Awesome Newcastle May Winner – To The Edge High Performance Centre
Our May Awesome Newcastle took place last Thursday night at the heavenly Wine Selectors Headquarters in Honeysuckle. All gathered in the private tasting room with a wine in one hand, nibbles in the other and a keen interest to hear all the great things planned for Newcastle. Our awesome board member Lois Donaldson fr..
Class Matter Inc.
If you’ve been following Awesome Newcastle on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter, you may have seen ‘The Business of Doing Good’, a Philadelphia based school program teaching primary school children entrepreneurial skills.
Keeping in with the theme of awesome kiddies on track to changing the world, lets talk about Aweso..
Hunting for Awesomeness
We’re on the search for something awesome. Not something ‘ok’, cool, or just interesting enough to get me away from Facebook for 30 seconds. We’re on the hunt for Awesome and you could be the one to show it to us!
If you have a great idea, a can-do attitude and believe your idea can make an impact on a local or even..
Dive Without Barriers
Alesia Koh is using her passion for diving to help Singaporean people living with disabilities through therapeutic and leisure diving experiences.
The underwater program, Dive Without Barriers, is aimed towards people living with aliments such as amputations and spinal injuries. The aim is to alleviate struggles of..
February winner OneWave update!
Since their February Awesome Newcastle win, OneWave have had a huge program re-vamp and are going great guns! For those who do not know about OneWave, it is a non-profit surf community tackling funks like depression, anxiety and bipolar. With a simple recipe of salt-water, surfing and trained volunteers to talk about..
Love wins over cats and views at Awesome Newcastle!
Last night at The Edwards on Parry Street, the Awesome Newcastle crew gathered for the April event. For the first time ever, Awesome Newcastle had all female finalists. The girls were representing!
This month’s finalists were Mel Taylor from Cat Rescue Newcastle, Kim Oakhill from Helpful Love and Alex Allen with a p..
MOVE-IES in the PARK
Michael Butler and LeAnne Weekes noticed a growing dearth of affordable and fun opportunities for families and young people living and working around downtown Miami.
The pair believed the greatest equalizer for all people, is great music and a wonderful movie.
So, they devised a plan and after pitching to the boar..
Bread Brother
In some areas in Rotterdam a remarkable amount of bread wastes can be found at random places on the street, parks and even on top of waste baskets.
Bread waste attract rats and other vermin.
Some people do not just throw their spare bread into the garbage due to religious reasons, for some bread may simply not be..
Awesome show from our November winner!
James Chapman from Tantrum Theatre wants to use theatre to bring attention to male mental illness in Newcastle.
Let us take you back to a scorching night in November 2015, when the Awesome Newcastle board gathered to be inspired by an amazing idea.
Inspire was certainly what Chapman did!
With all the charisma a..
The Super Pollinators – Aussie Native Bees
Environmental educator Abbie Mitchell spreads the buzz about Aussie Bees to primary school students.
Mitchell is launching her ‘Super Pollinators’ workshops which teach students about the importance of pollination, the role of the introduced honeybee, as well as learning about the threats to the honeybee worldwide…