Dalby Welcoming Community Inc. is a small but vibrant community group
that aims to make Dalby the best place to visit, live, work and play. It does
this through a number of activities, the main one being the organisation of

Dalby’s Delicious and DeLIGHTful Festival.

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Dalby Welcoming Community, formed in 2008, became incorporated in

its own right in 2016.

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The festival has become a whole of Dalby event as schools, kindies,
sporting groups, service organisations, youth groups, multicultural groups
and other community groups contribute and become involved in the

festival.
 

In recent years Dalby Welcoming Community has organised an Art
exhibition in August. In 2018 it was a Many Cultures- One Community
exhibition where the story of people from 30 different cultures was told on
30 different photo-boards.
 

In 2019, 80 Dalby Seniors were involved in a Billycan art Project where
they created patterns in the bottom of their billycan while exercising. They
were linked with school students who told their senior’s story and again
photo-boards were created with the art, the story and photos creating an

amazing exhibition.

 

Skilling Queenslanders for Work Program: Dalby Welcoming Community
is currently running its fifth Community Work Skills program where 

participants, mainly born overseas, study for their Certificate 2 in Skills for
Work and Vocational Pathways while gaining their work experience
through their involvement in Dalby’s Delicious & DeLIGHTful Festival.
Dalby Welcoming Community has been very successful with

the cohorts achieving 100% employment. Dalby
Welcoming Community is proud to help people from other cultures

become an integral part of our community.
 

RUOK Day: Dalby Welcoming Community has joined with

Lifeline Darling Downs to challenge the Dalby community to
have a thousand voices sing one song with a celebrity singer to raise
awareness of the importance of checking on others and supporting

everyone in our community. Tania Kernaghan and Brendan Walmsley

were our celebrities in 2018 and 2019.

 

The Physical Environment is an important aspect of any community and
Dalby Welcoming Community committed to a number of projects after it
developed the Myall Creek Masterplan. In 2010 and 2011 the group won
Healthy Community Awards totalling $800,000 to develop the city section
of the Myall Creek precinct and project managed the development.

 

In 2019 Dalby Welcoming Community commissioned renowned 3D Street
artist, Jenny McCracken, to paint a giant caterpillar on one of the walking
paths in the precinct. This has been a huge hit with people out walking.