A celebration of community, environment and education

PICTURED: The local Landcare group from the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water were on hand to answer any questions at this Year’s Greenfest Expo.

The Rotary Club of Corrimal’s annual GreenFest Sustainability Expo is inspiring the community to embrace greener living through hands-on learning, environmental awareness and local collaboration.

The Rotary Club of Corrimal, NSW, held its fourth GreenFest Sustainability Expo at Corrimal High School on 29 March. This free family fun day is designed to bring the community together, inspire sustainable living and foster environmental awareness.

Then District Governor Renga Rajan visited the event and commended the club on a great community initiative and its impact on local environmental activities.

GreenFest is a platform for urban gardeners, nature lovers and environmentalists to connect, share ideas and learn practical ways to achieve sustainability. The event featured 18 stalls, with hands-on demonstrations, interactive learning and talks from local leaders in environmental protection, permaculture, recycling and renewable energy.

The event provided a unique forum for local groups to collaborate, share knowledge and showcase their efforts to the wider community, an opportunity that isn’t otherwise available to them.

Visitors enjoyed activities such as Bike and Blend – where you blitz a smoothie through pedal power – raffles, prizes and the ever-popular Rotary sausage sizzle.

Organised by the Rotary Club of Corrimal as a community service, GreenFest is not a fundraising event but a purposeful initiative to give back to the community.

The expo aims to raise awareness, educate and inspire positive action towards sustainable living and environmental protection.

Stall holders will offer opportunities for volunteering, making it easy for passionate individuals to get involved and support local organisations.

GreenFest is the brainchild of the Corrimal Rotary Environmental Group (CREG), formed initially to do beach and creek plastics clean-ups. Club member Dilys Hoser has led CREG for the past five years and has seen it grow into a vast group of local non-Rotarians, Rotary Club of Corrimal members, Rotaractors and international students from the University of Wollongong. GreenFest is an extension of the club’s environment activity, bringing it to the wider community and beyond.

Stallholders in 2026 included the local Landcare group, the Scouts Southern Tablelands Environment Team, Bush Magic Adventures (after school and school holiday outdoor play), ORRCA (whale rescue and research) and Permaculture Visions (growing produce with no-dig gardens).

“Every stall at GreenFest can teach you something, whether it’s on a bigger or smaller scale,” says organiser and club member Linda Bunclark. “It’s all about awareness and education, really. Our community is more aware of what’s going on and how they can actually be involved, making informed choices on how they want to be involved or make changes to their own homes.”