Gnarly Neighbours Gnarly Neighbours

Australia > VIC > Regional

Field of Interest

  • Community and economic development
  • Health/wellbeing and medical research

Target Population

  • People experiencing socio-economic disadvantage or vulnerability
  • Young people (6-25)

Organisation Summary

Gnarly Neighbours is a non-profit youth group based in Seymour, Victoria, focusing on creating a positive and safe space for the youth through free skateboarding lessons, wellbeing sessions at local schools, creative workshops, and school holiday programs. Our aim is to foster community building, creativity, individuality, self-expression, and prevent risky behaviours by offering positive mentoring, providing a safe space, teaching adaptive stress management strategies, encouraging physical and creative activities, and modelling alternative career pathways.

Gnarly Neighbours has gone from strength to strength from youth group to now a social enterprise “The Neighbourhood” comprised of a café, skate store, print shop with & indoors skate park indoor skatepark which also serves as a workshop/program area. The Neighbourhood has quickly become a community hub for locals & people traveling all over Victoria & even a pit stop for people traveling interstate which allows us to share our missions far & wide.

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Level 6, 126 Wellington Parade, East Melbourne VIC 3002

We acknowledge Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the first inhabitants and Traditional Custodians of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We pay our respects to Elders past and present.

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