Communities where all citizens can act on their desire to create, build, to organise and experiment are healthy, resilient and constructive ones. People need to be able to shape the communities that they live in by what they do and not just by what they spend.

Marcus Westbury, founder of Renew Newcastle and author of Creating Cities

Town Teams are positive and proactive organisations that are open to 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 for their place
Are positive and proactive
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 breaks down the barriers that often divide businesses, residents and local governments, and helps everyone to better understand the challenges and the opportunities to improve places. Every action is important.

The Vision

This is a positive movement of citizen-led action focussed on creating connected, resilient communities and better places. 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!

“The imagination, the sweat, the enthusiasm, and the efforts of its people are the greatest resource that any place has”. Marcus Westbury in Creating Cities

You can download the Town Team Charter here.

Town Team Movement is an ‘underarching’ non-profit organisation that aims to support, advocate for, connect, promote and inspire Town Teams around Australia and New Zealand.

There are currently 55 Town Teams spread across 28 local government areas in Western Australia, plus Tasmania, Melbourne, Canberra, Sydney Olympic Park in NSW and Christchurch, New Zealand. Here is a list of the current teams.

No.	Town Team Name
1	Applecross Town Team
2	Baysie Rollers
3	Beaufort Street Network
4	The Bend in the Road (Doubleview)
5	Braddon Collective (Canberra)
6	Brentwood Village
7	Building Busselton
8	Bunbury
9	Champion Lakes Residents Association
10	Chinatown Broome
11	Como Town Team
12	Creative Maylands
13	Dalyellup Collective
14	Discover Dianella
15	Dunsborough Progress Association
16	Ecovision (Wattle Grove)
17	Energise Collie
18	FABric (Attadale and Bicton)
19	Flower District (West Leederville)
20	Fremantle Industrial Arts Quarter
21	GroWaverley
22	Inglewood on Beaufort
23	Historic Heart of Perth
24	Leederville Connect
25	Leighton Can
26	Main Street Cooperation (Osborne Park)
27	Middleton Beach, Albany
28	Midland Junction Collective
29	Morley Momentum
30	Mount Hawthorn Hub
31	My Dickson (Canberra)
32	Noranda Vibes
33	North Perth Local
34	Northam
35	Northbridge Common
36	Old Perth Road Collective (Bassendean)
37	Pally6157
38	Peels Place Corner (Albany)
39	People of Gertrude Street
40	Pinjarra Connect
41	PorTogether (Port Melbourne)
42	Portside Town Team (Port Hedland)
43	Rivervale Community Network
44	Rostrata Town Project
45	SALT District (Christchurch, N.Z.)
46	Scarborough Beach Association
47	Shape Mandurah
48	South Freo Corner Pocket
49	Subiaction
50	Sydney Olympic Park Town Team
51	The East Keys Collective, Clarkson
52	The Pickle District
53	Vic Park Collective
54	Wellard Village People
55	West Perth Local

Town Team Actions Map

The map below shows just some of the actions completed by Town Teams in 2020.

TOWN TEAMS

The Vision

Town Team Actions Map