the comfy corner, join our hall helpers roster?

Celebrating 80 Years of Progress – Our Oak Anniversary

Next year marks the Oak Anniversary of the Coal Point Progress Association, 80 years strong and still growing. Like our local she-oaks, we’ve stood strong through the years, weathering storms and change, our roots deep in community care, for our people, our bushland and our beloved Progress Hall.

To celebrate this milestone, we’re planning a few special events in the hall and are forming a small sub-committee to help make it happen. If you enjoy bringing people together, sharing stories or lending a hand, we’d love you on board.

Come along to the Volunteers Lunch on Thursday 18 December for a chat, or speak with a committee member. Let’s make our 80th, our Oak Anniversary, a year to remember, and celebrate this rare and remarkable community achievement.

Hall helpers wanted

Our freshly renovated Progress Hall is busier than ever, and we’d love a few more hands to help keep it sparkling, comfy and welcoming.

We’re creating a “comfy corner” with a couple of easy chairs, a rug and a coffee table. If you’ve got any of these items you’d like to donate, please send a photo to cppasecretary@gmail.com and we’ll be in touch.

If you can spare a little time for hall care, we’re putting together a cleaning roster to share the load. The jobs are small, the company’s good, and your help makes a big difference. Chat with one of the committee members or drop us an email if you’d like to lend a hand.

What’s On at Coal Point Progress Hall

There’s lots happening at your local community hall , we’d love to see you there!

• Healing Moves Yoga & Therapy (with Kas)Mondays & Wednesdays 5:30–6:30pm, plus every second Saturday 9:00–10:00am.
• Stay tuned for Kas’s Chakra Workshop Series beginning early next year.
• Sound Bath Meditations (A Soulful Way with Kara) Every second Tuesday from 4 November (please check the calendar for any changes).
• Pilates & Group Fitness (with Deb) Fridays 7:45–8:45am.

Follow our Facebook page for class links & contact details and for enquiries or to connect directly with class facilitators.
Facebook page: CoalPointProgressAssociation/

We have recently had the pleasure of hosting Mobile Cheese & Yoghurt Making Classes, run by the wonderful team at mobilecheeseclass.com.au. These workshops were a hit, and we’re hopeful they’ll be back offering more delicious learning experiences soon.

We are also very pleased to welcome back Fran Davy and her nourishing Day Retreat by the Lake, supporting mind–body connection and community wellbeing.

Looking ahead, we are thrilled to have Lake Macquarie U3A joining us at the hall next year with a selection of their engaging lifelong-learning groups. Planned sessions include a Wine Appreciation Group on Tuesdays 11:30am–1:00pm, and a Fibre & Textiles Group on Wednesdays 9:30am–12:00pm. To learn more about U3A and their wonderful range of programs, visit: https://lakemacquarie.u3anet.org.au/

Our hall is a beautiful, light-filled community space equipped with a modern kitchen, making it a welcoming venue for art and music groups, social gatherings, workshops, and special celebrations. We are always keen to see more community use, particularly for weekend events and ongoing group bookings throughout the week. Do you need a back-up wet weather venue?

For bookings and enquiries, please contact Cath Fairs, details about hall hire are here. To check current activities and availability, please visit our calendar
https://coalpointprogress.blogspot.com/p/calendar.html

We look forward to seeing you at the hall soon!

Re-Open Day and AGM outcomes

The Progress Hall Reopening Day & 30 years of Landcare celebration was a wonderful gathering of 45 community members. 

Sincere thanks to the Honourable Greg Piper for attending and officially cutting the ribbon to the refurbished kitchen and his kind words about CPPA’s long-standing, exemplary and unique role in   keeping the community connected through the Progress Hall and newsletter and also for caring for our local bushland. Progress Hall is of the very few community-owned halls left in the City. 

The repainted Hall was looking particularly resplendent and filled with the sound of casual, animated conversation. Thanks to Helen English on our newly-tuned piano and Bobby Paquet on guitar with some French folk classics for providing background music and our local landcare crew for illuminating attendees with   explanations of local weeds.

Scrumptious frittata and muffins provided by Cleaver and heated in our new kitchen, along with tea & coffee for all, wraps and cakes, allowed the assembled gathering to have their fill of food and friendship.

The raffle was well subscribed and was possible from the donations of prizes from The White Room, Carey Bay Cellars, The Goods and Jeannie & Michael.

Community Feedback

Community conversations were encouraged around how can we use the Hall, raise funds to support the ongoing costs of maintenance, renovations that would improve the hall usage, what community needs could the hall support and what’s a reasonable annual membership fee.

