Calendar

2024 Calendar Of Activities

For all Friends of the Prom activities, please register your attendance on the Parks Victoria volunteer portal ParkConnect.

When signing up for an activity on ParkConnect, please remember that most FOTP activities do not appear in the general list of volunteer activities on the Home Page, and you will need to navigate to the FOTP page by first clicking My activities and groups and then Friends of the Prom Inc under Groups I am a member of. There you will find all current FOTP activities under Upcoming activities.

Please remember also that it is a requirement of Parks Victoria that all volunteers over 18 years old require a current Working With Children Check (how to apply for a Volunteer WWCC), and on signing up for an activity you will be asked to acknowledge that you have a WWCC. There has been some confusion about whether Employee WWCCs and Teacher VIT card can be registered on ParkConnect and Parks Victoria assures that they can. The attached document shows you how to upload your WWCC details.

October: Saturday 12th

October: Saturday 13th

iNaturalist BioBlitz

We invite you to help us document the biodiversity along 5 Mile Road. We will wander along the track using the iNaturalist app to take photos of plants, fungi and animals we see and record the data for Parks Victoria staff and the general public.
Details on ParkConnect

Hooded Plover Workshop

Come along to our workshop to learn about Hooded Plovers and what you can do to help protect them! Learn to interpret the behaviours of these quirky birds and then join us to view them on the beach.
Details on ParkConnect

November: Friday 15th – Sunday 17th

Sea Spurge Weekend

A weekend removing invasive sea spurge from our beaches. Location: Picnic Bay and Squeaky Beach.

Friends of the Prom Nursery

Nursery visits take place every second Thursday at the Friends of the Prom native plant nursery, situated in the Parks Victoria works yard at Tidal River.

Volunteers propagate plants and seedlings from seeds and cuttings collected at the Prom. The seedlings are used for various restoration and maintenance projects at the Prom, including the Prom Sanctuary project and the revitalisation of the Visitor Centre at Tidal River.

Please register your attendance in ParkConnect

NURSERY DATES FOR 2024

19 September
3 October
17 October
31 October

14 November
28 November
12 December

Grazer monitoring

Are you interested in a day out in the remote and lovely open grasslands area of the northern Prom, identifying, counting and recording animal pellets? The pellet counts are part of a scientific research project to obtain data for estimating the population trends of native and feral grazing animals on the Yanakie Isthmus in the Prom National Park – all part of the effort to restore the Coastal Grassy Woodland habitat. Volunteers visit the sampling sites to identify, count, record and clear animal pellets.

2024 Dung Flinging Dates for your calendar (subject to change if weather is very poor):

1 October

Meet: 10:00 am at the Parks Victoria office at the Prom entrance gate.
Duration: Normally finished by 3:00 pm
Bring: Your own food and drink;
Wear: Clothes and footwear suitable for walking off-track though heathland and low scrub, sun protection and make sure you have wet weather gear with you just in case.
Activity: We visit marked plots where we will be clearing all grazing animal pellets within a 3 metre radius. We drive into the different sites so the distances walked away from the vehicles are not large.
Register: On ParkConnect
Enquiries: info@friendsoftheprom.org.au
Required: A Working with Children Check – All volunteers must have a valid Working with Children Check

Friends of the Prom

Environmental Volunteers caring for Wilsons Promontory National Park

2024 Calendar Of Activities

Friends of the Prom Nursery

Grazer monitoring