Berwick Springs VIEW Club
About
Berwick Springs VIEW Club was formed in 2003.
Currently, the Club sponsors ten Smith Family Learning for Life students and is actively involved in fundraising activities to raise donations for The Smith Family programs.
We are always open to new members, so please get in touch today and come and see what it's all about.
Location
- When: Meeting Day on 1st Monday each month
- Time: At 11.15am
- Where: Berwick Springs Hotel
- Address:Corner Clyde Road And Greaves Road, BERWICK VIC 3806
- Location on Google Maps
Contact
Shirley on 0438 191 759
Email: berwicksprings.viewclub@gmail.com
Club News
September 2024 and Upcoming 21st Birthday
September 2024 and Upcoming 21st Birthday
In September, one of our Members, Dorelle, will be giving us an entertaining talk on her time as an Air Hostess. This promises to be very entertaining, and will probably go right back to the Ansett and TAA days. Am very much looking forward to it.
Guess who’s turning 21! October is a celebration of our 21st birthday. Dress to impress, and come enjoy the fun. Lots of Raffle prizes to be won.
Great Program: June to August 2024
Great Program: June to August 2024
Program for June, July and August is below:
June, Neil Lucas is going to speak on the history of Berwick Street names. Feedback from Members that have heard this say that it is extremely interesting.
July has Helen from Quilts of Valour speaking on their organisation, and hopefully showing us some of the amazing work done. The aim of this charity is to award quilts to Veterans, Service Personnel of the Australian Defence Force and our Allies as well as immediate family.
August has Jane Ting, a children's author, giving us a talk on recycling and how to introduce young children to this concept.
Box Auction Fundraiser in May 2024
Box Auction Fundraiser in May 2024
One of our main fundraisers for the year was held in May and yet again, our Members were exceptionally generous, both with the boxes of goods donated and the bids for the contents, unsighted. This has proved to be a great fundraiser for our club, and has gone a long way to funding one of our students, who has now decided to continue on into tertiary education.
2024 Easter and May Events
2024 Easter and May Events
Our year has started well, with a large group of our Members enjoying our Chicken and Champagne day, which is one of our biggest fund-raisers for the year. We now are moving into our regular lunch meetings, which are on the first Monday of every month except for Easter, which will be on the 8th April due to the Easter holidays.
For our March meeting, we will be having a talk by Casey Olori from Australian Unity, who will be giving us a talk on Aged Care Packages and Home Care. As this is our last meeting before Easter, we will also be having our Easter Egg raffles, which are always looked forward to, and again, as the eggs are all donated, proceeds of our raffles are another good fundraiser for the year.
April at this point we are still awaiting confirmation, but both the speakers under consideration are a little different and will be extremely interesting.
In May, we will be having our Annual Box Auction, which is another of our major fundraisers for the year. This involves our Members bringing a box/boxes to the value of approx $20, which our Members then bid on as in an Auction, contents unseen. This is a lot of fun, and all the proceeds of this go to our Learning for Life Students, of which we currently have nine, with the likely prospect of obtaining a tenth student early this year.'
Celebrate 20th Birthday in October 2023
Celebrate 20th Birthday in October 2023
October saw our club celebrate its 20th birthday, which was an outstanding success. We had over 70 people attend, including Members of our club and Members of some of our neighbouring VIEW Clubs. Our theme for the day was flowers and to help that along we were lucky enough to have James Wall from Garden World as our guest speaker. He also donated some plants as spot prizes on our tables and is a very engaging and informative speaker, who was enjoyed by all. Members dressed in the spirit of the day with bright floral outfits and some homemade floral hats in some instances