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Purpose
Neighbourhood Houses are known by many different names. These names include: community houses, living and learning centres, neighbourhood centres, learning centres. Whatever the name these places are local organisations that provide social, educational and recreational activities for their communities in a welcoming supportive environment. ANHLC is the Association of Neighbourhood Houses and Learning Centres. It was established in the early 1970’s as the peak body for Victorian neighbourhood houses and learning centres. ANHLC currently has a membership of over 350, which includes just about all the houses and centres in the state.
Activities / Campaigns
Neighbourhood houses are managed by volunteer committees and paid staff. They offer many opportunities for volunteer participation in all aspects of the house activities and management. Good quality affordable childcare and playgroups are offered at most houses. Activities are generally run at low or no cost to participants.
Get Involved:
contact your local nieghbourhood house to find out what activities are on offer or to see if you can use or rent a space for your comminity activity. The ANCLC can help you locate them and offers more information about getting involved.
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Purpose
Barricade Books and Infoshop sells a range of anarchist and radical books, badges, comics, CDs, pamphlets, patches, posters, stickers, T-shirts and zines. We organise meetings and public discussions, monthly film screenings, and host an extensive anarchist and activist resource library. Barricade also facilitates Anarchist Black Cross letter writing to political prisoners every last Sunday of the month from 5.30pm. Being collectively run, Barricade is not only one modest but practical example of how anarchist principles can be used to organise communities and workplaces, but also a dynamic and evolving creation of those who form its membership.
Activities / Campaigns
We recognise that the land on which we stand belongs to the Wurundjeri people and we participate alongside the Koori community in the struggle for land rights and self-determination. We work for the creation of a society that encourages cultural diversity and we reject all forms of racial and ethnic prejudice, nationalism and patriotism. We are not patriots, we are revolutionaries. We advocate the abolition of capitalism and the wages system and their replacement with workers’ self-management of the means of production and the distribution of goods and services according to need not profit. We recognise that our natural environment is under continual assault from the forces of capitalist industrialism and support its defence by any means necessary. We look forward to the creation of a free society in harmony with nature.
Get Involved:
as an information resource centre, Barricade is a place where interested people can go to chat, debate, read, meet, and (hopefully) learn. Come in and see us! We are open Monday, Friday, Saturday 2-6pm.
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Purpose
Borderlands Cooperative is a non-profit organisation involved in community, social and international development, ecological sustainability and social justice. Amongst other things, we provide consultancy to service providers, government and community organisations in the form of program, service and organisational evaluation, social impact research and needs analysis.
Activities / Campaigns
Borderlands provides space, resources and support to a diverse range of Co-operators (NGOs) including Permaculture Melbourne and East Timor Women Australia. We work in partnership to ensure our collective range of knowledge, expertise and experiences brings mutual benefits to everyone involved; by sharing resources and information, supporting one another when faced with dilemmas, running forums and events together and most importantly, joining in friendship, solidarity and determination to create a better world!
Get Involved:
we are developing a resources page on the website. Visit soon to see what is available.
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Purpose
CERES (the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Strategies) is a community environment project located beside the Merri Creek in Brunswick. There are many different environment groups that meet or work out of CERES.
Activities / Campaigns
Permenant spaces are not advertised, however groups such as Moreland LETS and The Alternative Technology Association make their home on site and many community groups use CERES as a base. CERES has beutific and affordable spaces available for meetings and events. Spaces include: Village Green, Café Marquee, Organic Farm Stables, Environmental Room (Education Centre), and Training Classroom.
Get Involved:
drop in at CERES to see all the amazing things that happen there, become part of a collective, or contact the office to enquire about meeting spaces.
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Purpose
The City Village project brings together like-minded community organisations in an environment where they can share expertise and knowledge to create a central community hub in the city. Through this project, the City of Melbourne offers not-for profit community and cultural organisations the opportunity to rent CBD office space at a reduced rate.
The space is intended to: create a community and cultural hub which facilitates information sharing; offer affordable office space in a prime city location; and enable organisations to have access to shared resources.
Activities / Campaigns
City Village is fully occupied at the moment but it is possible that space will become available from time to time as organisations outgrow their tenancies. Some of the groups already there include: International Women's Development Agency,
Get Involved:
To be considered for City Village, or any other community office space within the City of Melbourne, it is necessary to register your 'Application for Community Accommodation' with the City Village Coordinator. To register, please download and complete the form from our website and return it to the City of Melbourne.
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Purpose
Commonground is a cooperatively managed bush property and venue, based near Seymour, 95kms north of Melbourne. It was founded to support social justice endeavours, particularly as a venue for meetings, training, workshops and time out.
Activities / Campaigns
Run by a team who live on the property, the residential workshop venue known as ‘The Wedge’ is a stimulating work space yet a nurturing retreat as well. It includes 28 beds in 10 bedrooms of hotel-style accommodation, with two separate meeting spaces, a dining room and under-cover outdoor area. The Wedge’s elegant mud brick design is nestled into the bush, surrounded by kangaroos, gum trees, and places for walks. Swims in summer or log fires in winter help you find all the energy you need for your day’s work. The catering kitchen is available for guest groups to self-cater, or catered options can be negotiated to suit a group’s requirements. Commonground is not-for-profit, so costs depend on the circumstances of the guest group.
