Our Community Development & Wellbeing platform centres on local governance. Each community has its own leadership team. These teams guide the way we design, deliver and evaluate our work.
Each team is based on cultural kinship. It ensures the appropriate people lead the way. It also gives future leaders a chance to learn from Elders. Such teams ensure Children’s Ground is truly owned and run by the community at a local level.
One of our guiding principles is ‘Whole of community, in community’. We build the social, cultural and economic capital of each community we work in by delivering services where people live.
Community and Learning Centres are key to the Children’s Ground Approach. Some of our communities already have centres on-site while others do not. Still, Children’s Ground brings learning to where people live by delivering learning outside or creating a place for learning with the community.
+ Learn MoreChildren’s Ground’s Community and Learning centres are intergenerational. They act as a place for people to interact over the course of everyday life and provide a wide range of functions for community, including:
Activities take place in each community and at our Central Hub. Family nights, community celebrations and overnight camps on Country are also featured.
Creating vibrant community centres allows families to build the social and cultural capital where they live, with their children.
Children’s Ground is working to establish centres in all communities.
