Wandi Nerida

25/02/2026

Among the clinical rooms and therapy spaces, Wandi Nerida offers something extra special – a thriving garden helping participants connect with the wider world. 🌱

Through Permaculture Therapy, Wandi’s garden becomes a living metaphor for growth, resilience and connection. It’s a safe, non-threatening environment where people can explore difficult emotions and beliefs. 💭

Participants engage in various aspects of garden care, from composting to harvesting, each activity carefully designed to challenge eating disorder behaviours and thoughts. 🗣️

They then prepare meals using produce they’ve helped to grow - It’s a farm-to-table connection that creates powerful opportunities for healing disordered relationships with food preparation and eating. 🦋

Swipe across to read some of the feedback, and then learn more about Wandi Nerida’s adjunct therapeutic interventions and how they support eating disorder recovery, including permaculture, equine therapy and more by heading to our website: https://wandinerida.org.au/resources/permaculture-at-wandi-nerida/

17/02/2026

Seeing someone who has recovered from an eating disorder can make your own recovery feel possible.

Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first eating disorder residential treatment facility, offers unique hope for recovery, with nearly half of our staff having lived experience of an eating disorder or as a carer.

Being supported by staff with lived experience can help break down barriers like stigma, shame, and denial, showing firsthand that recovery is achievable.

Now in its fifth year of operation, Wandi Nerida can provide you or your loved one with intensive, holistic, and evidence-based eating disorder care. Interested in learning more? Head here⬇️ https://wandinerida.org.au/

13/02/2026

Are you a healthcare professional that sees patients with eating disorders? Do you know how to best support them?

Hear from local experts about referral pathways and options for your patients at this special Referrer and Stakeholder event, hosted by Wandi Nerida – Australia’s premiere residential recovery centre for eating disorders, owned and operated by Butterfly Foundation.

🗓️Tuesday, 24 February, from 6:00pm–7:30pm.
📍 The Mantra Mooloolaba, 7 Venning St, Mooloolaba QLD

Join us as we bring together GPs, psychiatrists, research partners, PHN colleagues, and other stakeholders who share a common purpose: helping individuals with eating disorders find hope, healing, and long‑term recovery.

✉️ RSVPs are essential - contact enquiries@wandinerida.org.au by Tuesday 17 February or send us a DM!

11/02/2026

We're sending a very big Wandi thank you to The Crosby Foundation for their recent donation of a new hospital floor scrubber - helping to ensure Australia's first residential recovery centre for eating disorders remains sparkling, shining and fit to provide exemplary treatment and care. 🦋

The floor scrubber is a vital piece of equipment in a hospital, helping to keep our participants and our staff healthy. It is also ergonomically designed, helping to support our environment and facilities team as they work. 😊

The Crosby Foundation has been a big supporter of Wandi Nerida, contributing to our permaculture gardens, our equine program and our therapy dog, Triya, and we are very grateful for their support. 💙

Do you want to support Wandi Nerida and contribute to life-changing eating disorder treatment? Make a difference by donating now: https://wandinerida.org.au/get-involved/

19/01/2026

What’s that in the sky?! Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s a group of skydivers soaring across the sky, raising funds for eating disorder treatment!
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It’s officially a wrap on our Skydiving Santas: Wishes for Wandi fundraising event, which took place just before Christmas, raising over $10,000!
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Butterfly Foundation Group CEO Jim, and several brave Wandi Nerida staff, including Director of Wandi Nerida Danielle, Nurse Unit Manager Hannah, and Kitchen Manager Nerys, joined community fundraisers Nell, Rhonda and Greg in this high-flying fundraiser.
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A big thank you to this passionate group and the generous donors who backed them, providing hope, support and care for people struggling with an eating disorder.

We spoke with participants before the big jump – check out what they had to say!

Do you want to contribute to life-changing eating disorder treatment? It's not too late to show your support!
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https://skydiving-santas2.raiselysite.com/

19/12/2025

As 2025 draws to a close, we want to say a big thank you to our staff, community and supporters, for your compassionate support this year.
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A special thank you also to our participants and their families, for trusting Wandi Nerida with the care of their loved ones, as we continue to provide holistic eating disorder treatment and support.
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Swipe through to see some of the holiday cheer taking place around Wandi, with a special appearance from our resident therapy dog, Triya!

We wish you and your loved ones a joyful and restful festive season, and a hopeful, relaxing, and fulfilling 2026. Wandi Nerida will continue to support participants over the holiday period. See you next year!

16/12/2025

The weather wasn’t initially on our side – but tomorrow’s forecast is looking sunny with a chance of Skydiving Santas, who are raising essential funds for a very important cause!
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After being postponed due to winds, several dedicated Butterfly and Wandi Nerida staff, along with three exceptional community fundraisers, will tomorrow take the ultimate leap of faith skydiving for Wandi Nerida, Australia’s first residential recovery centre for eating disorders.

Show your support for Butterfly Foundation’s CEO Jim Hungerford, Director of Wandi Nerida Danielle Doughterty, Wandi Nerida Nurse Unit Manager Hannah Beighton, Wandi Nerida Kitchen Manager Nerys Kinnaird, and community fundraisers Nell (Elanor) Gooley, Rhonda Biggs and Greg Biggs by donating now.

