Woodside Community Hall

Woodside Community Hall The Woodside Community Hall is also Woodside’s Emergency Hub for Recovery & Resilience, we are the home of Woodside Landcare and Woodside Pickleball Club.

Our hall is available for hire for community or private events. [email protected] The Woodside Community Hall was previously known as Woodside Mechanics Institute and Free Library. It was established in c1888 and was located between the Woodside Primary School and Catholic Church. Social History:
A Mechanics Institute committee meeting was called in January 1888 to make arrangements for h

aving building plans drawn up however it was cancelled as insufficient numbers turned up. A hall was eventually erected and opened on Wednesday evening, 16 January 1889 with a concert and ball. In that year the Woodside Mechanics Institute received a government building grant for 62 pound/11/5. Other grants were received in the following two years. In January 1890 a Grand Concert in aid of the piano fund was held in the hall and in February 1894 a concert to raise hall funds. A popular activity in the 1890’s to raise funds for the Institute was an annual sports day on Easter Monday on the recreation reserve. In 1893 the library had 450 books. Its opening hours were 9am to 9pm each day and 2pm to 5pm Sundays. Over the years there had been 1000 visits. In 1932 honorary secretary James Cantwell forwarded the annual hall registration application to the Health Department. An inspection was carried out in the following year and a number of matters needed attending to. Cantwell successfully asked the Department for and extension of time to complete the requirements as “it would be difficult if not impossible to collect a sufficient amount of money at the present time from the members of the public interested in the Institute on account of the serious financial depression now occurring and the very small revenue obtained from the Institute”. In early 1963 the Woodside Mechanics Institute was destroyed by fire. The current Woodside Hall was erected in 1963 on the current site of land donated by the family of Mr Noel Walpole.

One week left to purchase your tickets to Dave O'Neil at Woodside Community Hall. We have a few tickets left. Where els...
02/06/2026

One week left to purchase your tickets to Dave O'Neil at Woodside Community Hall. We have a few tickets left. Where else would you get a two course meal and be entertained by a top notch comedian for $25.00??
Fancy winning a fruit basket too?

National Centre for Farmer Health
Agriculture Victoria


Woodside Community Hall hosts Comedian Dave O'Neil to support Farmers Mental Health and funded by Victorian Government as part of their drought support package

31/05/2026

Star of the South drop in session today, 1.6.26 from 4.30pm to 6.30pm Woodside Hall

26/05/2026

Woodside Community Hall hosts Comedian Dave O'Neil to support Farmers Mental Health and funded by Victorian Government as part of their drought support package

26/05/2026

Want to learn more about Star of the South and discuss our environmental assessments? Come along to one of our drop-in information sessions 👋🏻

These sessions are a chance to:
✅ View the assessment documents
✅ Speak directly with our team and ask questions
✅ Pick up project information
✅ Get assistance with how to make a submission.

Can't make it along? The same information is available in our Gippsland office throughout the review period, until 29 June.
📍 310 Commercial Road, Yarram
🕘 Open Tuesdays & Wednesdays, 9am–5pm (or by appointment).

We look forward to seeing you there!

Hall open from 10.00am to 11.00am for phone charging
21/05/2026

Hall open from 10.00am to 11.00am for phone charging

13/05/2026

Coming to a hall near you! 📣🏠

There is barely a bakery in regional Australia, that hasn’t had one of Damian Callinan’s show posters blu-tacked to its window. 🤩

In Hall Stories, the celebrated actor, comedian and creator of the hit film The Merger, combines his skills as a storyteller, stand-up and character actor, to pull back the curtain on his own tour stories and examine the quirks, traditions and characters of Australian halls and meeting places.

3 shows all with their own story to tell!

📌Airly-Clydebank - https://thewedge.com.au/event/hall-stories-airly-clydebank/
📌Dargo - https://thewedge.com.au/event/hall-stories-dargo/
📌Woodside - https://thewedge.com.au/event/hall-stories-woodside/

Hall Stories is not a history lesson nor is it a case of gathering stories from the audience to make the show. Audience ...
11/05/2026

Hall Stories is not a history lesson nor is it a case of gathering stories from the audience to make the show. Audience members will simply arrive and be entertained and amused by a preplanned show then enjoy a supper (by donation) prepared lovingly by the hall committee.

There is barely a bakery in regional Australia, that hasn’t had one of Damian Callinan’s show posters blu-tacked to its window. In Hall Stories, the celebrated actor, comedian and creator of the hit film The Merger, combines his skills as a storyteller, stand-up and character actor, to pull back...

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11/05/2026

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Woodside Community Hall hosts Comedian Dave O'Neil to support Farmers Mental Health and funded by Victorian Government as part of their drought support package

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34 Prince Street
Woodside, VIC
3874

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+61447523822

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