Workshop - we need your help

A group of Palm Lake Ballina workshop volunteers recently built 24 bird boxes to assist local wildlife after the fires. These were gratefully received by the Lismore Wildlife Society and have been put to good use.

Bird box in use

They have recently received a new request for possum boxes, and due to a generous donation from Bunnings, have been able to put together materials for over 20 boxes.


If you would like to help out in the workshop constructing these boxes, please contact:


Michael Sherlock    Villa 231 Mobile 0402300336

Peter Kafka            Villa 238 Mobile 0417864626


If you haven’t used the workshop before you will need to be ‘inducted’ – please contact Ted (Villa 145: phone 2145) to arrange a suitable time. 


Donations will be welcomed to be able to continue the work as requests have also been received from other wildlife societies. 

Workshop News

There has been action aplenty in the Palm Lake Ballina Workshop this month as a small group of residents has been busily handcrafting wooden bird boxes.

The Workshop group were responding to a call-for-help from our local Wildlife Society looking for talented folk to make the boxes. The Society places the bird boxes in fire-ravaged bush areas for the shelter and protection of vulnerable birdlife. It also encourages birds to return to that area.

Michael Sherlock, Max Armstrong, Ron Rawson, David Crawford and Peter Kafka rose to the challenge and have handed over their first production lot of 25 bird boxes. Good onya’ guys!

The Wildlife Society were so pleased they have asked for more but also added possum boxes to the order. If you have had anything to do with purchasing wood in the last few years you will know that it is not cheap! The material to make each bird box costs close to $20; the possum boxes will obviously be more. Our Residents’ Committee funded the first batch, but they need more for the next lot.

Wouldn’t you love to support such a worthy cause?

You can, by:

• volunteering to help the Workshop group
• donating money to the group
• buying raffle tickets at the first Happy Hour in April (04.04.2020) where the proceeds from the PLB Social Committee’s raffle will be given over to the Workshop group.

Link to Photo Gallery of this project