The CD program supports and empowers community members to shape their own communities on issues important to them through collective, community-led, action.

Northside’s CD team believes in sustainable, community-driven development. We work with community members to identify and mobilise community assets that lead to inclusive and empowering community programs and growth within the Inner-North and Gungahlin regions of Canberra.

We work with groups, individuals, clubs, social enterprises and existing service providers to improve the social capital and wellbeing of Canberrans, with a specific focus on the participation and inclusion of diverse and vulnerable community members.

We believe in the skills, gifts and knowledge of the people we work with and can support you in the following ways:

• Provide linkages with individuals, associations, 以及为儿童和青少年提供的服务, government representatives, resources
• Co-create a project, event, program, idea
• Support you to find funding
• Advocate through data collection, consultation and providing a platform or voice
• Promote your project, event, program, idea
• Develop assets (spaces, places, 大厅是一个相当大的场地，有高高的天花板和镶木地板, objects)
• Link you with training or development opportunities