Northern Beaches Bushcare | Curl Curl Do you love the outdoors and care for the native environment? Bushcare is about community volunteers working with the council to conserve and rehabilitate publicly owned natural bushland. Most Bushcare groups work at set times...

Illustrated cards were popular in the 1900s Cigarette cards were the forerunners of today’s trading cards, be they Pokémon or sports cards. Cigarette cards first emerged in America in 1875, after packet ‘stiffeners’ were recognised by tobacco companies for their marketing...

A new digital initiative has students helping seniors April marked the start of an exciting initiative at James Milson Village in North Sydney, as seniors residents began a six-week digital skills course – with high school students as their teachers. The program...

Manly Cove hosts a small wharf with an exciting history Most readers will be aware that at Manly Cove there is a smaller secondary wharf to the east of the main ferry wharf – ‘Wharf 3’ in Transport for NSW parlance....

How a 1,000km pilgrimage inspired art exhibition Manly multimedia artist Elizabeth Eastland has been greatly influenced by her travels, love of science and passion for pastels. Her latest artwork, A Thousand Prayers, soon to be on show at the Curl Curl...

North Shore seniors can keep moving with dance In a report published in Sports Medicine in January 2024, dance was found to be ‘equivalent or superior to other physical activity interventions to improve psychological wellbeing and cognitive capacity’. According to the report,...

Christian Beck skippered LawConnect to line honours glory at last year’s Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race. Editor-in-chief Michelle Giglio spoke to Chrisian about riding his dragster around Collaroy Plateau as a child and how a radical idea in his 20s...

LocalKind | Manly Join LocalKind as a volunteer and help to change lives, gain new skills, boost your self-confidence and build lasting relationships. You can volunteer in many ways, by welcoming and engaging with our visitors, helping with fundraising and events, becoming...

Twenty five years of market freshness Since 1999, local and regional food producers have been getting up well before dawn to bring Northside Produce Market the freshest food from places such as Orange, the Riverina, Central Tablelands and Southern Highlands. Twenty-five years...

Proveda | Mona Vale If you are aged over 18 and want a flexible volunteer role supporting local people who would otherwise have no connection or support, you should help out Proveda. The Beaches region has a high population of older people,...