Brown Hill Community Newsletter

This project was an initiative of the Brown Hill Engaging Communities Program, run by the City of Ballarat, which brought together local service, sporting, education and activity groups to invest in improvements for our community. With an initial grant from this program, the first newsletter was printed and delivered to every property in Brown Hill in May 2016. It was a hit! Advertising by local businesses started in Edition 7 and the newsletter has been financially self-sufficient since then, publishing six editions each year until mid-2021. From 2022, the Brown Hill Community Newsletter has been published two to four times each year.

A team of 20+ volunteers hand-deliver over 2850 newsletters to residents and local businesses and almost 1000 people also receive it online. Our local directory for business, community and sporting/activity groups has also been printed and delivered three times. All of the information is kept up to date on the Brown Hill Online Community Hub.

The Brown Hill Community Newsletter is a proud member of the Community Newspaper Association of Victoria and the Ballarat Community News Publications Network.