SKILLS ACCESS FAIR 2025
9 am to 1 pm | Saturday, 17th of May 2025
Albany Creek Uniting Church
652 Albany Creek Road
The Skills Access Fair is a fundraising event run by two charitable organisations: The ORCA Project and Dorcas ACTS. It is also a unique opportunity for people to learn new skills.
The Skills Access Fair is an
opportunity for individuals to undertake a journey of discovery within a
supportive group setting with peers and friends. The draft list of
workshops is below:
1. Book writing
2. Expressing your inner artist
3. Propagating plants
4. Flower arranging
5. Setting up a business
6. Relaxation and sleep tips
7. Travelling on a budget
8. Perfecting pizza dough
9. Discovering your ancestry
10. Photography with an iPhone
Each workshop will be 1.5 hours long. There will be two workshop sessions so you will be able to select a workshop for each session.
Please let us know (see the email below) if you would like another workshop topic and whether you would be interested in presenting a workshop.
100% of the $50 price of a Skills Access Fair Ticket to attend this event is a donation to Dorcas ACTS and The ORCA Project. Dorcas ACTS and The ORCA Project are sharing the ticket sale donations.
The costs of running this event will be donated and all the speakers are volunteering their time. Last year 2024 we raised $5,430 and with your help we are looking to do even better in 2025!
To contact us email us: skillsaccessfair@dorcas.org.au
The ORCA Project offers work skills training for young people aged 17 – 21 years with disabilities that includes the development of transferrable work skills and a variety of work experience.
The ORCA Project is an NDIS-approved project of the Wesley Mission Qld.
ACTS is a charity that provides fast, compassionate financial support in times of crisis or natural disaster.
It is a 100% volunteer-run organisation with over 98% of donations going directly to those in crisis (fire, drought, flood, domestic violence, hunger, and elder abuse).
ACTS is a Christian mission of the congregation of the Aspley Uniting Church.