Walking into Djila-tjarriu in the heart of Alfredton, you are greeted with an open, light-filled community lounge space with scattered seating and tucked- away corners.
Following the hallway through the building, you’ll find two large community rooms, a meeting room, a fully equipped kitchen, toilet facilities, and an outdoor garden terrace.
These state-of-the-art spaces are now available for the Alfredton community to use for education, training, events and to foster social connections.
Welcoming people in, City of Ballarat Team Leader Community Hubs and Outreach Eleanor Wight says the Djila-tjarriu Community Hub is designed to be an accessible facility for the local Alfredton community.
“We’re in the beginning stages, but we want to activate the facilities as community spaces and open them up to community-based programs and events,” Eleanor says.
"Anything from learning and recreation programs to tech help sessions, we’re open to ideas and community groups approaching us with programs they’d like to run in the space.”
Since the opening of the facility in February this year, the City of Ballarat Community Hubs team have already hosted several community groups in the space, along with a Community Welcome weekend.
“The Community Welcome event provided local community members with an opportunity to wander through the doors, meet the Community Hubs team, and participate in some fun recreation and learning activities,” Eleanor says.
“It was essentially an opportunity to welcome people into the space, which we’ll do again in spring.”
