Six local projects will be undertaken in Benalla over the coming year with funding support from Tomorrow Today’s 2020 Grants Program. Over $14,000 has been awarded to local groups whose projects and initiatives will help to build a stronger, more resilient and prosperous Benalla community. Grant recipients include: Ride Avenue…
Jenny Reaburn has been volunteering with Tomorrow Today as a Reading Buddy since 2014. Trained Reading Buddies are matched with a Benalla P-12 College student in Year 1 or 2, visiting the classroom twice a week for the year. They read quality picture books to their buddy, listen to their reading, and help with spelling and other…
The weekly sessions of our Parents Early Education Partnership (PEEP) program have become a fixture in the lives of Benalla’s young children and their parents, with over 220 families taking part this year. As well as being a place to share songs, stories and parent discussion, PEEP offers an important…
Benalla Uniting Church received a grant from Tomorrow Today’s Community Fund in 2018. We visited the garden to check on their progress. “Prior to lockdown,” explains Tanya Walker, Presbytery Secretary at Benalla Uniting Church,“we had been enjoying weekly working bees in the garden, with up 20 volunteers helping out. The produce from…
Twenty one of Benalla’s young people took on a challenge earlier this year – to identify and solve a local issue, using creativity, teamwork and technology. The students, aged 11 to 16 years old, attended a series of workshops offered by Tomorrow Today to foster skills needed for future work….
It was a somewhat unusual setting for the Venturers – an online Zoom chat rather than a Scout Hall meeting or mountainous hike – but that didn’t prevent new connections and new experiences at their meetup with Connect9 last week. Connect9 is a program unique to Benalla, run by Tomorrow…
The Board and staff of Tomorrow Today joined in a social media campaign last week to recognise the fantastic contribution of volunteers during National Volunteers Week. Well over 100 local people volunteer with Tomorrow Today, helping with a range of initiatives, including PEEP, Kinder Pals, Reading Buddies, Connect9 and the…
Program leaders at Tomorrow Today Foundation’s Parents’ Early Education Partnership (PEEP) have secured quite the coup, lining up national parenting expert Dr Justin Coulson to share parenting tips for the COVID-19 period with the Benalla community, delivered right into their kitchens and living rooms. Dr Coulson is a sought-after and…
Tomorrow Today has a new Executive Officer with Rosie Koop named as successor to former Benalla Mayor Pat Claridge. Ms Koop said that Ms Claridge made a remarkable contribution to the Benalla community through her work with Tomorrow Today during the past nine years. “Our Education Benalla program now consists…
“Our office is closed, but our work continues” was the message Tomorrow Today delivered to the Benalla community at the end of March. Since then, Tomorrow Today staff have been busy learning how to create digital content and facilitate online groups so that Benalla families can continue to participate in…
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