Kyneton’s Eric Scoble surprised by Queen’s birthday OAM honour

A Kyneton stalwart, and now Order of Australia recipient, has been honoured for more than 40 years of community service — but there’s one cause especially close to his heart.

Eric Scoble has won an OAM (embargoed until next week). He's the president of the Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival and organises the ferret racingin. Eric is pictured with his ferrets on Thursday 6th June, 2019.

A Macedon Ranges quiet achiever who has spent decades volunteering in the Kyneton community says he is “a bit embarrassed” after receiving a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) honour.

Eric Scoble was named in the Queen’s Birthday honours list for services to the community.

He said he was “very humbled” to receive the award: “I almost feel a bit embarrassed actually.”

“Everything I’ve done for Kyneton, I’ve done through my heart. I don’t do it for recognition.”

Through more than 40 years of volunteering, Mr Scoble has been involved in Kyneton’s little athletics and the men’s shed, as well as its junior soccer, Lions club, trotting, cycling and junior football clubs, among other things.

Mr Scoble has also been a member of the famous Kyneton Daffodil and Arts Festival for more than four decades. Since 2013, he has served as president.

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“The Daffodil and Arts Festival is really one of my babies,” he said.

“Each year we fundraise and sell 50-60,000 daffodil bulbs. The people of Kyneton get behind everything that happens. There’s never any negativity.”