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My Experience of being a Children’s Week Youth Amabassador
Sriya Arcot | 2025 October Living Streets Association’s young people were once again invited to serve as the ACT Children’s Week Youth Ambassadors for the 2025 Children’s Week Award Ceremony. This year, Sriya Arcot and Nicole Jennings fulfilled their role beautifully, impressing ACT Ministers, Children’s Week Association members, and communityā¦
Inner North Playground Grand Opening
Living Streets Association | 2025 August The Inner North Playground has finally opened! Itās so exciting to see how young peopleās active care for their community and willingness to take action have helped create such a great local space. To read about the communityās involvement in the development of thisā¦
Neighbours Celebrate a Festive Christmas in July
Rowan L. | 2025 August On Friday, 5 July, the families of a street came together for a heart-warming Christmas in July celebration that was full of laughter, good food, and festive spirit. With 13 children and 13 adults in attendance, the event was the perfect blend of community connectionā¦
The Concept of Giving
Living Streets Association | 2025 May In the ideal community, people use their energy towards helping others and enjoy contributing to creating a sense of belonging, happiness, and well-being in their community. The spirit of reciprocity and sharing can be achieved through the work of community building in urban residentialā¦
Easter Egg Hunt Tradition
Living Streets Association | 2025 April Check out some photos from the Easter Egg Hunt this year! Now that the Easter Bunny’s visit has become a yearly tradition, many neighbours look forward to the day they can enjoy a lovely autumn stroll on the street as all the children runā¦
Celebrating community at Watson Day
By Lucy Astolfi | 2025 March On the 30th of March, Living Streets took part in Watson Day, where the community came together to share art, culture, stories, and sausages. Living Streetsā prompt to attendees was to āshare a heartwarming story about community that has touched your life.ā We encouragedā¦
A Big Win for Watson! Youth contributions in community consultations for the Inner North Play Space
Living Streets Association | 2024 July Our community has recently had a big win! The Inner North Play Space has released its final design, and the destination-style playground will begin construction to be completed sometime in late 2025. The whole community has been actively involved in the consultations for thisā¦
Watson Community Day- Restoring a sense of security and belonging in the suburb
The WCA hosted a Watson Community Day in April to encourage everyone to build up friendships among neighbours. The event was supported by ACT Housing and the Watson SuperBarn Express, a sausage sizzle was cooked by the Majura Mountain Scouts Group, and ACT Policing officers were in attendance for peopleā¦
Weāre recruiting, come and join our community-building projects!
Carmel Richardson- Board President | 2023 Nov The Living Streets Association (LSA) continues its very worthwhile project of engaging local young people in interesting and deeply appreciated community activity. As Board Director I was recently invited to address a youth meeting where planning was underway for the September school holidays.ā¦
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