Weekly Farmers Markets at Taylor Square
7 August, 2010
1 May 2010 - 7 August 2010 Saturday 8:00 AM - 1:00 PMEvery Saturday
Got a love for fresh, organic and home-grown food? Don't miss out on the Sydney Sustainable Markets weekly fresh farmers markets at Taylor Square.
Expect to discover and taste seasonal fruit and vegetables (organic and low chemical inputs), free range poultry and eggs, rare breed meats, fish, hand made pasta, artisan cheeses, condiments, organic sourdough bread, olive oil, honey, flowers, herbs and much more.
Come down and chat to the local farmers and vendors on the day to find out more about sustainable food.
Bring your reuse bag!
This is a plastic bag-free market, so please BYO reusable bags. In the spirit of reuse, if you have too many reusable bags, please drop off your spares at the collection point on the day.
Where: Taylor Square, Darlinghurst.
For more information contact Cathy Wills on cathyawills@gmail.comJeans for Genes Day
6 August, 2010
Be a Gene-ius at work
Jeans for Genes Day is on Friday August 7, 2009. Diarise the date and make sure that your company agrees to support this worthwhile cause.
Be a gene-ius at work on Jeans for Genes Day. Corporate Genies organise FUN activities and sell badges and merchandise at their workplace. They also encourage all their work mates to wear their jeans on the day for a small donation and fine those who forget. It's easy, it's FUN and it's for a great cause.
What is Jeans for Genes?
Jeans for Genes is a major fundraiser of the Children's Medical Research Institute.
This includes Jeans for Genes Day, events, exhibitions and other FUNdraising events throughout the year.
Chances are you probably know someone who has a genetic disease, because one in twenty children are born with some form of genetic fault. There are children with leukaemia, muscular dystrophy, genetic defects and many other disorders. The scientists at the Children's Medical Research Institute are working to try to prevent these diseases before they occur in our children, or where that is not possible to develop better treatments.Be a Gene-ius at work
Jeans for Genes Day is on Friday August 7, 2009. Diarise the date and make sure that your company agrees to support this worthwhile cause.
Be a gene-ius at work on Jeans for Genes Day. Corporate Genies organise FUN activities and sell badges and merchandise at their workplace. They also encourage all their work mates to wear their jeans on the day for a small donation and fine those who forget. It's easy, it's FUN and it's for a great cause.
Schools Tree Day
30 July, 2010
National Tree Day
National Tree Day, proudly sponsored by Toyota, is Australia's biggest community tree-planting event. This year's event, held on Sunday 2 August, saw more than a million native trees and shrubs planted at over 3,000 sites around the country. This wonderful achievement is the result of thousands of schools, community and green groups, as well as hundreds of local councils who facilitated tree-planting projects in their local area. To the groups and individuals who made this event such a wonderful success Planet Ark says thank-you!
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n 2010, National Tree Day will be held on Sunday 1 August with Schools Tree Day taking place on Friday 30 July. To learn more about next year's event as details become available, sign up to receive our National Tree Day updates. Chinatown Night Market
3 July, 2010
3 July 2009 - 27 July 2012 Friday 4:00 PM - 11:00 PM
Become part of the fun as more than 50+ Market Stalls dress up Chinatown on every Friday Night from 4pm to 11pm on Dixon Street Mall, Sydney.
If you love shopping and gourmet food, then you will delight your senses and taste buds as you stroll down the Chinatown Night Market that lights up in the heart of Sydney.
So come on down and live a fun-filled night out in the most vibrant Market in Sydney!!!
Become part of the fun as more than 50+ Market Stalls dress up Chinatown on every Friday Night from 4pm to 11pm on Dixon Street Mall, Sydney.
If you love shopping and gourmet food, then you will delight your senses and taste buds as you stroll down the Chinatown Night Market that lights up in the heart of Sydney.
So come on down and live a fun-filled night out in the most vibrant Market in Sydney!!!
Blue Mountains Yulefest 2010
1 July, 2010
Blue Mountains Yulefest 2010When Winter comes to the Blue Mountains theres a special magic and magnetism found nowhere else in Australia.
It's the season for escape, pleasure, relaxation and a little over-indulgence. It's three wonderful months when all the famous attractions of the Blue Mountains are enhanced by cosy nights around roaring log fires, a few glasses of well-deserved wine or port, plus succulent Christmas-style roasts.
Winter in the Blue Mountains spells Yulefest when many of the city's guesthouses, hotels, motels, resorts and restaurants provide all the treats and trappings of a traditional Christmas.
The beautiful Blue Mountains are the Home of Yulefest which is why thousands of Winter visitors - each with a penchant for turkey, ham, chicken, stuffing, cranberry sauce, Chrsitmas pudding and large helpings of fun - return each year to imbibe and indulge.
