The second meeting of the SJV Community Council for 2024 focussed on school events, fundraising objectives and, particularly, the school fete. 

2024 SJV Fete

The Fete takes a huge whole community effort to organise.  Preparations for this year's fete will need to start imminently, and we currently don't have a fete           co-ordinator.  If you are interested in being the 2024 fete co-ordinator, please get in touch. 

Otherwise, the Council has been considering moving to holding a large fete (like last year’s) every second year to reduce the burden on the school's volunteer community. This means that the next school fete will be in 2025.  This alternates nicely with other school events, such as the school production, and allows the community a longer time to organise the fete.  If we haven't got a 2024 fete co-ordinator by 5 April 2024, then the Council will put forward its proposal for biennial fetes.  Please contact the Council directly on sjv.parent@gmail.com if you have any comments.

Other News 

In addition to finalising a decision on the fete, the immediate priorities of the Council are:

• Finalising a forward multi-year plan that will include an investment framework to guide both our fundraising and expenditure priorities, and major event schedule
• Having successfully secured a $10,000 Block Grant from the ACT Block Grant Authority Inc, building a new community focussed Indigenous garden and purchasing a coffee machine to support school events and opportunities for families to come together at low/no cost
• Working through the transition to the new Community Council structure required by the Catholic Education office, including appointing a treasurer, communications officer and an events and fundraising coordinator (with a separate role for a fete coordinator).