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Speaker 1: Another day, another community center. Today, I'm out at the

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Speaker 1: Eastwood Community Center, which is on busy Glen Osman Road

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Speaker 1: and blink and you'll miss it. It's in an old

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Speaker 1: church that is set back from the road, big car

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Speaker 1: park out the front. Sitting in the back actually at

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Speaker 1: the moment, in the magnificent garden. And I'm here with

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Speaker 1: Leanne who runs the community center. She's just told me

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Speaker 1: the history of the garden and how it fell into

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Speaker 1: disrepair and over the last six or seven years been

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Speaker 1: brought back to life and just a magical space where

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Speaker 1: they hold barbecues and pizza, knights and music and a

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Speaker 1: wine bar on a Sunday afternoon. It's just a wonderful spot.

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Speaker 1: Lots of trees and greenery. Leanne, good morning, thank you

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Speaker 1: for your time. Lovely center you've got here.

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Speaker 2: Oh thanks Matt. It is. It's just a beautiful place.

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Speaker 2: So the community Center has been in existence for we've

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Speaker 2: nearly forty six years old. So it was established in

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Speaker 2: July nineteen seventy eight by a group of residents who

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Speaker 2: The actual buildings owned by the City of Burnside and

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Speaker 2: the Eastwood Community Center is an incorporated not for profit

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Speaker 2: in its own right. So we lease the area and

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Speaker 2: it's just yeah, it's a beautiful space and you know,

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Speaker 2: especially this garden. So one of the past directors of

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Speaker 2: the center had set the back part of the garden

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Speaker 2: up as a sensory garden. Over the years that have

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Speaker 2: been planted with all sorts of other things. One of

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Speaker 2: very convenient as pretty much, you know, like replanted it

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Speaker 1: Tell me about the rest of the center. We'll go

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Speaker 1: inside and chat with Tony in a second some of

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Speaker 1: the people. But you do cooking classes and they're making

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Speaker 1: a five course meal in there at the moment.

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Speaker 3: It's amazing. Tell me what else you do.

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Speaker 2: Oh, we've got a range of things that happen here

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Speaker 2: at the center. So we actually have nine support groups

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Speaker 2: that meet here on a weekly basis, So you know,

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Speaker 2: we have aa NA gamblers, a couple of other support

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Speaker 2: groups that meet here. The center is also used by

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Speaker 2: some other groups that actually hire the space, so you know,

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Speaker 2: we have yoga and a number of other activities. We

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Speaker 2: do some art, and then the center runs programs. You know,

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Speaker 2: we've got stretch and Balance and we've got the Code

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Speaker 2: of Strength for Life runs here at the center. We

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Speaker 2: have three sessions of that a week, and then we

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Speaker 2: run our adult community education programs, which is funded through

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Speaker 2: the Department of Education and Skills, which is at the moment,

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Speaker 2: we're running cooking programs, we run floristry program, we run

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Speaker 2: a podcasting program, and Get the Money Smarts programs. So

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Speaker 2: all up, in this last twelve months, we've had about

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Speaker 2: one hundred and sixty four over one hundred people come

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Speaker 2: and participate in the programs and many have sort of

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Speaker 2: you know, done multiple programs, so that've been actually a

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Speaker 2: really great thing that the center has done as far

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Speaker 2: as from skills developments, so you know, they're all based

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Speaker 2: but it's actually spun off into a lot of people

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Speaker 2: of jobs out of the programs, but also made a

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Speaker 2: lot of social connect We've sort of got a core

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Speaker 2: group that have done a range of programs that then

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Speaker 2: are volunteering here at the center. So you know, we

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Speaker 2: had our forty fifth birthday celebration in November last year

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Speaker 2: and the cooking students prepared all the food. The florestry

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Speaker 2: planning course that had been involved in organizing, you know,

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Speaker 2: the actual event. So not just coming along and coming

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Speaker 2: and learning and then disappearing, it's really getting more of

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Speaker 1: And people from what I see inside, just an age

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Speaker 2: To old, absolutely, and I think that is one of

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Speaker 2: the beauties we sit here in the Eastwood community. But

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Speaker 2: one of the positives that we have is our programs

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Speaker 2: don't have to live right here to be able to participate.

