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Well Graduation Night for LMCLP 2016 was a cracker! Sorry LMCLP 2013, but we didn’t finish with a graduate musical number! If you were in the audience that night you will know what I mean, when new graduates Ric Raftis and James O’Bryen took the stage with two numbers that inspired audience participation. Well done, I loved it.

Each graduate year makes the Board incredibly proud and 2016 was no exception. I personally will remember the evening as the very first event I represented and addressed the audience as a Councillor of the City of Greater Bendigo. So double tremendous honour for me!

So our diaries are now filling with celebration as the festive season enters full swing, school terms come to an end and interviews undertaken for the 2017 LMCLP program year, I take the moment to thank each and every staff member, board director, alumni and supporter for another stellar CLLM year.

Our collective achievement is being noticed and continues to ensure that a record number of applications for 2017 have been received. Over 50 sensational applications, makes the job of our staff and board conducting each interview extremely hard. I can’t wait to see the final list of successful applicants.

I take this moment to wish each and every one of you a very Happy Christmas and safe festive season, with your loved ones and a very Happy New Year. Bring on 2017 it is going to be super awesome!

Our last Enews for 2016 - where has the year gone? I recently had a post on my facebook feed that said:

January...February...Blink...December

I can certainly relate to this and I am sure many of you can too.

It has been another stellar year for CLLM, with 27 participants graduating from LMCLP and joining our Regional Leadership Network of 420+ graduates. It was a pleasure and a privilege to attend their graduation evening last month and here about their journey and the collective impact they are making both through their community projects, and the leadership opportunities they have taken on during the year.

For those of you who were not able to attend, take time to browse through our 2016 Year Book, as well as The Ripple Effect, a booklet detail the community projects undertaken by 2016 LMCLP participants.

As we look forward to 2017, I ask that you put a couple of key dates into your diary - Our 2017 LMCLP Launch on Friday 17 February at Newbridge, and our CLLM AGM and Vision of the Region Dinner on Friday 28 April in Bendigo. We would love to see you there.

In closing, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to CLLM events, activities and initiatives during the year - we couldn't have done it without you. We have some great plans coming together for 2017 and look forward to sharing these with you early in the new year.

In closing, I would live to wish you all a very merry festive season and hope you get to enjoy time with family and friends who are important to you at this very special time of year. I know I will be...

Seasons Greetngs, Julie

This time of year is a time of mixed emotions for me with the closure, celebrations, congratulations and farewells of one program year followed closely by interviews for the following year, as I start re-imagining the make-up, character, challenges, learning opportunities and programming for next year’s LMCLP cohort. And, if I’m honest, there’s a bit of relief that holidays are ahead so that we can regather our energies ready for another full and fruitful year ahead.

The LMCLP 2016 graduation at Silks Function Centre on Friday 11^th November was a huge success. Keith Sutherland was an appropriate guest speaker as a man who is very much a living example of community leadership in action. The Graduation committee and contributing participants did a wonderful job telling the story of their program year for a strong audience of supporters and stakeholders. A wonderful quality yearbook produced by our yearbook committee was also launched at Graduation and is well worth a read if you get the opportunity. It is available for download on our website.

We have a huge number of high quality applicants lining up for the opportunity of taking the leadership journey with us next year. We have double the number of applicants to positions and with diversty considerations are facing some extremely tough decisions about who we will be able to put through into next year’s program. It has been a super inspiring process interviewing alongside CLLM Board and staff members across the region and meeting even more amazing people doing amazing things in and for their communities, industries and areas of interest and passion. Our region is in good hands!

My sincere congratulations and thanks to LMCLP 2016 for a wonderful year of self-responsible, self-reflective learning and action in leadership. It has been an absolute pleasure and privilege to walk alongside you.

Welcome to the class of 2016 to our graduate network, our network is now up around 420 graduates across the region. In 2017 we are looking to provide more opportunities for further leadership training and development, networking and supporting the great work you do out in your local communities.

In the meantime have a wonderful Christmas and new year with your families and friends and we look forward to seeing you in 2017.

Simon Sinek, world famous thought leader and author of WHY (many of you may have seen his inspirational TED talk) is coming to Australia and will be in Melbourne for a one-day masterclass on Friday 3 March.

We are organising a group booking to take advantage of the discounted tickets, so if you would like to join the CLLM team contact Mel ASAP.

