Welcome to Banksia Gardens Community Centre!
Banksia Gardens Community Centre is one of approximately 370 Neighbourhood Houses in Victoria. Our organisation is located in close proximity to the Banksia Gardens public housing estate in Broadmeadows, in the City of Hume.
As a neighbourhood house and a Learn Local provider, Banksia Gardens has a strong focus on community education and lifelong learning. Like many other neighbourhood houses, we are also home to a great diversity of groups and associations who gather for different purposes, and we act as a place of support in our local neighbourhood. Importantly, in an area of significant disadvantage, we are committed to social justice and to community development, but also to economic participation, and for that we try to maintain an innovative and dynamic entrepreneurial attitude.
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News & Upcoming Events
Better than TAFE
Banksia Gardens will again be offering in 2012 the Certificate III in Children's Services and Diploma of Children's Services courses in conjunction with Victoria University. These very successful industry based courses have trained hundreds of students with over 90% now working in the industry.
We will again be delivering the Pridentity Project a sexuality education program, funded by the School Focused Youth Service. This program was highly successful in 2011 and we look forward to another exciting program in 2012.
New programs at Banksia in 2012 are Bring the Gardens to the Valley Program, the Supporting Parents Developing Children Project, the Resources Smart AuSSI Vic Program, the Everything Internet Computer course and the Introduction to Theatre and Performance: The Language of Art course.
If you would like to volunteer at Banksia Gardens in one of our many exciting programs, please contact us for an interview. As a community based organisation, we are managed by an elected Board of Management with an Annual General Meeting held each year. We openly welcome new members to help support our community.
Here's to an exciting year!
Regards to all,
Gina Dougall - Manager
