Launnie Connecting Community

Launnie Connecting Community brings people together in a local suburb or town to create meaningful change.

Our Community Connector works alongside community from all walks of life to build projects in places we live. Come and be a Community Builder in Waverley.

Launnie Connecting Community is for anyone who wants to make a difference — together. We focus on what’s strong, not what’s wrong. Our Community Connector will work in Waverley for two years from February 2025 until February 2027.

Why?

Each suburb, town and community in the City of Launceston is unique and we value the knowledge, creativity and ideas of our locals. We believe people create communities and make them thrive. Launnie Connecting Community encourages people to use their strengths to take action and aims to bring ideas to life. Launnie Connecting Community is a great opportunity for community members to find out about their home, connect with others and make friends from all walks of life.

How?

Our Community Connector is based in Waverley to get to know the community, listen to your ideas, bring people together and offer project support. As part of Launnie Connecting Community, you are invited to become a Community Builder. The Community Connector works with Community Builders to identify community strengths, skills, passions, knowledge and experience. Community Builders identify opportunities to develop and run community-led projects and initiatives.

Through taking on project ownership, you make positive change and build valuable leadership and collaboration skills to strengthen and celebrate Waverley life. Your ideas might be big or small, involve a few or many, and may take place one morning, or be a yearly celebration into the future. We want to work with you!

Get Involved

Come and be a Community Builder in Waverley. Launnie Connecting Community is for anyone who wants to make a difference - together.

Development of the Program

The City of Launceston previously collaborated with Bank of I.D.E.A.S to deliver six ABCDE (asset-based community driven effort) Learning Sites and was one of the first local governments to embrace this strategy-based approach. The ABCDE Learning Sites allowed us to work with local leaders within the suburbs to identify, connect and mobilise their assets to act, make positive change and directly shape their own community’s future. Through research and refection of the ABCDE Learning Sites, the program has evolved, and the City of Launceston has developed an independent, self-governing programming model, now known as Launnie Connecting Community.

ABCDE Learning Site Social Impact Report
In 2024, the City of Launceston commissioned a report by prominent researcher and anthropologist Leanne Mitchell to evaluate how our previous ABCDE Learning Sites have influenced and contributed to community wellbeing.

Download the ABCDE Learning Site Social Impact Report

Previous ABCDE Learning Site Information and Resources

Past ABCDE Learning Site reports

Community Films

An important part of every Learning Site is a student-led film project with the local school students, facilitated by production company Action Crew and produced by the City of Launceston's Community Connector.

Waverley Shines

Waverley Shines is a student-led film created by Waverley Primary School students and community members to celebrate where they live. Action Crew led the creation of the film to capture stories, connections and hopes of the Waverley community in an interview style.

The film was made over two days in November 2025 in a pop-up studio at Waverley Primary School and at Waverley Mills. Council’s Community Connector mentored the Waverley Wonders student group in script development and interviewing in the lead up. Action Crew guided Waverley Wonders through the process of filming, directing and audio visual, using a simple setup in pop up studios.

Waverley Shines was launched at the Waverley Primary School end-of-year assembly on 17 December 2025.

Watch the film by pressing play below!

A Bright New Day in Invermay

St Finn Barr’s Catholic Primary School and Invermay Primary School collaborated with Action Crew to create a short ten-minute film that captured stories, connections, and hopes of the Invermay community in an interview style. The film was made over three days in a pop-up studio at Invermay Primary School with Evi and David from Action Crew who mentored grade five and six students from Invermay Primary School and St Finn Barr’s Catholic Primary School.

Action Crew inspires positive change in young people by feeling respected, active, visible, and valued in their communities. Evi and David guided the students through the process of how to create a short film, from script to production to using a simple setup in a pop up studio within the school. The film was launched in May 2023 at the Nuala O’Flaherty Auditorium at the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery.

The Hidden Gems of Kings

A ten-minute film made by Action Crew and Kings Meadows High School students in November 2021 featuring the hidden gems of Kings Meadows.

Dear Youngtown, a letter to our community

The City of Launceston celebrated the Youngtown ABCDE learning site with this short film made by the fabulous students of Youngtown Primary School and Kings Meadows High School. In 3 days we trained up 3 film crews, made up of 20 students interviewing 18 talents.

Dear Mowbray

As part of the Mowbray Learning Site, the following 'Dear Mowbray' short film was created. Evi van der Niet and David Adams from Action Crew visited Mowbray in October and mentored Mowbray Heights Primary School grade 5 students over three full days in how to make a film. Pop up crews learnt the roles of camera, sound and lighting operators and the interviewer role and told us it was one of the best days they had experienced.

The Ravenswood Reporters

As filmmakers we believe in the power of stories. We need stories like we need sunshine. They weave our lives together. They turn away our fears. We interviewed incredible people. Their stories all tell how Ravenswood has the heart, guts & courage to turn its potential into reality.

Resources

Community Newsletters

Find previous editions of the ABCDE Learning Sites Newsletter here: ABCDE Newsletters

Community and Event Grants

Each year the City of Launceston offers a wide range of Community Grant and Event Funding opportunities to support events and community initiatives across the city.

Learn more about available Community Grant Funding and Event Funding opportunities offered by City of Launceston.