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Our Future: the Community-Led Plan 2026 to 2029
Our plan for the next three years, the three lived realities it is built around, and the road ahead.
In October 2025 we sat down with participants, families, workers and partners and asked what the next three years should hold. What came out of those workshops is now our plan, endorsed by our Board. It invests in specialist services for people with disability and older Australians, and reawakens the Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre as a hub for everyone. This is what it commits us to, and when.
The vision, and three lived realities
Our vision for 2029:
A vibrant, inclusive hub where disability, aged care and community services converge. A place where everyone, regardless of ability or age, finds connection, purpose and belonging.
Our vision for 2029
The plan is built around three realities that people in the room described from their own lives.
Meaningful work. Inaccessible workplaces, poor job design and isolation lock people out of work that means something. We are building local answers: inclusive roles in community services and hospitality, volunteer pathways through Good in the Hood, and SLES placements that give school leavers real workplace experience.
A home of their own. Secure, accessible, affordable housing is the foundation of everything else. Specialist Disability Accommodation reaches some people; most rely on mainstream housing that is neither affordable nor accessible. We advocate locally, support home-sharing models, and are exploring Shared Lives and Individualised Living Options.
A connected life. Communities work when everyone in them has both belonging and a say. That means spaces built for collaboration, trauma-informed support through the hard transitions, civic participation, and intergenerational programs that put young and old in the same room.
The road ahead, year by year
The plan is ambitious. This is the sequence we are working to.
- 2026, build the foundations. NDIS mid-term audit. Direct aged care registration. Café funding secured. Wellbeing Hub partnerships formed.
- 2027, open the doors. The café opens. SLES employment pathways scale up. NDIS, aged care and community programs running side by side rather than in separate boxes.
- 2028, embed and grow. Wellbeing Hub fully operational. Housing options such as Shared Lives and ILO expanding. Community-led governance maturing.
- 2029, a community thriving. Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre re-established as a genuine Inner West hub, and together² recognised for clinical and behavioural excellence.
How you can be part of it
A community-led plan only works if the community keeps leading it. That means telling us when we are getting it wrong as much as when we are getting it right.
The evidence behind the plan is in The case for community-led services, and the café in A café that does more than coffee.
If any of this is something you want to help build, as a partner, a funder, a volunteer or a neighbour with an opinion, we want to hear from you. Call 02 9556 9500 or get in touch.
Last reviewed 20 September 2026 by Steven Lowrie, Governance and Case Management Lead. Rules and funding can change. If something here does not match your situation, ask us.
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