Join a friendly walking group and enjoy good company, fresh air, and green space in a brisk 50-minute walk around the neighbourhood....
Join a friendly walking group and enjoy good company, fresh air, and green space exposure.
This brisk 50-minute walk around the local neighbourhood starts and finishes at Pines Learning.
Guest speakers will be invited to some walks to share information regarding available supports for carers.
More information at Pines Learning.
Come along to this information session with Neville Owen....
Come along to this information session with Neville Owen.
This presentation is part of the normal monthly full day (9:00am to 3:00pm) meeting of Apple Users’ Society of Melbourne (AUSOM) where special interest groups discuss the use of Apple devices including iPad, iPhone, Apple Watch, and Apple Macs.
Taking its name from the unofficial description of the present day epoch which has seen human activity dramatically impact the earth's climate and ecology, this exhibition is the expression of four artists' efforts to record, reflect upon and potentially enact change in how humanity views and interacts with the world.
Shifting the Anthropocene features the work of Lesley Duxbury, Ruth Johnstone, Rosie Weiss and Stephen Wickham, who have variously photographed underwater ecosystems and stunning 400 year old eucalypts, and collected and drawn remnants of plants destroyed by bushfire, amongst other creative acts.
The works are descriptions of the immediate and personal effects of climate change as the artists have witnessed them. They also pivot to celebrate instances where individuals and communities have saved endangered species or enacted changes in environment laws through collective effort, thereby giving a hopeful and positive tenor to the exhibition overall.
Installation view of artworks by Lesley Duxbury. Photo by Charlie Kinross.
Explore a stunning reach of the Yarra River enjoying spectacular views as we rock hop over the escarpment and then along the gentler banks. Here we will see the results of more than 25 years of wildlife habitat rehabilitation.
The walk is 4.5km over 3 hours. Parts of the trail are not on a flat walking track and involve good balance and rock hopping. Please consider your ability to complete the walk, being mindful the group will need to keep a steady pace to complete it in the allocated time.
Wear solid walking shoes, weather appropriate clothing, a hat and sunscreen.
Participants must provide a mobile number.
Please note: This walk starts and finishes at different locations, so will involve a car shuttle with fellow walkers.
Location will be given upon registration.
This event is part our Manningham Spring Outdoors Series, where we offer a range of fun outdoor activities across Manningham.
You can also check what’s happening across other Councils by visiting the Spring Outdoors website.
Keep up to date with our latest environment and sustainability events.
We have a range of indoor sports courts in Manningham including five stadiums with indoor sports courts.
Aquarena is one of Victoria’s largest and most recognised recreation and aquatic facilities.
Many of our reserves offer sporting facilities such as:
These are available for community use and no bookings are required.
| Reserve | Suburb | Facility |
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| Acheron Reserve | Doncaster |
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| Brendan Reserve | Doncaster |
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| Bronte Playspace, Green Gully Linear Park | Templestowe |
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| Cat Jump Park | Donvale |
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| Celeste Reserve West | Doncaster East |
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| Daniel Reserve | Donvale |
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| Dellfield Reserve | Templestowe Lower |
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| Domeney Reserve | Park Orchards |
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| Donvale Reserve | Donvale |
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| Fielding Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Hampshire Reserve | Doncaster |
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| Happy Valley Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Harold Reserve | Bulleen |
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| Heath Reserve | Templestowe Lower |
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| Hertford Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Hillcroft Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Katrina Gully Playspace, Koonung Creek Linear Park | Doncaster |
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| Kerry Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Koonung Park | Bulleen |
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| Lawford Reserve | Doncaster |
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| Leawarra Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Lilian Reserve | Bulleen |
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| Lyndal Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Manningham DISC | Donvale |
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| Marshall Reserve | Doncaster |
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| Matisse Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Morecambe Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Morris Williams Reserve | Bulleen |
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| Oxford Reserve | Nunawading |
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| Pine Hill Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Ranleigh Reserve | Templestowe Lower |
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| Sandra Reserve | Bulleen |
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| Schafter Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Sheahans Reserve | Bulleen |
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| Spring Valley Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Swanston Reserve | Templestowe Lower |
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| The Grange Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Templestowe Leisure Centre | Templestowe |
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| Templestowe Reserve | Templestowe |
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| Valepark Reserve | Donvale |
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| Warrandyte Reserve | Warrandyte |
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| Whistlewood Reserve | Doncaster East |
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| Wonga Park Reserve | Wonga Park |
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| Woodlea Reserve | Doncaster East |
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Warrandyte Mountain Bike Club is offering a free women’s mountain bike ride through the beautiful Warrandyte State Forest.