Get Involved:
Commonground is easy to reach by road, rail or bus from Melbourne and most of rural Victoria. Guests are required not to bring cats or dogs.
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Purpose
We don’t look for problems to solve – we look to change the world in ways that make the problem irrelevant. Our major focus of activity is to provide an environment that will catalyse and support different thinking, with a particular focus on innovative leaders of change.
Activities / Campaigns
We will assist community groups and innovators to expand and develop their ideas, find project funding and develop their capacity to be self sufficient in the long term. To achieve this, we will provide a space for emerging innovators as tenants and invite both our tenants and the larger world to workshops, events, formal and informal dialogues and networking, project support and funding brokerage.
Get Involved:
We’re on a journey to make Donkey Wheel house a new dynamic social space and will fill the house with creative innovators, artists, philanthropists, volunteers, the media, school groups, elders, trainees, government, businesses and the public, inviting them to make the building a place where social change is born and implementation of that change is enabled. We would love to hear your thoughts on our vision as we invite everyone to be part of helping us shape a new future.
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Purpose
FoE is a social and environmental justice organisation seeking to work towards a sustainable and equitable future and seeks to work in a way that empowers individuals and communities. This means that FoE operates on a collective basis using consensus for decision-making.
Activities / Campaigns
Desk and office spaces come up from time to time in the campaign centre that can be rented for environmental or social justice campaigns at negotiated prices. Collectives for specific environmental and social justice campaigns use FoE as a meeting space on a regular basis (free of charge).
Get Involved:
contact Cam Walker to enquire about using the space for meetings, or just drop in and check out the organic co-op and bookshop.
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Purpose
Irene is a community arts warehouse, located in a redundant lingerie factory in Brunswick in Melbourne's inner north. Irene was the brand name of the underwear that was made there, and it's still the name above the door. The idea of Irene was born from the need of an affordable space for community artists, small business, activists, community groups and others who want to work in an ecologically sustainable workspace. The Irene Group Inc is a not-for-profit organisation.
Activities / Campaigns
Studio spaces are available from $2.73 p/m2. Also for hire at cheap rates are: The Great Space (screenings/exhibitions), Circus Space, rehursal and recording studios, a dark room, and a communal workshop for bike fixing, metalwork and woodwork.
Get Involved:
look out gigs and workshops held at Irene's or become involved in maintaining the space.
Contacts
5 Pitt St Brunswick
p: 93436695
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Purpose
Kindness House is an incubator for not for profit organisations. It is located on Brunswick St near Johnston St within easy walking distance of Parliament House. It provides office space to active groups who punch above their weight.
Activities / Campaigns
Kindness House is usually 100% full, however you can join the waiting list. The "rent" is subjective - it ranges from something modest to zero for small groups that are really struggling. Rent includes all overheads (ie rates, taxes, electricity, cleaning, insurance, security, air con, lifts, maintenance etc). Take note the owner, Philip Wollen, is a vegan and therefore no animals are to be consumed in the building.
Get Involved:
drop into Kindness House to see the groups working there. Contact Philip Woolen to enquire about tenancy.
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Purpose
We serve as a resource centre for use by individuals, community and commercial groups for meetings, workshops, seminars, outdoor activities, community events and all
environmental and educational pursuits. The Centre also administers www.groups.yahoo.com/
group/southgippslandfreecycle.
Activities / Campaigns
Our facilities include: meeting Room 1 - to suit small meetings with
whiteboard, pinboard, tables and chairs, TV and video; Meeting Room 2 - larger meeting room suitable for workshops and seminars with
whiteboard, chalkboard, pinboard, tables and chairs, TV and video; Community Office - with computer, fax and internet facilities; Resource Shed - classroom/workshop
together with toilet and shower; Propagation Igloo - seedling propagation facility; Green Shed - utility shed for recycling and
plant propagation; Modern kitchen - with tea-making facilities, stove, sink, microwave and fridge; Community Library. Recreational Areas include a large sports oval with cricket pitch; a play area and picnic area, frog pond, bush cooking pit, berry and vegetable growing.
Get Involved:
educational activities include: The Bike Ed and Game Track - sign posted
bicycle education facility; Composting Display educational facility; an Educational Game Areas with twister, quoits, checkers and a maze; and the “Waste Wise Trail†waste management game.
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Purpose
Loophole is a collectively run community centre. It is a shared space where we can exchange skills, resources and knowledge, and where we can find inspiration and support as we develop our ideas, our projects and ourselves.
Activities / Campaigns
Loophole runs on a not-for profit basis. It is a space where people's talents can be appreciated and developed, no matter how much wealth they do or do not have. Everything at Loophole is provided by donation and by the support of people who volunteer their energy and their time.We hope that at Loophole we can learn, collectively, how to minimize our negative impact on people and the environment. We hope that Loophole can contribute to making a better world.
Get Involved:
we want Loophole to be open, inclusive, inspiring and fun! We are into the do-it-yourself ethic; if you want to use the building, go for it. We ask only that you treat the space and the people in it with respect. Check out our events calendar for the next gig, workshop or Food Not Bombs kitchen.
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