Friends of Lower Kororoit Creek Inc

Welcome to FOLKC...

The protector and champion of Kororoit Creek in Altona, Altona North, Brooklyn and Sunshine, Victoria, Australia.

Latest News...

FOLKC offer to plan trail from Geelong Road to Blackshaws Road. -

At a recent FOLKC meeting it was decide to offer Hobsons Bay City Council $20,000 to get the very necessary designs for the shared trail between Geelong Road and Blackshaws Road completed. [Read more...]

Wyndham Council to complete Kororoit Creek Shared Trail. -

Wyndham Council recently announced that it is about to undertake the building of the shared trail from Federation Trail to Geelong Road, Brooklyn, connecting to Hobsons Bay near the historic 1880’s bluestone bridge. The plan is for the trail to be complete by mid 2014 when FOLKC will plant out an additional 500 trees to complete this section trail that we commenced planting 2011. Despite the goat attack on our trees during 2012, a large number of plants survived the ordeal and are looking terrific. FOLKC wishes to thank Wyndham City Council and its officers for the assistance and generous support given during the development of this section of trail made possible through the Department of Sustainability Vision for Werribee Plains grant to reinstate the Kororoit Creek corridor.

National Tree Day 2013 -

Friends of Lower Kororoit Creek (FOLKC) have announced that its important 2013 celebration of the Planet Ark / Toyota sponsored National Tree Day 2013 along Kororoit Creek will be held on Sunday 28th July. As part of this day, the DSE Vision for Werribee Plains project to link the Federation Trail into the Kororoit Creek corridor at the Melbourne Water Metropolitan Outfall Sewer (MOS) bridge in Brooklyn will be concluded. This project has been run in a partnership with Wyndham and Hobsons Bay City Councils, Melbourne Water, Burns Site Development and FOLKC and has involved the local community and other local industries and businesses. [Read more...]

Tree Day A Fantastic Success -

The Toyota sponsored National Tree Day 2013 was attended by approximately 200 members of the local community where in excess of 1500 indigenous trees and shrubs were planted along the Kororoit Creek near the historic bluestone bridge. [Read more...]

Annual General Meeting 2013 -

The Annual General Meeting for 2013 is to be held on Thu 26 September 2013 at Aurizon (Formerly CRT Group), Gate 3, Barnes Road, Altona North commencing at 7pm. - All welcome

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Friends of Lower Kororoit Creeek (FOLKC) Inc abn

Hello FOLKC!

Friends of Lower Kororoit Creek (FOLKC) was incorporated in April 2001 and held its first planting on 3rd June 2001. Since then there have been countless planting days and other working bees with more than 1,000 volunteers of all ages, planting in excess of 50,000 trees, shrubs and under-storey plants along the creek from Barnes Road to Grieve Parade... [See the "About & Contacts" page for more]