Join Our Board!
Exciting opportunity to contribute to your local community
The Place: Charlestown Community Centre is the place where people from all walks of life have access to local and regional services including opportunities to participate in educational, developmental, and social activities. We provide a safe and welcoming place that engages and supports a diverse community to meet, connect, belong and grow.
We are a not-for-profit community facility with a primary purpose of supporting active community development which is enabled through the mechanism of a financially sustainable social enterprise, offering quality space and state of the art facilities that are accessible to the whole community.
Charlestown Youth and Community Centre Inc. are calling for Expressions of Interest from local community members to fill 2 positions on the Board of Governance for The Place: Charlestown Community Centre. The positions available are:
·1 x Youth Representative member (18 to 25 years)
·1 x Community Representative member
To be eligible to apply you
must
be a resident of Lake Macquarie.
Expressions of interest close Tuesday 23rd November 2021.
Download the Information Package for further information. To express your interest complete an online Expression of Interest
OR access a PDF copy of the Expression of Interest Form.
For further information, please contact Cristelle on 0439 848 372 or (02) 4032 5500 or email manager@theplacecharlestown.org.au
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