UPCOMING EVENTS AND WEBINARS
Webinar: Act Local: Turning Volunteer Hours into Career Currency
Wed 10th Jun 2026, 1:00 pm AWST
Volunteering isn’t just about giving back – it can also be one of the most powerful ways to build confidence, develop transferable skills, expand your networks, and open doors to new opportunities.
Facilitated by SJ Eeles – regional arts producer, community connector, and Act Local coordinator will explore how volunteer experiences across community groups, arts, sport, events, advocacy, and local initiatives can translate into real-world career currency.
This practical and engaging session will help participants:
• Identify transferable skills hidden in everyday volunteer roles
• Recognise experience that employers and industries value
• Explore pathways to employment, confidence-building, and community connection
• Learn how volunteering can strengthen resumes, applications, and professional networks
• Build a personalised strategy aligned with individual interests and goals
This is not a boring lecture or one-size-fits-all workshop. Expect practical ideas, creative thinking, and conversation designed for people at all stages of life and career.
Suitable for all ages and backgrounds.
🎟️ Free to attend, but registrations are essential.
This event is held online via Zoom.
The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants closer to the event.
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Act Local Grant Writing Workshop Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Wednesday 17 June – Kalgoorlie Boulder
Are you ready to strengthen your grant writing skills and secure funding for your next community project, event or initiative?
Join us for a FREE practical Grant Writing Workshop designed for community groups, volunteer-involving organisations, sporting clubs, arts and cultural organisations, community leaders, active citizens and anyone passionate about making Kalgoorlie-Boulder an even more vibrant, connected and liveable community.
Delivered by Town Team Movement through the Act Local Program, this interactive workshop will help you better understand what funders are looking for, how to develop strong project ideas, and how to write competitive grant applications.
What will you learn?
✅ Overview of City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder grants
✅ Funding opportunities available through the Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport
✅ What funders are looking for in successful applications
✅ How to plan projects and become grant-ready
✅ How to respond effectively to selection criteria
✅ Common grant writing mistakes and how to avoid them
✅ Other local, regional and state funding opportunities
✅ Practical tips, examples and Q&A
Why Attend?
Many grant applications miss out because they are submitted too late, don’t clearly demonstrate community need, fail to align with funding priorities, or lack supporting information.
This workshop will provide practical tools and insider tips to help you prepare stronger applications, access more funding opportunities, and increase your chances of success.
Workshop Sessions
📅 Tuesday 17 June 2026
Morning Session 🕤 9:30am – 11:30am
Evening Session 🕕 6:00pm – 8:00pm
📍 Goldfields Arts Centre (GAC) Function Room 35 Cheetham Street, Kalgoorlie
🎟 FREE to attend
☕ Light refreshments provided
📋 Registration essential
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Facilitated By
Town Team Movement and Act Local Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Proudly Supported By
City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder
Department of Communities
Department of Creative Industries, Tourism and Sport
Wednesday 15 April – NORTHAM
Stop scrambling when a grant opens and start being ready to apply with confidence.
Getting Grant Ready is a practical workshop designed to help community groups prepare their ideas, budgets and project plans before funding opportunities appear.
Instead of asking “Should we apply for this?” you’ll already have everything prepared to submit a strong application.
More details
In this workshop you’ll create your own project wishlist, draft simple budgets and learn how to demonstrate outcomes funders want to see. You’ll also receive access to 30+ grant links and practical tools to help you find and apply for funding opportunities.
If your group wants to save hours of preparation time and increase your chances of success, this workshop is a grant-ready gamechanger.
GETTING GRANT READY POSTER PDF
GETTING GRANT READY POSTER PNG
The Why and How of award winning applications
Thursday 14 May – NORTHAM
Awards aren’t just about trophies — they’re powerful tools to grow your organisation, build credibility and celebrate your achievements.
The Why and How of Award-Winning Applications will show you how to turn everyday work into standout submissions and make the most of the opportunities awards provide.
More details
Whether you’re a community group, volunteer organisation or local business, this session will help you approach awards with confidence and strategy.
