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Is your child interested in joining a sports team this Autumn / Winter? Check out these great local teams below. Want to get your club on this list? Fill out this form and we'll do the rest! [space_40] North Ryde Dockers Junior AFL club Where: ELS Hall Ovals in Kent Rd, Ryde Age Group: U5-U18 Registration:…

  This White Ribbon Day on Friday 22nd November at 11am, join the City of Ryde in taking a stand together as a community to end violence and abuse. Bringing together local residents, businesses and workers in Macquarie Park, the march will start outside of Macquarie University School of Engineering and end at Elouera Reserve. All…

We recently attended a FREE workshop hosted by City of Ryde about Worm Farming and composting. It was INSPIRATIONAL, to say the least, and presenter Peter Rutherford of Kimbriki Eco House and Garden was absolutely brilliant. We discovered that worm farming and composting aren’t just for the greenies and those with a huge garden, they’re…

by Hayley Stuart    UPDATE SEPTEMBER 2019 Firstly, the biggest thank you from the family and I for all the generous donations, and messages of support so far. We have all been overwhelmed by the generosity of the community. Rachel has had the scariest 2 months of her life. To recap my original article (below),…

WOW - that is what best describes our Fundraiser Disco for Lauren Hew yesterday! We had over 220 kids dancing away the afternoon, singing songs & playing games! The afternoon would not have been possible without our sponsors who covered all our hard costs meaning 100% of money raised goes to Lauren and her family…

Community space is worth its weight in gold, so we were super excited to hear that the City of Ryde is proposing a four-fold increase in community facilities in Ryde as part of its new vision for the Civic Centre site. With our RDM hats on, we - with kids in tow - got the chance to…

by John Alexander   Firstly let me say: “Happy Mother’s Day!”  I hope you have a well-deserved day of affection and family harmony this Sunday. As local Mums, you are raising our next generation locally, along with all your other responsibilities I am sure it must seem at times very busy! Mother’s Day is an opportunity…

by John Alexander   Supporting local Mums and their families certainly is one of my highest priorities as an elected representative. I came to fatherhood a bit later in life. I was in my 40's and had been retired from professional tennis for a number of years. My three wonderful children certainly are the pride…

Occasionally, a rare opportunity presents itself to us mums to do something child-free. To leave the house dressed in nice clothes, with a bit of lippy, maybe even blow-dried hair or shoes with some height and that weird feeling of freedom. If the stars align and the clouds part, we might even be on time!…

by Kylie Cilek   My name is Kylie and I'm a 36-year-old mother to a beautiful 4-year-old girl named Isla and married to an amazingly supportive and caring man, Tanyu, who I’ve shared life with for the last 13 years. I'm currently 2 years into my cancer battle with stage 4 metastatic tongue/ head and…

by Lucy Jones [space_20]Sienna was born in London in July 2007 and was a perfectly happy and healthy baby girl. When Sienna turned seven months, we moved to Sydney, as we had always dreamed of living there and had visions of a wonderfully relaxed life by the beach. However six weeks after arriving, Sienna had…

by Lauren Hew   Four years ago I had just given birth to our second child Ashton, with Ava being born 19 months earlier. My husband and I, who have been together for 11 years, were settling back into being parents to a newborn again when everything changed. My name is Lauren Hew, I am…