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City of Ballarat to conduct quarterly Community Satisfaction Surveys

Ballarat residents may receive a call in the coming weeks asking for their feedback relating to their satisfaction with the City of Ballarat’s services.Independent survey provider JWS research performed the annual community satisfaction survey on behalf of the City of Ballarat earlier this year. However, the City of Ballarat is shifting to a model in which the results of the survey are determined quarterly instead of one annual survey. Each...

Prime Minister's Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.

Search begins for artist to create next Prime Minister’s Bust

The City of Ballarat is beginning the search for the next artist to contribute to the famed Prime Ministers Avenue in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens.An Expression of Interest inviting public artists to apply to sculpt the bust of the Hon Scott Morrison MP, 30th Prime Minister of Australia, has now been released.The Prime Ministers Avenue is a feature of national significance, with each of the 29 preceding Prime Ministers displayed as bronze portr...

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Be Kind Toolkit

Digital assets from our Be Kind Ballarat campaign. Simply download the working files and update them with your own Council’s name.

Emergency Relief Packages For Victorians Who Need It Most

Victorians self-isolating due to coronavirus (COVID-19) with no access to food and essential supplies will receive emergency relief packages under a program introduced by the Victorian Government. The program will support people in mandatory self-isolation, who have little or no food, and no network of family and friends to support them. Each eligible household will receive a two-week supply of essential goods. Food packages wil...

Image of former La Trobe Street saleyards

Amendment C222ball - Former La Trobe Street Saleyards Site Heritage Overlay

Amendment C222ball is required to apply the Heritage Overlay to significant features of the former La Trobe Street Saleyards site at 1020 La Trobe Street, Delacombe. The proposed Heritage Overlay area represents the most intact part of the saleyards' layout and function and represents a comprehensive understanding of the site’s history as former saleyards.

Be Kind Planner

Start a new routine

Have you found your usual routine has been thrown out the window? Sometimes it's a struggle to include those tasks you need to do each day, let alone the ones you'd love to start like painting the fence, cleaning out the gutters or scrapbooking your last family gathering. Setting up a schedule will help to build your new daily routine.

While you're at home - keeping young ones engaged

As we all stay home to try and stop the coronavirus spread and flatten the curve, it's important to keep young minds and bodies engaged. Here are a few suggestions.

Be kind and read a book

Keep calm and read a book

It can reduce your stress levels by 68%

Colouring in is not just for kids!

Embrace the mindfulness trend – tune everything out and focus on choosing and applying colours to bring your awareness to the moment. Click the image to download.

Bury a time capsule

Time capsules are usually things you’ve seen in movies. Childhood friends make a pact to be friends forever and add their treasured items to be opened in 20 years’ time. You might remember the 148-year-old time capsule that was unearthed beneath the Burke and Wills memorial in Sturt Street in May 2011, or the time capsule found at the Ballarat Base Hospital from 1935. Time capsules are a way to record the presen...