Step into the shadows for an evening of dark elegance, haunting beauty and avant-garde anarchy at this year’s ‘Castlemaine Gothic’-themed Spring Ball. Embrace the mystery, melancholy and majesty of the Castlemaine Town Hall. Marvel at its dramatic beauty. Party like it’s 1899! Get Tickets
The latest What’s Abundant column highlights Seedy Saturday. Castlemaine Community House is proud to partner with the Castlemaine Seed Library, which is celebrating 10 years of providing the community with locally grown, organic, non-hybrid seeds suited to our local conditions. Join the Seedy Saturday Seed Swap on Friday 1 August in the foyer of Castlemaine […]
In this month’s What’s Abundant column we celebrate all things soup! Read all about our annual pop up kitchen partnership with CDoc – the Castlemaine Documentary Festival and discover the recipe for one of the delicious soups that will be served.
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia Agency will be closed Monday 8th June 2026. We’ll re-open 9:00AM Tuesday 9th March.
Get your motor running… and get ready for the Chainsaw Safety Workshop on April 18th!Join us for a practical, safety-focused workshop designed for beginners and those looking to build confidence using chainsaws for garden, orchard, or land-care work. For more information, check out the article — plus discover a super olive preservation technique from workshop […]
Following the devastating January bushfires in Harcourt and surrounds, we worked with our community to support fire-affected residents across the shire. We’re proud to have worked with volunteers, local businesses and community members to do deliver the following support: Community food pantry and recovery hub support Support for children and families We offered a free […]
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia (Centrelink) Agency will be closed over the Easter long weekend. We will re-open 9am Wednesday 8th April.
Read about upcoming workshops in our practical Harvest Ready program, and glean some tips for harvesting fruit. The article also features a recipe for a simple, but delicious tomato sauce. So get reading – picking and cooking!
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia Agency will be closed Monday 9th March 2026. We’ll re-open 9:00AM Tuesday 10th March.
Harvest Ready is a series of practical, inclusive workshops designed for local peopple, of all ages and abilities, to develop skills and confidence for employment and volunteering in orchards, or care for your own fruit trees at home. Developing Harvest skills including safe equipment use, pruning and harvesting of fruit, provides an excellent foundation for […]
This event is an opportunity for community to gather, reflect on our recent extreme events, as bushfires and extreme heat, and discuss what we can do as individuals and community members to prepare, cope and recover in the face of these events. All are welcome to join, bring your questions, concerns and suggestions to share. […]
Read the latest news from CCH’s sustainability program, Growing Abundance, in this month’s column in the Midland Express.
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia Agency will be closed Monday 26th January 2026.
We are finishing off the year with an article celebrating our much-loved Christmas Community Lunch tradition – that includes a delicious recipe for Soufiko – a nourishing Greek summertime stew. With thanks to the Midland Express for their support this year.
Read all about our 40th celebrations, and our long running community lunches. Plus a recipe for yummy dhal, taken from our Castlemaine Community House Cookbook – available from reception.
The Mount Alexander Food Relief Network has received its first major donations of an essential item in high demand across local food pantries: toilet paper. Two generous community groups have stepped up to support the newly established network. The Castlemaine Gives a Crap toilet-paper buying group has donated nine boxes of toilet paper, while CWA […]
We love our Community House — and we love all Community Houses!Neighbourhood Houses Victoria is calling on the state government to increase annual funding by $11.7 million. Click here to find out more and how you can help.
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia (Centrelink) Agency will be closed on Tuesday 4th November due to the Melbourne Cup Public Holiday. We will re-open at 9am on Wednesday 5th November.
Growing Abundance Project is getting excited about our upcoming Harvest season! And we’re changing things up a little… Previously, Harvest with Growing Abundance (GA) has been focused on fruit, but going forward we’re expanding it to include vegetables too. The reasoning for this is that the community pantries we donate Harvest produce to, across […]
Castlemaine Community House has a bunch of food related courses and workshops on this term, including Sour Dough Bread Making with master baker Ken Hercott. For bookings: https://cch.org.au/courses/sourdough-bread-making/ As always thanks to the Midland Express for their support.
