Vivability

16/01/2026

Our Annual Charity Golf Day may be later in the year, but we are already thinking about who will take home the trophy for 2026.

Let’s talk bragging rights:
🏆 2023 - Western Project Services
🏆 2024 - Loveridge Digital
🏆 2025 - Dawsons Removals
🏆 2026 - … 👀 your name here?

Who’s lining up to claim the trophy and support The BIG Lunch next?

16/01/2026

🥕 Amazing veg boxes available now🌿

Fresh, local and packed with goodness, straight from VIVA's 3 Veg Farm.

This week’s boxes include shallots, silverbeet, kale, beetroot, zucchini, basil, mesclun mix, lettuce, beans, rhubarb and bok choi.

🥬 Large box $50
🥬 Small box $30 (less of each)

📲 Text 0437 303 992 to arrange an order.

📸 Pictured: Farm Manager Pete Starkey with a $30 veg box and a fresh bunch of Willow Bank posies, which are available now at Cafe VIVA .

15/01/2026

Vivability Limited is a not-for-profit, registered charity and disability service provider, committed to creating real opportunities for people with disabilities to take part in community life.
The Ambulance Station Redevelopment will include a social enterprise coffee lounge and cocktail bar. It will create supported employment where people with disabilities are paid award wages or higher and can gain skills, confidence and connection.
Did you know more than 20,000 people with disability in Australia are paid below award wage? We believe Bathurst can lead by doing things differently.
Vivability currently runs three social enterprises, with St Johns becoming our fourth. Each one creates local jobs and supports economic participation in our region.
We are proud to invest in people and place, and to keep creating opportunity in Bathurst.

Locals are set to be sipping on cocktails in the former Bathurst Ambulance Station building before the end of 2026. https://bit.ly/4jGhLlA

08/01/2026

We’re so proud of all our social enterprises, and our newest, Viva’s 3 Veg Farm, is no different 🌱 Already creating meaningful employment opportunities, the farm is preparing to bring you a fresh veggie subscription service very soon.

In the meantime, you can enjoy the harvest at Café VIVA, available now in new menu items and direct from the produce fridge.

If you aren’t already following Viva’s 3 Veg Farm or Café VIVA, give them a follow today and come along for the journey.

A new subscription service is just one way to try the produce.

07/01/2026

We would love to welcome you to the first BIG Lunch of the year today from 12 at Cafe VIVA.

As always, everyone is welcome. Join us for a yummy meal, good company and a relaxed place to connect.

04/01/2026

"This recognition is a celebration of what happens when community, sport, and inclusion come together."

A NSW body has recognised the impact of the Bathurst initiative.

30/12/2025

Group Support Vacancies Now Available

We currently have limited vacancies in our Group Support programs, running:
📅 Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday
⏰ 9:00am – 3:00pm

Our groups offer a welcoming, supportive environment focused on connection, participation and meaningful activities.

🚐 Transport is available to and from group, making it easy to attend.

If you or someone you support may be interested, please get in touch to find out more or secure a place. Please email intake@vivability.org.au to learn more.

28/12/2025

We are nearing completion of our largest residential build to date in Bathurst, a purpose-designed group home shaped by the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Violence, Abuse, Neglect and Exploitation of People with Disability and our commitment to placing people with disability at the centre of decisions.

The design reflects best practice standards for safety and quality. Recent announcements confirming mandatory registration for Supported Independent Living and digital platform providers reinforce the importance of safeguards that support quality, safety and transparency, reforms Vivability strongly supports.

Thank you to our local builder Kenwood Homes for delivering this significant project. We look forward to welcoming residents soon.

https://www.westernadvocate.com.au/story/9140856/how-vivabilitys-new-kelso-group-home-will-be-better-for-clients/

'I don't know of any development like this anywhere.'

24/12/2025

🎄✨ Merry Christmas from all of us at Vivability ✨🎄

Wishing our community a joyful Christmas. Thank you for your ongoing support in helping us create opportunity every day.

18/12/2025

It was great to welcome the Central West Village Voice out to visit us at VIVA's 3 Veg Farm. We love sharing the story behind this growing social enterprise.

You can read the article and see more local good news stories in this week’s online edition here 👉
https://villagevoice.net.au/this-weeks-online-version/

Get your fresh produce from Cafe VIVA today!

17/12/2025

We are excited to welcome Rachel Pinel to Gallery Viva, with her exhibition opening tonight at 6pm at Café VIVA, 107 William Street, Bathurst.

Rachel is a Central West–based figurative realist painter, trained at the Florence Academy of Art in Italy, the Julian Ashton Art School in Sydney, and the I. Repin Academy in St Petersburg. Her work has been recognised in major art prizes, including the Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award and the AME Bale Art Prize.

Join us for opening night and experience Rachel’s stunning work in person.