This is a no-drop ride (meaning no-one will be left behind), aimed at bringing women together through mountain bike riding in a friendly and supportive environment.
The ride will cover about 14km with some hills and a creek crossing. After the ride the group will gather for lunch and/or coffee at Warrandyte’s famous Grand Hotel.
All you need to join in is a properly maintained mountain bike, an Australian Standard helmet and basic riding skills.
What to bring: Mountain bike, helmet and a drink bottle (optional).
What to wear: Appropriate shoes and clothing to ride a bike.
Location: The ride will take in a loop around Warrandyte, starting and ending at Gospel Carpark, opposite Whipstick Gully Road.
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Ronald Reserve Playground provides play and picnic opportunities in a landscaped setting for children of all ages. Young children can perform on the ‘Once Upon A Time’ story stage with its squeaky stepper seats or exchange a book at the Little Free Library. For some active play there are swings, a junior slide, a climbing net and a balance walk along logs, rocks and beams.
Within walking distance (250 metres away) to Bulleen Plaza and the Bulleen Library, this reserve is the perfect place to relax after shopping or read a book in the storytime area.
Fun fact: The storytime chair/stage was made from a 100 year old pine tree that was felled by a storm in the early 1980s and rescued from becoming firewood to become the story time chair and stage it is today.
Take a book or share a book and produce - the free little library was designed by local residents and made by Kiwanis Club of Manningham for all to enjoy. The library sits on top of a Melaleuca stump that had fallen in the reserve.
By bus:
Ronald Ave/Manningham Rd bus stop:
By car:
On street parking is available
Got skills and ideas? This reserve is part of our Parks Alive program. Get involved and make your mark.
Have you noticed something unsafe like a broken tree branch or damaged playground that needs our attention?
Some types of events, such as festivals or school's cross country runs need a special permission to be held on public land.
UPDATED: 28 March 2025 new date for community workshop
A new Arts Action Plan is set to guide future arts, culture and local history services, programs and activities in Manningham.
To inform the plan, artists, creatives and community members are invited to provide feedback to Council on what’s important to them about arts, culture and local history, and the types of programs they would like to see in the municipality.
Manningham Mayor, Cr Deirdre Diamante, said arts, culture and local history enriched community life by providing opportunities for expression and creativity, social connections and a sense of identity and belonging.
“Whether it’s visual arts and exhibitions, theatre, music and live performances, writing and literature, or photography and film - arts and culture touches everyone,” Cr Diamante said.
“Our local history dates back thousands of years from the traditional owners, the Wurrundjeri Woi-wurrung people, through the days of European settlement to our present multicultural community.
“Creative industries also form an important part of our local economy.”
Feedback can be provided by completing an online survey, or attending an online community workshop on Wednesday 8 April 2025, 6.00pm to 7.30pm.
More information is available at Your Say Manningham. Feedback closes Friday 25 April 2025.
Meeting Date: 28 March 2017
Meeting Time: 7.00pm
Location: Council Chamber, 699 Doncaster Road, Doncaster
View and download the Council Papers below.
The April issue of Manningham Matters is out this week, it will be delivered to your letterbox from Monday 14 April.
