Meet Your Street Grants
Meet Your Street aims to support local residents to hold neighbourhood events or activities as a way for neighbours to interact and engage with each other.
Benefits of knowing your neighbours
There are many benefits of knowing your neighbours:
- Knowing your neighbours helps create an atmosphere of trust, safety, belonging and social connection in the local community.
- It can improve your health and wellbeing. Better social connection is recognised as a key way to maintain good mental and physical health.
- It helps with safety and crime prevention, so you know who lives where and who to call on in case of emergencies.
- And lastly, it could be fun and you could make some new friends!
Ways to meet your street
There are many ways to get to know your neighbours and we encourage you to be creative about how to connect with them. Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Celebrate a cultural event together such as decorating your street with lights to celebrate Diwali (Festival of Lights)
- Organise a street clean up
- Get creative and decorate your house number or letterboxes together
- Start a neighbourhood street library
- Create a communal compost bin
- Have a Street Party
Read our Meet Your Street Guide(PDF, 3MB) for more information.
Background
Meet Your Street was developed to foster stronger connections between residents within local Monash neighbourhoods and to positively impact residents' perceptions of their own safety (personal and property), the safety of their neighbourhood and their safety within Monash.