By Oliver Winn
A highly anticipated community noticeboard was unveiled in Wandin North on Saturday 12 April and is expected to help promote businesses and facilitate community.
The noticeboard was installed in the prime location of Wandin Recreation Reserve where many community groups can leverage the noticeboard to their advantage.
Community Bank Wandin-Seville executive officer Leah Thompson said the new noticeboard was a “big deal” for the community as it will bring many benefits to not only businesses but also other community groups.
“The noticeboard will enable more community groups to leverage the Wandin Recreation Reserve, which is the true community hub of Wandin.”
Some examples of the different groups which will benefit from the noticeboard are the Wandin North Community summer movie nights, the Wandin CFA, local primary schools, the Rotary Club of Wandin, and of course, sporting clubs.
The Community Bank Wandin-Seville funded $75,000 for the installation of the noticeboard.
“Tenant clubs came to us with the issues of not having a noticeboard,” Ms Thompson said.
“These issues included the Wandin Recreation Reserve having no digital footprint to support community events, the previous digital solution having no ability to be upgraded to further facilitate evolving community demand and the previous scoreboard facility for tenant clubs not being able to suitably recognise sponsors and community partners.”
The noticeboard was dedicated to long-term member of the Wandin Football Club, Rob Bayliss.
