Term 2, 2025
Our Term 2 Newsletter Programme is available now! Click HERE to read a copy online or download.
Welcome to Term 2. Following our Annual General Meeting & Sundowner on the 26th of March, it's with great pleasure that I welcome the incoming Management Committee. I look forward to working with the team in the year ahead. We have a very interesting line-up of speakers this term, including highly regarded palynologist Dr Lynne Milne (right) who specialises in pollen and spore morphology and its many applications - including assisting police with forensic investigations. We also have a light-hearted talk by Dr Nick Beeching (Traveller's Tales), who'll be telling us how to avoid catching the worst of diseases that roam the globe when we travel.
If you have an interest in creative writing and would like to write a story, join Westcoast member Rachel Letts for a five week course to learn how to plan and draft one. No previous experience is necessary, so come along and complete a story of your own by the end of the course. We are opening bookings for a great range of Music/Theatre events for Terms 2, 3 and 4 to encourage early bookings. This way, more tickets can be booked if necessary while they are still available. Please be sure to note what is on offer and book in advance if you can so as not to be disappointed. If dining out appeals, then check out the fabulous dining opportunities on offer, including lunch at the Royal Perth Golf Club. Not to be outdone, our Planners have included visits as diverse as a tour of the WWII Tunnels (and New Museum) and a bus trip to Roam, a new local Biodynamic Organic Certified Farm and Micro-distillery (pictured right). Bookings are also open for the terrific 4-day Great Southern Agri Food Tour in Term 3 - not to be missed!
Of course all our favourite regulars will be continuing this term, from Walking Groups and Mah Jong to our hands-on UpCycling Old Jewellery class and more.
I hope that you'll join your friends at WCC events and that you will all enjoy the programme for this term and the rest of 2025. Enrolment Day is Tuesday 29 April, in person from 9.30 to 11am and online from 1pm. We look forward to seeing you in Term 2.
Click HERE to read our latest mid-term e-News online. A copy of the 2024 Annual Report from the AGM of 26 March 2025 is available HERE.
30th Birthday Celebrations
WCC turned 30 in 2023 and, on 17 November, 100 guests were treated to an elegant afternoon tea at The Grove Library Precint to celebrate this important milestone. And what a fabulous celebration it was!
The weather was perfect and we were delighted to welcome the PLC’s Senior Piano Trio and the Year 9 String Quartet, who provided wonderful arrangements of music to set the scene as guests arrived and during the afternoon. Invited guests, Honorary and current members enjoyed a sumptuous High Tea, all organised by our volunteers. The beautiful china, silver teapots, elegant table settings and beautiful flowers were a sight to see, as was the delicious array of food and wine that was served. What a wonderful celebration of community and volunteering!
A huge thank you to all our volunteers for making the afternoon such a success. We're already looking forward to our next celebration!
