The Nurtured Village Hampers | Avalon   The Nurtured Village Hampers aims to prevent maternal mental health disorders and is looking for volunteers to help coordinate hampers locally. The hampers are collections of donated home-cooked meals, non-perishables, essential baby items and small gifts....

May Gibbs was Australia’s first female cartoonist Children’s comic strips became popular in Australia from the 1920s, with the invention of Ginger Meggs and Fatty Finn. Ginger Meggs was created in 1921 by Jimmy Bancks for the Sunday Sun. Fatty Finn...

NOVEMBER 17   This November, the seventh annual Lifeline Classic surf competition is raising much-needed funds for Lifeline Northern Beaches. Register a team and compete to see who can raise the most funds for Lifeline in the lead-up to the competition. More...

Taking a ride on Manly Cove was historically a fun activity From the late 1920s into the 1960s, visitors to Manly Cove could take a joy ride in a sleek, fast speedboat for a modest fee. Various competing entrepreneurs were involved. Once...

Time-honoured communication methods like Morse code, short-wave radio and Semaphore flags were on the agenda for about 120 Scouts and their volunteer leaders in Terrey Hills from 18 to 20 October. JOTA-JOTI – Jamboree of the Air and Jamboree of the...

Australians of the Year Richard Scolyer and Georgina Long – the Peninsula Living September cover stars –met His Majesty King Charles III at Melonoma Institute Australia (MIA) in Wollstonecraft on Tuesday. The King spent 30 minutes at the institute where he...

International bestselling author Liane Moriarty has sold 20 million copies of her books, with three turned into global television hits. Known for her privacy, the North Shore local chats to Editor in Chief Michelle Giglio about how surviving breast cancer...

Sydney Wildlife | Northern Beaches Sydney Wildlife is looking to expand its wildlife rescue hotline and is inviting community members to become volunteers. Tasks will include taking calls from people who have found a native animals requiring assistance and organising a rescuer....

Sick children find happiness with special friends Inspired by her own experience of living with a rare congenital heart disease since birth, Tania Mastroianni is giving children in hospital hope and comfort through Special Bear Friends. Tania is the founder of Business...

Northern Beaches Music Festival | Narrabeen   This year’s Northern Beaches Music Festival will be held at Berry Reserve in Narrabeen from 2 to 3 November, and organisers are looking for volunteers to help with festival presentation and production. Volunteers are needed for...