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            the clubs






            The VIEW National Leadership Team celebrated
            reaching the milestone of supporting 1,800
            Learning for Life students at The Smith Family
            National Office in February.








            Wagga Wagga window display


            How fabulous is this promotional    Life students through sponsorship,
            display which Wagga Wagga           advertises the club’s upcoming
            Evening VIEW Club (NSW) created     International Women’s Day
            in their local library window? The   Breakfast in March and spells out
            display tells the history of VIEW   V.I.E.W! Great promotion! Would
            and The Smith Family, explains the   this work in your area?
            support provided to Learning for







                                                Gunnedah VIEW
                                                members recognised


                                                Congratulations to these wonderful,
                                                dedicated, community-minded         respectively, of Gunnedah Evening
                                                and generous VIEW members           VIEW Club were recognised with the
                                                from Gunnedah Evening VIEW Club     Community Achievement Award
                                                (NSW)! Kate Knight and Linda Lee,   at Gunnedah’s 2025 Australia Day
                                                President and Secretary             presentation. Well done!








                                                VIEW speaks on loneliness


                                                In February, Michelle Holland and   Women’s Association and Men’s
                                                Anne-Maree Davis (pictured L-R),    Shed to discuss the causes of
                                                Committee members from Orange       loneliness, its impacts and ideas
                                                Evening VIEW Club (NSW), were       to decrease social isolation
                                                honoured to represent VIEW at a     in regional communities. The
                                                roundtable in their town as part    roundtable followed a hearing in
                                                of the NSW Parliamentary Inquiry    Sydney where Elizabeth Birch, VIEW
                                                into the prevalence, causes and     National President and Maryanne
                                                impacts of loneliness in NSW. The   Maher, VIEW National Manager
                                                pair joined members of other        discussed a VIEW submission to the
                                                local groups including the Country   Parliamentary Inquiry.

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