PORA - Park Orchards Ratepayers Association

16/10/2026

Hope to see you there folks!

Good food, great finds and a whole lot of local love.
Looking for something to do this Saturday? We’ve got you covered!
Park Orchards Market is bringing together a wonderful mix of local growers, talented makers, artisan businesses and delicious food stalls for a morning of shopping, eating and connecting with our community.
Discover something unique, stock up on goodies for the week, enjoy a delicious bite to eat or find your new favourite small business. There’s great coffee to keep you going, live music to enjoy and plenty of reasons to slow down and stay awhile.
Our market is all about quality over quantity, supporting local businesses and creating a welcoming place for our community to come together.
So skip the usual Saturday routine, round up your family or friends and come spend the morning with us!
Saturday 17th October | 10am–2pm
Park Orchards Primary School, Bowmore Avenue, Park Orchards.
We can’t wait to welcome you!
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15/10/2026

A message from the Park Orchards Community Pantry:

🌸Friendly Tips For Tomorrow’s Catch Up-

- Where possible walk on over or park in surrounding streets being mindful of school traffic, young people & private driveways.🥰

- Remember to bring baskets, bags or boxes for plants & food.🌱

- Feel free to bring your own offering of seeds, plants, food to share. But note- This is not a requirement, we have an abundance of offerings to share.😉

- Should you want to make a donation towards the Pantry, we will have our donation jar available for cash donations. 🫙

- We will have physical raffle tickets available too for those wanting to purchase with cash & our Raffle QR code also has an option to make an extra donation if you’re interested. 🎟️

- We have a black pen & sticky labels for everyone to write their names on so we can all really get to know each other for future connections & friendships 🙋🏼‍♀️💚

Every Catch Up we have just gets better & better & this one is feeling especially magical✨

We cannot wait to share the afternoon with you. Xx💜🌸🌱👩🏼‍🌾✨💚🙏🏼🌈🩷🌞🌻

10/10/2026

A message from FOPOR Friends of Park Orchards :
Hi all, just a quick reminder that FOPOR will meet on Sunday 11th October at 10am at Arundel Rd 100 Acres entry. We walked the 100 acres today and the Chocolate Lillies and Bulbine Lillies are putting on a show! I thought we could all go for a little walk to admire them before getting into some serious weeding work (maybe we won‘t😂). This is the best display of these lovely flowers we have had for years. Hope to see you there!

10/10/2026

Keep up with what’s going on at Manningham Council here:

The official page for Manningham Council.
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09/10/2026

A message from our friends at Park Orchards Community Pantry:
Hey Beautiful People,
Over the next 2 days you’ll be seeing this poster around the PO community, at the Pantry & Shops.🥰
Please feel free to scan the QR code to purchase your Raffle tickets to help support the running costs of the Pantry while putting you in the running for one of our amazing prizes.💚

Dont forget to come on down to the Pantry for our Spring Catch Up next Friday.🌸

We look forward to seeing you there.👩🏼‍🌾

01/10/2026

Congratulations to FOPOR Friends of Park Orchards Reserves group for their successful Landcare grant application for $20,000! PORA is very proud to have been a small part of this by providing a Letter of Support for the application. Together we can achieve great things for our community!

01/10/2026

** PLEASE buy some Raffle Tickets **

Our wonderful Park Orchards Community Pantry is raising funds to support the ongoing costs and sustainability of our beloved community pantry. Our humble little pantry diverts tonnes of food away from landfill, year after year. We fill the bellies of many local families through edible care packages and an abundant, free food pantry in the lovely suburb of Park Orchards. The pantry has become so much more than simply a place to grab a free loaf of bread.. it has become a meeting place, and a hub of community connection and sharing. Our team of volunteers devote many hours, much elbow grease, many tanks of petrol, produce from their own gardens, and a whole lot of love to this spectacular community venture.

To run the pantry, we rely on donations, raffles and the occasional grant to keep our kitty topped up.

For our current raffle, we have received many wonderful and generous donations from local businesses and local politicians, with a prize pool totaling over $600 🥰

Tickets are available online through Trybooking, or at our Spring Catch Up, at the pantry on Friday October 16th 3.35-5.45pm.
We will draw our prize winners using a random number generator at 6pm on Sunday October 18th. All winners will be notified via text message or email.

Tickets are $2 each, and all funds raised will be recycled back into our beautiful community, via the pantry!

Thank you so much for your support, please help us to spread the word 💛🍀

https://www.trybooking.com/au/event/1655314?fbclid=IwY2xjawUrzKdleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAXNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR6CKT2FRu1WDpCxkjThnVK7i_0zwp_dexAvIdJcr6dpo00-rJhJQwSsLi4cmw_aem_w3h9Um0THynHF4sJ-KB9UQ

We are raising funds to support the ongoing costs and sustainability of our beloved Park Orchards Community Pantry.

We have received many wonderfu

26/09/2026

Twilighters for Women is back on all new Monday nights at the Park Orchards Tennis Club! 🎾

Come along and bring a friend. All abilities VERY welcome!!!

It's not too late to become a member or reactivate that membership with not only great value but a hit and giggle guaranteed.

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