Each issue of Manningham Matters is distributed via Australia Post’s Unaddressed Mail Service, which can take up to a week to reach all households in Manningham.
Unfortunately for the April issue, Australia Post has advised us of capacity limits with this service, which means we will be posting copies of the magazine out to some areas.
Residents and businesses in Warrandyte, Park Orchards and the Manningham areas of Ringwood North and Nunawading will receive the April issue of the magazine in an addressed envelope, rather than loose in their letterbox.
Take a read of this month's magazine:
If you haven't received your hard copy of the magazine by Wednesday 23 April and would like one posted to you, contact us.
Following a review and community research on Manningham Matters, we are pleased to introduce a refreshed design for the magazine with our February 2025 issue.
Last year we held a series of focus groups with community members about the magazine and based on your feedback, we’ve made some changes to the design and content of your community magazine.
The February issue features a great mix of Council and community news, we hope you enjoy reading about what’s happening in Manningham.
Some of the new and updated features include:
Take a read of this month’s Manningham Matters, distributed from Monday 17 February.
A safe and secure home is the foundation for a healthy life, education, and connection to community. Right now we are seeing more people in Manningham facing housing stress and homelessness.
National Homelessness Week runs from 4 to 10 August and is an opportunity to raise awareness of the practical steps to address homelessness in our community.
Homelessness doesn’t discriminate — it can affect anyone. Rising housing costs mean some people are forced to choose between rent and food. We're also seeing a growing need for food relief and emergency support services locally.
If you or someone you know needs help, our Manningham Wellbeing Support Card connects you with local services that can provide support. Hard copies of these are available at community venues including Council facilities, libraries community centres, neighbourhood houses, sporting and social clubs.
Let’s work together to make our community a place where everyone has a home.
Our website provides an online resource directory of local crisis support services, including homelessness and crisis accommodation, emergency food relief, family violence support and wellbeing services.
This National Homelessness Week, we’re joining other councils and community organisations to highlight how we’re working together to support people doing it tough.
Want to learn more? Join us for the webinar More than Shelter on Thursday 7 August at 12:30pm, where we’ll explore the support services that offer safety and dignity to people experiencing homelessness.
Ready Steady Go into a lifelong love of sport!
Perfect for young sports fanatics, Ready Steady Go is Australia’s largest multi-sport program. Enroll today and help your kids build confidence and self-esteem, providing a platform of knowledge, and boosting school readiness skills.
Program information
Terms and conditions
How to apply
To secure one of the low-cost places, you will need to:
Spaces are limited, so get in quick to avoid disappointment.
To celebrate Plastic Free July, we'll be popping up at our local activity centres to chat with visitors about how we can all continue reducing our waste and in particular, single-use plastics. ...
We can all participate in the movement to minimise waste.
To celebrate Plastic Free July, we'll be popping up at our local activity centres to chat with visitors about how we can all continue reducing our waste and in particular, single-use plastics.
Come along and say hello!
A Local Community Festival. ...
Join this local community festival for a fun family day out with activities, food and entertainment, concerts, waterslides and whacky races.
Other events include a billy cart derby, kids' market, battle of the bands, a film feast, Rotary Art Show and so much more.
For more information, go to the Warrandyte Festival website.
Note: this year's festival will not run on Sunday.
Join us for the Healthy, Happy & Wise: Healthy Ageing Forum, an informative event designed to support older adults in ageing well.
Featuring expert speakers from organisations such as Eastern Community Legal Centre, Bendigo Bank, and Elder Rights Advocacy, the forum will cover key topics including financial literacy, retirement planning, elder rights, housing, and active living.
The expert panel will be addressing key topics relating to healthy ageing, and what it means to be Healthy, Happy and Wise.
Participants will be able to explore resource stalls, and enjoy complimentary morning tea.
Held in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2025, this event highlights the importance of elder rights, ageism prevention, and a safe, respectful community for all.
