For what is believed to be 20 years we held a monthly fundraising morning/afternoon tea. Here are the wonderful speakers we heard from in 2019
2019 Monthly Fundraisers
Monthly Fundraiser November 2019
Wednesday 27th November Our Final Speaker/Performer was Carol Shedden, Pianist After what is believed to be 20 years, this was the last day of the monthly speaker afternoon tea program at Ryder-Cheshire Ivanhoe Homes. All of the local ‘regulars’ were thanked for their terrific support of the program over so many years. Rosemary mentioned that…
Monthly Fundraiser October 2019
Wednesday 30th October David Hay, Military Historian Two years ago, David Hay gave a talk to us about a painting of a British WW1 soldier he had found in a Melbourne auction house. Through his research he discovered that the soldier was Henry Farrer, who served in the Royal Field Artillery and received the Military…
Monthly Fundraiser September 2019
Wednesday 25th September Rebecca Fels, East Division Community Visitor Program Co-ordinator & Bev Devidas, Volunteer with the Office of Public Advocate It was a double delight at the September afternoon tea with Rebecca Fels, and Bev Devidas. Rebecca gave an overview of the work of the community visitors inparticular, who inquire, advocate and monitor facilities for…
Monthly Fundraiser August 2019
Wednesday 28th August – Jennifer Chrystie We were delighted to have Jennifer Chrystie speak at August’s fundraising afternoon tea. She is one of our local poets who regaled us with her poetry. Her poems have been published widely in Australia as well as in the UK and US. Her first poetry collection, Polishing the Silver,…
Monthly Fundraiser July 2019
Wednesday 26th June – Dale Murphy Residents and our local clientele were given a talk by Dale Murphy from Ivanhoe Photographic Society. All were delighted by the fabulous presentation by Dale. He started the talk by superimposing a map of China over a map of Australia to reinforce the immensity of the land mass of China. We…
Monthly Fundraiser June 2019
Wednesday 26th June – Heidi Yuen, Acupuncturist June’s guest speaker was Heidi Yuen, a Chinese medical practitioner. She explained that pain is nature’s way of telling you that the body isn’t functioning as effectively as it might. Pain can take over people’s lives and is most usually relieved by Western medicine. Chinese medicine is based on…
Monthly Fundraiser May 2019
Wednesday 29th May 2019 – Heidelberg Allstars Choir On a cold and windy afternoon residents, regulars and some ‘newcomers’ were treated to a totally delightful afternoon of entertainment from the Heidelberg Allstars. Many of the songs were well known but given a lovely rendition. Campbell brought Frank Sinatra back to life and there were tears…
Monthly Fundraiser April 2019
Wednesday 24th April 2019 Elizabeth from Bellfield Community Garden introduced her talk by explaining her reasons for becoming involved in Bellfield Community Gardens. Essentially, she and her family were interested in growing their own food and getting their young family to understand and be involved in this too. She said the process required quite a bit of…
Monthly Fundraiser March 2019
Wednesday 27th March It was full house at the afternoon tea as Fran Lee gave a superb presentation about her Significant Trees of Banyule exhibition. Fran gave the background to her interest in indigenous and native trees in her local area. She said that the City of Banyule was one of the few councils who had a register of…
Monthly Fundraiser February 2019
Wednesday 27th February 2019 This was the launch of the 2019 afternoon tea program. It was a full house as Stavros Zikou from Ivanhoe Traders Association gave a terrific overview of the challenges facing shopping strips. Liz from Australian Chocolate Emporium also gave a short presentation and distributed some delicious samples from her shop. Wednesday was also the…
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