 The most popular suggestions for hall usage and improvement focused on wellbeing and creativity, with strong interest in activities such as yoga, mindfulness, and meditation, as well as a choir or folk festival. Education sessions like technology help, morning teas for people living alone and community craft sessions were also well-supported. These ideas reflect a clear desire to use the hall as a space for connection, learning, and inclusion.

In terms of fundraising and facilities, morning teas and native plant sales were among the top suggestions. Respondents also supported fixing the footpath at the street entrance. When asked about membership fees, the vast majority felt that $20 per year was a fair and accessible price, this will be discussed by the Committee. 

This feedback will directly guide planning for future programs, fundraising initiatives, and improvements to ensure the hall continues to serve the community’s evolving needs.

Thank You to the Funders

A vote of thanks goes out to the funders. The refurbishment project would not have been possible without the $8000 from the State Government’s Local Small Commitments Allocation (LSCA), an $8000 donation from the Eraring Site Community Support Fund, the Toronto Lions $500 contribution and community members $2800 of financial support. Along with $19,285 from the coffers of the CPPA, this refurbishment project cost $38,605 and has positioned our hall as unique and affordable location for community gatherings and local entertainment.

AGM outcomes

The open day wrapped up with an AGM which saw the Annual reports delivered and  following committee elected

President/Secretary – Suzanne Pritchard

Vice President – Pamela Sharp

Treasurer – Nico Marcar

Selma Barry – Action activator

Ros Cornish – Landcare Coordination

Nicole Haigh  - Newsletter Distribution

What's happening at the Hall and where the Landcare team will be lurking

The Hall is being utilised again for community activities and events.

If you want to know what's on check out the calendar for Yoga times on Monday & Wednesday, Pilates on Friday.

Or if you want to book the hall for an event, you can see when it's available.

Locals Landcaring around Coal Point, Carey Bay & Toronto

There's lots of information about the reserves and the local landcare activities on the website.

We meet anytime between 8am and noon, for however long you want 

Tools & techniques provided

Morning tea at 10am

15/5 West Ridge

22/5 Hampton St Link

29/5 West Ridge

5/6 Ambrose/Yarul

12/6 Puntei Creek

19/6 Burnage

Crocodile Point (TASNG)

1st &3rd Wed

8:30-10am. Meet under the Fennel Bay bridge

Want to join Us?

If you would like to receive weekly emails about where we are landcaring and what we will be doing?

Ros - cppalandcare@gmail.com

Joy, glee, and excitement are in the air! - Progress Hall re-opeing

The Progress Hall is looking absolutely amazing, and the CPPA Committee is beyond thrilled to be throwing open the doors once again! We warmly invite you to join us for a festive Re-Open Day on Saturday 22 March 2025, from 10am to 2pm.

This special event is a wonderful opportunity to catch up with locals, soak in the cheerful atmosphere, and celebrate the incredible achievements of our community group. We can’t wait to welcome you back to our beautifully refreshed hall—see you there!

10:00- 10:30 Welcome members of the community back to the Hall, seeing is believing, it’s an amazing transformation. Share your ideas for future uses and events.

10:30 – 11:00 The official re-opening of the hall ceremony, with the Honourable Greg Piper MP, cutting the ribbon and turning on the urn. A time for some heartfelt thanks and reflections on the community contributions that have maintained this community asset for the past 74 years.

11:00 – 11:30 Celebrating 30 years of Landcare in our community. Who are the landcarers, what do they do and where do they do it. Join us in a slice of community cake and a cuppa.

11:30 -1:30 Drop by and say hi. Explore the hall, immerse yourself in a display of local weeds and how to get rid of them. Purchase a native plant that can replace your weed. Chat about your trees and see if they have the potential to be a hollowhog-hotel. Join the CPPA and support what we do. There will be members-a-plenty to propose and second your application.

To add to the festive atmosphere throughout the day there will be some light music so visitors can appreciate the acoustics and test out the well sprung floor if you like to move and groove. On stage will be Bobby Paquet, a French folk guitarist and on the recently tuned piano will be Helen English, accomplished pianist.

There will be a rolling morning tea with some tastebud tempting treats provided by the Cleaver crew.

1:30 – 2pm Join in the Annual General Meeting of the CPPA where the achievements of the year will be shared, the financial report delivered, plans for 2025 discussed and the election of the Committee undertaken. Nominations received so far for the Committee have been from Suzanne Pritchard, Nico Marcar, Cath Fairs, Selma Barry, Helen English, Nicole Haigh, Pam Sharp and Ros Cornish.

If you are coming along please send an email to cppasecretary@gmail.com so we can make sure we cater adequately.

