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January 2024 The Byron Wave
CWA Brunswick Heads Branch by Beverly Masters
Pictured: Brunswick Heads CWA ladies at their Christmas party.
Happy New Year 2024. We welcome you to our Crafty Women of Brunswick Heads, Country Women’s Association. We are women who not only enjoy various crafts, but cherish the company of fellow women and raising much needed funds for specific projects within our community and beyond.
At the end of 2023, we were busy bees. The CWA celebrated with local centenarian, Joyce Rankin – happy 100th to our dear pioneer. We held a working bee to clear out the front yard and remove the old stumps in the back to make mowing easier – a big thank you to our members and the husbands who helped. A sewing machine was also donated to the CWA, and we have been making great use of it in our crafts. We also had our Christmas Party, which was a lot of fun.
Our last Market Day of 2023, held in December, was a great success, and attended by many people looking for homemade and unique Christmas gifts. Keep an eye on our Facebook page for our next Market Day. You can find lots of delicious goodies and handmade crafts.
Interested in joining the CWA in 2024? Our gatherings provide a warm and welcoming space for women of all ages to come together, learn, and celebrate their artistic endeavours. You can expect lively conversations, as women gather to share stories, and exchange ideas. Our Friday gatherings from 10am – 2pm (excluding public holidays) provide a platform for continuous learning and personal development. All women are welcome – please bring a gold coin donation.
Hall hire is also available. Email brunscwa@gmail.com to find out more.
September The Byron Wave
Community in brief
CWA Brunswick branch, by Beverly Masters
Pictured: Pat Davis and her mum, Marie James, at CWA 75th Anniversary Celebration with their memories displayed behind them.
Our 75th year celebration was a great success and we displayed our crafty work and memories from the past.
The free sausage sizzle was popular, and it was wonderful to see so many CWA members from surrounding clubs congratulating us. We are currently working on our 75th year Anniversary Cookbook, with inexpensive and tasty recipes, and we are planning to have it ready for our December Market Day. A part of the celebrations included creating a time capsule, which will be buried with various memories of the CWA and unearthed in 25 years at the 100th year celebration.
We also featured a special family on our 75th anniversary. The James family has been using the CWA rooms each Boxing Day for the past 28 years. The tradition began in 1994 when mother and grandmother Marie James became unwell. The family decided to hire the CWA rooms on Boxing Day so the extended family could gather for what could have been her last Christmas. Family came from Warwick, Toowoomba, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Lismore and all around. Marie passed away the next year, but the James family have continued their Boxing Day pilgrimage every year.
‘The CWA rooms have been a wonderful venue for our gatherings and the CWA ladies have been very good to
us,’ said Marie. ‘We wish to thank them very much for their kindness and we will continue gathering at Brunswick Heads for many years, perhaps generations, to come.’
August 2023 The Byron Wave
Brunswick Heads CWA
by Beverly Masters, CWA Publicity
At the CWA in Brunswick Heads there is always something fantastic going on, and now that we have entered our 75th year, we are thrilled to have more support from our locals.
The Hotel Brunswick have added CWA of Brunswick Heads as a charity to which Publinc points are donated. The Publinc Communities program is a social impact initiative that allows customers of local venues to gain points and contribute to the causes they care about most by donating these points. One Publinc point equals 1c and expires every June and December, so be sure to redeem them and consider us when donating your Publinc points. The CWA joins other Hotel Brunswick peers who have received a combined $63,400 from the venue to date.
Another hero organisation for the CWA is Koh Living. They have been absolute legends, and for over a year now have sent us donations to help better support the community, particularly, the locals who were affected by the floods. The donations have been $50 gift cards for essentials, toiletries and giftware, as well as education support for our local schools. Koh Living donations have been put to good use.
The CWA of NSW is still advocating for many important issues, including a state-wide cat curfew, containment, and enforcement of desexing; strengthened legislation to protect koala habitats; establishment of a dedicated Palliative Care Unit in regional NSW hospitals; and advocating State and Commonwealth Governments to take urgent coordinated action to address the national housing crisis facing women.
For more information visit on CWA of NSW’s current projects visit: cwaofnsw.org.au/Web/Web/Current-Issues
May 2023 The Byron Wave
CWA Brunswick Heads
by Beverly Masters, Public Relations Officer, CWA Brunswick Heads
The CWA of Brunswick Heads have a deep care for our community and we like to help our neighbours. We recently supported families from the Brunswick Heads Public School with vouchers for everyday essentials, and we donated money for the purchase of school uniforms for children of flood-affected families. Gift packs were also donated to the Crabbes Creek School. Each member of the CWA is passionate about supporting a different charity. At our next meeting we will vote on where we want our donations to go for the upcoming year.
If you’re passionate about supporting community and you’d like to be apart of these important decisions, come and join the CWA. There are endless ways for you to become involved.
The CWA Bruns Crafty Women meet each Friday from 10am – 2pm (excluding public holidays). We have a cuppa, a laugh, a chat, and we make and learn crafty things. Some of these items are made to be sold at the next CWA Market Day and some as gifts for cherished friends and family. Entry by gold coin donation for members and non-members.
Hall hire is also available, we are located at the Corner of Park and Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads.
Please email: brunscwa@gmail.com to find out more and check out our Facebook: CWAofBrunswickHeads
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April 2024 The Byron Wave
CWA Brunswick Heads Branch by Beverly Masters
Pictured: Quilts made by Brunswick Heads CWA. Source: Supplied.
During World War I, the Country Women’s Association (CWA) extended assistance to soldiers and their families by supplying clothing, care packages, and raising funds for medical provisions. Additionally, they advocated for food preservation and cultivation to alleviate shortages, coordinating communal kitchens and promoting homegrown crops.
These initiatives underscored the CWA’s dedication to community welfare and its capacity to mobilise women in times of adversity, cementing its role as a crucial support system in Australia. Annually, we pay our respects on ANZAC Day and lay a wreath at the Brunswick Heads Memorial Park on 25 April.
CWA Brunswick Heads Crafty Women meet each Friday between 10am
– 2pm, corner of Park and Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads. Join us for a chat, a cuppa and bring along your craft projects including sewing, knitting, crocheting, memory books or quilting. Women are always welcome, please bring a gold coin donation.
If you would like to be a member please email: brunscwa@gmail.com For more information visit: facebook. com/CWAofBrunswickHeads
Presidents Poem by Beverly Masters
In the heart of a thriving community’s glow, Lies a
tapestry of stories that ebb and flow In shared laughter
and moment of tears a bond forms stronger throughout
the years a web of support, a safety net found
In our CWA community, we are uniquely bound
From diverse backgrounds, culture, and creed
In unity, may we find what we need
A mosaic of lives, each unique and bright
Listening to each other and not always having to be right
On the corner of Park and Booyun streets
Is where our CWA members and friends meet.
byronwave | April 2024
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Beverly Masters 