Activities directory for families

We're inviting all boys and girls between 5 and 16 to play junior cricket with the Ashburton Willows Junior Cricket Club this season! The Ashburton Willows Junior Cricket Club is a proud, successful, sociable and family-oriented community club. It has a unique specialist coaching and playing mentorship model.

We are passionate about the development of our Junior Cricket Program and would love you and your families to be involved. AWCC has the following Junior Cricket Teams confirmed for the 2024-25 season.

Woolworth Blasters - Friday afternoons
U10 (ECA) - Match Sunday morning
U12 (ECA) - Match Saturday morning
U14 (ECA) - Match Friday evening
U16 (ECA) - Match Friday evening
Junior Development Squad - Junior & Senior mix squad to play on Turf on Sunday
Stage 1 and Stage 2 Girls
U11/U13 (ISEC) - For juniors wanting 2 games a week.

The NAB AFL Auskick program makes learning to play AFL fun, safe and easy for boys and girls. Through weekly coaching sessions, boys and girls will learn the skills of the game in an exciting, social and safe environment. If your child is over 5 and in years Prep to Grade 2, Camberwell Sharks recommends a fun dose of Auskick to start off their footy career!

Play basketball with our Canterbury Cougars Basketball Club, we play and train in the Boroondara Council and have been part of the community for 25 years!
We have teams across the following age groups: U9s, U10s and then all the way up to U23s. You can be as young as 6 when starting at our club in U8s.
We welcome boys and girls of all ages and abilities. We provide coaches and training venues for all our teams. We are proud of our fun, inclusive and skills based club!

How quickly does the novelty of an expensive new toy wear off for your child? Our library has over 1,000 entertaining and stimulating, new and vintage toys available all year round for the price of just one or two new toys. Toys are suitable for ages 6 months to 8 years+

Little Athletics is a modified children’s athletics program for 5yo to 15yo athletes. Athletes participate and compete weekly with their friends during season, learning the many disciplines of athletics, such as running, jumping and throwing events. We are a community oriented sport.

The library stocks approximately 1,800 toys which cater for children from birth to 12 years of age, in addition to children with special needs.
Our coordinator is experienced in assisting you to select toys for your children based on their current stage of development, enriching the learning experience play facilitates.

Introduction and development of soccer skills. Opportunity to come and try Soccer - programs run year round in various locations.

Have you got a boy or girl aged 3-5 who would like to try rugby? Then we’ve got the perfect intro to one of the world’s most popular sports, right here in Boroondara!

Our Little Rugby Tikes program is specifically designed to help little hands learn the basic skills of catching and passing, little legs learn running and weaving and little hearts fell the joy of scoring a try and making new friends.

Rugby at any age is little more than that after all!

Cost is just $150. New players are very welcome at any time.

The Pied Piper Toy Library is your community not-for-profit resource which provides a range of over 1800 quality toys for babies through to early primary school age. Borrow toys for up to three weeks, then return them when you are done. You can borrow as often as you like!