People’s Plan for Footscray Community Mapping Session and more …
Forty community workers, advocates and activists participated in the first People’s Plan for Footscray Community Mapping Exercise. This included people from some twenty different community organisations working in Footscray. Participants spent almost three hours in small table groups discussing: Over the next few weeks, the People’s Plan for Footscray will be putting together survey data collected from letterboxing all homes in…
People’s Plan for Footscray
Borderlands Cooperative, in partnership with Angliss Neighbourhood House & South Sudan Child First Education. The People’s Plan for Footscray is about bringing people back into public decision-making: going beyond token government consultation and building an example of how organised communities working together can build skills and capacities and public power, to make change. Footscray has been especially affected by market driven…
Lowering the flags January 26
On January 26 (2026), Maribyrnong City Council lowered the flags … From Maribyrnong Council’s website: While 26 January is considered a national holiday, for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples it marks the start of ongoing colonisation of people and land – with significant negative impacts to health, education, employment and justice, including the tragic and ongoing removal of children. Informed…
Footscray Community Garden Open Day
The Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place was started with a simple idea: a commitment to community connectedness & sustainability: we hoped to build-up community knowledge and skills in sustainable and equitable practices that can improve liveability. Since August last year, a community committed to these ideals has collectively turned a rather neglected-looking space first into a construction site, and from…
Newsletter #1: Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place
Hosted by Borderlands Co-operative & St John’s Church The newly formed Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place has now had two General Meetings, with the first including 35 people who contributed a wide range of ideas and suggestions for the Garden. Included here is a link to the agreed upon Guidelines for the Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place. The two hosting…
Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place
The Footscray Community Garden & Learning Place is about building purposeful community connections and capacity. The Garden & Learning Place will focus on sharing and developing skills across intercultural communities, aimed at building food security and life skills, and connecting communities to social networks, services and pathways. The Community Garden will be set-up as an urban farm, informed by a community…