Every dollar raised, big or small, can help provide life-changing, intensive residential treatment for eating disorders – severe, psychological illnesses that have one of the highest mortality rates.
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https://skydiving-santas2.raiselysite.com/

27/11/2025

Wandi friends... We have just TWO sleeps to go before our Skydiving Santas parachute for purpose to raise vital funds for Wandi Nerida...

Bursting out of the aeroplane gates, we have:

* Jim - Our CEO, not shy of admitting that he is really scared!

* Hannah - recently returned from exploring the globe in time to explore the skies.

* Rhonda and Greg - young-at-heart locals joining us because "it sounded like a fun thing to do" and they wanted to support the Wandi mission.

* Nell - a passionate, regular skydiving enthusiast, who's travelling all the way to Qld from Victoria to take this leap!

* Nerys - Head chef of Wandi and is as keen as the mustard in the cupboard to take the leap.

* Dani - our Wandi Director, doing it for Wandi, but we're not sure if it'll be Dani or Jim who'll be rattling the walls of the aeroplane more with their nerves!

You can watch Jim's personal LinkedIn message about facing his fears below.

We're so grateful to our skydivers for facing their fears (or interstate trips with the whole family!) to join us in this very special event. You can show your support by sponsoring them, or sending them messages of encouragement at https://skydiving-santas2.raiselysite.com/

We're looking forward to a great morning at Stumer's Creek park in Coolum, this Saturday (before the next rains hit!). We'll be sizzling sausages from around 7am, so pop on down and enjoy a snag and a cold drink, or browse our thrifting clothes rack, or other sale items, just have a chat with us. We'd love to see you there!

If you have a fear of heights, you’d agree that participating in skydiving would be completely off the table – but not for Butterfly’s CEO Jim Hungerford! 🦋 We talk to Jim about his decision to get involved in Skydiving Santas, our upcoming fundraising event, supporting Butterfly’s eating...

25/11/2025

Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.

Safe. Everywhere. Always. is a call to action to come together and commit to meaningful change. We all have a role to play in making safer spaces for women everywhere and always.

There are many ways in which a woman can be controlled. This includes, but is not limited to sexual, social, emotional, cultural, spiritual and financial abuse, as well as a wide range of controlling, coercive and intimidating behaviour. 2025's International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women is focusing on “UNiTE to End Digital Violence against All Women and Girls”. Digital violence includes:

- Image-based abuse/ non-consensual sharing of intimate images – often called revenge p**n or leaked nudes.
- Cyberbullying, trolling, and online threats.
- Online harassment and sexual harassment.
- AI-generated deepfakes such as sexually explicit images, deepfake p**nography, and digitally manipulated images, videos or audio.
- Hate speech and disinformation on social media platforms.
- Doxxing – publishing private information.
- Online stalking or surveillance/tracking to monitor someone’s activities.
- Online grooming and sexual exploitation.
- Catfishing and impersonation.
- Misogynistic networks – e.g.manosphere, incel forums.

If you need help or want to learn more, please visit the following websites -

https://unwomen.org.au/
https://whiteribbon.org.au/
https://1800respect.org.au

23/11/2025

This Saturday, our Charity Event: Skydiving Santas, Wishes for Wandi is taking flight! We can't wait to share this special event with our Santas, our supporters, beach visitors and dog families alike. We'll be holding a sausage sizzle for charity and a small market stall. If you're in the neighbourhood, please do stop by and grab a snag and cold drink, and maybe a treat for you pup too! 🪂

13/11/2025

Today, 13 November, marks the beginning of Transgender Awareness Week 2025.

Transgender Awareness Week is a week when transgender people and their allies take action to bring attention to the community by educating the public about who transgender people are, sharing stories and experiences, and advancing advocacy around issues of prejudice, discrimination, and violence that affect the transgender community.

The Inside Out Institute reports that research into eating disorders in transgender and gender non-conforming people is very limited, however the studies that have been completed do suggest a greater incidence of eating disorders in this group than in the general population. Findings suggest that transgender people are more likely than cisgender people to have been diagnosed with an eating disorder or to engage in disordered eating behaviours.

Whilst there is no single cause explaining why some people develop eating disorders, body dissatisfaction is one of the strongest predictors for their development. Transgender people commonly experience body dysphoria, and body presentation is both internally and externally brought to greater attention for transgender people which may result in increased levels of body dissatisfaction.

The Butterfly Foundation’s National Helpline counsellors receive regular LGBTQI+ training and provide free, confidential and non-judgmental counselling, referrals and information. Contact their hotline at 1800 33 4673, or head to their website https://butterfly.org.au/

For some amazing resources visit -

https://www.minus18.org.au/

https://www.lgbtiqhealth.org.au/

https://www.acon.org.au/

https://twenty10.org.au/

https://qlife.org.au/

https://www.transhub.org.au/

06/11/2025

Search engines say people skydive for "the thrill of freefall, personal challenge, community connection, and the unique perspective of the world." If you've skydived before, you might have been mesmerised by the sight of the curve of the earth, or laughed as your cheeks flapped in the wind, or thought you'd never felt more alive! We can't wait to hear what our Skydiving Santas will say about their jump on 29 November on the Sunshine Coast. Will you join them in this once in a lifetime chance to jump (and fly!) as a Skydiving Santa? Help us bring end-of-year hope to the 100 people who die each month from the impact of eating disorders. Fun and adventure awaits! Will you join them? Register now! https://skydiving-santas2.raiselysite.com/