Welcome to Inglewood- there's more than you think!
Gold, blue eucy, history and architecture, exercise or just some time to relax!
INGLEWOOD ALIVE Festival 
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Looking forward to the next 2021 November festival
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Volunteering
Volunteers play a vital and valuable role in the community of Inglewood.
Our volunteers are a diverse range of people who work tirelessly with organisations with the common interest of enhancing the Inglewood and district communities.
Volunteering can be a fun way of meeting new people, helping others and developing new skills.
It is also about sharing and developing personal skills and strengthening links between people in the community.
If you would like to be a valued volunteer, we would like to hear from you.
Please call the Inglewood Community Neighborhood House (ICNH) on 5438 3562
or call in and have a chat with the team.
We greatly appreciate and value your contribution.
Youth Support
Some kids can be under a lot of pressure! Decisions about the future, school stuff you may not know about, holiday boredom or struggling to find that perfect job!
A fantastic new site is up and running for the 16-25 year olds.
Tune In Not Out is 24hr TV for life's challenges, such as alcohol, drugs, mental health, exams and relationships.
Check it out! Pass it on! Spread the word!
It may help someone you know, and you may never know how.
TINO and thanks to the team that put it together!!
About Inglewood
Situated 199 km from Melbourne on the Calder Highway, this historic gold mining town presents a vision of the past. Inglewood forms part of the famous ‘Golden Triangle' which encompasses some of the richest alluvial goldfields in the world. The last great Victorian gold rush occurred here in the 1860's, bringing prosperity and a burgeoning new life to a rural community, clearing the land of mallee scrub and producing wool for the young colony and for export to England.
Gold was like a magnet and miners flocked to Inglewood from all corners of the globe. A few miners' tents rapidly became a tent town of thousands. Inglewood became known as ‘the city in the scrub'. In the third year of its existence Inglewood became a municipality, the Borough of Inglewood. Such was the wealth taken from the earth and rock, that the tent town became a community of substance, buildings of timber and brick; imposing structures, several of which stand today.
The gold was eventually extracted to economic limits and the miners departed. A new, though less profitable industry helped the town survive. Eucalyptus oil, first recognised for its wide ranging qualities from the earliest years of colonial occupation, was produced in quantity in the district. The Blue Mallee, locally known as 'Blue Eucy ', which produced an oil of exceptional quality, grows in abundance in the area. These days Inglewood is a service town for the surrounding rural districts and smaller communities.
Stay a while and you will be able to explore the town with he range of activities listed on the link below.
These can bring the history to life .
Collectibles, gold, blue eucy, history and architecture, ... or just relax!
Have an enjoyable time and come back to visit Inglewood again.
Things to see and do!
One of the reasons it's called the "city in the scrub"
