Donate to Woodend Landcare: Help us enhance our local environment

June 20, 2024 / Woodend Landcare / Leave a comment

Woodend Landcare is a not-for-profit, environmental community group run by a team of dedicated volunteers. We aim to enhance the natural environment within and around Woodend through, improving biodiversity corridors, restoring waterways, and protecting endangered species, all-the-while increasing the liveability of our town.

We are always happy to accept inexperienced newcomers at our working bees, new members into our group and financial donations from individuals, businesses or other groups who are unable to donate their time to help our cause.

There are numerous ways donations can made to Woodend Landcare:

1. Tax Deductible Donations via Landcare Victoria Fund

Go to Make a gift for nature today. Enter “Woodend Landcare” when asked which group you wish to support.

2. Non-tax Deductible Donations

Cheque donations via the post (Cheques payable to: Woodend Landcare Inc; P.O. Box 297, Woodend, VIC 3442)
Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) or online bank transfer (Contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com for our bank details)

3. Container Deposit Scheme (CDS)

Donate the money raised from recycling your 10c cans and bottles at a Visy CDS drop-off site. Simply download the CDS Vic North app to your mobile, and on the Donations tab, select Woodend Landcare. Our Woodend Landcare Zone ID: C2000016665 or show our barcode (see picture) and your donation will come through to us.

4. Ritchies IGA Community Benefits Program

When Ritchies IGA members nominate Woodend Landcare as the organisation they support, IGA will donate a proportion of their shopping total to Woodend Landcare, at no charge to the shopper.

5. Bequest

Leave a legacy in your will. (Contact woodendlandcare@gmail.com to chat about options).

Banksia Planting this Sunday

June 11, 2024 / Woodend Landcare / Leave a comment

Join Woodend Landcare for a planting day with a difference to finish our Pollinator Corridor Project. This Sunday 16 June (starting 9am), we aim to plant 165 banksia and monocot seedlings along Five Mile Creek starting from Jo’s Bridge, between Bowen and Wood Sts.

We’ll split up into teams (each with a wheelbarrow of seedlings and equipment), and wander along the creek, planting as we go.

If this sounds like fun, come along and join us.

Woodend Landcare wins MRSC Community Awards 2024

February 18, 2024 / Woodend Landcare / Leave a comment

Woodend Landcare members past and present are grateful and proud to have been awarded the MRSC Community Awards 2024 – Healthy People and Environment Award.

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Woodend Landcare, and its predecessor ‘Friends of Five Mile Creek’, has been active in Woodend for nearly 30 years. Run and organised by volunteers, the group has done an enormous amount of work on public land along Five Mile Creek and its tributaries within and around Woodend, such as Slatey Creek Reserve and various railway reserves. Woodend Landcare conducts about ten Sunday morning working bees every year and the ‘Thursday Crew’ works every week when weather permits. These are open for anyone to attend and the group is always happy for non-Landcare members to join in and join up (see woodendlandcare.org).

As well as along Five Mile Creek, Woodend Landcare provides advice and guidance on request to local groups and private landholders. Woodend Landcare is a member of the Upper Campaspe Landcare Network, and works closely with the Macedon Ranges Shire Council (MRSC), North Central Catchment Management Authority (NCCMA) and local community groups and schools.

The aim of Woodend Landcare has always been to restore areas which have been degraded by introduced weeds, and to preserve and enhance areas of indigenous vegetation. In all, our volunteers have planted over 30,000 native plants. One particular focus has been ensuring the survival of Woodend’s unique threatened tree, the Black Gum (Eucalyptus aggregata).

Woodend Landcare also supports the Indian Myna trapping project (MRIMAG) and one committee member performs ‘Waterwatch’ in collaboration with NCCMA, to monitor water quality in Five Mile Creek. We have provided numerous letters of support and auspiced projects run by other groups and private landholders that align with our ‘caring for the land’ values.

In 2022 we partnered with Council to develop the Woodend Five Mile Creek Master Plan – to guide habitat restoration projects, support grant applications and inform infrastructure needs to improve accessibility to the creek for a broad range of recreational activities. Check out the Master Plan here.

In 2023 Woodend Landcare also oversaw the construction of a new pedestrian bridge over Five Mile Creek, thanks to a bequest from Woodend Landcare’s ex-President, Jo Clancy. This, together with all the work undertaken by Woodend Landcare volunteers, is for the benefit of all Woodenders to enjoy.

Looking back – Woodend Landcare in action over the years: