Our Kitchen Social Enterprise

19/05/2025

Its National Volunteer Week and we will be recognising our amazing Volunteers at afternoon tea this Thursday. If you haven't received your invitation or have volunteered in the past and want to come along then just let Denise know. 😊

01/05/2025

Word spreads quickly, we do have a couple of spots this term for the Cooking Up Jobs class with Chef David. If you want to help with our community lunches and improve your kitchen skills hop online below to enrol or drop into the BNC office.

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Learn about hospitality working in a real kitchen with this hands-on program designed to provide participants with a range of employability and hospitality skills. This class is a pre-requisite to the Commercial Kitchen Skills class.

28/04/2025

We still have a couple of spots for our Term 2 employment training course. We use cooking to help people become more confident, build teamwork skills and generally have fun in the kitchen. You will also work alongside our fabulous volunteers to cook meals for our older community members.

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Learn about hospitality working in a real kitchen with this hands-on program designed to provide participants with a range of employability and hospitality skills. This class is a pre-requisite to the Commercial Kitchen Skills class.

21/03/2025

Meet our fabulous volunteers. These events are only possible with the help of our passionate volunteers. Thank you. ❤️

BIG shout out to the Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre volunteers who looked after 250 guests at their Harmony Fest event on Friday night. You all did a wonderful job and you made it a very special evening!! The food was so delicious! We would also like to thank Denise, David, Vicki, John Netherway and other members of the BNC team for all of their organising and behind the scenes work to help make it a fun night and an awesome way to kick off Harmony Fest.

10/03/2025

Don't miss out, register today for our Intercultural Celebration!
This FREE event is our popular annual Harmony Week activity with great food from our students and volunteers. This year we are proudly partnering with the City of Ballarat team to bring you another celebration of multicultural performances and activities.
Date: 14th March
Time: 6:00 to 9:00pm
Cost: FREE
Location: Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre Tuppen Drive
Please Register to help us with catering.


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By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Join us for a FREE evening of intercultural food, activities & fun.

04/03/2025

At this week's community lunch we celebrate International Women's Day with the fabulous Anne Tudor. Anne has been awarded Ballarat Senior of the Year 2017, Victorian Senior of the Year 2021 and a Queens Birthday Order of Australia Medal (OAM) in 2017 is joining us to speak about her dementia advocacy.

Remember to book your place for lunch.

Ballarat dementia advocate Anne Tudor has been recognised for her dementia advocacy one week before the anniversary of her late wife and co-campaigner's death.

19/02/2025

There back! Our first lunch for 2025 is happening on Friday so don't miss out book online or call the Centre to reserve a spot.

As usual Chef David, the Cooking Up Jobs and Cooking for the Community students and volunteers will be cooking up a storm for this week's lunch.Not too forget Annie's cake surprise. 😀

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Come along and enjoy a 2 course meal for $15.

06/02/2025

We support the cause, do you? Decent jobs for qualified people, seems reasonable!
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05/02/2025

It was a busy and exciting week at Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre as we welcomed our first cohort of Cooking Up Jobs students for 2025. Many of the students have never worked in a commercial kitchen before but despite this they still all enthusiastically participated in their first week of training. Next week Chef David will start planning the return of the Friday lunches which we are all looking forward, so don't miss out and get in early to book your seat.

Date: 21st February 2025
Time: 12pm to 1pm
Cost: $15 (2 course meal, tea, coffee and fresh fruit)
Location: 11 Tuppen Drive Sebastopol.

Book now on

By Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre. Come along and enjoy a 2 course meal for $15.

21/01/2025

Coming in February....

11/05/2024

Happy Mother's Day to all the mums. A special thank you to all the mums who help in our kitchen and come along to our lunches, we wish you an extra wonderful Mother's Day.

11/05/2024

Big congratulations to Andrew on achieving this amazing milestone. 👏

Volunteers are essential members of our team, helping with lunches, working in the garden and happily doing many other small jobs we ask of them. Like Andrew, many of our volunteers are also doing great work for other organisations and for the community.

Andrew's milestone started in Geelong in November 1980 in his second year of working. He donated whole blood 26 times, then changed to donating plasma another 74 times. He was then asked to go on the Anti-D program which means you have the RHD factor in your blood. He started on the Anti-D program about 21 years ago, giving 350 Anti-D plasma donations to mums and babies. Note: there are only 200 Anti-D donors in Australia which each donation is broken down into 18 injections for mums and babies.

We think this is absolutely fabulous and shows what a wonderful person Andrew is 🥰. Thank you from all the mums and bubs you have helped over the years. ❤️