Neighbourhood Houses & Learning Centres
April 5, 2005
Mackay City Council is offering school leavers 12 month Council Traineeships as an alternative to University and at the same time is addressing staff shortages. To assist trainees and apprentices gain skills in a practical working environment, Council provides inhouse […]
March 9, 2005
The positions of merchandise planner and buyer are growing in popularity and importance in Australia, but we have only recently begun to develop our own talents while in the UK this set of skills is well established. According to Nikki […]
February 23, 2005
In some ways the city-country divide is a superficial myth. Heyfield, a timber town in the foothills of eastern Victoria’s beautiful high country and Warrandyte, a Melbourne ‘weekender-artists’ haven on the Yarra turned ‘outer suburb-daytrip destination’ have both reacted very […]
February 9, 2005
Many website packages are complicated and expensive, yet Kate Schwager, from a successful wheat and cotton share farming business near Wee Waa in western NSW, has recently relaunched www.weewaa.com, a website developed from a regular newsletter she wrote for Wee […]
January 26, 2005
Neighbourhood Houses, as agents of social change, work with local people in all sorts of communities, providing a friendly, welcoming atmosphere as well as a wide variety of classes and basic skills training needed by their community. One of the […]
November 17, 2004
When a ‘wishlist’ to the Dept of Health & Ageing generated a phone reply in 2 days with a request for a full submission within the week for a $47,000 grant, Celia Wallace, Manager, Mallacoota District Health and Support Service […]
November 2, 2004
Last month Bob Stensholt, Vic State Lower House member for Burwood gave a passionate but accurate speech about the enormous range of services and support offered to the local community by nine Inner East Melbourne Neighbourhood Houses. This type of […]
October 2, 2004
The 1970s Neighbourhood House movement grew out of local community need bringing people together to enhance their opportunities and those of their communities. The informal approach is probably an ‘unconventional pathway’ to learning, but many coordinators speak of both volunteers’ […]