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Speaker 2: And you know, often people say, you know, who's your demographic?

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Speaker 2: I don't really know. We have such a wide range

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Speaker 2: percent of the participants are people with disability, and twenty

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Speaker 2: We do have some specific programs for a specific demographic,

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Speaker 1: I imagine, like other centers, you'd consider somebody who came

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Speaker 2: Look that that actually makes me laugh because I use

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Speaker 2: the example if somebody walks in and says they'd like

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Speaker 2: to learn how to spin around on their head five times,

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Speaker 2: My attitude is, okay, will you if you've got five

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Speaker 2: or six other people that might want to learn how

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Speaker 2: to do that as well, I'll find a teacher and

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Speaker 2: let's work out where that's it might not sit do

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Speaker 2: under any particular funding bucket, but sure, let's give it

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Speaker 2: certainly the beauty and the positive aspect of being an

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Speaker 2: but really we can just be responsive to whatever the

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Speaker 3: Okay, where does the funding come from? Is it state government?

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Speaker 3: Is it federal? Is a bit of both? Councils, Look,

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Speaker 2: So we get some funding from the City of Burnside

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Speaker 2: to support some of our infrastructure maintenance, some programs, some

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Speaker 2: aspects of the garden so that's one area of funding.

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Speaker 2: We receive funding from the Department of Human Services under

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Speaker 2: the Community and Neighborhood Development Program, which underpins my role

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Speaker 2: in some of the admins. So this will be our

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Speaker 2: first year of three by three nine year funding agreement,

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Speaker 2: so that pretty much underpins the center. Then really it's

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Speaker 2: whatever other grants that we apply for for program. So

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Speaker 2: our adult community Education program is a really big part

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Speaker 2: of our of the grant we meet. So this is Matthew.

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Speaker 4: It's nice to meet you.

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Speaker 2: Todd is one of my Star My Stars success stories,

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Speaker 2: so you can talk to d I've been involved in

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Speaker 2: the Center in many different ways.

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Speaker 3: Nearly twenty years here at the center. What are you doing?

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Speaker 4: Well, there was just doing lots of because of the

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Speaker 4: initiatives and Lianne's leadership all of these other ACE courses.

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Speaker 4: So initially it was all around empowering women in terms

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Speaker 4: things that really kicked it off. And I've gained so much,

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Speaker 4: you know, like the I've now got confidence, like I

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Speaker 4: don't mind speaking a talk and whereas I was a

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Speaker 3: That's amazing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, of course, so DD so I've been at the

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Speaker 2: center now for nearly seven years, and DEDI has been

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Speaker 2: here the entire time, perhaps with some of the support groups.

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Speaker 2: And I know when I came Didi she was quite

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Speaker 2: have conversations, but very very I was gonna say, still

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Speaker 2: D D then came to our Financial Literacy for Women

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Speaker 2: conference in November twenty twenty two, and I remember thinking, oh, wow,

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Speaker 2: that's really exciting, you know, like we've not even had

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Speaker 2: And then out of that conference, we ran our Forget

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Speaker 2: the Money Smarts and we did personal finance, and so

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Speaker 2: d D came along to that and then did the

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Speaker 2: marketing course. And I remember one time become quite involved,

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Speaker 2: you know, like in a social group that have come

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Speaker 2: an Archibald Prize finalist artists. Wow, that I had no

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Speaker 4: Girls didn't either, Like I sort of would hide my

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Speaker 4: light under the what do they call it, but under

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Speaker 4: the bushel. Yeah, I've made some beautiful friends here really,

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Speaker 4: and we're really close, you know. So she she loves

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Speaker 4: oh it is it fine with you?

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Speaker 3: What did your paint?

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Speaker 4: Well, actually painted myself because I used to be morbidly obese, right,

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Speaker 5: So.

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Speaker 4: It was a nine foot by a nine foot by

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Speaker 3: You were that big?

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Speaker 4: Really, I was pretty big. Yeah, so you're.

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Speaker 3: A sit as a stick as a twig as they say.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, well I've ninety kilos is gone, a lot of

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Speaker 4: a lot of hard work, but a lot of help.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's where the support group was coming to here

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Speaker 1: I don't want to make it sound dramatic, but it

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Speaker 1: sounds like it hasn't changed your life being involved here.