This event is now sold out, but you can join the waitlist by clicking the "join waitlist" button on the right.
Join us for the Healthy, Happy & Wise: Healthy Ageing Forum, an informative event designed to support older adults in ageing well.
Featuring expert speakers from organisations such as Eastern Community Legal Centre, Bendigo Bank, and Elder Rights Advocacy, the forum will cover key topics including financial literacy, retirement planning, elder rights, housing, and active living.
Attendees can engage in a panel discussion with Q&A, explore resource stalls, and enjoy a complimentary morning tea for networking and community connection.
Held in recognition of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (WEAAD) 2025, this event highlights the importance of elder rights, ageism prevention, and a safe, respectful community for all.
This is a free event, however places are limited. Register your attendance today.
Manningham Art Gallery presents two exhibitions of tactile, abstract works that recontextualise commonly encountered materials, celebrating the everyday and unpredictable process driven experimentation.
Anni Hagberg’s Trace Encounters employs foraging practices, ceramic processes, and experimental installation to explore uncertainty as a contemporary human condition.
Rejecting linear understandings of progress, foraging practices embody a sense of agnostic curiosity. Opportunistically engaging materials, which present themselves within the environment through the process of being discarded by one and found by another, foraging encourages lively interaction with the environment.
Rhys Cousins work homes in on otherwise ordinary and ignored surfaces that one might expect to encounter on any given day. It acknowledges life as complex sensory jigsaw, but deliberately strips away the smells, sounds, language, and colour of that puzzle to explore only touch and the external physical qualities of the myriad materials that make up the urban places we live.
Examining the importance of touch as a physical and emotional experience - helping us to make sense of the world, the work also highlights how texture is made as much through presence as absence, with the solid bumps and ridges in a surface playing as great a role in creating its overall texture as its voids, crevices, nooks, and cracks.
Cousins and Hagberg’s works are activated across Gallery 1 and 2.
Installation View, Manningham Art Gallery, March 2022. Photo by Charlie Kinross.
Skate Park Leagues (SPL) is coming to Warrandyte! Locals will battle it out in the skate, scoot and BMX competitions to decide the winner.
Athletes can compete to be crowned the winner of not only Warrandyte, but also the Victorian Melbourne Metro. Points from each round accumulate throughout the year to decide the best of 2023.
Entry is free and people of all ages and abilities can have a go.
Those still finding their feet get the opportunity to have a go, improve skills and confidence and interact with the pros.
Prizes will be raffled off between competitors so everyone has a chance at taking something home.
Event schedule:
SPL competitions give the community the opportunity to come together, watch and support the talent, get involved and cheer on their own.
The Warrandyte round of SPL has been brought to life through a partnership between Manningham Council, The Y, Victorian Skateboarding Association (VSA), AusCycling and Skate Australia.
Do you want to learn to skate but don’t know where to start?
Come along to an All Aboard skateboarding session to learn skate skill basics and build confidence in a fun and inclusive environment!
You’ll learn about skate skill development, injury prevention, skate park etiquette, equipment maintenance and lots more.
Workshops are led by experienced instructors focusing on building skills in a fun and social environment.
All Aboard skate sessions are open to school-aged children and young people of all genders and abilities. No prior experience is needed.
Come to as many or as few workshops as you like.
Nothing! Skateboards, helmets and padding are all provided. If you have your own equipment and prefer to use that, you can bring it along.
Registration is recommended but not essential.
These are the sessions for Warandyte Skate Park. Looking for something closer to home? More locations are listed below.
These workshops are made possible thanks to Victorian Skateboard Association and a Manningham Community Partnership Grant.
The State Government has now commenced works for the North East Link Program (NELP).
For NELP and construction information and updates
Manningham Council is continuing to work diligently alongside North East Link Program and State Government on all aspects of the project. We are committed to representing community interests with the aim of mitigating impacts, as far practicable, to the community.
