The oldest town on the Manning
Wingham
The town’s shared front page: the news, the notices, what’s on and who’s who, kept by locals and gathered from every group in town.
Around town
October Twilight Market: locally handcrafted wares, now in air-conditioned comfort
Sunday 11 October, 3pm to 6pm, at the hall.
Christmas raffle: tickets $2, drawn at the Carols on 12 December
Win a wooden farm play centre, plus other prizes for the grown-ups.
Fresh Food Fridays: more than forty hampers a week
Essential food every Friday for a gold coin donation, with a weekly catch-up call.
Your gift is tax deductible
Mid Coast Outreach has been a deductible gift recipient since 2020, so anything from two dollars up counts.
Five minutes of history
Supply boats could get no further up the Manning, so in 1844 the government proclaimed a village here, the first on the river. It grew on cedar, then timber and dairy: a municipality by 1889, a railway town by 1913. Central Park still keeps the story, in the 1884 post office, the 1907 School of Arts, the courthouse and the Memorial Town Hall.
The groups under the hub
Each one runs its own page and posts its own news, and whatever they publish shows here too, with their name on it.
Seven hectares of rainforest, two minutes from the shops
Wingham Brush is one of the last stands of subtropical floodplain rainforest in New South Wales: giant Moreton Bay figs, a boardwalk through the canopy, and a colony of grey-headed flying foxes. The local word wingan is often translated as “where bats come to drink”, and they still do.
Whoever you are
Live here?
The notices, the events and the warnings, all on one page. Nothing to sign up for, nothing to download.
What’s on →Run a group?
Link your page under this one and your posts show here too, with your name on them.
How linking works →Shop local
The shops, trades and services in town, by category. Run one? Ask the hub for a listing.
Cain Digital Kept up to date
Computers and IT
Managed IT, cyber security and websites for the Mid North Coast
Visit their website
Wingham Akoostik Festival
Events and markets
Community-run, volunteer-powered music festival each October, auspiced by Manning Valley Neighbourhood Services
Visit their website
Wingham Beef Week
Events and markets
A week of beef cattle education and competition each May, from the show ring to the seminar room
Visit their website
Wingham Farmers Market
Events and markets
Local produce grown, baked or made sustainably, every Saturday morning since 2003
Visit their website
Manning Valley Rock Hounds Lapidary Club
Groups and clubs
Gem cutting, fossicking and stone craft at the showground
Wingham District Memorial Services Club
Groups and clubs
The RSL-tradition club behind the Vampire jet memorial
Wingham Indoor Archery Club
Groups and clubs
Target archery at the showground
Wingham Men’s Shed
Groups and clubs
Tools, projects and company at the showground
When something happens
The river comes up, a fire to the west, the power off overnight: a notice raised here shows above every page under the hub, and on every linked site, until it is cleared.
Who keeps this
Volunteers on OurHub, on behalf of every group that has linked under the hub. It is a pilot, not a council service, and the town hub is free and stays that way.