Community centres and neighbourhood houses

The use of Toomah Community Centre is changing to better support our community.

From February 2025, Toomah Community Centre will become the home of the senior campus of Education Centre Gippsland (ECG) Secondary College. Existing community service providers, Windermere Child and Family Services and Limebox Café, will continue to operate from Toomah Community Ccentre as normal.  

Casual hire of spaces at Toomah Community Centre will no longer be available after 20 December 2024.  For a full list of hireable spaces in Cardinia Shire, please visit the Booking Cardinia website 

Neighbourhood houses and community centres are not-for-profit, incorporated, community organisations managed by volunteers through a committee of management. 

They provide a range of services, information, and resources for their local community. This includes children’s services, cultural, social, health and wellbeing activities, training delivery, and public internet access. 

Course and program costs are kept as low as possible to encourage community participation. 

We support neighbourhood houses by:

  • providing a council building or rental assistance
  • providing annual financial assistance 
  • providing statistics and demographical data to help neighbourhood houses to identify changing needs in the local community and address them
  • supporting local community initiatives
  • helping source training opportunities for the committees of management and volunteers.

Our Neighbourhood House policy provides more details about the partnership between us and local neighbourhood houses and the support that we provide.

More info on Cardinia Shire’s neighbourhood houses and community centres can be found on the online directory 

Beaconsfield Neighbourhood Centre

Cockatoo Community House

Lang Lang Community Centre 

Living Learning Pakenham 

Moy-Yan Neighbourhood House

Outlook Community Centre

Upper Beaconsfield Community Centre