After a tremendous nine months learning about the region, meeting local leaders and developing leadership skills our participants of the Youth Leadership Program had their Graduation in Swan Hill on Saturday 26 November. A total of 42 people attended the ceremony, listened to key note speakers Tayla Hansen and Khayshie Tilak-Ramesh: "Young People for Refugees" and all were impressed with how well the young people coordinated and managed the entire evening.

Some of the parting quotes included: “leadership has many forms, we all have the potential”, “Believe in yourself and the course”, and “Don’t shy away from an opportunity that presents itself – who knows where it will lead”.

Wishing each and every graduate all the best with their future endeavours!

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February

LMCLP 2016 Reconnecting Day
Friday February 17
Newbridge

2017 LMCLP Launch
Friday February 17
Newbridge

AICD Course
February 23-24
Bendigo

March

Simon Sinek
Friday March 3
Melbourne

April

CLLM AGM &
Vision of the Region Dinner
Friday 28 April
Bendigo

Congratuations to Abhi Awasthi (2013) who was recently elected as the President of the Loddon Campaspe Multicultural Services. Read the story in the Bendigo Advertiser

2016 LMCLP graduate Tim Hoogwerf was also elected to the Board.

Congratulations to Sarah Sammon (2006) on being selected as finalists in the Regional Australia Institute and Google Australia’s ‘Regional Online Heroes’ competition for 2016. See the full details.

Congratulations to Luke Spielvogel (LMCLP 2015) on receiving a Volunteers Champion award from the Victorian Governor.

If you’re like many people who find themselves in management or leadership positions, you’ve had minimal training for your role. You may have been very good at some part of the business, but that doesn’t automatically confer leadership brilliance.

Women's Leadership

From September 2016 the initiative will selectively provide leadership development scholarships to women across key Australian industries and sectors to assist them to participate in three of WLA’s flagship development programs. The deadline to submit an Expression of Interest is December 15. Visit Website

Volunteer Grants

These grants aim to support the efforts of Australia’s volunteers. They provide small amounts of money that organisations and community groups can use to help their volunteers. They are part of the Government’s work to support the volunteers who help disadvantaged Australian communities and encourage inclusion of vulnerable people in community life. Visit Website

Buloke and Loddon Shire Surveys
Please help us to identify relevant and practical training and learning opportunities in the Buloke and Loddon Shires. Complete this online survey for the opportunity to win one of 5, $100 shop local vouchers.
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John Wallis Foundation
The 2017 John Wallis Foundation Small grants Program is
now open, offering grants to community groups and not-for-profit organisations nationally. Grants are generally in the region of $500 to $3,000. This year the focus is on disadvantaged rural, regional and remote areas of Australia. Visit Website

Better Boards Conference 2017
Speaker Applications for the Better Boards Conference 2017 close at 5pm on the 15th of December, 2016. The conference theme is Adaptive Directorship: Governing for the unpredictable.

The conference conveners are looking for presentations that will highlight the attitudes, behaviours and work practices of adaptive directorship: Adaptation, Strategy, Governance, Board Dynamics. Visit Website

Local History Grants
Encouraging and fostering community activities that better preserve, record and share the local, social and community history of Victoria and Victorians. Visit Website

On Friday 25 November members of the Central Victorian Rural Women’s Network attended “Chicks in the Sticks” which was held at Mount Mitchell in Lexton.

This event was hosted by the North Central Catchment Management Authority, the MC was our CLLM Executive Officer; Julie Slater, and the new banner and postcards for the Central Victorian Rural Women’s Network had its first public appearance.

View more pictures on the Mt Mitchell Facebook Page

CLLM works with community and not-for-profit organisations on a range of projects that build capacity and help make our rural and regional communities vibrant and sustainable through our new community enterprise.

Our services include:

Strategic, Business and Community Planning;
Community Engagement projects;
Feasibility Studies and Evaluation Reports;
Targeted leadership development programs for industry and special interest sectors;
Event Management and Planning;
Governance Health Checks;
Grant writing and Seeking;
Partnerships with other like-minded organisations on collaborative projects; and
Secretariat/auspice services.

If you have a project idea, please contact Fiona on 0419 117 314 or send her an email.

Contact Us...

Executive Officer Program Manager Projects Manager Graduate Manager

Julie Slater Lucy Mayes Fiona Jemmett Mel Mann

Ph: 5498 3270 0437 871 650 0419 117 314 0427 936 972
executive@cllm.org.au program@cllm.org.au projects@cllm.org.au graduate@cllm.org.au

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Donald, Victoria, 3480

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