QCWA Point Vernon-Pialba

04/09/2026

Yesterday, a number of our members travelled out to Biggenden for our annual Division Contest Day! 🍰🧶🎨
There were SO many fantastic entries in cookery, dressmaking, floral art, art, knitting & crochet. Our members cleaned up with quite a few First and Second places across the sections - I believe we counted 23 in total! Well done ladies! 🏆
Many of these will now go on to compete at State level - good luck everyone!
Thank you to the beautiful Biggenden ladies for hosting and catering our delicious morning tea & lunch! 🥪 🫖

31/08/2026

A few of our members walked up to our brand new Fraser Coast Libraries / Fraser Coast Regional Council Library today and we were absolutely blown away! 📚🏢
What an incredible addition to our area - much more than just books (which there are PLENTY of!), the new library features a “Maker Space” which includes sewing machines, an over locker, embroidery machine, Cricut machines, 3D printing and more - All available for anyone with a library membership. 🧵🎨
There are various areas for study, meetings, and places to read a good book. The children’s area is amazing and so well designed for little people!
What a great resource for our wonderful community ro enjoy!

24/08/2026

16/08/2026

Some of our members travelled to Childers on Friday to attend our Division AGM 💙
What a lovely morning - it is always great to catch up with ladies from other branches across our area.
Congratulations and all the best to our incoming division committee and Zone VPs!

12/08/2026

Congratulations to all winners from our branch competition day! 🏆
We had dozens of entries across Floral Art, Knitting & Crochet, Cookery and Art. 💐🧶🍰🎨
The winners from this will go on to compete at Division level next month.
Thank you to our wonderful guest judges Anna, Gaye, Jenny and Kylie, and to our stewards for each section Linda, Dianne, Gwen and Lee-Ann. What a great team!

04/08/2026

Thank you to the wonderful folks at Bingham Berries for giving us a tour of their excellent hydroponic strawberry farm set up yesterday 🍓👨🏼‍🌾
Strawberries are our Product of the Year so it was great seeing first hand how they are grown locally. We also purchased lots of yummy berries, jam and ice cream! 🍓🍦 Thanks Dan & Sam!

25/07/2026

Yesterday we held our branch AGM and what a great day it was. We were honoured to have Division President Narelle Smith chair our meeting. Thank you to all members & guests who attended!

We passionately serve our community - Some of our donations from the past 12 months include:
🛩️ $1000 to Community Flights
🏠$1650 to Kindness Works/The Lounge Hervey Bay Baptist Church
🧳 $1000 worth of goods to Hope in a Suitcase - Fraser Coast
📚 2 x $500 bursaries to students entering High School
🇦🇺 ANZAC Day: 250+ handmade poppy brooches, 150+ homemade ANZAC biscuits & 100+ sprigs of rosemary, tea & coffee.
🧼 1300 toiletry items to J&T Supporting Homeless
🧶 148 blankets, 76 beanies, 21 gowns and 25 mum & bub scent bonding hearts to Hervey Bay Hospital Maternity Ward Wide Bay Hospital & Health Service
🎒 Over 150 items to Loloma Care Home in Fiji, including handmade tote bags, stationery supplies and children’s clothing
🧤 49 pairs of handmade gloves to Love Your Sister for patients undergoing chemo
🧁 4 dozen cupcakes, 8 tubs of icing and sprinkles for Community Flights 4th birthday event
🧵 20 bags of craft supplies & clothing to Howard Benevolent Society
🎄 60 Christmas gifts to residents at Kirami Aged Care
🐴 Assistance to the 5th Light Horse Regiment Hervey Bay Troop Inc in completing a horse rug for National War Animals Day

Returning positions are Jessica as President and Linda as Secretary. We joyfully welcome several new ladies to our committee. Meril as Treasurer; Joyce, Donna and Gwen as Vice Presidents; and Lyn as International Officer. We have no doubt these ladies will fulfil their roles superbly as they are all already very involved members of our branch.

Retiring Officers are Lee-Ann from Treasurer, Jane from International Officer, and Gail & Dianne from Vice Presidents. These wonderful women have worked tirelessly in their roles and we are so thankful for all they have done!

We look forward to the coming year continuing to support locals in any way we can 💙

13/07/2026

Today one of our wonderful members presented the branch with something special 💙
Some of you may know that our little building was once upon a time the Craignish school house.
Donna, who is a born & bred local, and also member of the Hervey Bay Historical Village & Museum, presented us with this set of photos to display in our rooms. Thank you so much Donna, what a great thing to be able to have in our hall to share the history of the building with members & guests. We love it!

Photos:
1. The Craignish State School as it stood In Craignish.
2. The last group of children attending when the school closed. (Which includes one of our current members, Maxine!)
3. The school on a truck being moved to Torquay Rd, Pialba.
4. Where the old school stands proudly today as our much loved QCWA Pt. Vernon Pialba.

22/06/2026

THANK YOU Hervey Bay RSL 🤩
We are so grateful that the RSL awarded us a grant to purchase a branch printer and laptop. This will be so helpful to our committee members who currently use their own resources. The grant also includes room hire costs to host a fundraiser in a few months time at The Clubhouse Hervey Bay, enabling us to put all profits to use in the community.
Thank you once again RSL!

20/06/2026

Come on down to Bunnings Hervey Bay TODAY (Saturday 20/6) to grab some delicious baked goods from our ladies! 🧁🍪
All proceeds from this stall will go directly to the incredible Community Flights 🛩️🩺