What’s on at genU!

genU Inclusion members will join us to celebrate the beginning of 2023 with our first networking breakfast of the year. We’ll tell you what genU inclusion have coming up for 2023 and we’ll also hear from our guest speaker, Carly Luke. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

genU Adventure facilitates fun and friendly group-based programs for clients with disability that wish to participate in outdoor recreation activities. This volunteer opportunity provides you with an opportunity to engage with the genU Adventure clients and the broader community while having fun in the great outdoors. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

Come and join our genU clients at the genU Colour Run Geelong. Run, walk, or roll around the beautiful grounds of Barwon Valley Fun Park ending at Kardinia House Riverview Terrace, where you’ll get covered in colour and end the day with a BBQ lunch. This event is full of fun and laughter, and plenty of colour! It’s a great way to engage with our clients and community. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

Come and join our genU clients at the genU Colour Run Colac. Run, walk, or roll around the beautiful grounds of the Colac Botanic Gardens, where you’ll get covered in colour and end the day with a BBQ lunch. This event is full of fun and laughter, and plenty of colour! It’s a great way to engage with our clients and community.

Our What We Do at genU is a fun, informative and interactive half day tour viewing genU sites in the Geelong region. Hear from genU staff and program facilitators about the work we do and opportunities to engage. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

genU GAMER is a safe and inclusive mental health program especially for gamers. We use gaming to build confidence in those who struggle with isolation. GAMER’s brand-new Geelong site is officially opening April 2023, and we’d love for you to be there to help us cut the ribbon!

The Workplace BIG Day Out is a fun and unique employee volunteering experience. Supported by genU team members, volunteers will assist people with disability to participate in a program of fun filled physical activities. This event is full of fun and laughter. It’s a great way to engage with our clients and the wider community. We finish the day with a BBQ lunch for all and some lite entertainment. This volunteer opportunity shouldn’t be missed! For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

artX Geelong is an exhibition featuring distinguished artworks by artists who identify as living with a disability from our region. Please join us in launching the 2023 exhibition at our official launch party. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

Come and join our genU bayside clients at the genU Colour Run. Run, walk or roll around the course, where you’ll get covered in colour and end the day with a BBQ Lunch. This event if full of fun and laughter, and plenty of colour! It’s a great way to engage with our clients and the wider community. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

Join us for our midyear Inclusion Members Lunch, where we will hear from another informative Geelong based enterprise doing great things in our community.

genU’s Community Nurseries are specialists in producing plants that are indigenous to the Geelong and Bellarine region. Volunteers will work alongside our supported employees in the nursery to propagate seedings and re-plant tube stock – all while making new friends and connections. The day will end with a lunch, socialising with our supported employees. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

artX Northcote is an exhibition featuring distinguished artworks by artists who identify as living with a disability from the local area. Please join us in launching 2023 exhibition at our official launch party.

genU Business Enterprises is an Australian Disability Enterprise and an initiative of genU based in North Geelong. Business Enterprises provides employment for people with a disability in a supportive work environment, all while operating to the highest commercial standards. Volunteers will be working alongside supported employees to assist in the packaging and food preparation area of the business. This will provide the opportunity for volunteers to gain insight to the varied tasks that are completed in this supported work environment and develop relationships with the supported employees that they will be working with.

artX Bayside is an exhibition featuring distinguished artworks by artists who identify as living with a disability from the local area. Please join us in launching 2023 exhibition at our official launch party.

Our BIGGEST night of the year. Held annually, the Big Night Out attracts up to 600 people. This event is designed to promote genuine inclusion, a sense of community, greater tolerance, awareness and understanding of diversity whilst celebrating the importance of inclusion. It brings people with disability together with corporate community members in a fun and fully supported environment. With a 2-course meal, music, dancing and entertainment, it's one of our highly anticipated events of the year. The 2023 theme is ’The Greatest Show on Earth’. Tickets sell fast… So don’t miss out! For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

2023 will be our fifth year of the genU Barwon Heads Stand Up and Play Golf Day held at the Barwon Heads Golf Club - one of Australia's top 30 golf courses. In partnership with Golf Australia and the TAC, the day provides an opportunity to become community champions, and be directly involved in making a unique, life-changing difference to people with disabilities across our region. Consisting of an Ambrose style game, a sit-down clubhouse lunch, breakfast on the go, guest speakers, on-course golf competitions, raffles, live & silent auctions, best dressed team and a lot of laughs. For further information please email: inclusion@genu.org.au

Join us to wrap up 2023 at our final member Breakfast for the year. Here we will look back over all we achieved and hear from a guest speaker. Invitation to come.

artX Colac and Warrnambool is an exhibition featuring distinguished artworks by artists who identify as living with a disability from the local area. Please join us in launching 2023 exhibition at our official launch part