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• APS NSW - Quarterly Gathering and AGM, 11 May 2024 Hosted by the Parramatta-Hills District Group

  • When
    11 May 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
  • Location
    Gumnut Community Centre Gumnut Place Cherrybrook 2126

  Program:
  

  10am to 12noon:

  Community Environment Centre, Currie Avenue Annangrove NSW 2156 – A Must Visit!

  

  A wonderful opportunity for those who saw or missed the segment by Costa on the Community Environment Centre on Gardening Australia in November 2023 to visit the Centre and have a guided tour around it.
  The Community Environment Centre is an educational resource, community hub and environmental demonstration site for residents, visitors, and volunteers on various topics such as gardening, planting natives and sustainability in the home and backyard.
  Explore the demonstration gardens that promote nature, sustainability, biodiversity, easy care and wildlife habitats.
  These gardens, operated by The Hills Shire Council, were established and are maintained by passionate volunteers, including APS members.
  Volunteers will show you around our native plant garden, thriving vegetable garden, bush tucker garden and food for wildlife garden.
  
  

  Tea and coffee will be available.

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  12noon - 4pm

  Location: Gumnut Community Centre, Gumnut Place, Cherrybrook 2126

  12noon - 1pm

  Bring your own lunch to the Gumnut Community Centre, where tea and coffee will be provided.
  

  1-1:30 pm; 1:30 – 2:30pm 
  

  Cost; $5 members, $10 non-members.

  APS NSW Annual General Meeting, followed by presentation by Dan Clarke.

  Threatened flora of the Cumberland Plain.

  Dan is a botanical consultant working in the NSW Ecological Industry – and runs his own company, Arcane Botanica. Dan is also the APS NSW Conservation Officer and editor of the Society’s excellent plant data base.

  His talk will cover the Cumberland Plain and its threatened vegetation, as well as several listed threatened flora species that Dan has monitored over the years for the NSW Saving our Species Program.

  Some of the important Cumberland Plain reserves will also be showcased, as well as profiling some threatened species of the Parramatta-Hills District.

  2:30pm: Afternoon tea

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• APS NSW AGM and Quarterly Gathering Hosted by Parramatta Hills Group, 11 May 2024

  • When
    11 May 2024
  •  
    10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  When: 10am-4pm, Saturday, 11 May 2024

  This gathering will include our AGM between 1-1:30pm 

  • 10am - 12noon: Tour of the Community Environment Centre, Currie Avenue, 

   Annangrove NSW 2126
  

  • 12noon – 4pm: Gumnut Community Centre, Gumnut Place, Cherrybrook, 2126.
  • 12:00-1:00 Lunch and plant sale. BYO lunch or purchase locally. 
  • 1:00-1:30 AGM 
  • 1:30-4pm Quarterly gathering, $5 members, $10 non-members. 

  Presentation by Dan Clarke, Threatened flora of the Cumberland Plain, followed by afternoon tea. 

  • Annual General Meeting - Agenda

    The agenda, including the minutes from the previous AGM, is available here
    
    Our 2023 Annual Report is here. 

    To send your apologies, please email: office@austplants.com.au

    Please email any financial questions by Friday 3 May and we will provide responses at the AGM. 

    Nominations for board positions

    We welcome new board members, and non-board members, to assist with running the Society. If you'd like to join the board or wish to nominate someone, please contact President John Desmond to discuss what's involved.
    The form here needs to be completed and returned by Friday 26 April 2024
    

    Proxy voting

    If you cannot attend the AGM, and would like to nominate a proxy for your vote, please complete the Proxy form here and return by Friday 3 May to office@austplants.com.au

    More details on the event here
    

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