The Geelong West Neighbourhood House is proud to offer you a range of Creative Arts, Health & Wellbeing and Self Sufficiency & Sustainability classes and workshops plus a number of innovative Community events.
You are most welcome to join in our low cost classes to ensure a healthy life balance and increase your fitness, make new friends while participating in a variety of creative arts activities with other like minded people, share your skills and interests – even become a volunteer!
The Geelong West Neighbourhood House is now in its 16th year of operation since it was formed in late 2009.
Our Term 1 program for 2025 is open for enrolments now.
More information about our current list of activities and how to enrol can be found here.
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We are offering membership to the Neighbourhood House for the upcoming year. Membership entitles you to receive special invitations to events, such as our upcoming launch of our renovations, and to have a vote or stand for committee at our AGM. It also supports our house to meet it’s obligations. Membership is now only $2 per year . See the office for details and a form.
Earlier this year we were involved in the “Know Your Neighbourhood House” project with http://www.nhbarwon.org.au/ to produce a video of who we are and what we do, with funding from City of Greater Geelong. Here is the link to the video, thank you to all who volunteered their time to be a part of it. We think it’s pretty special!!
The first event in our Healthy Ageing Talks series is titled The Life. Our guest speaker will be Hugh Degaris, an Exercise Physiologist from Kieser Geelong, and presenter of The [...]
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Info session for Community KitchenCommunity Kitchens are weekly cooking sessions where participants explore recipes and share ideas, all in a friendly environment.Not confident in your cooking skills? No worries! There [...]
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Interested in becoming a member of the GWNH? Members are consulted on a wide variety of issues, they enjoy special invitations to our AGM and other events and are eligible [...]
Read moreJoin us for a traditional Hatha style yoga class suitable for all levels - absolute beginners to experienced practitioners. Class concludes with a guided relaxation to restore and rejuvenate.BYO water [...]
These fun, social classes will introduce you to simple body weight exercises with minimal equipment so they can be easily adapted to suit individual needs and levels of fitness. Whichever [...]
Introducing our new Chair Yoga class, a mindful movement class aimed at people who might not be able to attend a regular mat yoga class, including people with mobility issues, [...]
Learn or refresh existing skills in watercolour. The Thursday watercolour class is designed for those wanting to learn or extend existing skills. We focus on different techniques in each five week [...]
Enjoy a full body workout – toning and conditioning the body, improve overall balance and coordination. BYO Yoga mat and water.
These fun, social classes will introduce you to simple body weight exercises with minimal equipment so they can be easily adapted to suit individual needs and levels of fitness. Whichever [...]
For more information please contact us by using the form on our contact page, or by one of the methods below:
Phone:
(03) 5270 2400
Email:
info@gwnh.org.au
Mail:
89 Autumn St,
Geelong West, 3218
Victoria, Australia
Registration Number: A0056531V
Socials:
Can’t believe Pako Festa is over! We had a blast, and met a ton of wonderful community members. What a day! 🔥☀️😀
We had some beautiful craft and creative play happening in the hall all day🥰
It was so busy that we didn’t really get a chance to chat much, so if you had a good time or you have some feedback, like 👍🏽 comment 💬 below or tag us in a photo, or you can also drop into the office or give us a call.
Thanks again to geelongwesttoylibrary for beautiful toys, to Geelong Regional Libraries for books for our chillout room and City of Greater Geelongfor supporting us to put on this event for the community.
You know who else deserves a shout out? All the volunteers who made this day possible. We had a bunch of volunteers helping us today, we can’t thank them enough.💜💜💜🙏🙏🙏
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Pako Festa is upon us!
Join us from 11:30am-3:30pm for free kids activities, a chillout room for anybody needing sensory downtime, and a free tea & coffee station!
We’ve got craft activities!
We’ve got toys 🧸from Geelong West Toy Library!
We’ve got books from Geelong Regional Libraries! 📚
We’ve got AIR CONDITIONING 😎❄️
We’re grateful to City of Greater Geelong for supporting us to put on these activities🙏
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The first event in our Healthy Ageing Talks series is titled The Life. Our guest speaker will be Hugh Degaris, an Exercise Physiologist from Kieser Geelong, and presenter of The Life program. The Life is a free program funded by Diabetes Victoria and the State Government. This amazingly informative program is conducted by Health Professionals and aims to provide important education on living well as you age. ... See MoreSee Less
Camembert Cheesemaking Workshop
Join our hands-on cheese-making workshop to create your own Camembert, Quark, and Ricotta. Learn cheese-making fundamentals in a relaxed, fun environment with an experienced tutor.
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Curious about preserves vs. jams? Join our class to learn easy preserve-making skills, including a quick, high-protein, low-sugar raspberry jam. Bring your fruit and jars!
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Did you know that almost a quarter of a million scams were reported in Australia last year?
There were 57,000 reports in Victoria alone!
With more and more of our life going online, it's important to keep up to date with how to avoid being scammed.
Join us for a FREE session from our friendGeelong Regional Librariesaries in the comfort of Geelong West Neighbourhood House.
To sign up to this workshop, head to Humanitix: events.humanitix.com/digital-safety-sessi#scam##ScamAlertA#geelongwestg#DigitalSafetya#classc#workshopk#OnlineSafetya#activitiesities ... See MoreSee Less