Elly Bird
Elly Bird
Lismore City Councillor, Lismore Helping Hands, Gasfield Free, Woodford Welcome Ceremony
Elly Bird is a Councillor on Lismore City Council. After the devastating floods in Lismore 2017 she managed Lismore Helping Hands, an innovative, community-led spontaneous volunteer hub, leading a team that coordinated more than 1500 volunteers, and managed a variety of emergent partnerships and community initiatives. Elly has over twenty years of community development and organising experience across a variety of roles, including as one of the leaders of the successful Gasfield Free Northern Rivers movement, the biggest social movement ever seen in the Northern Rivers.
Since 2017 she has been deeply engaged in Lismore’s recovery and she now has a keen interest in building community resilience to better enable communities to withstand the shock of disasters and the escalating impacts of climate change, she still actively administers the facebook group that formed after the floods. Elly also has a passion for directing large scale outdoor community theatre events, as the director of the Lismore Lantern Parade Firey Finale and the director of the Welcome Ceremony at Woodford Folk Festival. Elly is deeply committed to the well-being of her community and she has a deep and enduring love for the Northern Rivers with its unique, inspiring, engaged and activated communities.
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