TOWN TEAMS

Town Teams are positive and proactive organisations that include businesses, landowners and residents working collaboratively with their local government to improve a place or area, often a town centre or ‘main street’.

Town Teams are ‘doers’. They:

• Provide vision and leadership
• Are apolitical in their approach
• Get stuck in and have a go rather than waiting for “someone else” to do “something”
• Independent from governments
• Run by the community for the community

The ‘Town Team’ terminology and concept is subject to copyright in Australia.

The only requirement to be a Town Team is to align with and live the Town Team Charter. The charter is a shared story of what Town Teams are and how they should behave. It helps explain our movement’s collective values and expectations. It’s a summary of the ‘Town Team Way’.

Find out how to start a Town Team here.

The Town Team model is open and inclusive. It helps to break down the sectional interests that often divide businesses, residents and local governments.

Town Teams are proactive, non-profit organisations that include businesses, landowners, residents and others working collaboratively with their local government (or equivalent) to improve their local place or area. The Town Team approach is innovative, creative and fun!

Town Team Movement is an ‘underarching’ non-profit organisation that aims to make it a bit easier to Act Local and make it happen in your community.