Peter Pan was the boy who chose to never grow up.
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Now just like the timeless classic a Masquerade Ball named after his dwelling place is helping IRT create age-friendly opportunities for people where they live.
Members of the Wollongong community helped kick-start it by raising $21,598 for the cause last Wednesday.
It showed the city’s generous community spirit can never be described as the stuff of fairy tales.
170 people came to City Beach Function Centre to help ensure there is never any ‘’no I can’t do something because of my age” in Wollongong.
Tinker Bell was not sighted in this ‘’never no land” but IRT chief executive Nieves Murray described everyone’s effort as tremendous.
"Money raised will go directly to our community grants, education and advocacy, and research programs’’.
Rocket takes off
Michael Gardiner’s Lime Rocket team have enjoyed their first interstate install at the University of Tasmania.
They flew down to help run Buzzy Republic in Launceston, Hobart and Burnie simultaneously.
Lime Rocket recently had TimeZone launch its games in Newcastle where shoppers play for free outside the shop window using their smart phones.
In February Gardiner was invited to the US for Google’s BlackBox program.
Help for startups
Hackagong returns this weekend.
Teams of designers, developers and creators build something innovative from start to finish in 30 hours.
There will be little sleep as they compete for $150,000 in prizes.
Cultural delight
Decades of cultural diversity is being celebrated on October 2 when the Multicultural Communities Council of Illawarra hosts a 40th anniversary dinner.
Established in 1975 it has grown to provide programs and services across the Illawarra, Shoalhaven, NSW and ACT where it advocates for the rights of migrants, refugees and culturally and linguistically diverse communities.
Businesswomen kick up heels
Illawarra businesswomen are kicking up their heels this month to celebrate a popular networking group’s second birthday.
Business in Heels started in 2013 and on September 29 Monique Field has Amy Harper, of Kells the Lawyers, and Maralyn Young, of Casa Mia, lined up to speak.
