UPCOMING EVENTS AND WEBINARS
From Issue to Impact: Planning Projects That Make a Difference
🗓 Wednesday 26 November 2025
🕐 1:00pm – 2:00pm (AWST)
💻 Online via Zoom
🎟 FREE (Registration via Humanitix essential) – Zoom link sent day before
This free and practical Act Local workshop will help community groups design great projects – and clearly show the difference they make. You’ll learn how to define meaningful outcomes, plan for success from the start, and measure what matters (without overcomplicating things!).
What we’ll cover:
✅ How to define the real-world change you’re working toward
✅ How to design your initiative to achieve that change
✅ How to use logic models and theories of change to map your pathway to success
✅ Simple, powerful ways to measure progress and tell (and sell!) your impact story
You’ll walk away with simple, effective tools that you can immediately apply to project planning, reporting, and grant applications – plus the confidence to communicate your impact clearly to funders, partners, and your community.
Your Facilitator: Melanie Bainbridge
Melanie Bainbridge is a social impact and sustainability professional with over 20 years’ experience in strategy, policy, and community engagement. As Senior Manager, Impact Design and Capability at Lotterywest, she helps organisations design for measurable, meaningful impact. Mel has worked extensively with local governments and community groups to develop strategies focused on sustainability, equity, wellbeing, and culture. She’s passionate about turning big ideas into practical action and helping groups define their goals, plan their path, and share their story with clarity and heart.
Proudly delivered by Town Team Movement as part of the Act Local Program, supported by the Department of Communities.
SELF PACED TRAINING
The following videos are recording of webinars that have been delivered as part of the Act Local program. Feel free to reach out and suggest ideas for future webinars
How to Attract, Retain and Celebrate Volunteers and Sponsors
Kelly Howlett, renowned community leader and Operations Manager of Care for Hedland Environmental Association Inc. With years of hands-on experience leading grassroots initiatives
Act Local: Grant Ready – How to prepare your community ideas to be ready for grant and sponsorship opportunities
The second webinar in the Act Local series for 2025, this webinar helps community groups turn their innovative ideas into funded projects.
Save yourself HOURS of grant preparation by following simple suggestions with templates provided so you can start straight away!
Templates mentioned in the presentation include:
>>> Grant Ready Admin template
>>> Wishlist and Budget ready template
The Citizen Story: a webinar with Jon Alexander
This webinar explores the critical need to move from the Consumer Story to the Citizen Story. The Citizen story is one which emphasizes participation, interdependence, and collective intelligence. The importance of community energy and the need for leaders to step in behind the people, rather than trying to do it for them.
Getting Techy with Rory from the Town Team Movement
A great informative presentation on free or low-cost tech tools! Check out the YouTube video below if you didn’t get a chance to attend the webinar on the day!
PAST EVENTS AND TRAINING
Quick Wins Weekend – 24 -26 October 2025
Registrations are now open for Quick Wins Weekend!
From 24–26 October, people all across Australia will be rolling up their sleeves to bring “Quick Wins” to life. Fun, simple, and low-cost ideas that make our neighbourhoods more vibrant, welcoming, and connected.
Thanks to Lotterywest who have proudly partnered with us to deliver the Quick Wins Weekend.
To help celebrate, we’ll also be joined by Minister Hannah Beazley MLA, our Quick Wins Ambassador.
www.townteammovement.com/quick-wins
Share your Quick Win!
Tag #QuickWinsWA#QuickWins#ActLocal and join the movement.
Funding, Fundraising, Diversifying Supports & Grant Writing-Port Hedland- 14 October
🗓 Date: Tuesday 14 October 2025
🕔 Time: 4.30pm – 6:30pm
📍 Location: WEB Business Hub, Port Hedland
🎟 Cost: FREE
Boost your community organisation’s funding success.
This FREE interactive workshop helped local community organisations, clubs, and volunteer-involving groups unlock new funding opportunities and become ‘grant ready’.
Learn practical strategies to:
✅ Write successful grant applications
✅ Diversify funding streams
✅ Secure sponsors and long-term partners
✅ Tackle common fundraising challenges
An Introduction to Canva
Learn how almost(!) anyone can use Canva to help promote community initiatives.
As part of the Act Local capacity building online program, you’re invited to an engaging Introduction to Canva, proudly presented by Town Team Movement and facilitated by our Operations Lead, Rory Murray.
Canva has become the go-to online tool that people of all abilities can utilise to produce high quality designs to promote their organisations, projects and events.
This interactive 90 minute session presented the high level features of Canva, demonstrating some of the many features you may have missed, and showed how you might go about producing content to promote your community organisation.
In the second half of the webinar, attendees were able to try some of these features themselves, sharing questions, challenges and answers with each other in a collaborative manner.
From Burnout to Buy-In: Creating Resilient Community Teams
Feeling stretched? Struggling to keep your community group going strong? You’re not alone – and there’s a better way.
An engaging and practical 1-hour online session exploring how to build stronger, more sustainable community teams – and avoid burnout along the way.
In this interactive session:
🌟 How to inspire more people to get involved – and stay involved
💡 Why understanding each other’s “why” makes all the difference
🔄 Fresh ways to share the load and reimagine roles within your team
💬 Tips to keep the energy positive and avoid volunteer fatigue
📌 Real-world strategies for organising your group to work better, together
Whether you’re part of a committee, a grassroots group, or just passionate about making your community stronger, this session will give you tools and ideas you can use straight away.
Hosted by Dean Cracknell and Patrycja Rosinska from Town Team Movement, this is more than just a webinar – it’s a conversation about how to bring joy, clarity, and resilience back into your team.
Get inspired, and walk away with practical ways to turn burnout into buy-in.