Community groups

Jo Haylen MP, Member for Summer Hill, today congratulated the eighteen local community groups that share in $300,000 funding in this year’s Community Building Partnership grants.

The Village Project is set to transform the heart of Summer Hill by converting a long‑vacant, three-storey warehouse into a green and vibrant community use space for inner‑west businesses and residents. 

Radio Skid Row has been broadcasting for 37 years, providing an important media platform for marginalised communities including the indigenous community, migrant workers, incarcerated and young people.

The Greenway corridor stretching from Iron Cove to the Cooks River is a paradise for bird watchers and nature lovers, being home to over 239 different species of birds including rare and precious native species.

Parents and kids in the Inner West are thrilled to have a brand new council-run childcare centre with Yirran Gumal Early Childhood Learning Centre opening last month in Marrickville.

This year's NAIDOC week acknowledges that the lands on which Australia is built always were and always will be, Aboriginal land.

For 42 years Reclaim the Night Sydney has fought against gendered violence and sexual assault.

This weekend's opening of the new Ashfield Aquatic Centre comes just in time for summer and will provide inner westies with a state-of-the-art, world-class swimming facility. Swimming pools are vital community assets that improve both our physical health and mental wellbeing. 

The Bilingual Support Program from Ethnic Community Services in Marrickville helps inner west kids from CALD and indigenous communities settle into preschool with the help of a trained bilingual early childhood educator. 

Connect Inner West helps older people in our community maintain their independence by providing affordable and safe community transport, a vital service during the COVID-19 pandemic.