Castlemaine Community House & the Service Australia (Centrelink) Agency will be closed on Friday 26th September. We will re-open 9am Monday 29th September.
Read all about our Seed Sowing Day on September the 21st, and find out how to save seeds the Castlemaine Seed Library way here!
Castlemaine Seed Library and Growing Abundance (with Castlemaine Community House) invite you to start your Summer seeds at our community Seed-Sowing Day. Join us on Sunday 21st September at the Hub Garden for a community day sharing seeds, potting mix, expertise and morning tea and get your seedlings started.
The next round for the State Government’s Power Saving Bonus starts today, Monday 25th August, and we are an official community outreach provider! If you, or anyone you know, needs help with the online application, please send them our way or call 5472 4842.
The Castlemaine Community House is indeed a tradition to look forward to. Read all about the Spring Ball’s famous supper here, in the latest “What’s Abundant” article. With thanks to the Midland News.
This is the July instalment of our monthly column in the Midland Express. Read about one of our programs, Cooking for Blokes, which was co-facilitated by local chef Alex Perry and staff from Dhelkaya Health. If you are interested in learning about cooking, we have a new course with Alex Perry, where you’ll learn how to […]
CCH recently held it’s internal strategic planning meeting, where we discussed and reviewed if we are directing our efforts in the right way and to what’s important. This meeting is part of an ongoing process to ensure our values reflect who we are, what we do, and what we aspire to do – and how we continue to […]
The Term 3 Newsletter is out now! Not a subscriber? Click the link below & then subscribe in the top left corner! https://mailchi.mp/4104a3971583/term-3
Meet Duang, Castlemaine Community House’s Community Lunch Coordinator. Every week during term times, 77 year old Duang, and her dedicated team of volunteers, cook up a nutritious and delicious 2 course meal. A lot of planning, sourcing, prepping and love goes into these dishes – and we are very thankful.
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia Agency will be closed Monday 9th June. We will re-open Tuesday 10th June.
Have you seen our latest column in the 20/5th issue of the Midland Express? Castlemaine Community House Pantry welcomes fresh and canned food donations from regulars and newbies. Share what you can, give what you need!
Thanks to everyone who contributed to the Growing Abundance project’s annual Community Apple Pressing. Over 600 kg of harvested apples were juiced, and many gathered to make this an enjoyable and friendly day.
Read the first of our monthly columns in the Midland Express. With thanks to Growing Abundance volunteer, Solway Nutting.
Meet Kyan – Castlemaine Community House’s Youth Project Officer. Kyan is working to ensure we offer a wide range of programs that benefit the young people in our community. You can contact him on Kyan@cch.org.au or 03 5472 4842 The Youth Project Officer role and this project was funded through Vic Health Growing Healthy Communities grant
Castlemaine Community House and the Services Australia Agency will be closed on the upcoming public holidays. We will be open as usual from 9am to 3pm on Tuesday 22, Wednesday 23, and Thursday 24 April.
My Home Network was formed in 2019 in response to increasing community concern about the lack of affordable, safe, secure, and sustainable housing across Mount Alexander Shire, and the resulting crisis of homelessness/being unhoused. My Home Network recognise renters don’t have the same capacity to retrofit their rentals as this depends on the landlords, but […]
If you want to grow veggies, but don’t know what to plant, when, then this very handy guide is for you! Specifically directed at planting in Castlemaine, this bright and easy to use resource looks fab on any wall. You can buy one from us, during our opening hours, Mon – Fri, 9am-3pm. Come and […]
For the past 15 years the Growing Abundance Project has created a viable local food system by harvesting fruit from backyard trees and sharing the produce between volunteers and the community. To ensure the future sustainability of the harvest program Growing Abundance committee is now partnering with Castlemaine Community House,. There is alignment with CCH […]
Castlemaine Community House & the Services Australia Agency will be closed Monday 10th March. We will re-open 9.00am Tuesday 11th March
Cooking is an art and while this may come easily to some of us, others may not have had the need or opportunity to learn such skills and culinary prowess. It was for these reasons that during November and December last year, Dhelkaya Health’s Living Well team, Dietitian- Ingrid Phyland and Community Health Nurse- Jenny […]