You’ll learn how to:
✅Understand why entering awards benefits your organisation
✅Write strong, compelling applications that stand out
✅Use award submissions to improve your operations and storytelling
✅Leverage awards for credibility, promotion and future opportunities
Because sometimes the biggest win isn’t the trophy — it’s what the process teaches you along the way. 🏆
AWARD WINNING APPLICATIONS POSTER PDF
AWARD WINNING APPLICATIONS POSTER PNG
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
TAKE THE SPARK CHALLENGE Volunteer retention and recruitment
Volunteering has changed. The question is — are we willing to change with it?
This practical and thought-provoking session explores simple changes that can make volunteering easier, more rewarding, and more sustainable for your group. Learn how to streamline the way your organisation works using automation, AI tools, recommended apps and simple systems that save time and reduce volunteer burnout.
Because let’s be honest — no one has time to keep trying things that don’t work.
More details
This workshop is for people with an open mindset, ready to challenge old habits, rethink how their group operates, and invest in smarter, long-term solutions.
Come prepared to question what you do… and spark some change.
Getting grant ready, being prepared for funding opportunities
Stop scrambling when a grant opens and start being ready to apply with confidence.
Getting Grant Ready is a practical webinar designed to help community groups prepare their ideas, budgets and project plans before funding opportunities appear.
Instead of asking “Should we apply for this?” you’ll already have everything prepared to submit a strong application.
In this webinar you’ll create your own project wishlist, draft simple budgets and learn how to demonstrate outcomes funders want to see. You’ll also receive access to 30+ grant links and practical tools to help you find and apply for funding opportunities.
If your group wants to save hours of preparation time and increase your chances of success, this workshop is a grant-ready gamechanger.
Webinar: How to Write a Succession Plan in 20 Minutes
Succession planning doesn’t have to be complicated. This practical session shows volunteer committees and small organisations how to create a simple, effective succession plan that protects knowledge, shares leadership and keeps your organisation strong when people move on.
It’s how you start the conversation counts. It’s never too late.
Perfect for volunteer groups, sporting clubs, community organisations and committees who want to reduce burnout and keep their organisation thriving.
More details
In this session you will:
✅Learn a simple 20-minute framework for creating a practical succession plan
✅Identify key roles and knowledge that need to be shared
✅Discover easy documentation and handover tools
✅Leave with templates you can use immediately with your committee
Mentioned in the presentation:
Succession planning process
Succession planning – Skills Matrix
Succession planning role template
Succession planning – Secretary role
Webinar: TAKE THE SPARK CHALLENGE Volunteer retention and recruitment
Volunteering has changed. The question is — are we willing to change with it?
This practical and thought-provoking webinar explores simple changes that can make volunteering easier, more rewarding, and more sustainable for your group. Learn how to streamline the way your organisation works using automation, AI tools, recommended apps and simple systems that save time and reduce volunteer burnout.
Because let’s be honest — no one has time to keep trying things that don’t work.
This webinar is for people with an open mindset, ready to challenge old habits, rethink how their group operates, and invest in smarter, long-term solutions.
Come prepared to question what you do… and spark some change.
Webinar: Volunteering – More than Scones and raffles
Volunteering has changed — and if community groups want to thrive, we need to change with it.
This engaging and practical presentation explored how volunteer expectations are shifting and what organisations can do to attract, support and retain volunteers in a changing world.
If you want to reverse the steady decline in volunteers, try new approaches and build a stronger, more sustainable group, this session is for you.
More details
✅Why volunteering is changing and what it means for community groups
✅The Four Horsemen of the Committee Apocalypse (and how to avoid them)
✅Simple ways to attract and retain volunteers – including the “peeling carrots” approach
✅Practical ideas to make volunteering easier and more appealing
No kitchen skills were required. Just curiosity and an openness to new ideas.
Mentioned in the presentation:
Recruitment strategies for different types of volunteers
Reverse brainstorming worksheet
From Issue to Impact: Planning Projects That Make a Difference
This 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’s covered:
✅ 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
See the full video here:
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
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.
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
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.
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.
Funding, Fundraising, Diversifying Supports & Grant Writing-Port Hedland- 14 October
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