news The Meeting House – a call for ideas At the start of this year Sydney Community Services merged with The Meeting House and took on the lease of the Centre at Stokes Street in Lane Cove North with Lane Cove Council. Over the past 60 years Sydney Community Services (originally Lane Cove and North Side Community Services and Hunters Hill and Ryde Community Services) has been funded to provide services and activities for seniors and people with a disability. The Meeting House has always had a broader community focus in that it has provided for families, children, and everyone in between. Having received a grant through Trent Zimmerman’s office from the Commonwealth Government’s Stronger Communities Program, the funds are now available to refresh the Stokes Street building to make it more attractive and improve the facilities available to the community. SCS would like to know what the community wants
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from the building. Currently it runs two playgroups, activities like crochet, cooking classes and women’s discussion groups during the day and a shopping bus and bus outings for seniors. The building has a large meeting room and a lovely outdoor area with a BBQ and garden area. SCS is seeking your opinions, views and comments on how you think the space could be best used, and what activities you’d like to see run there whether during the day, the evening or at the weekends.
Please write to Gillian Batt, Sydney Community Services at: 1 Pottery Lane, Lane Cove NSW 2066 or email gbatt@sydneycs.org
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