Get set for the Swap!

Castlemaine’s Camp Reserve will be bustling with activity this coming Sunday April 3 for one of the region’s largest and most successful events, the Castlemaine Lions Club Swap Meet.
This year marks the 36th annual swap meet after a two year covid hiatus.
The swap meet is the local service club’s major fundraiser and over the last three decades its had raised thousands of dollars to put back into many community projects such as the Mount Alexander Shire Accommodation & Respite Group’s McDonald Lions McDonald Hill Respite House.
This year’s event it is expected to once again draw thousands of visitors through the gates from across the state and beyond to buy and browse from 550 plus stalls selling all manner of things including vintage and veteran car and motorcycle parts, memorabilia, antiques, collectables, and bric-a-brac. See the Mail for all the full story.

Lisa Dennis
Editor of the Castlemaine Mail newspaper and senior journalist on our sister paper the Midland Express. Over the last 24 years Lisa been proudly reporting news in the Mount Alexander and Macedon Ranges communities.