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Over two days in July, we ran six conversations with regional Australia, one for each of the 2026 National Regional Challenges. People joined from chambers of commerce, councils, schools, neighbourhood centres, community radio, farms and not-for-profits, from Stanthorpe and the Granite Belt out to Goondiwindi, Tenterfield, the Clarence, Chinchilla, Singleton, Tasmania and South Australia. Different […]

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

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

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

And that’s a wrap 2024. On 13th December Ready communities founders Kerry Grace and Dr. Chad Renando hosted an end of year webinar providing insights about outputs, outcomes and impacts of the first year of Ready Communities, the Macleay Valley pilot (Ready Macleay), Social Impact in the Regions national conference and implications for place-practice across