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Every year, thousands of students walk onto a stage in Ballarat and perform in front of an audience, many of them for the first time. What they remember afterwards is the performance. What made it possible is far less glamorous and for years it arrived in a hire van. The Royal South Street Society has been running the Ballarat Eisteddfod since 1891. Its Instrumental and Choral programs bring together more than 70 schools, along with thousands of students, teachers, conductors, volunteers and...

At 17, Grace Crowe spent a week in August doing what most of us only ever watch on a screen. She pulled on the green and gold at Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon and raced for Australia at the World Athletics U20 Championships. "Not many 17 year olds get to fly overseas and compete for their own country, So that will definitely be an experience I'll take with me for life", Grace said. It started before she even landed. "Even just going over on the plane with a bunch of athletes, all sharing...

Ask a teenager what they learned at a leadership summit and you might expect a shrug. Not MMF students. Our 2026 Magic Moments students are home we had the pleasure of hosting them and their families at a homecoming reunion. It was part debrief, part celebration, part very loud catch-up (even with a song!). Each year, Community Bank Buninyong supports local secondary school students to attend the Magic Moments Foundation's Youth Leadership and Business Summit, a five day residential program...