This weekend SUNREEF Mooloolaba will celebrate its first swimming with whales experience with an open weekend at their Mooloolaba headquarters.

On both Saturday 5^th and Sunday 6^th July, the Sunreef team will open their doors for a weekend filled with family fun activities.

The Sunshine Coast Real Food Festival is set to launch the biggest festival yet and officially launch the 2014 program on Wednesday, 2^nd July at Urbane Restaurant, Brisbane.

2013 Australian Gourmet Traveller Best New Talent Winner & 2013 QLD GFG Chef of the Year Winner, Alejandro Cancino hosted the launch of The Real Food Festival, which will once again bring together the best Sunshine Coast food products and services from paddock to plate, in Maleny on 13 & 14 September 2014.

Bloomhill Cancer Help is getting set for the grand opening of the doors to it’s new opportunity shop in Bright Water on Saturday 5^th July.

The Brightwater Op-shop is the eighth op-shop on the Sunshine Coast for Bloomhill and the opening will be held from 9.00am to 1.00pm.

‘Google’ Amanda Gore and you will quickly realise how lucky the Buderim Foundation is to have secured her as this year’s celebrity guest at the annual breakfast on Wednesday 16 July, 7am at the Buderim Tavern.

International keynote, Ms Gore, maintains that most of us know what we want to do… we just don’t do it!

SUNREEF Mooloolaba is launching an Australian first – the opportunity to swim with the captivating humpback whales.

Australians have long had a love affair with these gentle giants and now people have the opportunity to see them from a very different perspective on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast.

Year 10 students from across the Sunshine Coast will come together this Friday 20^th June, to showcase their Culinary skills at the Queensland Junior Secondary Schools Culinary Challenge.

The event provides an opportunity for hospitality students to get a taste of the pleasures, excitement and the professionalism that can accompany a career as a future chef while being coached by an industry professional.

This year’s Sunshine Coast Real Food Festival will be the largest yet, with more than 50 presentations and over 100 exhibitors participating throughout the weekend of 13 & 14 September.

The Buderim Foundation is pleased to announce that for the seventh year running, the total funding for its Community Grants Program has reached a new record high and applications are now open.

Chair of The Buderim Foundation, Professor Paul Clark said thanks to the generous support of Buderim residents and sound investments, the Foundation had almost $60,000 in funding available for 2014.