Time to book your place at the Senior EYE Camp – 3rd to 5th of May!
Do you love the beach, the ocean and marine life? Would you like to spend a weekend immersed in the beauty of a coastal National Park while learning about what you can do make a difference in the world? Did you know there is a garbage patch the size of NSW in the middle of the Pacific Ocean? Would you like to find out more about this kind of stuff and learn what you can do about it?
Come along to the next Senior Bellingen EYE’s camp, have an amazing time at the beach, learn leadership skills, become aware of important local and global issues, dream up a cool project that can create real and positive change in our community; and most importantly, have heaps of fun with amazing mentors and new and old friends.
When: Friday – Sunday, 3rd to 5th of May 2013.
Where: Camping location near the coast approx. 30 min drive from Bellingen
Cost: $160 for the weekend, which includes lodging in our EYE tents, all meals, tuition, and materials. Limited scholarships available – no one should miss an EYE camp due to financial hardship!
How to register: Registration is open Monday, 1 April, 2013
On or after that date, email your name and details to info@bellingeneye.com
or ring/text 0408 322 393 and leave a clear message with your name and details.
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If you are Year 9 and up, you are invited to Bellingen EYE’s Leadership Camp from the 3rd to the 5th of May at a camping location near the coast approx. 30 min drive from Bellingen. Cost is $160 for the weekend, which includes lodging in our EYE tents, all meals, tuition, and materials. As usual, limited scholarships are available – no one should miss an EYE camp due to financial hardship! Registration opens Monday, 1 April, 2013. On or after that date, email your name and details to info@bellingeneye.com or ring/text 0408 322 393 and leave a clear message with your name and details. You can also download the camp poster here.
Our first jEYE camp (Year 7+) will be on from the 14th to the 16th of June
. More info about it soon!.
Saturday the 23rd of March John the Koala Man will take us for a wonderful walk in Bongil Bongil NP to spot and hear koalas and learn about their habitat and the current threats to it. Meet at the Youth Hub at 1.30 pm, back at 5.30. To come along to the walk you need to register – send us an email and we’ll forward you the registration form! We also might need extra drivers, so friendly parents very welcome!
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Hello to our new EYE leaders, junior EYEs, parents, friends, mentors & fans!
Hope the mould behind everyone’s ears is starting to fade with this little bit of sunshine!
Things are really starting to happen & flow in the world of Bellingen EYE !
As many of you know from being actively involved, every Monday afternoon from 4pm to 5.30pm we have a fun activity at EYE @ the Hub, everyone very welcome. Next week we’ll be making something yummy with very local food – without giving too much away, I can’t resist telling you that this will likely involve some mangoes. On the following Monday the 18th of March at the Hub, John Pile, (aka Koala Man), will be giving a talk about Koalas, their habitat and the threats they face. On Saturday the 23rd of March John will guide a ‘Spot (or hear) the Koala Walk’ for anyone interested. Have a look at the attached calendar & flier for each Monday activity for Term 1.
Other exciting EYE happenings include a Landcare Working Bee on Sunday the 17th of March. Meet at the Point at 10 am, work will finish at 12 noon.
We are looking for a mentor or parent keen to support this activity by going along to it, so if that could be you, please get in touch and let me know.
We are also working on organising a Mining Awareness day excursion (for Leadership Group members only) on Saturday the 6th of April. The plan is to leave Bellingen at 9 am, visit a local antimony mining site and learn about the related issues; back by 2 pm.
Finally, and I know that this is something you all are waiting for, we have set a date for the first EYE camps for the year: the 3rd to 5th of May – a Leadership Camp for Year 9 and up; and 14th to 16th of June for the first jEYE camp (Year 7 and up)! Yay! Yepee! Please put this date in your diaries, update on locations forthcoming.
So that’s all for now folks.
Looking forward to seeing those who can make it next Monday for ‘EYE @ the HUB’ from 4 p.m. !
Ciao,
Olivia & Jane
]]>The EYE Leadership group spend a lovely weekend in Gleniffer. We brainstormed, visioned, swam, ate had stacks of fun, but most importantly we came up with a plan for 2013! Stay tuned for more info soon. Check out some photos in the gallery.
]]>What do we all want EYE to be? The skEYE is the limit! (okay, sorry, enough EYEpuns…)
Please come along on Sunday, 2 September to No. 5 Church Street at 6:00 pm. They are putting on a big veggie feast for us, $18 a person. Adults definitely welcome – in fact, needed! Then depending on how many we are, we will either have our big brainstorm session at No 5 or move up to the Environment Centre.
Claire will be leading some of those famous EYE games from 4:30 on the north side of the river, so anyone that wants to get in the EYE mood early can meet her there.
Please RSVP as soon as you can so we can tell No 5 how many to expect! And remember the EYE guiding principal – “youth led, adult guided” …..so we want and need input from both of those groups in order to move into a successful future together. Email info@bellingeneye.com or ring/text 0423 362 844 to let us know you are coming.