What's Happening

Our Health and Fitness Program is Growing

We now have two staff who have had years of experience supporting people who have disabilities as support staff, who are now qualified as Personal Trainers. Well, actually nearly two. Gus is still about a month away from finishing his personal training course at the end of 2024. So, he is supervised by Domenic Sullivan.

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WHAT AN FANTASTIC SOUP FESTIVAL WE HAD

Over 1,500 people came together to enjoy amazing music, delicious food, stalls, face painting and plant sales—all in an atmosphere filled with friendship and relaxation. It is very reasonable for people to ask, why does  Milparinka have this festival,  for crying out loud you are a disability service. Well we don’t do it to make

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Dinner Club

SOMETHING WORTH BRAGGING ABOUT BECAUSE OF WHAT IT BRINGS TO PEOPLE WE CARE ABOUT Things don’t always  work as we would like and we have to go back to the drawing board. But one program we have restarted this year, Friday night dinners, is having fantastic success in not just giving people  a great night out but I am constantly hearing what we

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The Soup Festival Is Back

Save The Date – AUGUSt 18TH It’s in our communal garden, where hearty seasonal soups will be made from locally sourced & community grown produce.   This is a great event that  brings together people from all parts of the community to share bowls of soup, live music, DJs, dancing, performers, stallholders and activities. Last

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NDIS AUDITS, Mini golf and relationships

How do those things come together Milparinka had an NDIS Audit  last month. If you are not familiar with that process, it does hurt. It is a painful process of deep investigation which looks at what and how we do things. It does have its place in making sure things are done to a standard 

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Need A Doctor But Can’t Leave Home

Sometimes a Long Wait for a doctor is not what you need. There is always a bit of illness around and sometimes, when it’s not urgent, but you do need a Doctors assessment, the wait can be pretty long. We know some people in our community don’t cope well with waiting a long time in

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