Guest Speaker Anthia Packer from Parklands Albury Wodonga gave us details of the organisation and its involvement and support within the community. Parklands Albury Wodonga is a not-for-profit community managed organisation that operates as a social enterprise. It  works in partnership with the regional community to enhance over 4,000 hectares of bush parks in the Albury, Wodonga, Indigo and Towong local government areas including Huon Hill Parklands, Kiewa River Parklands, Gateway Island Parklands, McFarlanes Hill, Eight Mile Creek Parklands, Padman Park High Country Rail Trail and Bonegilla Block 19 Migrant Experience Centre, Federation Hill, Nail Can Hill, Red Light Hill (One Tree Hill), Murray River Parklands (under development, Eastern Hill and Mungabareena. The primary focus of the board and staff is to facilitate the involvement of local community in each project. By so doing, it aims to ensure that the community accepts ownership and responsibility for the long term viability and enhancement of all its regional parklands.  In the past year, Parklands Albury Wodonga worked in partnership with 75 partner organisations to implement in excess of $656,000 worth of on ground activities across the regional bush park network. In essence, parklands is about ensuring that the local community has areas of open space which have been set aside, in perpetuity, for recreation, preservation, and conservation.