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April 2024 The Byron Wave
CWA Brunswick Heads Branch by Beverly Masters
Pictured: Quilts made by Brunswick Heads CWA.
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.
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October The Byron Wave
by Beverly Masters, CWA Brunswick Heads
We are lucky to live in such a beautiful place, although many of us may never be classified locals by the locals you can still join the CWA, meet new people, pick up a new hobby,
or as one of our members has done, finish crocheting a baby’s dress, started in the 1990s, with expert help from our members who have been crocheting for years.
There is currently a great opportunity to shadow our Secretary, Mary, over the next year to learn the ropes. Mary has been our Secretary for three years and is a great asset to the Club. This would be a good opportunity for anyone interested in becoming Secretary and being more involved in the community through CWA. Forms for nominations need to be submitted as soon as possible for our Friday 6 October Election day. Please email: brunscwa@gmail.com for more information.
Our next Market day is on Saturday 7 October. We raise much needed funds for community members so please come to see our craft work, cakes, jams pickles and plants. The Market runs between 8am–1pm at the corner of Park and Booyun Streets, Brunswick Heads. Cash only.
The past few months we have welcomed new members, who are enjoying our Friday Crafty Women sessions. We are a friendly and diverse group of women who live locally in the Byron/Tweed area.
byronwave | October 2023
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.’
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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December 2022 The Byron Wave first edition.
All articles in this section have appeared in The Byron Wave magazine and online at the website below.
https://www.thebyronwave.com.au/magazine
Pictured: Brunswick Heads CWA community hall.
The CWA has been operating in Australia for 100 years since 1922. From its first gathering, the group have grown to play a vital role in Australian society, providing women from all walks of life with support, knowledge and friendship whilst also fundraising for the community.
The Brunswick Heads branch of CWA was established in 1948. The group has now grown to 25 members, who regularly meet to have a cuppa, a laugh, a chat, and make crafty things which they then sell at various markets and community events.
The next event will be the Brunswick Heads CWA Market Day Saturday 10 December, 8am – 1pm.
There are endless ways for you to become involved when you are a member of your local CWA Branch. CWA Brunswick Heads Crafty Women meet each Friday from 10am – 2pm (excluding public holidays) and all are welcome. A gold coin donation is required from members and non-members to attend.
You can find them at the Corner of Park and Booyun Street, Brunswick Heads.
Email: brunscwa@gmail.com to find out more.
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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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