The 2026 Ready Communities Impact and Action report – Regions in Transition outlines a range of ways to create sustainable change in regional communities. The following highlights examples across Australia in the area of collective models and cooperatives. Collective models involve similar types of entities coming together to share infrastructure, access markets, or build capacity […]
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The 2026 Ready Communities Impact and Action report – Regions in Transition outlines a range of ways to create sustainable change in regional communities. The following highlights examples across Australia in the area of Local retail, shop local and main street activation programs. Buy local campaigns run by councils and chambers of commerce use branding,
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Community financial capital (community funds, community foundations, community banks, regional risk capital, community-owned capital) The 2026 Ready Communities Impact and Action report – Regions in Transition outlines a range of ways to create sustainable change in regional communities. The following highlights examples across Australia in the area of community financial capital. Different structures make impact
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Each year Ready Communities chooses one regional community to host our annual ‘Flagship’ program which includes the national conference, Social Impact in the Regions. As the program rolls out the host community builds both readiness, and capacity in delivering business events. We work with smaller towns, towns that are often described as the ‘gap in
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Stanthorpe has been selected to take part in the Ready Communities program, a nationally recognised place-based approach that supports regional towns to shape their own future, on their own terms. Over the next two years, Ready Communities will work alongside local people, organisations, businesses and leaders to build the conditions that help good ideas turn
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In regional and rural communities, good ideas are rarely in short supply.What is often missing are the conditions that allow those ideas to land, grow and endure. Readiness is about those conditions. In the Ready Communities context, readiness refers to the collective state of a community to shape, attract and sustain positive change. It is
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Is your community ready? Regional communities are filled with potential. Ideas, energy, and commitment already exists but too often, change stalls because the enabling conditions are not in place. That’s where the Ready Communities Local Impact Facilitator Program fits. The program has been developed following decades of work supporting and deep research supporting hundreds of
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On Thursday 14 August Ready Communities Co-Founders, Kerry Grace and Dr. Chad Renando launched the first Ready Communities White Paper and Impact Report, A Case for Regional Readiness. In regional Australia, change is constant. Communities navigate shifting industries, population dynamics, natural disasters, and opportunities for growth. But true, lasting impact doesn’t come from quick fixes
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This week we had the privilege of attending a special meeting of the Rotary Club of Grafton, one of five local Rotary clubs active in the Clarence Valley. The event was a celebration of student Luci, who is returning from her Rotary Youth Exchange to Italy, and also an acknowledgment of the many young people
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In regional Australia, meaningful change doesn’t happen because someone drops in with a checklist and a timeline. It happens when communities see themselves, speak for themselves, and act on their own terms. That’s the foundation of our work at Ready Communities—and it’s why we hold Readiness Events. A Readiness Event is more than just a
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