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Speaker 1: It certainly impacted deeply on your life.

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Speaker 4: It has, it has, yeah, all of it, all of it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, Like I would never have known when I first came.

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Speaker 2: The DD that I spoke to then is the DD

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Speaker 3: Astounding. Yeah, that's amazing, very blessed.

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Speaker 4: I feel very very blessed. And I made some really

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Speaker 4: beautiful long term relationships because of it, you know, because

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Speaker 4: of the whole thing, and none of that would have

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Speaker 4: been possible without the center. I can't recommend it highly enough, really,

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Speaker 1: All right, let's go in and meet some of the cooks. Tony,

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Speaker 1: one of the chefs here at the Eastward Community Center.

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Speaker 1: Today is cooking Day that I happened to be lucky

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Speaker 1: enough to be here for. You've got a background in cooking,

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Speaker 3: What made you give up your time to come here

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Speaker 3: and do this?

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Speaker 6: My wife wanted to get rid of me. No, that's

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Speaker 6: not quite true. Now. I was approached probably two years over,

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Speaker 6: two years ago now by the then director who wanted

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Speaker 6: to create some cooking programs in the center. I was

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Speaker 6: invited to come in from meeting. Didn't know what I

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Speaker 6: it to me within about the first ten minutes. I

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Speaker 6: had been doing some volunteer work at the Hustreet Center,

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Speaker 6: and I thought this was just a fantastic extension what

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Speaker 3: So it began two years ago.

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Speaker 6: We're running day and night classes and we still do and.

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Speaker 1: There seems a great deal of interest in the cooking area.

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Speaker 1: I mean walking through before through the hall and this

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Speaker 1: table set up and people hard at work doing different things.

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Speaker 1: You're training in this obviously you're right on top of

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Speaker 1: showing them what to do, what needs to be done.

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Speaker 1: They're picking up some life skills ultimately, and that's pretty rewarding,

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Speaker 3: Very much so.

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Speaker 6: I mean, we started off running a program for men

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Speaker 6: only as a daytime program. As that we've extended it

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Speaker 6: to basically anybody. We get some ndis people, we get

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Speaker 6: some job seek people. But what I try and get

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Speaker 6: into them is organization confidence, but more importantly, just having fun.

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Speaker 6: Don't be scared of a knife or piece of steak

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Speaker 6: or a chicken, piece of chicken or whatever. Just have fun.

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Speaker 3: Follow a recipe.

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Speaker 6: The recipes are very simple, do your knees on. Plus

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Speaker 1: It's how do I describe it's proper food. We're not

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Speaker 6: Where we expose them to a broader range of flavor

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Speaker 6: I don't do the hard work of getting them here though,

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Speaker 6: So the center, Leanne and her cohort have admin staff

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Speaker 1: And anyone can come along. I mean, you don't need

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Speaker 3: This is. This is for anyone living anywhere. Essentially local community.

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Speaker 6: That's what we are, local community center.

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Speaker 3: Well done, fabulous volunteer here. What do you do? What's

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Speaker 7: Well, my band plays here, a lot or varieties of

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Speaker 7: I think she's become director fairly recently, and the participation

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Speaker 3: That's great.

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Speaker 1: It must be empowering learning what you're learning and picking

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Speaker 7: Well, I think it's the people you meet here. People

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Speaker 7: So it's really good to have someone show you how

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Speaker 7: And then event management, well, you know, we ran a

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Speaker 3: We all pitched in and helped. It's a great. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's good. It's a really good place. Zach. Tell me

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Speaker 5: We get together through Friday afternoon at two thirty a

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Speaker 5: We've had some of the attendees from the very first

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Speaker 1: For a business, especially one starting out, such crucial skills

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Speaker 3: One hundred percent.

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Speaker 5: It's one of those things where if you don't have

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Speaker 5: And when they look at other courses they could take,

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Speaker 1: Just a taste of what goes on at the Eastwood

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Speaker 1: Community Center now Lean from the center along with Kerry

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Speaker 1: community center's say I very own. Kerry Akerman's here at

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