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noticeboard Online community services map is live! Find community services in the eastern suburbs and inner city. Check out the link on our website www.innersydney.org.au To add or update service listings please email admin@innersydneyvoice.org.au Inner Sydney Regional Council 40th Anniversary We are starting to pull together material for our 40th Anniversary celebrations. Our video archives have been digitised and a documentary about Regional Council is drawing together some of the archival material with interviews with some who have first-hand experience of that history. To jog people’s memories we have posted the 20th Anniversary issue of Inner Voice in the PDF Editions section of www.innersydneyvoice. org.au. If you were not around then it is great historical background and if you were around it will hopefully spark memories you might like to share. The 20th Anniversary Issue from Spring 1995 includes two pages covering each of Regional Council’s first 20 years with details of workers and committee members. Ideally we would like to collect similar details covering the second 20 years and would welcome your contribution towards this. • We want stories and reflections from those involved during our last 40 years. • We want to make contact with those we have lost contact with • We want to know who would like to come back for a reunion • We want people who would like to help pull this all together for mid-2016. Please spread the word to those you know were involved in the past and help us bring people together to celebrate the great history we all share! If you can help please contact Charmaine Jones on char.jones@innersydneyvoice.org.au or phone 02 9698 7461 4 Inner Sydney Voice • Summer 2015/16 • www.innersydneyvoice.org.au
MYRIAD PRO Lucida Grand Bold MYRIAD PRO INNER SYDNEY REGIONAL COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Editorial About Inner Sydney Voice is the journal of the Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development Inc; a non-profit organisation committed to the idea of information as a tool for community development. The organisation defines Inner Sydney as being the local government areas of Botany Bay, Leichhardt, Randwick, City of Sydney, Waverley and Woollahra. Acknowledgement of Country We acknowledge and pay our respects to the traditional custodians of the lands across the areas we service, particularly the Gadigal people of the Eora Nation, traditional custodians of the land on which our office is located. We pay our respects to Elders, past and present. Editors Geoff Turnbull, Charmaine Jones Contributors Marg Barry, Glenn Burge, Michael Darcy, Jim Diers, Christine Hannan, Susan Hawkeswood, Charmaine Jones, René McKenzie-Low, Stefanie Pillora, Wendy Sarkissian, Lisa Smajlov, Julie Spies, Mercy Splitt, Neil Stuart, Nelson Tilbrook, Geoffrey Turnbull Design and Cover Alys Martin Membership and Subscription Coordinator Saskia Cheney Printing Prografica Website www.innersydneyvoice.org.au Publisher Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development Inc Rear 770 Elizabeth Street Waterloo NSW 2017 ABN 86 770 127 254 Phone 9698 7690 Fax 9318 0852 Email admin@innersydneyvoice.org.au Facebook www.facebook.com/innersydneyrcsd Twitter @innersydneyrcsd Website www.innersydneyvoice.org.au Disclaimer and Copyright The opinions expressed in Inner Sydney Voice do not necessarily represent the views of the publisher, the publication nor our funders. Unless stated otherwise, opinions belong to contributors, not the organisation or group with which they work. While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information, no responsibility can be accepted by the publisher for any contributions. Copyright belongs to the contributors. Join and Subscribe Please see back cover Summer 2015/16 • Issue 127 additional images © istockphoto.com Community Development sits alongside social justice, social inclusion and community leadership on the Regional Council banner as areas we believe and work in. The lines between these areas blur and while there are many definitions of community development Regional Council works in the tradition of Marg Barry who in this issue’s From the vault says “community development is about communities being in control and adequately resourced to solve their own problems!” It really puts people first! The role of groups like ours is to keep the community in community services, community development, community engagement and everything that often pretends to be about community but which does not include local community perspectives. This issue of ISV is about communities being at the heart of what happens around them and needing to have a real say in what happens. It is about organisations encouraging communities to find their voice, defending their right to that voice and amplifying that voice. It is about where the Inner Sydney Voice comes from. We start this issue with Jim Diers reminding us that within every crisis there is opportunity. He encourages us to Seize the opportunity of crisis to rebuild community. We explore three community development case studies that work with public and social housing tenants to help build communities. In Inner West Tenant Group: Bringing tenants together we look at how Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre helped to form this group and at what they are achieving. Another case study looks at Community Development at Hunters Hill: What can be achieved by a community garden and art project? It also looks at some of what cannot be achieved by such a project. The third case study looks at City West Building community in new social housing - developments like The Platform at Eveleigh. People coming together in the new high rise buildings raise issues of how those people might form communities. Strata skills help create communities discuses Sydney Council Strata 101 courses. We asked two experienced community development workers to reflect on what has changed in their time. Neil Stuart discusses community development as Standing with dissent and Julie Spies looks at change in the community sector as Time to change. Stefanie Pillora’s reflection on Marg Barry and noisy minorities compliments these practitioner reflections and introduces issues related to community engagement. Last issue’s article from UrbanGrowth NSW about community engagement, encouraged responses in the spirit of engagement from two writers experienced in the field. You can read these in Michael Darcy’s The challenge of community engagement and Wendy Sarkissian’s Leading-practice community engagement. This issue we also explore places for active recreation in Spaces to play, the issues raised by The Tenants Union in NSW renting laws under review and hoarding in Beyond the clutter. As Regional Council celebrates 40 years, we look back on Marg Barry’s 20th year predictions Forward to the future. Did her crystal ball work? Charmaine Jones and Geoff Turnbull Co-editors Inner Sydney Regional Council for Social Development. “Community development is about communities being in control and adequately resourced to solve their own problems” www.innersydneyvoice.org.au • Summer 2015/16 • Inner Sydney Voice 5
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