Community Services
At the heart of Seawinds is our focus on our local community and everything we do is geared towards bringing the community together and supporting them in as many ways as we can.
See below for some of the community services we have on offer:
We provide free bread and pastries, as available, through our Food pantry program, Monday to Thursday 9am – 4pm. A gold coin donation is requested.
Vegetables, fruit and eggs are sometimes donated by local growers and farmers and when available, is placed in boxes in the foyer during the same times as above.
Community members are encouraged to leave any surplus fruit, vegetables, herbs, seedlings and seeds and dry goods and/or take what they need. Community members are also encouraged to access the Seawinds Kitchen Garden and benefit from the produce including fresh herbs, grown by our volunteers.
Chatty Cafe
We believe having a chat can brighten your day!
every Friday 10.30am onwards (from 29th April)
Supported by Seawinds Community Hub.
Enjoy a bottomless cuppa and chat with lovely locals. Bring a friend or come alone. No need to book. All ages welcome.
The Chatty Café aims to get people chatting to build and encourage social connections.
Lael, Facilitator looks forward to welcoming you all.
Come and borrow a book, swap a book, donate a book. Take it home with you or sit in the lovely courtyard or in the hub and read it there. This great resource is available for the community to enjoy. Come and check it out.
Brenda at Mending Matters offers:
Take up hems on pants, skirts, frocks. repair clothing, replace zips & elastic, buttonholes, minor changes to garments. Turn around is usually 1 week. Fee is applicable.
Using new fabrics, cottons, buttons, zips, that has been donated to Mending Matters, I make children’s clothing, aprons, bags, fabric storage containers, cozy bowls containers for microwave and other like things –
Money that is made from Mending Matters goes to support equipment for kindergarten and childcare at Seawinds.
Please contact the hub for any sewing alterations on 5982 2204. We will the arrangements on your behalf.
It is a project that gives much pleasure to the recipients, teachers and parents.
Our Founder:
Melinda Shelley
Melinda Shelley, a volunteer in our local community, understands that babies and children need books to have a real chance in life. Knowing that you first need to have books to be able to read to children, but that books are a luxury when you are struggling to put food on the table, Mrs Shelley has taken action to create change where governments and agencies have not.
The Future
We’ve donated 500,000 children’s books
123Read2Me currently provides children in low socioeconomic communities with FREE quality children’s books through recycled books or new ones purchased with cash donations. The total value of books donated to date exceeds $5,000,000.00 (replacement value).
We promote reading to children and support the work of over 120 organisations, most operating in the Frankston, Mornington Peninsula, Dandenong, Casey, Kingston and Bayside Local Government Areas of Victoria.
Our goal is to give two (2) books a month to every child under 15 living in poverty in Australia. This means we will have to collect, sort, pack and ship the equivalent of 78,000+ books every day.
With our own warehouse / distribution centre and a transport partner, we will be able to ship books across the country to every one of these children who need books.
This project has helped 123Read2Me collect, sort, pack and giveaway over 500,000 free books to vulnerable and at-risk children.
We offer photocopying and printing services, bring a usb or email us at info@seawindscommunityhub.com.au with your files.
Prices as follows:
