It’s the Venny’s 40th Birthday! For 40 years we have been providing a safe and supervised place for Children to play. We have changed a lot since we started in 1981, from being only a fire pit and loose parts, to the old Venny building, and now to the wonderful shipping container house we call home.

Over the past 40 years we have built things as well as pulled them down, cooked hundreds of sausage and cheese toasties, Cut and picked all kinds of fruit, played with all kinds of animals (goats, chickens, and ducks to name a few), replaced a few trampoline mats and created hundreds of beautiful paintings and artwork. But The Venny wouldn’t be The Venny without the children and community and we believe it is as much your birthday to celebrate as ours!

That’s why we need your help! We need you to help us continue for another 40 years!

By donating to The Venny:

You help us design and deliver excellent early intervention and prevention programs that meet the needs of children who come to The Venny
You support interventions that change the lives of at risk children
You strengthen the local community
You contribute to the maintenance and revitalisation of a wonderful communal backyard
You validate the development of therapeutic play practices in Australia

We want to thank everyone who has helped us over the past 40 years including funders, volunteers, board members, staff, parents, Community, artists, and many many more. But most importantly we want to thank the Children over the past 40 years who have helped us build and design The Venny to make it what it is today.