Springfield In Step with Nature Walk

23/01/2026

This beauty wandered onto our patio with an older sibling and a parent 🥰 squeaking constantly and curious and slightly nervous at the same time! Gotta love a magpie 🤗 🐦‍⬛ Do you have a bird story to share? Heart Foundation Walking Greater Springfield Orion Springfield Central Springfield Lakes Nature Care Inc. ♥️

21/01/2026

Another lovely walk in the park this week and lots to see and hear as usual 🌸🦜 Our Springfield In Step with Nature Walk is growing and new members are always welcome 😍 What are your favourite flowers this summer? 🌻
Greater Springfield Orion Springfield Central Heart Foundation Walking 💚

19/01/2026

Wonderful initiative supporting young people and their nutrition with Pearl from UQ at Springfield 🌟💫check out details below 💚

🍳A Cooking Program for Springfield Adolescents is Coming!

Join Food for the Brain Springfield (F4TBS) — a 3-week, 2-hour cooking program for adolescents (ages 10–19) that combines fun, hands-on food preparation with nutrition education to support wellbeing.

✨ More than cooking — F4TBS is about fun, learning, and connecting with peers 😊!

Dates: Three Saturdays between March and June 2026 (exact dates to be confirmed)
Time: 9–11 am for ages 10–14; 12–2 pm for ages 15–19
Location: YMCA Springfield Central Community Centre (Address: 134A Parkland Dr, Springfield Central QLD 4300)
Group size: 15-20 participants per group
Facilitator: A Qualified Dietitian, and/or a Student Dietitian and a research staff
Fee: Nil (Free)

Through fun, hands-on group activities, participants will:
Learn about healthy eating on a budget and how food may affect your mood
Practise food preparation skills
Connect and socialise with other Springfield adolescents
Complete a short survey before and after the program
Receive a certificate of completion when they finish the program and complete the surveys
Interested? Limited spots available!
Scan the QR code in the image below or click https://tinyurl.com/2k855ztx to complete the online form.

Our team will contact eligible participants until all spots are filled. Contact Miss Pearl Wong (puiting.wong@uq.edu.au) if you have any questions.


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15/01/2026

☀️ Happy Thursday! The hibiscus 🌺 flowers are looking gorgeous this summer 😍 Do you have a favourite flower or blossom? We see many beautiful plants and birds on our weekly Springfield In Step with Nature Walk 🐦
🧭 Walk with us on Monday mornings 🌄 at 7.15am. Lovely chatty group, gentle exercise, shady 🌳 and a café stop at the end ☕️
Heart Foundation Walking Greater Springfield Orion Springfield Central Orion Family Physiotherapy Liberty Womens Wellness Charis Mullen MP 🦃

15/01/2026

FOOD DONATION AND COOKING SPONSORS NEEDED

We need your help !
- Any item from appeal list
- Full Sponsor 1 Day cooking $500 (approx 250 meals)
- Part Sponsor 1 Day cooking $250
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Vedanta Soup Kitchen provides free meals, grocery hampers and bread to people in need. We also provide our frozen meals to other community outreach groups including Westside Community Care, Serving Our People & Gailes Community House - Family and Community Hub

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Vedanta Soup Kitchen is run solely by an amazing team of volunteers, we have no paid staff. We use the funds we raise, through our fundraising events and donations, to buy food for meals, to purchase groceries for hampers and to pay the utility costs associated with the kitchen like gas, electricity and water. We receive no ongoing government funding.

Be the reason someone enjoys a warm meal today – sponsor or donate now!

We are a fully registered not-for-profit charity

Bank details
Account Name: Vedanta Centre
BSB: 064 087
Account number: 10094813

10/01/2026

Beautiful reds about this week! What blossoms have you seen on your Nature Walks? 🌸 🦋

08/01/2026

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What an honour. 🇦🇺🏆

The Springfield Mo-Men have been named Finalists at the 2025 Ipswich Australia Day Awards, as Community Group of the Year, celebrating the impact of a community that shows up, digs deep, and makes real change.

Raising over $500,000 for Movember since 2012 and named the #10 Movember Fundraiser group in Australia, this achievement belongs to every sponsor, supporter, donor, and Mo-Bro who stood alongside us.

A massive shout-out to Mark Winter, Paul Kirwan, Matt Eggins, and Steve Riddell for representing the Mo-Men and good luck on the night and your continued lead to change for men’s health.

This is proof that when community comes together, incredible things happen.
Thank you for all your support.

https://www.springfieldmomen.com.au/

07/01/2026

⭐⭐ SCHOOL HOLIDAYS with Gailes Community House - Family and Community Hub ⭐⭐

Check out the January schedule of FREE activities being held by the terrific GCH team - all held at Langley Hall in Camira.

Bookings are essential.

06/01/2026

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06/01/2026

Hey check this out Greater Springfield 👶

Are you currently pregnant or a new mum? Do you find the cost of food or access to healthy food a challenge?

Our researchers at The University of Queensland and Swinburne University are currently recruiting participants for in-person interviews in Springfield. They would love to hear your perspectives and learn more about your experiences in order to better understand how effective solutions to food access, food affordability and healthy food can be provided to pregnant women and new mothers in the community.

All details (including eligibility and how to sign up) are included on the flyer below.

Please feel free to share this flyer with anyone who might be interested.
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