Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre
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Sebastopol’s Fruity Forest
25 November 2024
Addressing food insecurity is a high priority for the Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre, so we are very grateful to the Community Bank Buninyong for sh...
Successful CafeSmart Community Grant
22 November 2024
We are pleased to announce Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre was successful in a StreetSmart Australia grant application. This funding will be used to...
Supporting Year 11 Students
26 August 2024
Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre was pleased to receive Department of Education Strategic Partnerships Program funding. This grants partnership funds ...
Discover Historic Sebastopol
28 March 2024
Informative blue signs with eye catching historical images and stories are popping up around Sebastopol as the Discover Historic Sebastopol trail c...
A colourful new skyline for Sebastopol
28 March 2024
Sebastopol locals are sure to have enjoyed watching the bright splash of colour and form growing across the skyline of late. Sebastopol born and ra...
Sebastopol Tram Mural
04 February 2024
If you’re driving along Albert Street, you might catch a glimpse of something new at the Royal Mail Hotel.
A Sebastopol Tram Mural has been instal...
Mary Douglas, our gift of joy!
20 December 2023
At the City of Ballarat Seniors Awards on the 31st October, Mary Douglas was honoured with the Ageing Well Award for her many years of contribution...
Connecting Sebastopol
12 December 2023
The Connecting Sebastopol project run by Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre has gone from success to success over the last year. Four editions of the Se...
ArtBox@BNC comes to life
02 June 2023
Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre has an eye-catching new community facility. You may have noticed the beautifully re-purposed shipping container in Tu...
New Public Art at the Sebastopol Library
04 June 2023
A celebration was held at the Library on Friday 5 May 2023 for the installation of a new artwork – a reproduction of a 1989 painting depicting 19th...
CALD Training Success
26 July 2016
From 2012 to 2014, Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre (BNC) partnered with the City of Ballarat to provide training for participants in a culturally and...
Mt Pleasant History Mural
27 February 2020
In 2018, passionate Mt Pleasant community member Bernadette Duffy had an idea for a mural in Mt Pleasant, to help preserve and mark the important h...
Discover Historic Mount Pleasant
23 May 2019
The Discover Historic Mount Pleasant project was a collaboration between Ballarat Neighbourhood Centre, Ballarat East Neighbourhood House and the M...