An Idea Becomes A Tradition
The idea was born three decades ago at Katoomba's glorious Mountains Heritage hotel. Proprietor Gary Crockett was chatting to a group of Irish guests one cold July day. One of them remarked on the irony, for them, of winter weather in July and, as the snow fell outside, asked if it might be possible for the hotel to arrange Christmas-style food and festivities that evening.Gary obliged, and Yulefest was born. That night Mountain Heritage served its guests turkey and traditional trimmings, Christmas crackers and mince pies by the fire. The following year Mountain Heritage announced "Christmas In July" festivities as a permanent winter event. Word spread quickly and by the following season, many Mountains guesthouses, B&Bs and resorts had seen the idea's value for visitors and the region, and organised similar revels for their guests. Within a couple of years Yulefest had become an established winter holiday escape for Blue Mountains visitors. Today in its 29th year, Yulefest opens with another tradition - The Winter Ball, held annually under the auspices of Blue Mountains Tourism Ltd at a selected Mountains resort venue such as Mountain Heritage, York Fairmont or the Carrington. And in guesthouses and B&Bs across the region, Christmas fare has become the season's gift to winter holidaymakers with carols, fine food, mulled wine by the fire and quiet reflection.
If you have never experienced a Blue Mountains Yulefest then its high time you treated yourself, your family or friends to a hefty dose of hedonism, just 90 minutes from Sydney.
Most accommodation outlets offer Yulefest celebrations but it's now so popular that early bookings have become essential. For details on packages, call 1300 653 408 or http://www.yulefest.com/index.htm
Red Nose Day
25 June, 2010
Red Nose Day - Friday 25th June 2010
Red Nose Day, held annually on the last Friday in June, is the major fundraiser for SIDS and Kids. Funds raised through Red Nose Day activities assist us in providing our vital services and programs.
About SIDS and Kids
SIDS and Kids is dedicated to saving the lives of babies and children during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood and to supporting bereaved families.With nine offices throughout Australia and a National office in Melbourne, SIDS and Kids areas of focus include bereavement support, education, research, national awareness campaigning, advocacy and fundraising.
Who benefits from our services?
SIDS and Kids offer nation-wide free bereavement services to families who have experienced the death of a baby or child during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood regardless of the cause.Each year SIDS and Kids fields thousands of queries through a bereavement support line. Ongoing professional support for families is available 24 hours a day through counselling sessions, after hours counselling, home visits and a range of support groups and events. SIDS and Kids programs are offered free of charge to all family members and friends who need support. For as long as they need them, SIDS and Kids are there!
Since 1990, education initiatives sunch as the SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping Program have saved the lives of an estimated 5,900 Australian babies. Working with health care professionals, childcare organisations and online support networks, new parents have benefited from the SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping recommendations. Further information can be found by visiting www.sidsandkids.org
Why a Red Nose?
In 1988, the Red Nose Day concept was adopted by SIDS and Kids organisations around Australia. This annual event captured the imagination of the Australia public and has since contributed a large portion of the funds raised by SIDS and Kids. With a 94 per cent recognition rate in Australia (Quantum research, 2008) the concept of donning a red nose for a day to be silly for a serious cause has expanded to involved celebrities, businesses,
vehicles and buildings..Where do Red Nose Day funds go?
Proceeds from Red Nose Day assist SIDS and Kids in providing vital services and programs in your local community including:
• Free ongoing bereavement support and crisis outreach to families and the community following the sudden and unexpected death of a baby, infant or child • 24 hours a day, 365 days a year!
• Education to thousands of parents, carers and health professionals on how to reduce the risk of SIDS and fatal sleeping accidents through our world class, evidence based SIDS and Kids safe sleeping program
• Research into the causes and prevention of sudden and unexpected death of babies during pregnancy, birth, infancy and childhood.What is SIDS and perinatal death?
SIDS is the sudden and unexpected death of an infant under one year of age, with onset of the lethal episode apparently occurring during sleep, that remains unexplained after a thorough investigation including performance
of a complete autopsy, and review of the circumstances and death and the clinical history. (Krous at al 2004)In 1988, when Red Nose Day first started, 479 Australian babies died from SIDS. With Red Nose Day income, SIDS and Kids organisations funded research and produced the SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping health promotion campaign, leading to a drop to 71 SIDS deaths in 2007.
A perinatal death is either a stillbirth or a neonatal death. Neonatal deaths are those deaths of babies within 28 days of birth. Stillbirth is defined as the delivery of a child after 20 weeks gestation/400 grams who did not breathe or show evidence of life such as a heart beat after delivery.
SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping
Our current health promotion program, SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping, is evidence based and provides families, infant carers and health professionals with information about how to reduce the risk of SIDS and fatal sleeping accidents and create a safe sleeping environment for babies. More information on this is available at www.sidsandkids.org. The SIDS and Kids Safe Sleeping program recommends:
• Sleep baby on back from birth, not tummy or side.
• Sleep baby with face and head uncovered and free from bedding, pillows and toys.
• Avoid exposing baby to tobacco smoke before birth and after.
• Provide a safe sleeping environment with safe furniture and bedding - no quilts, doonas, duvets, pillows in cot etc.
• Sleep baby in their own safe sleeping environment next to the parents bed for the first six to twelve months of life.
• Although it's a special moment cuddling your child, babies and children are still at risk when they're asleep on their tummy whilst resting on an adults chest, especially if the adult falls asleep in an unsafe sleeping environment (eg couch, sofa).
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