Bowes Avenue Community Centre
Address: 27-31 Bowes Avenue, Airport West
Phone: 8325 1890
Melway ref: 15 K9
Public Transport: Tram 59
The Bowes Avenue Community Centre facilitates community participation in a variety of learning, leisure and arts programs and activities.
In term 2 2012, the centre continues offering well established programs and activities such as exercise classes, card and jewellery making workshops, computer classes, and music program for children.
Additionally, residents can now enrol in a range of evening programs such as Watercolour painting, Mat Pilates and Digital photography. These classes are offered on Mondays between 6pm and 9pm. For more information, please contact the centre on 8325 1890 or email bowesavcc@mvcc.vic.gov.au.
Find out more about our activities and class by reading our Term 2 Program (pdf, 2.2MB).
The centre is also running School Holiday Activities for children of all ages. Please see our school holiday program flyer (pdf, 175KB) for more information.
To enrol you can complete the adult enrolment form (doc, 22KB) or under 16 enrolment form (doc, 47KB).
Volunteers
The centre is supported by volunteers. If you would like to get involved, call the centre on 8325 1890 or email bowesavcc@mvcc.vic.gov.au.
Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre
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Address: 28 Farnham Street, Flemington
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Phone: 9376 9088
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Website:
www.fsnlc.org
Farnham Street Neighbourhood Learning Centre caters for a range of groups and residents of Moonee Valley: the elderly, people from a non-English speaking background, the unemployed, sole parents, the youth, the socially-isolated.
The centre has three separate programs: the Neighbourhood House program, the Reading and Writing program and the After School Program.
The centre programs offer a variety of educational and recreational classes.
Call the centre or visit the website for details.
Wingate Avenue Community Centre
Wingate Avenue Community Centre is a not for profit community centre providing learning, recreation, support and information for our local community. The centre encourages and assists people to develop responses to issues that affect them and their community.
Centre courses and groups:
- Computer and Internet courses: beginners to advanced courses, MYOB, digital camera (day and evening classes)
- English classes for migrants: English conversation classes for migrants and refugees (AMEP, ACFE)
- Art and craft: sewing and dressmaking, patchwork, mosaic, drop in art
- Health and wellbeing: gentle exercise, yoga, women’s walking group, community singing
- Learn new skills: an introduction to horticulture, Learn to Ride a Bike workshops for women
- After school activities: children’s jewellery, homework program, Kidz Club
- Quality occasional childcare: morning and afternoon sessions available
Other services at the centre:
- Moonee Valley Community Legal Service
- Maternal and Child Health Nurse
- Parent-Child Mother Goose Program
- New Hope Migrant and Refugee Service
- ISIS Voyage Alcohol and other drug counselling services
- Network West
- Ascot Vale Public Tenants Group
- Walking School Bus
- Kumon
- Hall and room hire available