Redevelopment works commenced at Bulleen Park in March 2025, as major works progressed for the North East Link tunnels and connection to the Eastern Freeway.
As part of North East Link, Bulleen Park is being upgraded to transform local sporting facilities and spaces to cater for the needs of the wider community in Melbourne’s north east.
The project is being delivered by Development Victoria on behalf of North East Link.
Development Victoria previously managed the construction of Powerful Owl Park in Templestowe, which was delivered in June 2024.
We will continue to work closely with both parties and advocate for our community.
Built Environs will be the head contractor for the redevelopment, working alongside Williams Ross Architects, to complete the design.
User groups and the community will be kept informed of progress and milestones via the Development Victoria website.
You can find the latest updates in the monthly Bulleen Park site bulletin delivered by NELP and DV.
Throughout the redevelopment, traffic conditions around Bulleen Park are subject to change based on North East Link works. Please ensure that you plan ahead and allow additional time when arriving or leaving Bulleen Park, particularly during peak periods.
Signage will be in place at the entrance to Bulleen Park to assist you with entering and direct you towards the available car parking and sporting fields, which will remain in use.
Entry to Bulleen Park by car is via the Bulleen Park Access Road.
If arriving on foot or by bicycle, there is also a public pedestrian access on the south side of the Bulleen Park Access Road.
A large temporary carpark has been built in the far west of Bulleen Park. The front area of Bulleen Park nearby to Bulleen Road continues to support construction related to the North East Link.
A pedestrian path has been built from the large temporary car cark to the existing pavilion and signage and lighting has been installed along the path and within the temporary car park. Signage helps guide to pedestrian pathways.
Construction fencing has been placed around some areas in the northern area of Bulleen Park where construction is taking place.
A staged construction will occur with the first oval and pavilion in the east to commence first, followed by the second pavilion and existing ovals.
Sporting activities and public access to walking trails will continue throughout construction outside of any fenced off areas.
We will continue to manage all allocations for Bulleen Park throughout and at the conclusion of the redevelopment.
Please be aware, while existing operations are continuing, we will not be accepting any additional usage at Bulleen Park until project completion, unless under extenuating circumstances, (i.e., due to ground conditions for clubs with approved allocation).
Manningham's newest and much anticipated soccer facility, Powerful Owl Park is now completed.
Development Victoria worked in conjunction with North East Link Program (NELP) to deliver the facility to ensure community impacts are minimised by changes at Bulleen Park.
We will manage the facility on behalf of NELP, as part of the overall management of Manningham sporting reserves, and in accordance with required conditions of use.
NELP will plant two replacement trees for every tree removed during construction of the project.
A key objective for Council is to ensure that the loss of tree canopy and vegetation is minimised and mitigated. We're working closely with NELP to identify appropriate locations for early tree planting to occur to allow the new canopy to establish. Some early planting has already occurred across various locations in Manningham, including Katrina Reserve (Doncaster) and Finns Reserve (Lower Templestowe).
Council has planted more than 500 trees since 2022 within various reserves in Manningham on behalf of NELP. We will continue to support the early planting program.
The historic 300 year old River Red Gum on Bridge Street in Bulleen is in close proximity to major North East Link works and must be protected. This tree is a local landmark, pre-dates European settlement and is an important example of our environmental heritage.
We will continue to regularly attend when works are being undertaken near the tree to ensure that appropriate mitigation measures are undertaken.
We are continuing to advocate to NELP and other State authorities to ensure that all appropriate measures are taken to mitigate the air quality impacts of the project on the health and wellbeing of the local community.
We are also working closely with NELP to ensure that noise associated with construction is mitigated as far as practicable. Any noise emitting works that may exceed noise levels are also planned to occur either during the day or early in the night, as far as practicable.
Affected residents are also notified prior to the works that noise may occur during a time period with a direct NELP contact provided to them to call where concerns are raised.
