September 2025 – Newsletter

Bluebell Sustainable Business AwardsLight Up Lyneham was nominated in the Sustainable Event category of the Bluebell Sustainable Business Awards sponsored by the ACT Government, announced on Thursday 11 September. Although Light Up Lyneham didn’t win the category, the LCA is extremely grateful to Julie Evans, the SEE Change Wasteless team,…

August 2025 Newsletter

  Congratulations to Sandra Graefenstein, winner of the Light Up Lyneham 2025 Photo Competition, with the photo Floating sunset jellyfish congregation. The judging panel awarded Highly Commended to Julian Humphrey’s Touching! and Alan Hajek’s Don’t try this at home – try it at someone else’s home! You can view all the entries at…

July 2025 Newsletter

      Bring your gloves and coats, family, friends and neighbours, and enjoy the Sunset Lantern Walk, extraordinary performances, delightful entertainment, wonderful stalls, illuminated wetlands displays, and the fantastic community spirit. See tiny.cc/lul25 for details. If you’d like to help with any of tasks below email contact@lyneham.org.au.  Letterbox deliveries (about…

June 2025 Newsletter

Many thanks to David Pope who again has delivered a fantastic image for the front of our leaflet. We’re in the process of printing the leaflets, to be delivered to your letterboxes in July. Start organising your friends, family and neighbours. Bring your gloves and coats, and enjoy the Sunset…

April 2025 Newsletter

The AGM of the Lyneham Community Association will be held at the Lyneham Primary School Staffroom on Sunday 18 May 2025, at 2pm. The AGM will consider reports on the previous year, and provide an opportunity to discuss the direction the LCA should take in future. The AGM will also…

March 2025 Newsletter

  Thanks to everyone who joined us for Clean Up Australia Day recently at North Lyneham. Five bags of rubbish and a few odd larger items were collected.   Join Walk Cycle Lyneham and Canberra by Bike for an extra special BikeBus and Ride to School event on Wednesday 19th March.…

February 2025 Newsletter

  Please join us on Clean Up Australia Day on Sunday 2 March 2025. This year the LCA will clean up the parks and open space in North Lyneham. We will have a registration desk in Montford Crescent park next to the North Lyneham shops from 9.30 am to 11:30 am. All…

December 2024 Newsletter

  Wishing everyone a safe, happy and relaxing Christmas break.   Successful Grant Application We are delighted to have been granted $5000 from Events ACT to help enrich Light Up Lyneham. Funding will be used to purchase reusable illuminated displays to complement the existing successful components of the event, and display…

October 2024 Newsletter

We’re looking for your ideas about a new community event or project for Lyneham and north O’Connor. We’d like to build on the success of Light Up Lyneham, and with something completely different. We’re thinking a daytime event, probably around March, and something that would attract people across the whole…

September 2024 Newsletter

What do you like about Lyneham?Last month a group of year 7 students from Radford College were set the task of comparing and contrasting the liveability of an existing suburb (Lyneham) and a newly established suburb (Whitlam). Gordon McAllister, long-term local and LCA committee member, graciously offered to talk to…