Microgrant

Tucked among the trees in St Lucia, next door to Caring Cuisine and the St Lucia Community Hall, is a cheerful blue-and-yellow building that has been sitting quiet for the past five years. Not anymore. The former Girl Guides hall is now home to The Workshed Inner West, a volunteer-led community initiative creating a welcoming and inclusive space for women to learn, make things, connect and belong. And they’ve been working toward this moment for a while. Building a community b

As many of us who work in community know, sometimes things just fall into place. You might be looking for a particular person, the next step, an organisation or an opportunity — and then, often from somewhere unexpected, it emerges. That’s exactly what happened with River North’s second Microgrant. When we think about our communities, we often look for ways to take action — to uplift great community-building work or create the conditions to tackle some of our bigger challenge

Every community has places that quietly hold it together. For more than 23 years, Breakfast Club Redcliffe Inc. has been one of those places. What began as a simple breakfast service has grown into one of the Peninsula’s most important community hubs, providing food, connection and practical support to hundreds of people each week. As the cost of living continues to rise and housing insecurity becomes more visible across our region, organisations like Breakfast Club Redcliffe