Thank you to the refurbishment contributors

The refurbishment of the kitchen started in 2023, on the back of the discovery of a very significant termite infestation. Since then the community and CPPA combined to create something very special, and for that our heartfelt and genuine thanks are given to:

Selma Barry, for the thoughtful practical kitchen design and coordinating the whole project and carrying much of the stress involved in such a project

Cath Fairs & Family, for the attention to detail and decluttering skills, re-setting the hall with enthusiasm and gusto for the next stage of its community life.

Ian Dennison for his timber transforming talents, commencing with the kitchen deconstruction dealing with the worst of the termite damaged timbers and following up with carpentry detailing at the kitchen completion end of the project

David Israel for being our trades consultant and overseeing the technical aspects of reconstructing the kitchen

Langford Windows for a lovely new window and a $1000 discount

Reece Plumbing Warners Bay for the donations of taps (warnersbay.plumbing.nsw@reece.com.au )

Dave the Plasterer – D & C Senior-for doing a top job for a great price in ensuring the kitchen walls were perfect for the kitchen installation

Brody Geddes from MKB-Joinery and Benchtops who created and installed a lovely kitchen and was very patient with us throughout the process (mkbjb@outlook.com)

Guy Brauer and Ross McGrath for coming to the electrical rescue and donating their expertise and time

CoolWatt Air and Electrical for a prompt quote and installation of additional power points and ensuring the oven electricals had capacity.(Mitchel Davies - 0457124406)

Dean, The PlumbOn Plumber for a quick quote, quick job and community discount

Luke Fairs for the carpentry work in completing theframing and undertaking the gyprocking to get the walls resurrected and replaced.

Tom and Kay Scott for the timber donations that helped us stretch the dollars that little bit further

Toronto Sunrise Rotary for responding to an urgent plea to paint the kitchen prior to the kitchen installation

Carpet Court- Toronto for the newly levelled floor and enduring vinyl flooring

Wangi Mens Shed for supplying Peter Bowen to provide advice ()

Bennetts Painting – Kyle and Graeme for painting the Hall interior in a super quick timeframe and going above and beyond the call of duty to get the tint right and doing all the fiddly bits. (m:0451370045)

The Landcare team for making the grounds and surrounds look so wonderful for the re-open day.

2025 is looking to be a big one for the CPPA!

We’ll be doing a lot of celebrating and socialising this year. The first major event is an open day at Progress Hall on Saturday 22nd March, from 10am-2pm, celebrating the kitchen completion and hall refurbishments, 30 years of local landcaring and holding our AGM! 

CPPA members and the local community are warmly invited to visit Progress Hall and inspect the recently completed  kitchen and hall facilities. The new kitchen now has all the mod-cons including a dishwasher, induction cooktop, large oven, a very neat bin system, places for everything and everything in its place. The $35,000 project has been overseen by Selma Barry who has done an amazing job coordinating the transformation with funding provided from an $8,000 grant from the State Government, a donation of $8000 from Eraring Energy’s Community Fund, and an incredible $2000 in donations from our members!

Thirty years of local landcaring will be celebrated with a special cake and a display of freshly picked local weeds and some ‘grow me instead’ options to purchase. Landcarers will be on hand to share their weed treatment techniques and knowledge of our reserves and local biodiversity. https://coalpointprogress.blogspot.com/p/bonza-backyard-gardening-guide.html 

There’ll also be an opportunity to express your interest in having habitat hollows installed in large trees on your property, utilising the Hollowhog approach, as part of a funding application under consideration to enhance the number of hollows for our local wildlife within our community. It takes over 100 years for a hollow to form, a significant number of our fauna require hollows for shelter and nesting. The Hollowhog approach fast tracks hollow creation.

The CPPA Committee will be on hand to hear your thoughts about activities that the CPPA can undertake, especially around utilising our unique community-owned hall. There will be a rolling morning tea and nibbles on hand and an opportunity to join or renew your membership to the CPPA.

A brief and efficient Annual General Meeting will be held from 1:30-2pm. The Agenda will be as follows

• Welcome
• Minutes of the previous AGM
• President’s Report
• Financial Report
• Election of CPPA Committee

If you would like to join the Committee a nomination form is available.

Drop in for a quick visit or hang around for a while, the Open Day at the hall is an opportunity to catch up with some locals and share your thoughts on what you’d like to see happen in our community or at our hall. 

Membership renewals are due ...

or join our progressive progress association.

CPPA membership aligns with the calendar year and membership renewals are due, or join up now!

Our annual membership fees are $8 for an individual, or $13 for a household (defined as people living at the same address, whether a family or not). Five-year memberships are $32 and $52.

There’s a membership form on the website and inside.

Wanted: Civil construction advice on addressing access to Progress Hall.

The CPPA will be applying for funding to improve access to the hall and would greatly appreciate some advice to guide our application.Please contact  cppasecretary@gmail.com or 0438 596 741 in February to discuss.