Araluen

28/10/2025

🏠 Not much dough for a whole gingerbread home! 🍪
Our talented Chancez Cafés participants have been busy baking, constructing and decorating gingerbread houses and Christmas trees. Each unique creation will be tree-mendously charming, hand-made with love, and yours for just $50!
🎁 Support skill-building, creativity, and festive community spirit - one delicious bite at a time.

👉 Preorder yours now at Chancez Mill Park Library or Possum Hollow Playground
https://www.araluen.org/chancez-cafe/

24/10/2025

💙 Do you have a passion for supporting others?

Come chat with us at the Careers in Healthcare Expo and discover what it’s like to work in the disability sector!

📅 Thursday, 30 October
🕙 10am – 3:30pm
📍 The Centre Ivanhoe, 275 Upper Heidelberg Road

We’ll be sharing insights into the rewarding, people-focused roles at Araluen - and how you can make a real difference in someone’s life.
Whether you're starting out or looking for a meaningful career change, we’d love to meet you! We’re seeking people with passion, empathy, and a genuine desire to make a difference. Your life skills, interests, and willingness to share are powerful ways to connect and enrich lives - so bring them along and build a long-term career!

Thanks to Banyule City Council for hosting this fantastic event spotlighting career pathways in health and allied sectors.

FREE to attend!

Banyule City Council invites you to the Careers in Healthcare Expo – a free event designed to showcase the wide range of career pathways available across the healthcare sector. This is your chance to meet face-to-face with professionals, educators, and employers who can help you take your first step.

Healthcare is more than just hospitals, it spans aged care, mental health, youth services, allied health, nursing, community services and beyond. At this expo, you’ll discover entry-level opportunities, training options and pathways into a variety of rewarding careers

Book your spot here: https://events.humanitix.com/banyule-healthcare-expo

12/10/2025

Our preloved book sale is in its final hours. Books, sausages, art, CDs, DVDs, coffee….come on down for a great afternoon

10/10/2025

ATTENTION BARGAIN LOVERS....

😀🌙😴Only one more sleep - our big PRELOVED BOOK SALE opens at 9am tomorrow. Grab a bargain from over 8,000 quality donated preloved books of all genres, for all ages. Whatever your thing, we have a book for you!

🌭☕🎨And while you're there, enjoy a coffee from our Chancez Cafe pop-up, a delicious freshly sizzled sausage and view a collection of original art in our Art Connects sale (some pieces with minor frame damage, all at bargain prices, with all proceeds from these art sales going to our talented artists).

⭐🎉🍀But wait - there's more! Some lucky winners will walk away with some great prizes in our raffles. Hope to see you there!

🕐This Saturday and Sunday
9am - 3pm
at Araluen, Rosanna (2 Turnham Ave). https://www.araluen.org/booksale2025/

07/10/2025

🎃👻 Spooky Treats Alert! 👻🎃
Our Halloween gingerbread men have arrived at Chancez. Hand-decorated with spooky charm, they’re frightfully delicious! 🧡
🕸️ Available now - but beware, they vanish fast!
📍 Visit us at Chancez and grab yours before they ghost away...
https://www.araluen.org/chancez-cafe/

06/10/2025

Only 4 days to go and our preloved book sale is taking shape.

What’s your thing? If you love people, our biography section is packed with life stories waiting to be discovered. From artists to activists, leaders to legends - whatever your thing is, we’ve got a book for it.

🗓️ This Saturday and Sunday, 9am – 3pm
📍 Araluen Rosanna (2 Turnham Avenue)
💸 Books, puzzles, CDs & DVDs from just $1!

💛 And a huge thank you to our incredible volunteers - you’re the real heroes of this story. We couldn’t do it without your time, energy, and commitment to Araluen.

03/10/2025

📣 The latest Araluen Imagining Better Newsletter is here!
It’s bursting with inspiring stories, upcoming events, and exciting updates from across our community.
✨ Dive in and discover what’s happening at Araluen – we’ve got something for everyone!
📩 Read now: https://www.araluen.org/araluen-imagining-better-newsletter-october-2025-2/

26/09/2025

NEWS FLASH: Araluen’s Preloved Book Sale - now featuring Art Connects!
This year, our popular Preloved Book Sale is getting a creative upgrade - and you won’t want to miss it! And Brady says, “Come and buy some art – it’s good for you, me and Araluen!”.

🆕 NEW in 2025: Art Connects excess stock sale
For the first time, we’re including a selection of framed artworks by talented Art Connects artists - and here’s the exciting part:
👉 Sale pricing is rarely offered, making this a unique chance to pick up an art bargain! (some pieces may have minimal frame damage).
Plus, you’ll find:
📚 Thousands of quality preloved books for all ages
💿 CDs, DVDs, and puzzles
🎨 Affordable art to brighten your space
☕🌭🍪 Sizzling sausages, fresh brewed coffee and delicious home-baked treats by Chancez Cafe

Whether you're hunting for a good read or a statement piece for your wall, there’s something for everyone.
📍 Araluen Rosanna – 2 Turnham Avenue
🗓️ Saturday 11 & Sunday 12 October
⏰ 9am–3pm
🛈 https://www.araluen.org/booksale2025/

26/09/2025

WE NEED YOU!
Araluen’s end of year raffle is coming.
We hope to pack our raffle with incredible prizes… can you please help to make it happen? Can you donate a tempting prize? Or do you know a business that might like to join us an event sponsor? We offer a range of great promotional opportunities for businesses who get involved.

Email: fundraising@araluen.org for more info or to chat about opportunities.

02/09/2025

📚✨ Araluen’s Preloved Book Sale is back on the weekend of the 11 & 12 October (9am - 3pm) - our biggest (and funnest!) event of the year!
To make it a huge success, we need your support. Please donate your resaleable preloved books, CDs, DVDs and jigsaw puzzles. Every donation helps raise vital funds for Araluen.

📍 Donations can be dropped at:
• Araluen Rosanna (2–6 Turnham Ave) on Saturday mornings, 9am–12pm (6, 13, 20, 27 September & 4 October).
• Or at Lower Plenty admin office (weekday drop-offs, 9am–4pm).

❌ Please note: we cannot accept travel guides older than 2022, encyclopedias, or items outside of books, puzzles, CDs & DVDs - as we must pay to dispose of them.
💙 Your donations = more treasures for the community to discover at the sale. Thank you for making this event possible!

More info: https://www.araluen.org/booksale2025/

21/08/2025

🙌 Can you please lend a hand and help make Araluen’s preloved book sale a best seller? Our biggest fundraising event of the year will be held at Araluen Rosanna on the weekend of 11 and 12 October.

We’re looking for volunteers to help with:
🧡 Sorting books prior to the event
📦 Helping to accept and sort book/puzzle/CD/DVD donations at our drop off locations leading up to the event
📚 Event setup and pack up
🛍️ Sales & customer service
….and a range of other tasks

Got a few hours to spare before or during the event? We’d love your help - every bit of support makes a big difference! And, to say “thanks”, all volunteers will be invited to our special Supporters preview evening so we can show our heartfelt appreciation.

📩 Get in touch: DM, fundraising@araluen.org or PH: 8457 3028 (Robyn)

07/08/2025

A fantastic step for accessibility and inclusion. We’re thrilled to have had the opportunity to showcase the work of such talented artists and to be part of this wonderful initiative that will make leisure and relaxation accessible - with dignity - for more people in our community. And congratulations to the artists, Chloe, and all our hardworking Art Connects staff.
Thank you for having us, Lizzie Blandthorn Vicki Ward MP for Eltham Nillumbik Shire Council