Our final Network meeting for 2018 will be an overnighter, and will be hosted by Mt Beauty Neighbourhood Centre.

We will visit one other Neighbourhood House on the way up to and back from Mt Beauty. The Network will be subsidising some of the costs of the two day, including bus hire, and there’ll be more information going out to you soon about this. Committee members are strongly encouraged to attend.

We will continue with last year’s theme of organisational sustainability - because this is so fundamental to support all the things we do as Neighbourhood Houses - with a particular focus on community development and social impact. Planned workshops and discussion topics include effective use of data, using the Community Development framework as our point of difference, and measuring our impact.

Last year we found that the bus trip and overnight stay provided members with a wonderful opportunity for focused thinking and discussion about their own community and Neighbourhood House, with colleagues who will understand at least some of the challenges faced. It is a great way for us to get to know each other at a deeper level, which is hard to do at our regular Network meetings.