SYSTEMS which categorise young people as either perpetrators or victim-survivors has left services unable to recognise the ongoing impacts of trauma on young people who have experienced adult-perpetrated domestic and family violence or who may have other unmet support needs.…
A NEW experience for local food lovers was launched in Sapphire Beach on Saturday 29 April. The Coffs Coast Food Lovers Long Lunch was held at Wylde Oak Café at the family-owned Coffs Harbour Nursery on Wakelands Road, Sapphire Beach.…
THE Coffs Coast’s Screenwave International Film Festival has announced the recipient of the 2023 Ferguson Film Prize as Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski for his Melbourne-set coming of age romance, Of an Age. The Ferguson Film Prize, which includes a trophy,…
COFFS Harbour employment, training and business services agency, Enterprise and Training Company (ETC), has launched a First Nations Scholarships Program. Applications opened on Monday 24 April and will close on Friday 16 June. Advertise with News of The Area today.…
A MOTHER’S Day Silent Auction Luncheon will be held on Saturday 13 May 2023 at Coffs Harbour Surf Club, a fundraiser supporting local efforts to raise $100,000 to purchase a SleepBus for the community. With a vision to help the…
THE COFFS Harbour RSL sub-Branch, with logistic support provided by the Coffs Harbour Ex-Servicemen and Women’s Memorial Club (C.ex Club), facilitated fittingly sombre yet proud Anzac Day services on Tuesday 25 April 2023 at the cenotaph in Anzac Park. “Coffs…
LOCAL residents and ratepayers are being encouraged to review and provide feedback on the City of Coffs Harbour’s Draft 2022-2026 Delivery Program (Year 2), Draft 2023/24 Operational Plan and supporting financial documents. The Program and Plan sets out the projects,…
BANANAFEST, the new festival of music, food, fun and family entertainment will rock Coffs Harbour’s iconic The Big Banana on Saturday 6 and Sunday 7 May. Three shows over two days will feature Australian music talent, children’s entertainment icons, street…
DIVERSITY reigns at May’s Artists in the Garden (AITG) event, with a program covering music, spoken word and visual arts offered on Sunday 7 May at Coffs’ North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens. The Sawtell Ukulele Group will open the music…
LEARNING about Indigenous ways of life through lived experience, Class 10 students at Chrysalis Steiner School, Thora are taking a trip to Arnhem Land in the far north Northern Territory. The students will be guided by their teacher, Zac Panarettos,…