PLACE Community Roadshow and Listening Tour

The PLACE Community Roadshow and Listening Tour is a 10-week community engagement initiative from 25 March 2025 to 14 June 2025.

We recognise that each community is unique, with its own context, priorities, and ideas. The aims of the Tour are to:

1. Listen to your stories, understand your work and learn from your experiences
   PLACE staff and board members will visit a diverse range of communities to listen to the experiences of local residents, organisations, and initiatives.

2. Share and refine PLACE’s approach
   We will present our emerging strategic plan and first-year priorities, gathering real-time feedback to refine our approach.

3. Explore partnerships
   We hope to forge long-term connections and collaborative projects with the communities we visit—identifying areas for potential partnership and outlining other opportunities for you to be involved in PLACE’s governance.

The Community Roadshow and Listening Tour is a series of community-hosted meetings—rather than public events—arising from an Expression of Interest process. Attendance is by invitation from the local host.

We will be visiting the following place-based initiatives:

New South Wales

• Bankstown - BSC Flexi-Hub, Bankstown Senior College

• Byron Bay - Ending Rough Sleeping Collaboration Byron Shire ERSCBS

• Fairfield - Fairfield Integrated Child and Family Hub, Karitane 

• Kempsey - Learning the Macleay 

• Bay and Basin - Firefly Bay & Basin, Uniting NSW.ACT 

• Lismore - Northern Rivers Community Resilience Alliance 

• Mount Druitt - Together in 2770, The Hive (United Way Australia) 

• Mount Druitt - Mounty Yarns, Mounty Aboriginal Youth & Community Services 

• Toormina - Becoming U, Uniting NSW.ACT 

• Sydney - Glebe, Ultimo, Haymarket, Pyrmont Collaborative, University of Technology Sydney 

• Taree - Mid Coast 4 Kids, Mission Australia 

Northern Territory

• Alice Springs - Remote Focus: Connecting and collaborating in central Australia, Desert Knowledge Australia with Childrens Ground and Atyenhenge Atherre Aboriginal Corporation - AAAC - Santa Teresa Community

• Darwin - YouthWorX NT and the Greater Darwin Community Investment Committee, YouthWorX NT 

• Galiwin’ku East Arnhem Land - The Marthakal Homelands - Masterplan Strategy Initiative, Marthakal Homelands & Resource Centre Aboriginal Corporation (MHRCAC) 

• Galiwin’ku East Arnhem Land - Marrtjin Limurr Rrambaŋin Guŋga'yun Yolŋu'-Yulŋuny Mala (Walking together to support Yolŋu people for good health), University of Melbourne 

 Queensland

• Brisbane - Thriving Queensland Kids Partnership

• Brisbane - Micah Projects

• Brisbane - Feeding Queensland Kids and Partnerships to Create Food Equity, Foodbank Queensland, SecondBite | FareShare and OzHarvest 

• Bundaberg - BridgeWorx: Place-based Creative Wellbeing, Bridges Health & Community Care 

• Bundaberg - Welcome To Bundaberg, Wide Bay Kids 

• Cairns - Cairns South Together, Cairns South Coalition Limited

• Cairns/Cape York - Pama Futures, Cape York Insititute | Cape York Partnership Group

• Deception Bay - Communities for Children, yourtown

• Gladstone - Gladstone Region engaging in action Together (GRT)

• Gold Coast - Gold Coast Youth Employment Roundtable, GenZ Employment/Ohana for Youth

• Inala/Ipswich - Communities for Children, Mission Australia

• North Stradbroke & Moreton Islands - Quandamooka Justice Reinvestment Justice Team, Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders-In-Council Aboriginal Corporation 

• Yarrabah - Yarrabah Positive and Respectful Relationships Project, Department of Families, Seniors, Disability Services and Child Safety 

 South Australia

• Adelaide – Inclusive Work Program, GoGo Foundation 

• Cummins – Our Town Cummins, Our Town 

• Mount Barker - Regenerating the Hills and Coasts, Regen Labs 

• Mount Gambier - Limestone Coast Alcohol & Other Drug Services Project, Substance Misuse Limestone Coast 

• Murray Bridge - Studio Purpose and Murray Bridge Wellbeing Summit, ac.care 

• Onkaparinga - South Australia Communities for Children, AnglicareSA Ltd 

• Port Lincoln - Port Lincoln Aboriginal Corporation, Port Lincoln Aboriginal Community Council

• Port Pirie - Pirie Voices, Port Pirie Regional Council and Mid North Local Jobs Program

• Whyalla – Hope Whyalla, Communities of Focus (CoF) 

 Tasmania

• Brighton - Brighton Alive, Brighton Council 

• Burnie - Communities for Children, CatholicCare Tas 

• Derwent Park - Neighbourhood House, Neighbourhood Houses Tasmania 

• Launceston - Placemaking in Tasmanian Schools, Village Well (Partnering with St Thomas More's Catholic Primary School 

 Victoria

• Ballarat - Neighbourhood Houses - place-based insights, opportunity and challenges, Central Highlands Association of Neighbourhood Houses

• Benalla - Education Benalla Program, Tomorrow Today Foundation

• Geelong - Sustainable Geelong: Stories, Challenges & Action, Geelong Sustainability

• Millgrove - Millgrove Community Plan, Millgrove Residents Action Group

• Mildura (Wimmera-Mallee) - Wimmera Southern Mallee by Five, Our Place Robinvale, North Central Local Learning and Employment Network, Hands Up Mallee, and Connected Beginnings Mildura

• Morwell - Latrobe Health Assembly

• Seymour - The Sustaining Economic Empowerment & Dignity (SEED) Project, Brotherhood of St. Laurence

• Shepparton - Greater Shepparton Lighthouse Project with Munarra - Centre for Regional Excellence

• Shepparton - Goulburn Murray Regional Prosperity & Productivity Plan, Kaiela Institute

• Warrnambool - Lookout Residential Rehabilitation Centre (LRRC) & WRAD Health Integrated Health Care Centre

• Warrnambool - South West Victoria; uniting communities, South West Community Foundation

 Western Australia

• Derby - Early Years Partnership Derby Community (including Mowanjum and Pandanus Park)

• Derby - Good Life Derby Project, Emama Nguda Aboriginal Corporation (ENAC)

• Paraburdoo - Living on Yinhawangka Country, Yinhawangka Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC

• Pingelly - Staying in Place, Linkwest

Please get in touch via email if you have any questions about the Listening Tour.